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 – Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player ( 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 – 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 )

On April 18, 1857 Rivail ( signing himself " Allan Kardec ") published his first book on Spiritism, The Spirits ' Book, comprising a series of 1, 018 answered questions exploring matters concerning the nature of spirits, the spirit world, and the relations between the spirit world and the material world.

Using the latest technology and a new concept in publishing, Mrs Beeton ( 1836 – 1865 ) published her famous Book of Household Management in 24 monthly parts between 1857 and 1861.

* He edited Juliana Berners's Book of Saint Albans under the title of The Gentleman's Academy ( 1595 ), and produced numerous books on husbandry, many of which are catalogued in Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual ( Bohn's ed., 1857 – 1864 ).

In the 1857 Name Book it was believed that its original site had been at NS 4968 5813 in a field called Cross-stane-park.

Nineteenth century literature presents several early examples that appealed to young readers including: The Swiss Family Robinson ( 1812 ), Waverley ( 1814 ), Oliver Twist ( 1838 ), The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1844 ), Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), Great Expectations ( 1860 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 1865 ), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1876 ), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884 ), Kidnapped ( 1886 ), The Jungle Book ( 1894 ), and Moonfleet ( 1898 ).

His father was Charles S. Boker, a wealthy banker, whose financial expertness weathered the Girard National Bank through the panic years of 1838-40, and whose honour, impugned after his 1857 death, was defended many years later by his son in " The Book of the Dead.

1857 – 72 ), Log Book of a Fisherman and Zoologist ( 1876 ) and Natural History of British Fishes ( 1881 ).

However, some may view him as the second internationally recognized supercentenarian in the world after the disputed case of his fellow countryman Thomas Peters ( 1745 – 1857 ) was grandfathered into the Guinness Book main tables ( from the footnotes ) in the early 1990s.

( 1857 ) and a commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes ( 1860 ).

* Secor Centennial Committee, " The Minnie Vautrin Story ," in The Secor Centennial Book, 1857 – 1957, 1957

Shortly after its publication she relocated to London, where she worked on her next and final book, The English Bread Book ( 1857 ).

* The English Bread Book ( 1857 )

Volume Six of the General Stud Book published in London in 1857

Cooke is the author of a variety of memoirs of his service: Notes of a Military Reconnaissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California ( 1848 ), Scenes and Adventures in the Army: or, Romance of Military Life ( 1857 ), Cavalry Tactics ( 1862 ), Handy Book for United States Cavalry ( 1863 ), and The Conquest of New Mexico and California ( 1878 ).

In addition to his achievements in black-letter bibliography he threw great light on ancient Celtic language and literature by the discovery, in 1857, of the Book of Deer, a manuscript copy of the Gospels in the Vulgate version, in which were inscribed old Gaelic charters.

In 1857, he edited an anthology, The Household Book of Poetry.

John Van Voorst, London, 1857 A complete and unabridged edition of this book is available at Google Book Search

Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, v. 62 ( Boston, 1857 ), pp. 27 – 54 ( full text accessible through Google Book Search )