Historical Events In 1857
Sunday, 08 December 2019
Jan 02 Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) in the year 1857.
Jan 06 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn on this day in history.
Jan 06 In the year 1857 patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania
Jan 08 In the year 1857 dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC
Jan 09 In the year 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA
Jan 09 In the year 1857 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 In the year 1857 the first first-class game in Sydney, New South Wales vs Victoria at The Domain
Jan 17 Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording) on this day in history.
Jan 18 On this day in history otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
Jan 20 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32 on this day in history.
Jan 22 On this day in history national Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
Jan 23 Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity) in the year 1857.
Jan 24 The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia in the year 1857.
Jan 27 Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72 in the year 1857.
Feb 02 Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector on this day in history.
Feb 07 On this day in history félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
Feb 09 Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education on this day in history.
Feb 12 On this day in history bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96)
Feb 14 On this day in history johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56
Feb 15 On this day in history mikhail Glinka, composer, dies
Feb 16 Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77 on this day in history.
Feb 16 On this day in history gallaudet College (Natl Deaf Mute college) forms (Wash DC)
Feb 17 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher on this day in history.
Feb 18 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo on this day in history.
Feb 18 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor in the year 1857.
Feb 21 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US on this day in history.
Feb 21 Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907) in the year 1857.
Feb 21 In the year 1857 uS issues flying eagle cents
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 in the year 1857.
Feb 24 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt on this day in history.