Historical Events In 1857
Monday, 25 March 2019
Jan 02 In the year 1857 frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)
Jan 06 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn in the year 1857.
Jan 06 On this day in history patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania
Jan 08 Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC on this day in history.
Jan 09 On this day in history 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA
Jan 09 On this day in history 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon Calif
Jan 09 On this day in history henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)
Jan 11 Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys) in the year 1857.
Jan 15 1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The Domain in the year 1857.
Jan 15 The first first-class game in Sydney, New South Wales vs Victoria at The Domain on this day in history.
Jan 17 On this day in history eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)
Jan 18 Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I) in the year 1857.
Jan 20 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32 in the year 1857.
Jan 22 National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY in the year 1857.
Jan 23 Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity) on this day in history.
Jan 24 On this day in history the University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
Jan 27 Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72 on this day in history.
Feb 02 Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector on this day in history.
Feb 07 In the year 1857 félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
Feb 09 On this day in history johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
Feb 12 Bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96) in the year 1857.
Feb 14 Johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56 in the year 1857.
Feb 15 In the year 1857 mikhail Glinka, composer, dies
Feb 16 On this day in history auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77
Feb 16 Gallaudet College (Natl Deaf Mute college) forms (Wash DC) in the year 1857.
Feb 17 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher in the year 1857.
Feb 18 On this day in history insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
Feb 18 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor on this day in history.
Feb 21 On this day in history congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
Feb 21 Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907) in the year 1857.
Feb 21 US issues flying eagle cents in the year 1857.
Feb 22 In the year 1857 heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
Feb 22 The birth of Robert Baden-Powell, Founder of the Boy Scout movement on this day in history.
Feb 24 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt in the year 1857.