22nd February » Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
19th March » The Taiping Rebellion or Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
16th April » The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
2nd July » The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean war First hostilities known as Crimean War.
8th July » U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry named Matthew Perry arrives in Edo bay with a treaty requesting trade.
25th July » Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
24th September » Admiral Auguste Febvrier Despointes e.g Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
4th October » Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
30th November » Crimean War: Battle of Sinop The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Military of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Navy e.g Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop (Turkey) named Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
30th December » Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate Rail transport or railroad building in the Southwestern United States named Southwest.
31st December » 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 called London, England.
Famous Birthdays in 1853
10th January » Jessie Bond, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
11th January » Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
16th January » Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager (d. 1937)
16th January » Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Greek-English general (d. 1947)
16th January » André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin known as Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931)
17th January » Alva Belmont, American activist (d. 1933)
28th January » José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (d. 1895)
28th January » Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher) named Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
6th February » Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
5th March » Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
14th March » Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
16th March » Heinrich Kayser, German physicist and spectroscopist (d. 1940)
18th March » Emilie Kempin-Spyri, Swiss lawyer and academic (d. 1901)
27th March » John Edward Kelley, American journalist and politician (d. 1941)
30th March » Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
4th April » Tad Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)
7th April » Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, (d. 1884)
23rd April » Winthrop M. Crane, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
27th April » Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (d. 1914)
1st May » Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin, Russian-American playwright (d. 1909)
8th May » Dan Brouthers, American baseball player (d. 1932)
21st May » Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
28th May » Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
3rd June » Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (d. 1942)
5th July » Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (d. 1902)
17th July » Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1920)
18th July » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
24th July » William Gillette, American actor and author (d. 1937)
27th July » Vladimir Korolenko, Ukrainian journalist, author, and activist (d. 1921)
19th August » Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
28th August » Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (d. 1939)
2nd September » Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
9th September » Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer (d. 1926)
14th September » Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1924)
16th September » Albrecht Kossel, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
26th November » Bat Masterson, Canadian-American police officer and journalist (d. 1921)
27th November » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (d. 1928)
28th November » Helen Magill White, American academic (d. 1944)
6th December » Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
14th December » Errico Malatesta, Italian activist (d. 1932)
17th December » Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d. 1933)
19th December » Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th List of lieutenant governors of Quebec known as Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
22nd December » Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1917)
22nd December » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (d. 1919)
22nd December » Sarada Devi, Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1920)
26th December » René Bazin, French author and academic (d. 1932)
30th December » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1929)
Famous Deaths in History for 1853
1st January » Gregory Blaxland, Australian farmer and explorer (b. 1778)
8th January » Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene-Hungarian poet and educator (b. 1788)
13th January » Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest and philosopher (b. 1783)
19th January » Karl Faber, German historian and academic (b. 1773)
4th March » Thomas Bladen Capel, English admiral (b. 1776)
4th March » Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1774)
17th March » Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1803)
13th April » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
13th April » James Iredell, Jr., American politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
28th April » Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (b. 1773)
8th May » Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1785)
18th May » Lionel Kieseritzky, Baltic German/French chess player (b. 1806)
2nd June » Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English colonel (b. 1777)
7th June » Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
29th June » Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
23rd July » Andries Pretorius, South African general (b. 1798)
25th July » Joaquin Murrieta, Mexican-American criminal (b. 1829)
23rd August » Alexander Calder (Beaumont, Texas) known as Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)
8th September » Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
2nd October » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
22nd October » Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, List of Presidents of Uruguay called President of Uruguay (b. 1784)
30th October » Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)