In 1857 Southsea gained its own Improvement Commissioners responsible for paving, cleaning and lighting the streets.

In 1853 the town gained a post office named Colfax, and in December 1857 the name of the town itself became Colfax, by petition of the residents.

The city gained its current name in 1851 and was incorporated in 1857.

Sweepstakes ( which was the last clipper to be built by the Westervelt shipyard ) gained celebrity for her record-breaking seventy-four-day run from New York to Bombay in 1857, and for making the trip between New York City and San Francisco in only 106 days.

Austin's father, Philip Newton Spare, had been born in Yorkshire in 1857, but had moved to London, where he had gained employment with the City of London Police in 1878, being stationed at Snow Hill Police Station.

Reeling from devastating losses against the Russian Empire in 1813 and 1828 as well as the British Empire in 1857, not only was the Qajar government forced to grant countless concessions to these foreign powers, but Iranian bazaaris ( merchants ) were left in a highly vulnerable position as they couldn ’ t compete with the numerous economic advantages gained by merchants from Europe.

His careful investigations into the condition of industry at Paris gained for him a seat in the Academy of political and moral sciences, 1857.

Her father was a naval officer who gained national renown in 1857 when he went down with his ship, the mail steamer SS Central America, along with more than 400 passengers and crew.

Entering the army as lieutenant of artillery in 1857 he gained the medal for military valour at the battle of Custoza in 1866, and in 1870 commanded the brigade of artillery which battered the breach in the wall of Rome at Porta Pia.

Among his more important works may be named Women Gleaning, and The Day after St Sebastian's Day ( 1855 ), which gained him a third-class medal ; Blessing the Fields ( 1857 ), a second-class medal ; Erecting a Calvary ( 1859 ), now in the Lille gallery ; The Return of the Gleaners ( 1859 ), now in the Luxembourg ; Evening and Women Weeding ( 1861 ), a first-class medal ; Grandfather's Birthday ( 1862 ); The Close of Day ( 1865 ); Harvest ( 1867 ); Potato Gatherers ( 1868 ); A Pardon, Brittany ( 1869 ); The Fountain ( 1872 ), medal of honour ; The Bonfires of St John ( 1875 ); Women mending Nets ( 1876 ), in the Douai museum ; A Gleaner ( 1877 ), Luxembourg ; Evening, Finistère ( 1881 ); The Song of the Lark ( 1884 ); The Last Sunbeam ( 1885 ); The Shepherd's Star ( 1888 ); The Call Home ( 1889 ); The Last Gleanings ( 1895 ); Gathering Poppies ( 1897 ); The Alarm Cry ( 1899 ); Twilight Glory ( 1900 ).

During the Siege of Delhi — which lasted from March to September 1857 — the regiment, part of Colonel Colin Campbell's Third Column, took part in the storming of Kashmiri Gate and gained the Battle Honour " Delhi 1857 ".

Lassen's operas, Landgraf Ludwig's Brautfahrt ( 1857 ), Frauenlob ( 1861 ), and Le Captif ( 1868 ), did not have lasting success, though his music to Goethe's Faust ( 1876 ) gained popularity and was praised by Franz Liszt.

When Victoria gained responsible government in 1856, Sladen was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as Member for Geelong, and became Treasurer in the ministry of William Haines, a position he held until March 1857.

Coming into colonial administration, he was among a cohort of " new thinkers " whose ideas gained ground following the Sepoy Mutiny in India in 1857.

In 1857, with the LNWR's barely concealed support, the SD & WBR then gained permission to extend to Buxton.

In 1857, Eastmanville nearly became the county seat, having gained the assent of the County Board of Supervisors, but was unable to secure popular support.

There he studied for four years under Claudi Lorenzale and Pau Milà i Fontanals, and in March 1857 he gained a scholarship that entitled him to two years of studies in Rome starting in 1858.

In 1857, it gained affiliation to the University of Madras.

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying engineering and chemistry, and taking the degree of bachelor of science at the Lawrence scientific school of the same institution in 1857 ; and in 1859 became an assistant in the United States Coast Survey.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

The population rose steadily ( with the exception of censuses taken following the two world wars ) from 2. 1 million in 1857 until 1991, when it peaked at 4. 7 million.

* The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, submitted at first along with Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, then separately, and rejected in either form by many publishing houses, published posthumously in 1857

In 1857 Nepveu negotiated a contract to build a railway bridge over the river Garonne at Bordeaux, connecting the Paris-Bordeaux line to the lines running to Sète and Bayonne, which involved the construction of a iron girder bridge supported by six pairs of masonry piers on the river bed.

From 1857 to 1860, he spoke at lyceums, chiefly on Roman statuary and sightseeing in Rome.

Map of India in 1857 at the end of Company rule.

Although the archaeological site at Harappa was damaged in 1857 when engineers constructing the Lahore-Multan railroad ( as part of the Sind and Punjab Railway ), used brick from the Harappa ruins for track ballast, an abundance of artifacts has nevertheless been found.

Émile Coué ( 1857 – 1926 ) assisted Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault for around two years at Nancy.

Although he was never able to match his early artistic success in Rome and eventually had to flee his creditors for the Isle of Jersey in 1853, it should be noted that between 1819 and 1857, Severn exhibited 53 paintings at the Royal Academy in London.

The last picture he exhibited at the Royal Academy was a scene from Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village in 1857.

* 1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.

He was wounded on July 29, 1857, while fighting at Solomon River, Kansas, against the Cheyenne.

* 1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

The first academic chair devoted to politics in the United States was the chair of history and political science at Columbia University, first occupied by Prussian émigré Francis Lieber in 1857.

St John ’ s church was built in upper Jamestown in 1857, one motivation being to counter the levels of vice and prostitution at that end of the town.

* 1857 – The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

The first president of the South African Republic was Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, who commanded the Boers to victory at the Battle of Blood River.

The American Merrimac Oil Company drilled what is said to be, " the first successful well in the world " at La Brea at Trinidad and Tobago in 1857, where oil was struck at.

in the £; and then for three years more ... from April, 1857, at 5d.

* July 15 – Indian rebellion of 1857: The second massacre at Kanpur takes place.