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1853 Calendar

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•  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.
•  April 16, 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
•  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 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.
•  November 30, 1853 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
•  December 30, 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.

•  January 10, 1853 – Jessie Bond, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
•  April 23, 1853 – Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
•  May 8, 1853 – Dan Brouthers, baseball player (d. 1932)
•  July 24, 1853 – William Gillette, American actor and author (d. 1937)
•  September 2, 1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
•  October 14, 1853 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883)
•  December 14, 1853 – Errico Malatesta, Italian anarcho-communist (d. 1932)
•  December 17, 1853 – Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
•  December 19, 1853 – Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
•  December 22, 1853 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (d. 1917)