1853
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| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1853 MDCCCLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2606 |
| Armenian calendar | 1302 ԹՎ ՌՅԲ |
| Chinese calendar | 4489/4549-11-22 (壬子年十一月廿二日) — to — 4490/4550-12-2(癸丑年十二月初二日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1845 – 1846 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5613 – 5614 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1908 – 1909 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1775 – 1776 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4954 – 4955 |
| Iranian calendar | 1231 – 1232 |
| Islamic calendar | 1269 – 1271 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2396 |
1853 (MDCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- January 6 - American President-Elect Franklin Pierce, wife Jane, and son Ben are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Franklin and Jane survive but eleven-year-old Ben is killed.
- 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: Taiping army occupies Wuchang.
- January 19 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome
- January 21 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine
- January 29 - Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eugènie at the Tuileries
- February 10 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces abandon Hanyang, Hankou and Wuchang for march of Nanjing.
- March 4 – Inauguration of US president Franklin Pierce
- February 22 - Washington University is founded as Eliot Seminary
- March 20 - Taiping Rebellion: Rebel army of around 750,000 seizes Nanjing, killing 30,000 Imperial troops.
- April 27 - Taiping Rebellion: Sir George Bonham becomes the first representative of a Western government to come in contact with the rebels, aboard the "HMS Hermes".
- May 13 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Northern Expeditionary Force marches out of the Heavenly Capital.
- May 20 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Western Expeditionary Force marches out of the Heavenly Capital.
- May 23 - The first plat for Seattle, Washington is laid out.
- June 7 - Franklin College of Lancaster, Pennsylvania merges with Marshall College of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania to form Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster
- June 27 - Taiping Rebellion: Northern Expeditionary Force crosses the Yellow River.
- July 8 - U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo Bay with a request for a trade treaty
- July 25 Outlaw and bandit Joaquin Murietta is killed.
- August 12 – New Zealand acquires self-government
- August 23 - 1st true International Meteorological Organization Brussels, Belgium
- August 24 - Potato chips first prepared.
- October 4/October 5 - Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
- October 28 - Crimean War: Ottoman army crosses the Danube into Vidin / Kalafat in Wallachia.
- October 30 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Northern Expeditionary Force comes within three miles of Tianjin.
- November 3 - Troops of William Walker capture La Paz in Baja California and declare (short-lived) Republic of Lower California
- November 15 - Maria II of Portugal is succeeded by her son Pedro
- November 30 - 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
- Royal Norwegian Navy Museum founded.
- Yellow fever kills 7790 in New Orleans
- Alexander Wood invents the hypodermic syringe
- Argentina adopts federal constitution - Buenos Aires opposes that
- Donald McKay builds the Great Republic, the world's biggest sailing ship, which at 4,500 tons was too large to be successful
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel began work on the Great Eastern passenger steamer
- Start of Crimean War
- Independent Santa Cruz Maya of Eastern Yucatan recognized as an independent nation by British Empire
- Iesada succeeds Ieoshi as Japanese Shogun
- Beginning of the Late Tokugawa shogunate, the last part of the Edo period in Japan.
- Stephen Foster writes "My Old Kentucky Home."
- The University of Florida establilshed
- James Beckwourth discovers Beckwourth Pass.
- Tissot, a Swiss watch company, founded.
Births
- January 28 - José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
- February 6 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
- March 14 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
- March 30 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
- 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 5 - Cecil Rhodes, English businessman (d. 1902)
- July 18 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
- 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 20 - Chulalongkorn, Rama V, king of Thailand (d. 1910)
- September 21 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
Deaths
- January 16 - Matteo Carcassi, Italian composer (b. 1792)
- March 17 - Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician (b. 1803)
- April 18 - William R. King, Vice President of the United States (b.1786)
- April 28 - Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
- November 15 - Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
- June 8 - Richard William Howard Vyse (b. 1784)
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