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UK-related events during the year of 1857
Events from the year
1857 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
7 January –
London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
[1]
19 February –
Lundhill Colliery explosion at
Wombwell in the
South Yorkshire Coalfield kills 189 miners.
[2]
3 March – France and the United Kingdom formally declare war on China in the
Second Opium War .
5 March – in
London ,
barrister
James Townsend Saward receives a sentence of
penal transportation for
forgery of cheques.
27 March–24 April – a
general election secures
Palmerston 's
Whigs a clear majority.
[3]
4 April – end of the
Anglo-Persian War .
5 May–17 October – the
Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in
Manchester , one of the largest such displays of all time.
[4]
10 May –
Indian Rebellion : The XI Native Cavalry of the
Bengal Army in
Meerut , India,
mutiny 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.
[3]
22 June – the South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the
Victoria and Albert Museum , is opened by
Queen Victoria in London;
[5] it is the world’s first museum to incorporate a refreshment room.
[6]
25 June – Queen Victoria formally grants her husband
Albert the title
Prince Consort .
[7]
26 June – at a ceremony in
Hyde Park, London , Queen Victoria awards the first sixty-six
Victoria Crosses ,
[1] for actions during the
Crimean War . Commander
Henry James Raby , RN, is the first to receive the medal from her hands.
12 July – in
Belfast , confrontations between crowds of
Catholics and
Protestants turn into 10 days of rioting, exacerbated by the open-air preaching of
Evangelical
Presbyterian minister "Roaring"
Hugh Hanna ,
[8] with many of the police force joining the Protestant side. There are also riots in
Derry ,
Portadown and
Lurgan .
[9]
18 July –
prison hulk
HMS Defence catches fire at her moorings off
Woolwich , bringing an end to the use of hulks in home waters.
[10]
28 August –
Matrimonial Causes Act removes
divorce from ecclesiastical jurisdiction and makes it possible by order of a new civil
Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes , removing the necessity of
parliamentary approval.
[3]
September –
Obscene Publications Act makes the sale of obscene material a statutory offence.
[11]
20 September – British forces recapture
Delhi ,
[3] compelling the surrender of
Bahadur Shah II , the last
Mughal emperor .
24 October –
Sheffield F.C. , the world's first
football team, is founded in
Sheffield .
[1]
November –
Kilburn White Horse cut in North Yorkshire.
29 November –
Orsini affair : Piedmontese revolutionary
Felice Orsini leaves exile in London to make an assassination attempt on Emperor
Napoleon III of France in Paris.
31 December – Queen Victoria chooses
Ottawa as the capital of
Canada .
Undated
Publications
Births
18 January –
William Lethaby ,
Arts and Crafts architect and designer (died 1931)
25 January –
Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale , sportsman (died 1944)
31 January –
George Jackson Churchward , chief mechanical engineer of the
Great Western Railway (died 1933)
2 February –
Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet , politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
22 February –
Robert Baden-Powell , founder of the
Scouting movement (died 1941)
13 March –
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer , general (died 1932)
14 March –
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair , patron and promoter of women's interests (died 1939)
[15]
27 March –
Karl Pearson , statistician (died 1936)
8 April –
Lucy, Lady Houston , born Fanny Lucy Radmall, political activist, suffragette, philanthropist and promoter of aviation (died 1936)
11 April –
John Davidson , Scottish-born poet and playwright (suicide 1909)
14 April
13 May –
Ronald Ross , physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1932)
15 May –
Williamina Fleming , astronomer (died 1911)
[16]
28 May –
Charles Voysey ,
Arts and Crafts designer and domestic architect (died 1941)
2 June –
Edward Elgar , composer (died 1934)
12 June –
Kate Lester , stage and silent screen actress (died 1924)
15 June –
William Fife , Scottish yacht designer (died 1944)
28 June –
Robert Jones , Welsh orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
19 September –
James Bridie , rugby union international (died 1893)
28 September –
Lewis Bayly , admiral (died 1938)
2 October
4 October –
Will Thorne , trade unionist (died 1946)
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)
2 December –
Robert Armstrong-Jones , physician and psychiatrist (died 1943)
Deaths
1 January –
John Britton , antiquary and topographer (born 1771)
2 January –
Andrew Ure , doctor and writer (born 1778)
20 January –
John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland (born 1778)
10 February –
David Thompson , explorer (born 1770)
18 February –
Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere , politician (born 1800)
22 February –
Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood , peer and Member of Parliament (born 1797)
13 March –
William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst , diplomat and peer (born 1773)
11 May –
Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock , naval officer (born 1786)
16 May – Sir
William Lloyd , soldier and mountaineer (born 1782)
27 May –
George Anson , army officer and Whig politician (born 1797)
12 August –
William Conybeare , dean of Llandaff (born 1787)
16 August –
John Jones, Talysarn , leading non-conformist minister (born 1796)
24 November –
Sir Henry Havelock , general (born 1795)
30 November –
Mary Buckland , palaeontologist and marine biologist (born 1797)
15 December –
Sir George Cayley , aviation pioneer (born 1773)
17 December –
Sir Francis Beaufort , naval officer and hydrographer (born 1774)
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