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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.
March 19, 1853
– The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
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.
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.
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 10, 1853
– Jessie Bond, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
January 16, 1853
– Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
January 28, 1853
– José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
April 4, 1853
– Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)
May 21, 1853
– Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
August 19, 1853
– Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
September 16, 1853
– Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
September 29, 1853
– Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
December 19, 1853
– Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)