1853

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s

Years: 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 - 1853 - 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858

• January 19 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome
• January 21 - Russell L. Hawes[?] patents the envelope folding machine.
• January - Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eugènie at the Tuileries
• June 8 Comodore Perry[?] arrives in Edo Bay with a request for a trade treaty
• August 24 - Potato chips first prepared.
• November 15 - Maria II of Portugal is succeeded by her son Pedro[?]
• December 30 - Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest

• 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
• Franklin Pierce succeeds Millard Fillmore as President of the United States of America
• 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.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1853 in literature:

Births

• January 28 - Jose Marti, revolutionary (+ 1895)
• March 14 - Ferdinand Hodler[?], painter (+ 1918)
• March 30 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
• May 28 - Carl Larsson, painter (+ 1919)
• July 5 - Cecil Rhodes, South African politician
• July 18- Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate

Deaths

• January 16 - Matteo Carcassi, Italian composer
• July 23 - Ieoshi, Japanese Shogun
• November 15 - Maria II of Portugal