1857

Events 
Indian Mutiny; Mangal Pandey, Rani of Jhansi
 "Jingle Bells" is written and published in America

 Births 
 5 April – Alexander of Battenberg
   14 April  -  Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom; Prince Henry of Battenberg
 June 11 – Antoni Grabowski
 September 15 - William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh President of the United States (d. 1930)
 3 December – Joseph Conrad

Deaths

December 31 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (b. 1799)