← 1856 1855 1854 1853 1852 1857 in China → 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1857 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1857 in China.

• Xianfeng Emperor (7th year)

• 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

• Nian Rebellion
• Second Opium War
  • January 4 — Battle of Macao Fort^[1]
  • 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.

• 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

• November 23 — Ren Xiong (1823 – 1857) painter from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang