1857 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1857?
- January 9, 1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
- January 24, 1857 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in south Asia.
- March 3, 1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
- 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.
- March 29, 1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
- April 18, 1857 – “The Spirits Book” by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
- 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 26, 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
- June 1, 1857 – Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
- June 6, 1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
- June 26, 1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
- August 24, 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
- September 11, 1857 – The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
- 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.
- September 23, 1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
- October 5, 1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded.
- 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.
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