1853

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Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
Years:	1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856

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**1853 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1853 MDCCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2606
Armenian calendar	1302 ԹՎ ՌՅԲ
Chinese calendar	4489/4549-11-22 (壬子年十一月廿二日) — to — 4490/4550-12-2 (癸丑年十二月初二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1845 – 1846
Hebrew calendar	5613 – 5614
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1908 – 1909
- Shaka Samvat	1775 – 1776
- Kali Yuga	4954 – 4955
Iranian calendar	1231 – 1232
Islamic calendar	1269 – 1271
Japanese calendar	Kaei 6 (嘉永6年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2513 (皇紀2513年)
- Jōmon Era	11853
Thai solar calendar	2396

The Battle of Sinope was the last major naval battle involving sailing warships.

1853 (MDCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

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January 6 - American President-Elect Franklin Pierce, wife Jane, and son Ben are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Franklin and Jane survive but eleven-year-old Ben is killed.
January 8 - Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan is ordered to assist the governor of Hunan in organising a militia force to search for local bandits.
January 12 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping army occupies Wuchang.
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 Eugènie at the Tuileries
February 10 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces abandon Hanyang, Hankou and Wuchang for march of Nanjing.
February 12 - Puerto Montt is founded in the Reloncaví Sound, Chile.
March 4 – Inauguration of US president Franklin Pierce
February 22 - Washington University is founded as Eliot Seminary
March 20 - Taiping Rebellion: Rebel army of around 750,000 seizes Nanjing, killing 30,000 Imperial troops.
April 27 - Taiping Rebellion: Sir George Bonham becomes the first representative of a Western government to come in contact with the rebels, aboard the "HMS Hermes".
May 13 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Northern Expeditionary Force marches out of the Heavenly Capital.
May 20 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Western Expeditionary Force marches out of the Heavenly Capital.
May 23 - The first plat for Seattle, Washington is laid out.
June 7 - Franklin College of Lancaster, Pennsylvania merges with Marshall College of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania to form Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster
June 27 - Taiping Rebellion: Northern Expeditionary Force crosses the Yellow River.
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 23 - 1st true International Meteorological Organization Brussels, Belgium
August 24 - Potato chips first prepared.
October 4/October 5 - Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
September 21 Hudson Taylor first left for China.
October 28 - Crimean War: Ottoman army crosses the Danube into Vidin / Kalafat in Wallachia.
October 30 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Northern Expeditionary Force comes within three miles of Tianjin.
November 3 - Troops of William Walker capture La Paz in Baja California and declare (short-lived) Republic of Lower California
November 15 - Maria II of Portugal is succeeded by her son Pedro
November 30 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinop - The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet.
December 6 - Taiping Rebellion: French minister de Bourboulon arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the Cassini.
December 30 - Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest

Royal Norwegian Navy Museum founded.
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."
The University of Florida establilshed
James Beckwourth discovers Beckwourth Pass.
Tissot, a Swiss watch company, founded.