Dred Scott decision
1857 · Event
Supreme Court rules African-Americans cannot be US citizens.
On these timelines: Master, American Civil War, Slavery & Abolition
Around 1857
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)