The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ); but, had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy.

* 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker ( d. 1853 )

* 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist ( d. 1853 )

In 1853, he married Jane Sym ( 1825 – 1893 ).

* 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.

For a time he took into his family the young student Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam ( 1813 – 1853 ), one of the founders of the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

* 1853 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general ( d. 1926 )

* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )

* 1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and architect ( d. 1939 )

* 1777 – Hyacinth, Chuvash founder of Sinology ( d. 1853 )

* John Cramp, 1851 – 1853 ( and 1856 – 1869 )

* Edmund Crawley, 1853 – 1856

* 1853 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, ( d. 1884 )

* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).

After a few presidents of the Provisional Junta, there were again consuls of the republic, 14 March 1841 – 13 March 1844 ( ruling jointly, but occasionally styled " first consul ", " second consul "): Carlos Antonio López Ynsfrán ( b. 1792 – d. 1862 ) + Mariano Roque Alonzo Romero ( d. 1853 ) ( the lasts of the aforementioned juntistas, Commandant-General of the Army )

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

** Maria II ( 1826 – 1853 )

Christian Andreas Doppler () ( 29 November 1803 – 17 March 1853 ) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist.

* Christian Doppler ( 1803 – 1853 ).

* 1853 – Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian ( d. 1931 )

* 1853 – René Bazin, French novelist ( d. 1932 )

* 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.

* 1853 – André Messager, French composer ( d. 1929 )

* 1853 – The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia — providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.

As an example, in the 1853 Crimean War, the Ottomans united with Britain, France, and the Kingdom of Sardinia against Russia.

* 1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.

In 1853, Britain and France intervened in the Crimean War against Russia.

For Britain, the Second Boer War was the longest, the most expensive (£ 200 million ), and the bloodiest conflict between 1815 and 1914, lasting three months longer and resulting in higher British casualties than the Crimean War ( 1853 – 56 ).

Odessa's growth was interrupted by the Crimean War of 1853 – 1856, during which it was bombarded by British and French naval forces.

Temporary merchant navy flag " Flag of St. George ", used 1853 – 56 in the Crimean War.

Whitworth was commissioned by the War Department of the British government to design a replacement for the calibre. 577-inch Pattern 1853 Enfield, whose shortcomings had been revealed during the recent Crimean War.

The Battle of the Alma ( 20 September 1854 ), which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), took place just south of the River Alma in the Crimea.

During the Crimean War of 1853 – 1856, one of seven surviving defenders of a stone tower on the Malakov Kurgan, which were found by French troops among the dead, was seriously wounded Vasily Kolchak – the father of the future Supreme ruler ( head of all the counter-revolutionary anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War ) of Russia Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak.

The long period of peace following the transfer of power was shattered by the Crimean War of 1853 – 56.

Appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath that same year, Playfair also became Gentleman Usher to Prince Albert, and in 1853 was appointed Secretary of the Department of Science, in which capacity he advocated the use of poison gas against the Russians in the Crimean War.

After the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), Russia realized that the other Great Powers would spare no effort to prevent her from gaining access to the Mediterranean.

When Greece was blockaded by the ( British ) Royal Navy in 1850 and again in 1853, to stop Greece from attacking the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War, Otto ’ s standing amongst Greeks suffered.

The Great Idea ( Μεγάλη Ιδέα ), the dream of uniting all Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire, thereby restoring the Byzantine Empire under Christian rule, led to his contemplating to enter the Crimean War at the side of Russia against Turkey and its British and French allies in 1853 ; the enterprise was unsuccessful, and resulted in renewed intervention by the two Great Powers and a second blockade of Piraeus port, forcing Greece to neutrality.

Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing Russian America without compensation in some future conflict, especially to the British, whom they had fought in the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ).

In November 1853, at the start of the Crimean War, in the Battle of Sinop, the Russians, under the command of Admiral Nakhimov, destroyed an Ottoman frigate squadron in Sinop, leading Britain and France to declare war on Russia.

Russia was defeated in the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ).

The Crimean War began in 1853 when Britain, France, and Turkey declared war on Russia.

General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron GCB ( 20 May 1808 – 8 June 1888 ) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), commanded troops during part of the New Zealand Land Wars and was Governor of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1868 to 1875.

During the Crimean war Nakhimov distinguished himself by annihilating the Ottoman fleet at Sinope in 1853.

The first known photojournalist was Carol Szathmari ( Romanian painter, lithographer, and photographer ) who did pictures in the Crimean War ( between Russia and Ottoman Empire, 1853 to 1856 ).

The Russian army briefly occupied Buzău again in 1853 during the Crimean War.