Important Historical Events of the year 1853, Year 1853 in History

1. Birthday Age Calculator
2. Historical Events By Year
3. 19th Century Years
4. Important Historical Events of the year 1853

List of 1853 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1853

What happened in the year 1853?

Date	Event
January 4, 1853	After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
January 19, 1853	Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
March 19, 1853	The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
April 16, 1853	The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
July 2, 1853	The Russian Army crosses the Prut river into the Danubian Principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia), providing the spark that will set off the Crimean War.
July 8, 1853	The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.
July 14, 1853	Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
July 25, 1853	Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
September 24, 1853	Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
October 4, 1853	The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
November 30, 1853	Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
December 30, 1853	Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
December 31, 1853	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, England.