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 )

* July 28 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist ( b. 1853 )

William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS ( 3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942 ), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.

Uphill, “ A Bibliography of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( 1853 – 1942 )," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1972 Vol.

* William Matthew Flinders Petrie: The Father of Egyptian Archaeology, 1853 – 1942

* Flinders Petrie, Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS ( 1853 – 1942 ), English Egyptologist

The greatest blow to the theory was dealt by the great Egyptogist Flinders Petrie ( 1853 – 1942 ), whose father was a believer.

The first bridge on the site was built in 1853 for the original Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company line to Sandridge from Flinders Street Station to Port Melbourne at Hobsons Bay on Port Phillip, the first passenger railway line in Australia.

* My Novel, or Varieties in English Life ( 1853 )

The earliest use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1853.

Since the end of Sakoku in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly – the last half-century or so has seen a very large volume of words borrowed from English, especially words about technology, including pasokon ( a shortening of " personal computer "), intānetto (" Internet "), and kamera (" camera ").

* 1777 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English soldier ( d. 1853 )

* 1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager ( d. 1937 )

* 1853 – Jessie Bond, English singer and actress ( d. 1942 )

* W. M. Thackeray, in English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century ( London, 1853 ; new edition, New York, 1911 )

The first recorded use of burnt sienna as a colour name in English was in 1853.

* July 29 – George Bradshaw, English publisher ( d. 1853 )

* Charles Jones ( cricketer, born 1853 ) ( 1853 – 1904 ), English cricketer

* H. Thomas Bromley ( 1853 – 1924 ), English artist

* Rutland Barrington ( 1853 – 1922 ), English musical theatre performer

* Albert Stanburrough Cook ( 1853 – 1927 ), professor of English.

In the 1853 the continued threat of attack by angry Utes, locally called the " Walker War " or the " Utah Valley War ", forced the settlers to build a adobe fort called the English Fort just north of the North Jordan Burying Ground in 1854.

* Heywood Sumner ( 1853 – 1940 ), an English painter and antiquary

Deakin was the second child of English immigrants, William Deakin and his wife Sarah Bill, daughter of a Shropshire farmer, who had migrated to Australia in 1850 and settled in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood in 1853.

Adapted into a play, it was titled Camile in English and became the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata, Duplessis undergoing yet another name change, this time to Violetta Valery.

* Heywood Sumner ( 1853 – 1940 ), English artist, designer, writer and archaeologist

His History of the Apostolic Church ( in German, 1851 ; in English, 1853 ) and his History of the Christian Church ( 7 vols., 1858 – 1890 ), opened a new period in American study of ecclesiastical history.

* Henry Wood ( cricketer ) ( 1853 – 1919 ), English cricketer

James Scholefield ( November 15, 1789-April 4, 1853 ), English classical scholar, was born at Henley-on-Thames.