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1853 Historical Event(s)
January 6, 1853
– President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
January 19, 1853
– Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
February 22, 1853
– Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
July 2, 1853
– The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
July 14, 1853
– Opening of the first major US world’s fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
July 25, 1853
– Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
September 24, 1853
– Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
October 4, 1853
– Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
December 30, 1853
– Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
December 31, 1853
– A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England, United Kingdom
Who Were Born On 1853?
January 16, 1853
– Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
March 5, 1853
– Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
March 14, 1853
– Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
March 30, 1853
– Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
July 24, 1853
– William Gillette, American actor and author (d. 1937)
October 14, 1853
– Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883)
December 14, 1853
– Errico Malatesta, Italian anarcho-communist (d. 1932)
December 30, 1853
– André Messager, French composer (d. 1929)