Important Historical Events of the year 1857, Year 1857 in History
List of 1857 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1857
What happened in the year 1857?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 9, 1857 | The 7.9 Mw Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). |
| 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 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people. |
| 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 mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion 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 East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to the War of Indian Independence. |
| May 10, 1857 | Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut. |
| May 11, 1857 | Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. |
| June 1, 1857 | Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published. |
| June 1, 1857 | The Revolution of the Ganhadores begins in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. |
| 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. |
| July 27, 1857 | Indian Rebellion: Sixty-eight men hold out for eight days against a force of 2,500 to 3,000 mutinying sepoys and 8,000 irregular forces. |
| August 24, 1857 | The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history. |
| September 7, 1857 | Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train. |
| 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 California Gold Rush. |
| September 20, 1857 | The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company. |
| September 22, 1857 | The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard. |
| October 24, 1857 | Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in England. |
| 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, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada. |