1853

Year 1853 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - June

 * - : is ordered to assist the governor of  in organising a militia force to search for local bandits.
 * - : Taiping army occupies.
 * - opera  premieres in performance at  in.
 * - : Taiping forces abandon, and Wuchang for march of.
 * - is founded in the, Chile.
 * - is founded as Eliot Seminary
 * - of US president
 * - : Rebel army of around 750,000 seizes Nanjing, killing 30,000 Imperial troops.
 * - : Taiping Northern Expeditionary Force marches out of the Heavenly Capital.
 * - : Taiping Western Expeditionary Force marches out of the Heavenly Capital.
 * - The first for  is laid out.
 * - : Northern Expeditionary Force crosses the.

July - December

 * - U.S. Commodore arrives in Edo Bay with a request for a trade treaty
 * Outlaw and bandit is killed.
 * – acquires self-government
 * - 1st true Brussels, Belgium
 * - first prepared.
 * - first left for.
 * / - : The declares war on.
 * - : Ottoman army crosses the into  /  in.
 * - : Taiping Northern Expeditionary Force comes within three miles of.
 * - Troops of capture  in  and declare (short-lived) Republic of Lower California
 * - is succeeded by her son
 * - : - The n fleet destroys the  fleet.
 * - :  de Bourboulon arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the Cassini.
 * - : The buys land from  to facilitate  building in the Southwest

Undated

 * founded.
 * kills 7,790 in
 * invents the hypodermic
 * builds the Great Republic, the world's biggest, which at 4,500 tons was too large to be successful
 * began work on the  passenger steamer
 * Independent Santa Cruz Maya of Eastern recognized as an independent nation by
 * Iesada succeeds Ieoshi as Japanese
 * Beginning of the, the last part of the in.
 * writes "."
 * The establilshed
 * Swiss watch company founded.

Births

 * -, Cuban revolutionary (d. )
 * -, Slovenian physicist (d. )
 * -, Swiss painter (d. )
 * -, Dutch painter (d. )
 * -, Swedish painter (d. )
 * -, English Egyptologist (d. )
 * -, Minnesota mining magnate (d. )
 * -, English businessman (d. )
 * -, Dutch physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, German chemist, laureate (d. )
 * -, German physician, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, Rama V, king of Thailand (d. )
 * -, Dutch physicist, laureate (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, Italian composer (b. )
 * -, Austrian mathematician (b. )
 * -, (b.1786)
 * -, German writer (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, Japanese (b.)
 * -, British Naval commander (b.)
 * -, first mayor of (b. )
 * -, French botanist and traveller (b.)
 * - (b. )


 * See also .