Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.

The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

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.

Decipherment of cuneiform was a formidable task that took more than a decade, but by 1857, the Royal Asiatic Society was convinced that reliable reading of cuneiform texts was possible.

Although the process of fermentation was not fully understood until Pasteur's work in 1857, it is still the first use of biotechnology to convert a food source into another form.

The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, however, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851.

In 1857 Charles Newton was to discover the 4th-century BC Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.

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.

The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.

The Carnot engine model was graphically expanded upon by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron in 1834 and mathematically elaborated upon by Rudolf Clausius in 1857 and 66 from which the concept of entropy emerged.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

Charlotte's first-written novel, The Professor, was published posthumously in 1857.

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857.

The first census was in 1857 when what is now Croatia was part of Austrian Empire.

In some countries such as Russia, the 1857 census found that over 35 percent of the population was serf ( крепостной крестьянин ).

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

* Georg Michaelis, politician, former Minister President of Prussia, born September 8, 1857, died July 24, 1936 in Bad Saarow

* 1857 – Martha Carey Thomas, American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College ( d. 1935 )

In 1857 President James Buchanan sent an army to Utah, which Mormons interpreted as open aggression against them.

* 1857 – Paul Doumer, French President ( d. 1932 )

* 1857 – William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States ( d. 1930 )

William Howard Taft ( September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930 ) was the 27th President of the United States ( 1909 – 1913 ) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 – 1930 ).

* May 7 – Paul Doumer, President of France ( assassinated ) ( b. 1857 )

* March 8 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, 10th Chief Justice of the United States ( b. 1857 )

* Jorge Córdova ( 1822 – 1862 ), military officer and constitutional President of Bolivia ( 1855 – 1857 )

A climax occurred in 1857 when President James Buchanan declared the area in rebellion after Brigham Young refused to step down as governor, beginning the Utah War.

The Morrill Act was first proposed in 1857, and was passed by Congress in 1859, but it was vetoed by President James Buchanan.

It was founded in 1857 on a private initiative by Désiré Girardon, who was its first President.

He served as a U. S. Representative and U. S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States ( 1857 – 1861 ), to date the youngest vice president in U. S. history, elected at age 35 and inaugurated at age 36.

Meanwhile, under the terms of the 1857 Constitution, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice became interim President until a new election could be held-Juárez was thus acknowledged as President by liberals on 15 January 1858 and assumed leadership of the Liberal side on the civil war known as the Reform War ( Guerra de Reforma ).

In March 1861, Juárez was finally elected President in his own right under the Constitution of 1857.

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.

* Jeremiah S. Black, Attorney General of the United States ( 1857 – 1860 ) and U. S. Secretary of State ( 1860 – 1861 ), under President James Buchanan ;

Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer (; 22 March 1857 – 7 May 1932 ) was the President of France from 13 June 1931 until his assassination.

Polygamy was probably a significant factor in the Utah War of 1857 and 1858, given the Republican attempts to paint Democratic President James Buchanan as weak in his opposition to both polygamy and slavery.

In addition to Howard and Chamberlain, William Fessenden's sons, James Deering Fessenden and Francis Fessenden, were both brigadier generals, and seventeen Bowdoin alumni would receive brevets as brigadier generals, including Ellis Spear ( Class of 1858, who was Chamberlain's second-in-command at Gettysburg ), Charles Hamlin ( Class of 1857, son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin ), and General Howard's brother Charles ( Class of 1859 ).

In 1857, President James Buchanan appointed Lamar to be the Minister to Nicaragua.

The 1857 – 62 Mexican civil war known as The Reform War had disorganised the country's finances and the new President, Benito Juárez, was forced to suspend payments of foreign debts in 1861.

Also in 1857, the previously mentioned LB & HJR opened a direct line from Ardsley to Laisterdyke, near Bradford.

Bradford was incorporated as a Village in 1857, with a population of about 1, 000 people.

In 1857 he was appointed by the legislature a commissioner with Alexander W. Bradford and David Dudley Field to codify the laws of the state, and he was engaged in this work up to the time of his death.

He was at this time Member of Parliament for Bradford ( 1860 – 1874 ), having previously sat for Rochdale from 1852 to 1857.

In 1886, Frederick Bradford Knapp ( 1857 – 1932 ) purchased the King Caesar House and the surrounding estate.