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1857
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1857 (MDCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1857th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 857th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1857, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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May 10: The Sepoy Mutiny breaks out in British India.
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Otto von Below
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Heinrich Hertz
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Pope Pius XI
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Annie Maria Barnes

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Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore

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  • January 27 Dorothea Lieven, Baltic-German diplomat in Russian services (b. 1785)
  • February 10 David Thompson, British-Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
  • February 15 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)[18]
  • February 16 Elisha Kent Kane, American explorer of the Arctic regions (b. 1820)
  • March 9 Dominic Savio, Italian adolescent saint (b. 1842)
  • March 11 Manuel José Quintana, Spanish poet (b. 1772)
  • March 19 William Henry Playfair, Scottish architect (b. 1790)[19]
  • April 8 Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (executed; b. 1827)[20]
  • May 2 Alfred de Musset, French poet (b. 1810)[21]
  • May 11 Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal, private detective (b. 1775)
  • May 13 Parley P. Pratt, early American Latter Day Saint movement leader (murdered) (b. 1807)
  • May 16 Vasily Tropinin, Russian Romantic painter (b. 1776)
  • May 23 Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
  • May 29
    • Agustina de Aragón, Spanish heroine (b. 1786)Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1857). "Agostina, The Maid of Saragossa". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: 16–18. Wikidata Q115393061.
    • Archduchess Sophie of Austria, first child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1855)

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Joseph Eichendorff

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