Notable Historical Events - 1857
1857 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn |
Jan 8 |
Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC |
Jan 9 |
7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon Calif |
Jan 15 |
1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The Domain |
Jan 22 |
National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY |
Jan 24 |
The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia. |
Feb 16 |
Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms in Washington DC |
Feb 18 |
Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo |
Feb 21 |
Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US |
Feb 21 |
US issues flying eagle cents |
Feb 24 |
1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to government |
Feb 24 |
LA Vineyard Society organized |
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 |
Mar 7 |
Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs |
Mar 12 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" premieres in Venice |
Mar 21 |
Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die |
Mar 23 |
Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC) |
Mar 25 |
Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse |
Apr 1 |
Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man. |
Apr 12 |
Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published |
Apr 21 |
Alexander Douglas patents the bustle |
Apr 27 |
Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited |
Apr 29 |
US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio (SF) |
Apr 30 |
San Jose State University forms |
May 1 |
William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy |
May 10 |
Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys in Meerut |
May 19 |
William Francis Channing & Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm |
May 26 |
US slave Dred Scott and family freed by owner Henry Taylor Blow 3 months after US courts ruled against them. |
Jun 1 |
Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published. |
Jun 2 |
James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine |
Jun 5 |
Walter Woodbury & James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta) |
Jun 10 |
Britain passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system |
Jun 15 |
San Francisco Water Works organized |
Jun 26 |
The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria |
Jun 26 |
Cawnpore England massacre |
Jun 27 |
James Donnelly becomes engaged in a drunken brawl with Patrick Farrell, who suffers a fatal blow to the head. Farrell dies two days later, which makes James Donnelly a wanted man and draws the Donnelly family into the notorious feud |
Jun 29 |
Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British) |
Jul 16 |
Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore |
Jul 18 |
Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French. |
Aug 24 |
The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. |
Sep 11 |
Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah |
Sep 12 |
423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC |
Sep 15 |
Timothy Alder of NY patents a typesetting machine |
Sep 16 |
Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX) |
Sep 23 |
Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die |
Sep 25 |
Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins |
Sep 30 |
US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is south of Hawaii |
Oct 5 |
The City of Anaheim was founded. |
Oct 6 |
American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC) |
Oct 10 |
American Chess Association formed (NYC) |
Oct 24 |
World's first soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in Yorkshire, England |
Nov 9 |
Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published |
Dec 8 |
1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY" |
Dec 16 |
Earthquake in Naples, Italy |
Dec 29 |
Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar |
Dec 31 |
Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada |
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