1857 in the United Kingdom
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1857 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

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Sport

1857 English cricket season

Events from the year 1857 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Liberal

Events

• 7 January - London General Omnibus Company begins operating in London.^[1]
• 3 March - France and the United Kingdom formally declare war on China in the Second Opium War.
• 5 March - In London, ex-solicitor James Townsend Saward receives a sentence of penal transportation for forging cheques.
• April - General election secures Palmerston's Whigs a clear majority.^[2]
• 4 April - end of the Anglo-Persian War.
• 10 May - Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the Mutiny of XI Native Cavalry of the Bengal Army in Meerut, revolt against the British East India Company.^[1]
• 11 May - Indian combatants capture Delhi from the East India Company.
• 18 May - British Museum Reading Room opens.^[2]
• 26 June - at a ceremony in Hyde Park, Queen Victoria awards the first Victoria Crosses.^[1]
• 28 August - Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 makes divorce without parliamentary approval legally possible.^[2]
• 20 September - British forces recapture Delhi.^[2]
• 24 October - Sheffield F.C., the world's first football team, is founded in Sheffield.^[1]
• 31 December - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario as the capital of Canada.

Undated

• Philip Henry Gosse writes Omphalos text elaborating a Creationist school of thought.
• The Mughal Empire is finally destroyed by the British Empire.

Publications

• Thomas Hughes' novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.^[2]
• Anthony Trollope's novel Barchester Towers.^[3]

Births

• 25 January - Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, sportsman after whom the brand Lonsdale is named (died 1944)
• 12 February - Bobby Peel, cricketer (died 1943)
• 22 February - Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement (died 1941)
• 14 April - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, member of the royal family (died 1944)
• 13 May - Ronald Ross, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1932)
• 15 May - Williamina Fleming, astronomer (died 1911)
• 2 June - Edward Elgar, composer (died 1934)
• 5 November - Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (died 1931)
• 17 November - George Marchant, inventor, manufacturer, and philanthropist (died 1941)
• 22 November - George Gissing, novelist (died 1903)
• 27 November - Charles Scott Sherrington, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1952)
• 30 November - Bobby Abel, cricketer (died 1936)

Deaths

• 1 January - John Britton, antiquary and topographer (born 1771)
• 2 January - Andrew Ure, doctor and writer (born 1778)
• 10 February - David Thompson, explorer (born 1770)
• 18 February - Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, politician (born 1800)
• 13 March - William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, diplomat and peer (born 1773)
• 16 May - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (born 1782)
• 12 August - William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff (born 1787)
• 16 August - John Jones, leading non-conformist minister (born 1796)
• 29 November - Henry Havelock, general (born 1795)
• 15 December - Sir George Cayley, aviation pioneer (born 1773)
• 17 December - Francis Beaufort, naval officer and hydrographer (born 1774)

References

See also