1857 in the United Kingdom

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.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 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.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 277-278|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 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.
* 11 May - Indian combatants capture Delhi from the East India Company.
* 18 May - British Museum Reading Room opens.
* 26 June - at a ceremony in Hyde Park, Queen Victoria awards the first Victoria Crosses.
* 28 August - Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 makes divorce without parliamentary approval legally possible.
* 20 September - British forces recapture Delhi.
* 24 October - Sheffield F.C., the world's first football team, is founded in Sheffield.
* 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".
* Anthony Trollope's novel "Barchester Towers".cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1840-1860|accessdate=2007-09-13]

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

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