1857

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  1840s  – 1850s –  1860s  1870s  1880s
Years:	1854 1855 1856 – 1857 – 1858 1859 1860

1857 Media

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  May 10: The Sepoy Mutiny breaks out in British India.

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  General von Below

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  Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Published in Lenard, P. (1930) Grosse Naturforscher, T.S. Lehmanns, Munich, 1930

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  Papst Pius XI.Fotomontage mit einem Porträt des damaligen Kardinals Achille Ratti, montiert auf einem Foto von Papst Pius X.

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  A woman of the century

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  Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore

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  JosephEichendorff

1857 (MDCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1857th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 857th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1857, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• Indian Mutiny; Mangal Pandey, Rani of Jhansi
• "Jingle Bells" is written and published in America

Births

• 5 April – Alexander of Battenberg
• 14 April - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom; Prince Henry of Battenberg
• June 11 – Antoni Grabowski
• September 15 - William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh President of the United States (d. 1930)
• 3 December – Joseph Conrad

Deaths

• December 31 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (b. 1799)