1857 in the United Kingdom

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1857 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1857 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

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• 7 January - London General Omnibus Company begins operating in London. ^[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.
• 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.
• 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.

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• Divorce without parliamentary approval becomes legal.
• Philip Henry Gosse writes Omphalos text elaborating a Creationist school of thought.
• The Mughal Empire is finally destroyed by the British Empire.

[edit] Births

• 25 January - Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, sportsman after whom the brand Lonsdale is named (d. 1944)
• 12 February - Bobby Peel, cricketer (d. 1943)
• 22 February - Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941)
• 13 May - Ronald Ross, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
• 15 May - Williamina Fleming, astronomer (d. 1911)
• 2 June - Edward Elgar, composer (d. 1934)
• 17 November - George Marchant, inventor, manufacturer, and philanthropist (d. 1941)
• 27 November - Charles Scott Sherrington, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
• 30 November - Bobby Abel, cricketer (d. 1936)

• Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (d. 1931)

[edit] Deaths

• 10 February - David Thompson, explorer (b. 1770)
• 18 February - Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, politician (b. 1800)
• 15 December - Sir George Cayley, aviation pioneer (b. 1773)

[edit] References