Major Events
- Jan 24 University of Calcutta founded as the first full-fledged university in South Asia
- Mar 3 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China
- Mar 6 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens
- May 10 Indian Mutiny against rule by the British East India Company begins with the revolt of the Sepoy soldiers in Meerut
- Jun 26 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria
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1857 in Sport
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James Gibbs of Virginia, patents the chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
Robert Baden-Powell
George Dayton
Pius XI
Edward Elgar
Milton S. Hershey
William Howard TaftMore People Born in 1857
Fun Fact About 1857
Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
David Thompson
Auguste ComteMore 1857 Deaths
Articles About 1857
Dred Scott v. Sandford
First edition of The Case of Dred Scott in the US Supreme Court decisionMarch 6
The Indian Mutiny
Mutineers are executed by the Bengal Horse Artillery, in a painting by Orlando NoireMay 10
Fort Knox-style Security for Folger Library
In 2020 a First Folio of William Shakespeare’s works was sold at auction in New York for nearly ten million dollars. And the Folger Library has 82 of them.June 18
Famous Weddings in 1857
- Jan 10 Novelist Jules Verne (28) weds Honorine de Viane Morel
- Jun 6 Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway
- Jul 16 Confederate general Thomas Jackson (33) weds Mary Anna Morrison in Lincoln County
More Weddings in 1857
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe Verdi
Henry John Temple
James Buchanan