Editing 1857 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Panic of 1857]]: New York banks close, and do not reopen until [[December 12]].
* [[October 24]]
** [[Sheffield F.C.]], the world's first [[association football]] team, is founded in [[Sheffield]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]].
** [[Escape of 28 enslaved people from Maryland (1857)|28 enslaved people]] escape their enslavers in [[Maryland]].
* [[November 1]] &ndash; The ''Indus Valley Region'' (i.e., [[Pakistan]] ''Region'') is incorporated  as part of [[British India]], for the next 90 years until [[1947]].
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]: British troops win 24 [[Victoria Cross]]es in action this day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/victoriacross.asp|title=Victoria Cross Registers|publisher=The National Archives (UK)|access-date=2008-04-11}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[President of Mexico]] [[Ignacio Comonfort]] is succeeded by [[Félix María Zuloaga]].
* [[December]] &ndash; The [[Reform War]] in [[History of Mexico|Mexico]] begins.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; U.S. Consul in Japan [[Townsend Harris]] meets the Shogun in Edo in a diplomatic reception, the first ever meeting between the Shogun and a foreign diplomat. 
* [[December 16]] &ndash; The 7.0 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1857 Basilicata earthquake|Basilicata earthquake]] shakes the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]] (Southern Italy) with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XI (''Extreme''), killing about 10,000 people.
* [[December 20]] &ndash; Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria]] issues a decree, ''Es ist Mein Wille'', which leads to the demolition of the [[city walls]] of [[Vienna]], allowing the construction of the [[Ringstraße]].
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Second Anglo-Chinese War]]: [[Battle of Canton (1857)|2nd Battle of Canton]] &ndash; British and French forces begin an assault on the Qing dynasty Chinese city of Canton ([[Guangzhou]]). 
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] chooses [[Ottawa]] as the capital of Canada.