1857 in China
Events from the year 1857 in China.
Incumbents
Viceroys
- Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang, Tan Tingxiang
- Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Wang Yide
- Viceroy of Huguang — Guanwen
- Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Yue Bin
- Viceroy of Liangguang — Ye Mingchen
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Hengchun then Wu Zhenyu
- Viceroy of Sichuan — Wu Zhenyu then Wang Qingyun
- Viceroy of Liangjiang — Zhao Dezhe then He Guiqing
Events
- Nian Rebellion
- Second Opium War
- * January 4 — Battle of Macao Fort
- * December 28–31 — Battle of Canton (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion
- Miao Rebellion (1854–73)
- Panthay Rebellion
- Ningpo massacre
- April 20 — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed plenipotentiary to China.
Births
- Canton — Gin Chow, Chinese immigrant who gained fame in California as a prophet and fortune teller able to predict the weather and other natural events
- Penang, British Malaya — Gu Hongming, was a British Malaya born Chinese man of letters. He also used the pen name "Amoy Ku", later served in the Qing government
- Chengdu — Li Donghai, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner
- October 18, Dantu, Jiangsu — Liu E, writer, archaeologist and politician of the late Qing Dynasty
- Gansu — Ma Qixi, a Hui from Gansu, was the founder of the Xidaotang, a Chinese-Islamic school of thought
- Hefei, Anhui — Li Jingxi politician in the Republic of China. He was the Premier of State Council in May–July 1917.
- 20 September 1857 — Imperial Noble Consort Gongsu consort of the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty
- Jiangsu — Mary Tape was a desegregation activist who fought for Chinese-Americans' access to education, notably in the case Tape v. Hurley in 1885
Deaths
- November 23 — Ren Xiong painter from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang