1853 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1853?
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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
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