1853

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1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

January 19 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome
January 21 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine.
January - Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eug�nie at the Tuileries
July 8 Commodore Perry arrives in Edo Bay with a request for a trade treaty
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
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
Franklin Pierce succeeds Millard Fillmore as President of the United States of America
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.