Notable Historical Events - 1853
1853 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service |
Jan 8 |
1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington |
Jan 10 |
Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London |
Jan 19 |
Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome |
Jan 21 |
Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass |
Jan 23 |
John Wilkes Booth is baptized at St. Timothy's Protestant Episcopal Church |
Feb 21 |
US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces |
Mar 2 |
Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Ter |
Mar 3 |
Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress |
Mar 3 |
US Assay Office in NYC authorized |
Mar 4 |
Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands |
Mar 4 |
William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP |
Mar 6 |
Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice |
Apr 1 |
Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary |
Apr 15 |
Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops |
Apr 16 |
The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane. |
Apr 17 |
Thorbecke government resigns |
Apr 17 |
US Marine Hospital at Presidio (SF) forms |
Apr 18 |
1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km) |
Apr 19 |
Netherlands Van Hall government forms |
Apr 26 |
Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber |
Apr 29 |
Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth |
May 1 |
Argentina adopts its constitution |
May 2 |
Franconi's Hippodrome opens (NYC) |
May 6 |
1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
May 14 |
Gail Borden, land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor, patents his process for condensed milk |
May 17 |
Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election |
May 23 |
Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) |
May 31 |
Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance |
Jun 24 |
Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce |
Jul 6 |
National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass attends |
Jul 6 |
William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel", 1st novel by an African American |
Jul 8 |
Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay |
Jul 9 |
Adm Perry & US Navy visit Japan |
Jul 14 |
1st US World's fair opens at New York's Crystal Palace |
Jul 14 |
Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan |
Jul 14 |
Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY) |
Jul 14 |
New Zealand holds its first general election |
Jul 18 |
Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine & Montreal |
Jul 25 |
Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. |
Aug 8 |
Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan |
Aug 24 |
1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY) |
Sep 11 |
1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos) |
Sep 15 |
1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell |
Sep 24 |
1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) |
Sep 24 |
France annexes New Caledonia |
Sep 24 |
Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London |
Sep 29 |
Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348 |
Oct 2 |
Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land |
Oct 6 |
4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio |
Oct 12 |
John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans |
Oct 19 |
1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations |
Oct 23 |
Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens |
Nov 9 |
Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun |
Nov 17 |
Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections |
Nov 28 |
Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory |
Dec 30 |
A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur) created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London. |
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