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1857 Calendar

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•  March 6, 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
•  March 21, 1857 – An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
•  March 23, 1857 – Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
•  April 18, 1857 – “The Spirits Book” by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
•  May 26, 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
•  July 18, 1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French.
•  August 24, 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
•  October 24, 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world’s first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
•  November 9, 1857 – The Atlantic founded in Boston.
•  December 31, 1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.

•  January 11, 1857 – Fred Archer, English jockey (d. 1886)
•  January 23, 1857 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
•  April 14, 1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Prince Consort (d. 1944)
•  May 15, 1857 – Williamina Fleming, British-born astronomer (d. 1911)
•  June 2, 1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
•  July 8, 1857 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
•  July 24, 1857 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
•  August 29, 1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
•  September 6, 1857 – Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
•  October 5, 1857 – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (d. 1942)