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Events from the year 1857 in the United Kingdom. This is a General Election year.
Incumbents Events - 7 January London General Omnibus Company begins operating.[1]
- 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 A General election secures Palmerston's Whigs a clear majority.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 10 May Indian Rebellion: In India, the Mutiny of XI Native Cavalry of the Bengal Army in Meerut, revolt 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.[2]
- 22 June The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London;[4] it is the world s first museum to incorporate a refreshment room.[5]
- 26 June At a ceremony in Hyde Park, London, Queen Victoria awards the first Victoria Crosses.[1]
- 18 July Prison hulk HMS Defence catches fire at her moorings off Woolwich, bringing an end to the use of hulks in home waters.[6]
- 28 August Matrimonial Causes Act makes divorce without parliamentary approval legally possible.[2]
- 20 September British forces recapture Delhi,[2] 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]
- 31 December Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, as the capital of Canada.
Undated Publications 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, Talysarn, 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)
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