1857 Calendar
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1857 Historical Event(s)
January 9, 1857
– The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
March 6, 1857
– The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
May 6, 1857
– The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
May 10, 1857
– Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
May 11, 1857
– Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
June 26, 1857
– The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
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.
September 12, 1857
– The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
November 16, 1857
– Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
December 31, 1857
– Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
Who Were Born On 1857?
January 17, 1857
– Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
January 28, 1857
– William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
March 16, 1857
– Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
April 5, 1857
– Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (d. 1893)
April 23, 1857
– Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)
May 31, 1857
– Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
June 2, 1857
– Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
September 17, 1857
– Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
December 3, 1857
– Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)
December 31, 1857
– King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894)