In history, year 1857 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1857.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 09 january | A 7.9 Mw earthquake rupture part of the San Andreas Fault in California and was felt as far east as Las Vegas. |
| 24 january | The University of Calcutta, the first modern university in theIndian subcontinent, was established in Calcutta. |
| 10 may | The Sepoy Mutiny against the company rule by the British EastIndia Company began. |
| 26 may | American slave Dred Scott, who had previously successfully sued for his freedom, was emancipated by Henry Taylor Blow, his original owner. |
| 27 may | Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur. Nana Sahib, born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian, Maratha aristocrat, who led the Kanpur rebellion during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II. |
| 24 august | The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and TrustCo. collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severerecession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail. |
| 24 october | Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football clubstill in operation, was founded. |
| 31 december | Queen Victoria selected Ottawa, then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada. |
| 10 May | The first battle of freedom struggle started from the cantonment of Meerut. |
| 17 May | Britain declares war against France. |
| 18 July | Bombay University was established. |
| 21 September | Bahadur Shah II surrendered to the British. |
| 23 September | The Russian warship Laffert went missing in a severe storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing 826 people. |
| 22 February | Robert Bedle Powell, the founder of the international body of scouts, was born in a religious house in London. He established an international institution of scouts with the aim of bringing forth the youth in the society and helping the weak. |
| 21 March | The devastating earthquake in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, killed about 170,000 people. |
| 29 March | In Barrackpore Cantonment near Kolkata, soldier Mangal Pandey opened the first shot and started a rebellion against the British Empire. This was the first rebellion in India against the British rule, called the military revolt. |
| 08 April | Mangal Pandey, who fired the first shot at the British, was hanged during India's first freedom struggle. |
| 24 January | The Universities of Calcutta and Bombay were established as the first multidisciplinary modern universities in South Asia. |
| 24 February | The first US postage stamp was handed over to the government. |
| 23 March | Elisha Otis established the first elevator in New York at 488 Broadway, New York City). |
| 04 April | The Anglo and Persian Wars ended. |
| 10 May | Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian fighters started rebellion in Delhi from British East India Company. |
| 22 June | The Victoria and Albert Museum in London was officially opened by Queen Victoria. |
| 15 July | Indian Rebellion of 1857: Second massacre took place in Kanpur. |
| 24 August | The terror of 1857 was one of the most severe economic crises in US history. |
| 13 October | Terror of 1857: New York's banks were not opened until December 12. |
| 09 November | First copy of Atlantic Monthly magazine published. |
| 31 December | Queen Victoria made Ottawa the capital of Canada. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 November | Mikhail Alekseyev / General / Russia |
| 05 July | Clara Zetkin / Activist / Germany |
| 06 January | William Russell / Politician / United States of America |
| 08 September | Georg Michaelis / Politician / Germany |
| 12 September | Manuel Espinosa Batista / Politician / Colombia |
| 14 August | Max Wagenknecht / Composer / Germany |
| 16 June | Arthur Arz von Straußenburg / General / Austria |
| 17 November | Joseph Babinski / Academic / France |
| 17 September | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky / Engineer / Russia |
| 18 June | Henry Clay Folger / Business Man / United States of America |
| 21 March | Alice Henry / Journalist / Australia |
| 22 February | Lord Baden Powell / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 24 July | Henrik Pontoppidan / Author / Denmark |
| 24 November | Miklós Kovács / Poet / Hungary |
| 24 July | Juan Vicente Gómez / Politician / Venezuela |
| 25 February | Robert Bond / Politician / Canada |
| 26 November | Ferdinand de Saussure / Author / Switzerland |
| 29 August | Sandford Schultz / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 30 March | Léon Charles Thévenin / Engineer / France |
| 30 December | Sylvio Lazzari / Composer / France |