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1853
was a
common year starting on Saturday
(see link for calendar).
Events
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 Eugnie
at the
Tuileries
March 4
–
Inauguration
of US president
Franklin Pierce
June 7
- Franklin College of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
merges with Marshall College of
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
to form
Franklin and Marshall College
in Lancaster
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 24
-
Potato chips
first prepared.
November 15
-
Maria II of Portugal
is succeeded by her son
Pedro
November 30
-
Crimean War
:
Battle of Sinope
- The
Russian
fleet destroys the
Turkish
fleet.
December 30
-
Gadsden Purchase
: The
United States
buys land from
Mexico
to facilitate
railroad
building in the Southwest
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
."
Births
January 28
-
Jos Mart
, revolutionary (+
1895
)
February 6
-
Ignacij Klemenčič
,
Slovene
physicist
(+
1901
)
March 14
-
Ferdinand Hodler
, painter (+
1918
)
March 30
-
Vincent van Gogh
, Dutch painter
May 28
-
Carl Larsson
, painter (+
1919
)
June 3
-
William Flinders Petrie
, Egyptologist
July 5
-
Cecil Rhodes
, South African politician
July 18
-
Hendrik Lorentz
,
Dutch
physicist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
January 16
-
Matteo Carcassi
, Italian composer
March 17
-
Christian Doppler
, mathematician
July 23
- Ieoshi, Japanese Shogun
November 15
-
Maria II of Portugal
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