Historical Events
- Jan 24 University of Calcutta founded as the first full-fledged university in South Asia
- 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
- May 10 Indian mutiny against rule by the British East India Company begins with the revolt of the Sepoy soldiers in Meerut
- Jun 26 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria
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Did You Know?
Did You Know?James Gibbs of Virginia, patents the chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
On June 2, 1857
Tim Keefe
Robert Baden-Powell
Pius XI
Edward Elgar
William Howard Taft
Joseph ConradFamous People in 1857
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe VerdiWorld Leaders in 1857
Henry John Temple
James Buchanan
Would You Believe?
Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
On September 11, 1857
Famous Weddings
- Jan 10 Novelist Jules Verne (28) weds Honorine de Viane Morel
- Jun 6 Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway
- Jul 16 Confederate general Thomas Jackson (33) weds Mary Anna Morrison in Lincoln County
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Famous People Who Died in 1857
- Jan 20 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, English composer, dies at 32
- Jan 27 Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72
- Feb 7 Félix de Merode, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War and Finance, dies at 65
- Feb 9 Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem, dies at 58
- Feb 10 David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (Columbia River), dies at 86
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Articles and Photos
The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court
First edition of The Case of Dred Scott in the US Supreme Court decisionMarch 6The Indian Mutiny
Mutineers are executed by the Bengal Horse Artillery, in a painting by Orlando NoireMay 10Fort Knox-style Security for Folger Library
In 2020 a First Folio of William Shakespeare’s works was sold at auction in New York for nearly ten million dollars. And the Folger Library has 82 of them.June 18
