This article is about the year 1853.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s – 1850s – 1860s 1870s 1880s |
Years: | 1850 1851 1852 – 1853 – 1854 1855 1856 |
1853 in topic: |
Humanities |
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
By country |
Australia – Brazil - Canada – Denmark - France – Germany – Mexico – Norway - Philippines - Portugal– Russia - South Africa – Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom – United States |
Other topics |
Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
Lists of leaders |
Colonial Governors – State leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Works category |
Works |
Gregorian calendar | 1853 MDCCCLIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2606 |
Armenian calendar | 1302 ԹՎ ՌՅԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6603 |
Bahá'í calendar | 9–10 |
Bengali calendar | 1260 |
Berber calendar | 2803 |
British Regnal year | 16 Vict. 1 – 17 Vict. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2397 |
Burmese calendar | 1215 |
Byzantine calendar | 7361–7362 |
Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4549 or 4489 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4550 or 4490 |
Coptic calendar | 1569–1570 |
Discordian calendar | 3019 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1845–1846 |
Hebrew calendar | 5613–5614 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1909–1910 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1775–1776 |
- Kali Yuga | 4954–4955 |
Holocene calendar | 11853 |
Igbo calendar | 853–854 |
Iranian calendar | 1231–1232 |
Islamic calendar | 1269–1270 |
Japanese calendar | Kaei 6 (嘉永6年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4186 |
Minguo calendar | 59 before ROC 民前59年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2395–2396 |
Year 1853 (MDCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs the legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida.
- January 8 – Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan is ordered to assist the governor of Hunan in organising a militia force to search for local bandits.
- January 12 – Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping army occupies Wuchang.
- January 19 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in performance at Teatro Apollo in Rome.
- February 10 – Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces assemble at Hanyang, Hankou and Wuchang for the march on Nanjing.
- February 12 – Puerto Montt is founded in the Reloncaví Sound, Chile.
- February 22 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary.
- March – The clothing company Levi Strauss & Co. is founded in the United States.[1]
- March 4 – Franklin Pierce succeeds Millard Fillmore as the 14th President of the United States and affirms the oath of office.
- March 20 – Taiping Rebellion: A rebel army of around 750,000 seizes Nanjing, killing 30,000 Imperial troops.
April–June
- April 16 – Foundation of Indian Railways: opening of first passenger railway in India, from Bombay to Thana, Maharashtra, 22 miles, 36 km.
- May
- The world's first public aquarium opens at the London Zoo.
- An outbreak of yellow fever kills 7,790 in New Orleans.[2]
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel accepts John Scott Russell's tender for construction of the SS Great Eastern passenger steamer.
- May 12–October 31 – Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin, Ireland.
- May 23 – The first plat for Seattle, Washington is laid out.
- June 27 – Taiping Rebellion: The Northern Expeditionary Force crosses the Yellow River.
- June 30 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as préfect of the Seine (department) to begin the re-planning of Paris.
July–September
- July 8 – U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo Bay, Japan, with a request for a trade treaty.
- July 25 – Outlaw and bandit Joaquin Murrieta is killed in California.
- July 27 – Iesada succeeds his father Ieyoshi as Japanese Shogun. The Late Tokugawa shogunate (the last part of the Edo period in Japan) begins.
- August 12 – New Zealand acquires self-government.
- August 23 – The first true International Meteorological Organization is established in Brussels, Belgium.
- August 24
- The Royal Norwegian Navy Museum is founded at Karljohansvern in Horten, perhaps the world's first naval museum.
- Potato chips are first prepared, by George Crum at Saratoga Springs, New York, according to popular accounts.
- September 19 – Hudson Taylor first leaves for China.
October–December
- October 1 – The Bechstein piano company is founded, one of three established in a "Golden year" in the history of the piano (Julius Blüthner and Steinway & Sons being the others).
- October 4–5 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire starts war with Russia.
- October 4 – On the east coast of the United States, Donald McKay launches the Great Republic, the world's biggest sailing ship, which at 4,500 tons is too large to be successful.
- October 28 – Crimean War: The Ottoman army crosses the Danube into Vidin/Calafat in Wallachia.
- October 30 – Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping Northern Expeditionary Force comes within three miles (5 km) of Tianjin.
- November 3 – Troops of William Walker capture La Paz in Baja California Territory and declare the (short-lived) Republic of Lower California.
- November 4 – Crimean War – Battle of Oltenitza: Turkish victory over Russians.
- November 15 – Maria II of Portugal is succeeded by her son Pedro.
- November 30 (November 18 O.S.) – Crimean War – Battle of Sinop: The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet.
- December 6 – Taiping Rebellion: French minister de Bourboulon arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the Cassini.
- December 30 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
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Battle of Sinop, the last major naval battle involving sailing warships.
Date unknown
- The Independent Santa Cruz Maya of Eastern Yucatán are recognized as an independent nation by the British Empire.
- Charles Pravaz and Alexander Wood independently invent a practical hypodermic syringe.
- Wheaton Academy is founded in West Chicago, Illinois.
- The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China is incorporated in London by Scotsman James Wilson, under a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria.[3][4]
- The Swiss watch company Tissot is founded.
- 1853–1873 – More than 130,000 Chinese laborers come to Cuba.
Births
January–June
- January 2 – Packy Dillon, American professional baseball player (d. 1902)
- January 10 – John Martin Schaeberle, German-American astronomer (d. 1924)
- January 16 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor (d. 1937)
- January 28
- José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
- Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher), Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
- January 29 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (d. 1931)
- February 4 – Kaneko Kentarō, Japanese politician and diplomat (d. 1942)
- February 6 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
- February 18 – Ernest Fenollosa, Catalan American philosopher (d. 1908)
- February 31 – William O'Malley, Irish Parliament member. Notable for his bizarre date of birth. (d. 1939)
- March 5 – Howard Pyle, American artist and fictional writer (d. 1911)
- March 13 – Robert Felkin, British writer (d. 1926)
- March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
- March 25 – Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar, fifth Qajarid Shah of Persia (d. 1907)
- March 30 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
- April 1 – Marcello Amero D'Aste, Italian admiral and politician (d. 1931)
- April 7 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (d. 1884)
- May 28 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
- June 3 – William Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
- June 12 – Chester Adgate Congdon, Minnesota mining magnate (d. 1916)
July–December
- July 4 – Ernst Otto Beckmann, German chemist (d. 1923)
- July 5 – Cecil Rhodes, English businessman (d. 1902)
- July 18 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
- July 24 – William Gillette, American actor, playwright and stage-manager (d. 1937)
- August 19 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
- August 28
- Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (d. 1939)
- Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, (d. 1938)
- September 2 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
- September 16 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1927)
- September 17 – Henry Churchill de Mille, American dramatist and playwright; father of film director Cecil B. DeMille (d. 1893)
- September 20 – Chulalongkorn, Rama V, king of Thailand (d. 1910)
- September 21
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
- Edmund Leighton, English painter (d. 1922)
- October 14 – John William Kendrick, American railroad executive (d. 1924)
- October 17 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (d. 1920)
- October 26 – Tokugawa Akitake, Japanese Daimyo, the last lord of Mito Domain, younger brother of the last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu (d. 1910)
- October 30 – Louise Abbéma French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque (d. 1927)
- November 9 – Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
- November 13 – John Drew, Jr., American stage actor, (d. 1927)
- December 6 – Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature (d. 1931)
- December 17 – Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
- December 23 – William Henry Moody, 35th United States Secretary of the Navy, 45th United States Attorney General (d. 1917)
Deaths
January–June
- January 8 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene (Prekmurian) poet in Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1788)
- January 16
- Robert Lucas, governor of Ohio, United States (b. 1781)
- Matteo Carcassi, Italian composer (b. 1792)
- Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1783)
- January 19 – Karl Faber, German historian (b. 1773)
- February 6 – Anastasio Bustamante, Mexican President
- February 15 – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (b. 1784
- March 17 – Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician (b. 1803)
- April 18 – William R. King, 13th Vice President of the United States (b. 1786)
- April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
- May 18 – Lionel Kieseritzky, Baltic German chess player (b. 1806)
- June 2
- Lucas Alamán, Mexican statesman and historian (b. 1792)
- Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (b. 1777)
- June 8 – Richard William Howard Vyse (b. 1784)
July–December
- July 27 – Tokugawa Ieyoshi, 12th shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (b. 1793)
- August 9 – Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Polish philosopher (b. 1776)
- August 19 – George Cockburn, British Naval commander (b. 1772)
- August 23 – Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
- September 3 – Augustin Saint-Hilaire, French botanist and traveller (b. 1799)
- October 2 – François Arago, French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (b. 1786)
- October 3 – George Onslow, French composer (b. 1784)
- October 5 – Mahlon Dickerson, American judge and politician (b. 1770)
- October 13 – Jan Cock Blomhoff, Dutch director of Dejima, Japan (b. 1779)
- October 22 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, 19th Century Uruguayan military and political figure (b. 1784))
- November 15 – Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
- December 15 – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist. (b. 1775)
References
- ^ Downey, Lynn (2008). "Levi Strauss: a short biography" (PDF). Levi Strauss & Co. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
- ^ Pritchett, Jonathan B.; Tunali, Insan (1995). "Strangers′ Disease: Determinants of Yellow Fever Mortality during the New Orleans Epidemic of 1853". Explorations in Economic History 32 (4): 517–539. doi:10.1006/exeh.1995.1022.
- ^ "Our History". Standard Chartered. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
- ^ "Hong Kong banknotes". World Paper Money Catalog and History. 2010. Retrieved 2012-08-07.