1857 in China

Events from the year 1857 in China.

Incumbents

 * Xianfeng Emperor (7th year)

Viceroys

 * Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang (- Jan.), Tan Tingxiang (Jan. - )
 * 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, (1857 – 1933) 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, (1857 – 1928) 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, (1857–1938) a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner
 * October 18, Dantu, Jiangsu — Liu E, (1857 – 1909) writer, archaeologist and politician of the late Qing Dynasty
 * Gansu — Ma Qixi (1857–1914), a Hui from Gansu, was the founder of the Xidaotang, a Chinese-Islamic school of thought
 * Hefei, Anhui — Li Jingxi (1857-?) politician in the Republic of China. He was the Premier of State Council in May–July 1917.[1]
 * 20 September 1857 — Imperial Noble Consort Gongsu (1857 – 1921) consort of the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty
 * Jiangsu — Mary Tape (1857–1934) 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 (1823 – 1857) painter from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang