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Special Events for the Year 1857 - back to GREGSITE

Born :07/21/1857A S C Wallis, [Adle SC von Antal-Opzoomer], writer
Born :04/05/1857Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)
Born :11/28/1857Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85)
Born :07/11/1857Alfred Binet, French child psychologist
Born :01/23/1857Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity)
Born :07/05/1857Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist
Born :04/18/1857Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial
Born :04/14/1857Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver)
Born :04/29/1857Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
Born :06/02/1857Edward Elgar, Broadheath, England, composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
Born :12/16/1857Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite)
Born :10/14/1857Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos
Born :02/26/1857Emile Cou‚, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
Born :07/27/1857Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator
Born :01/17/1857Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)
Born :03/23/1857Fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)
Born :11/26/1857Ferdinand de Saussure, Switz, linguist (Cours de Laguistique Gener le)
Born :01/02/1857Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)
Born :07/09/1857Frederik II W, great duke of Baden (1907-18)
Born :07/23/1857French [MJ Fran‡ois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)
Born :05/08/1857Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, actor/wife of Alida Little
Born :11/22/1857George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
Born :09/12/1857George H Breitner, impressionist painter/water colors painter
Born :02/22/1857Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
Born :05/10/1857Hendrik Zwardemaker, physiologist (olfactometer)
Born :07/24/1857Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1971)
Born :01/09/1857Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)
Born :06/18/1857Henry Clay Folger Jr, US, businessman/Shakespeare fan
Born :04/10/1857Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker
Born :08/08/1857Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research)
Born :11/16/1857Henry Potoni‚, German paleo-botanist/geologist (sapropelium)
Born :09/30/1857Hermann Sudermann, German (stage)writer (That Ehre, Frau Sorge)
Born :11/05/1857Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
Born :09/10/1857James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)
Born :02/02/1857John Six, art historian/art collector
Born :02/09/1857John T, the Fisherman, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
Born :12/03/1857Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
Born :12/06/1857Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Lord Jim, Secret Affiliate)
Born :11/02/1857Joseph FF Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex)
Born :07/27/1857Jos‚ Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
Born :03/07/1857Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
Born :06/02/1857Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917)
Born :09/17/1857Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
Born :04/19/1857Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philospher
Born :07/14/1857Maytag, inventor (washing machine)
Born :09/13/1857Milton S Hershey, , chocolate manufacturer/philanthropist
Born :01/18/1857Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
Born :03/22/1857Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32)
Born :05/31/1857Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39)
Born :02/22/1857Robert Baden-Powell, founded Boy Scouts, Girl Guides
Born :07/01/1857Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)
Born :05/13/1857Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
Born :04/23/1857Ruggero Leoncavallo, Naples Italy, composer (I Medici)
Born :02/17/1857Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
Born :07/30/1857Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
Born :09/15/1857William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice




Died :07/29/1857Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54
Died :08/01/1857Charles Turner, engraver, dies
Died :12/03/1857Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80
Died :05/11/1857E Fran‡ois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81
Died :02/16/1857Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37
Died :02/07/1857F‚lix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
Died :05/02/1857LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
Died :09/03/1857M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies
Died :07/16/1857Pierre-Jean de B‚ranger, poet, dies
Died :08/12/1857William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies




Special :02/24/18571st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt
Special :12/08/18571st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
Special :09/12/1857423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC
Special :06/26/185762 recieve Victoria Cross
Special :04/21/1857A Douglas patents bustle
Special :10/06/1857American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
Special :10/10/1857American Chess Association formed (NYC)
Special :06/26/1857Cawnpore England massacre
Special :03/06/1857Dred Scott decision holds blacks cannot be citizens
Special :03/21/1857Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
Special :12/16/1857Earthquake in Naples, Italy
Special :03/23/1857Elisha Otis' 1st elevator intalled (488 Broadway, NYC)
Special :04/27/1857Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited
Special :03/25/1857Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
Special :04/12/1857Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published
Special :05/27/1857H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #44 Nysa
Special :06/27/1857H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia
Special :09/19/1857H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #48 Doris & #49 Pales
Special :09/09/1857H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #56 Melete
Special :05/10/1857Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut
Special :02/18/1857Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
Special :10/04/1857J Ferguson discovers asteroid #50 Virginia
Special :06/02/1857James Gibbs, Va., patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
Special :02/24/1857LA Vineyard Society organized
Special :09/16/1857Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
Special :09/11/1857Mountain Meadows Massacre-120 colonists killed by indians in Utah
Special :04/15/1857N R Pogson discovers asteroid #43 Ariadne
Special :08/16/1857N R Pogson discovers asteroid #46 Hestia
Special :01/22/1857National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
Special :01/06/1857Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
Special :12/31/1857Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
Special :09/15/1857R Luther discovers asteroid #47 Aglaja
Special :09/25/1857Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
Special :09/23/1857Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die
Special :06/15/1857SF Water Works organized
Special :04/30/1857San Jose State University forms
Special :05/10/1857Sepoy-revolt in Meerutkazerne, Delhi
Special :07/16/1857Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
Special :09/16/1857Typesetting machine patent
Special :04/29/1857US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently established at Presidio (SF)
Special :02/21/1857US issues flying eagle cents
Special :09/30/1857US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is south of Hawaii
Special :03/12/1857Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" 1st preformed (Venice Italy)
Special :05/01/1857William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
Special :10/24/1857World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England
Special :01/10/1857-3øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC

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