In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.

In 1857, the Austrian scholar Anton Boller suggested adding Japanese to Altaic or more precisely to Ural – Altaic.

* 1770 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer ( d. 1857 )

* 1857 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist ( d. 1940 )

* 1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist ( b. 1804 )

* 1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-English writer ( b. 1857 )

* 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist ( b. 1857 )

* 1857 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer ( d. 1944 )

* 1857 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer ( d. 1922 )

* 1857 – Albert Ballin, German businessman ( d. 1918 )

* 1789 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician ( d. 1857 )

* Alexander of Bulgaria ( 1857 – 1893 ), first prince of Bulgaria

* Alexander of Bulgaria ( 1857 – 1893 ), Prince of Bulgaria

* 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

* Alfonso XII of Spain-( 1857 – 1885 ) ( ordinal numbering continues from the kings of Castile )

* 1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer ( d. 1937 )

* 1857 – " The Spirits Book " by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.

* 1857 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney ( d. 1938 )

* 1857 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist ( d. 1935 )

* 1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom ( d. 1944 )

* 1936 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician ( b. 1857 )

* 1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh ( d. 1857 )

* 1940 – Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player ( b. 1857 )

* 1857 – Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian politician ( d. 1919 )

On 4 July 1857 he married Agripina Samper Agudelo, a poet and member of a literary and influential family, and out this marriage were born Roberto ( b. 1858 ), Pablo ( b. 1859 ), Inés ( b. 1860 ), Jorge ( b. 1862 ), and Manuel ( b. 1865 ).

The state and capital were formally recognized in the 1857 Constitution with Manuel Alvarez as the first constitutional governor.

Manuel José Estrada Cabrera ( 21 November 1857 – 24 September 1924 ) was President of Guatemala from 8 February 1898 to 15 April 1920.

Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas renamed the street " Perú " in 1837, and in 1857, the name was returned to the present one.

Among his other works may be mentioned the Manuel d ' iconographie chrétienne grecque et latine published in 1845, the Iconographie des chapiteaux du palais ducal de Venise of 1857, and the Manuel des objets de bronze et d ' orfèvrerie, published in 1859.

Manuel José Quintana y Lorenzo ( April 11, 1772-March 11, 1857 ), was a Spanish poet and man of letters.

Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana ( August 26, 1792 – November 12, 1857 ) was the fourth president of Uruguay.

Between 1857 and 1859 he actively supported Ramón Castilla's government against a rebellion by former president Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco.

* Manuel Estrada Cabrera ( 1857 – 1923 ), President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920

* ( 1857 ) Mémoires relatifs à la Guerre de succession de 1706-1709 et 1711, de Sicco van Goslinga, publiés par mm.

* 1810 – Alfred de Musset, French poet ( d. 1857 )

In December 1857, Charles Scammon, in the brig Boston, along with his schooner-tender Marin, entered Laguna Ojo de Liebre ( Jack-Rabbit Spring Lagoon ) or later known as Scammon's Lagoon ( by 1860 ) and found one of the gray's last refuges.

Creator of the Argentine Navy ( Armada de la República Argentina, ARA ) and leader of the Argentine Armed Forces in the wars against Brazil and Spain, he was born in Foxford, County Mayo on June 22, 1777 and died in Buenos Aires in 1857.

* 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist ( b. 1857 )

* 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist ( d. 1904 )

Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

* Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857 – 1913 ), the " father " of modern linguistics, proposed a dualistic notion of signs, relating the signifier as the form of the word or phrase uttered, to the signified as the mental concept.

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* December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet ( d. 1857 )

* March 3 – Adolphe Dureau de la Malle, French geographer, naturalist, historian and artist ( d. 1857 )

* Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857 – 1913 ), Swiss linguist

The Gare de Rennes, opened in 1857, is now two hour and twenty minutes by TGV high speed train from Paris.

After the completion of The Source, Ingres produced paintings of historical genre, such as two versions of Louis XIV and Molière, ( 1857 and 1860 ), as well as several religious works in which the figure of the Virgin from The Vow of Louis XIII is reprised: The Virgin of the Adoption of 1858 ( painted for Mademoiselle Roland-Gosselin ) was followed by The Virgin Crowned ( painted for Madame la Baronne de Larinthie ) and The Virgin with Child.

As often happens in science, radioactivity came close to being discovered nearly four decades earlier when, in 1857, Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor, who was investigating photography under Michel Eugène Chevreul, observed that uranium salts emitted radiation able to darken photographic emulsions.

* Lamy et Rinck, PEROU Oblitérations postales de 1857 à 1873, Classification et cotation, 1964 ( en français )

# Princess Theodelinde Louise Eugénie Auguste Napoléone de Beauharnais ( 1814 – 1857 ).

During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857.