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| 1857 |
| | | The Boers of the southern Transvaal declare independence as the South African Republic | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Charles Baudelaire publishes his first and extremely influential collection of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal | |
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| 1857 |
| | | In Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes depicts the often brutal aspects of an English public school | |
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| 1857 |
| | | After being besieged for five months in Lucknow, the remnants of the British garrison finally escape | |
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| c. 1857 |
| | | Acts of exceptional valour in the Crimean War are rewarded with a new medal, the Victoria Cross, made from the metal of captured Russian guns | |
|  | Crimean War heroes, 1857
National Archives, Kew
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| 1858 |
| | | Palmerston's government collapses and Lord Derby heads another Conservative minority administration | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Conservatives seize Mexico City at the start of a civil war against the Liberal government | |
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| 1858 |
| | | John O'Mahony, an Irish emigrant to the USA, founds the Fenian Brotherhood as a secret organization supporting the Irish republican cause | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Burton and Speke reach Lake Tanganyika at Ujiji, a place later famous for the meeting between Livingstone and Stanley | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Lucknow is retaken by the British, nearly a year after it fell to the rebels | |
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