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 – " 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 )

* Ichabod Bennet Crane ( July 18, 1787-October 1857 ) grandson ; was born in Elizabethtown, commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, served aboard the USS United States, with Stephen Decatur, then served in the US Army, fought in the War of 1812 died while still on active duty with the rank of colonel after 48 years of continuous service.

RINA was founded in Genoa in 1861 under the name REGISTRO ITALIANO NAVALE, by the " Associazione della Mutua Assicurazione Marittima " ( Mutual Marine Insurance Association ) in Genoa in 1857 by ship managers and shipowners ( or " ship shareholders "), to cover risks related to loss and / or damage of the hull and rigging of sailing ships, to meet the needs of Italian maritime operators, as had already occurred in Great Britain and France.

* 1926 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer ( b. 1857 )

* September 21 – Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer ( b. 1857 )

** George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer ( b. 1857 )

Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet ( 27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857 ) was a prolific English engineer and one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics.

Named for Frederick W. Lander ; chief engineer of a federal wagon route through the area in 1857.

The first building to be erected that still forms part of the museum was the Sheepshanks Gallery in 1857 on the eastern side of the garden ; its architect was civil engineer Captain Francis Fowke, Royal Engineers, who was appointed by Cole.

McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and, capitalizing on his experience with railroad assessment, became chief engineer and vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad and also president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1860.

* John Busby, ( 1765 – 1857 ), mining engineer

Formed in 1857 from part of North Manheim Township, it was founded by and named for John Chapman Cresson, a Philadelphia civil engineer and manager of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, President of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad and chief engineer of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

* William Douglass ( engineer ) ( 1857 – 1913 ), British civil engineer and lighthouse designer

In 1857, the town known as County Line ( the area had previously been known as Hendrick ’ s Blacksmith ) changed its name to Telford after the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company named their new station located there after the civil engineer Thomas Telford.

In 1857 the engineer Jan Heidatel developed a project to reconstruct the port of Liepāja.

Scottish engineer Alexander Wilson founded the company in Dusian Road, Vauxhall, London in 1857.

The theorem was first discovered by German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz in 1853, but was then rediscovered in 1883 by French telegraph engineer Léon Charles Thévenin ( 1857 – 1926 ).

John Busby ( 24 March 1765 – 10 May 1857 ) was an English-born surveyor and civil engineer, active in Australia.

By 1857 he was a major on the engineer staff.

* Everard Calthrop ( 1857 – 1927 ), railway engineer and parachute pioneer, lived at ' Goldings ' from the early 1900s onwards

* George Cayley ( 1773 – 1857 ), English naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, inventor, politician, and pioneer of flight

For a year after his graduation he was assistant instructor of practical engineering at the Military Academy, and was next engaged from 1854 to 1857 as assistant engineer upon the defenses of the harbor of New York and the improvement of Hudson River.

In 1857 he superintended the building of Fort Delaware, and in 1857-61 was superintending engineer of the construction of the defenses of Alcatraz Island, at San Francisco, Cal.

The current layout is the work of Clement Hodgkinson, the noted surveyor, engineer and topographer, who adapted the design in 1857 to allow for its intersection by the St Kilda railway line.

As an engineer, he determined the boundary lines between Iowa and the Little Colorado River, surveyed routes for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and was the chief surveyor of the party charged with the delineation of the boundary of the northwest United States and British North America, 1857 – 1861.