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 )

Legendary bandit Joaquin Murrieta was killed in 1853 north of Coalinga.

Joaquin Carrillo Murrieta ( sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta ) ( c. 1829 – c. July 25, 1853 ), also called the Mexican or Chilean Robin Hood or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was an infamous figure in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.

The first Executive of the Political-Military Command of Romblon was Spanish national named Don Ramon Vieytes installed on that same date of its creation on March 19, 1853 the second was Don Joaquin de Prat followed by Don Joaquin Vidal.

The original was ( 1853 ) in possession of the historiographer Don Joaquin Garcia Ycazbalceta at Mexico.

By 1853, the California state legislature considered Murrieta enough of a criminal to list him as one of the so-called " Five Joaquins " on a bill passed in May 1853.

Matteo Carcassi ( 1792 – 16 January 1853 ) was a famous Italian guitarist and composer.

One of the most famous was Richard Francis Burton, who traveled as a Qadiriyyah Sufi from Afghanistan in 1853.

In 1853, Alexandre Desrousseaux composed his famous lullaby P ' tit quinquin.

In 1853, John Coffee " Jack " Hays, a famous Texas Ranger, was one of the first to establish residence in Oakland while performing his duties as Sheriff of San Francisco.

Lillie Langtry ( October 13, 1853 – February 12, 1929 ), usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U. S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British music hall singer and stage actress famous for her many stage productions including She Stoops to Conquer, The Lady of Lyons and As You Like It.

As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais ( in French: Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d ’ Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape ; and, The Horse Fair ( in French: Le marché aux chevaux ) ( which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 ( finished in 1855 ) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

However, it was with his religious paintings that he became famous, initially The Light of the World ( 1851 – 1853, now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford ; a later version ( 1900 ) toured the world and now has its home in St Paul's Cathedral.

Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau ( 14 July 1816, Ville-d ' Avray, Hauts-de-Seine – 13 October 1882, Turin ) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races ( 1853 – 1855 ).

In 1853, Burnside resigned his commission in the United States Army, although maintaining a position in the state militia, and devoted his time and energy to the manufacture of the famous rifle that bears his name, the Burnside carbine.

* Queen Victoria reviewed troops encamped on the Common, including the famous Light Brigade, prior to their departure to the Crimea in 1853.

His most famous work, however, was the Handbook of the British flora, begun in 1853 and first published in 1858.

A famous work of fiction featuring scriveners is the short story " Bartleby, the Scrivener " by Herman Melville, first published in 1853.

Some of the most famous rímur were written between the 18th and early 20th centuries, by poets like Hannes Bjarnason ( 1776 – 1838 ), Jón Sigurðsson ( 1853 – 1922 ) and Sigurður Breiðfjörð ( 1798 – 1846 ).

* Many of Charles Dickens's most famous novels are at least partially set in London, including Oliver Twist ( 1838 ), The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1840 ), A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ), David Copperfield ( 1850 ), Bleak House ( 1853 ), Little Dorrit ( 1857 ), A Tale Of Two Cities ( 1859 ), Great Expectations ( 1861 ), Our Mutual Friend ( 1865 ), and The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1870 ).

Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky ( January 1, 1806 – May 18, 1853 ) was a 19th-century chess master, famous primarily for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which because of its brilliance was named " The Immortal Game ".

* William Gillette ( 1853 – 1937 ), American actor famous for his stage-version of Sherlock Holmes

His famous works included Lectures on Tumours ( 1851 ) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology ( 1853 ).

The mate is named for Samuel Boden, who played a famous early example of it in Schulder – Boden, London 1853.

A member of the famous Stevenson family of engineers, eldest son of Robert Stevenson, and brother of David and Thomas Stevenson, between 1843 and 1853 he built thirteen lighthouses in and around Scotland.

He was born in Volozhin in 1853, where his father, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik served as a lecturer in the famous Volozhiner Yeshiva.

But in 1850 the barque Magdalena ( 377 ton ) was built in Amsterdam, and in 1853 four more ships with clipper lines were launched, of which the iron ship California ( 663 ton ) is the most famous.

Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov () ( 30 May 1782 – 18 Nov 1856 ), was a Russian prince and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars, and most famous for his participation in the Caucasian War from 1844 to 1853.

His elder brother was Vincent van Gogh ( 1853 – 1890 ), who later became a famous painter.

* In 1853 and 1854, the famous and very eccentric French conductor and composer of light music Louis-Antoine Jullien ( 1812-1860 ) gave dozens of very successful concerts mixing classical and light music.