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 ).

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 )

By 1853, the new partnership announced the precision vernier caliper as the first fruit of their joint efforts.

The term bunyip aristocracy was first coined in 1853 to describe Australians aspiring to be aristocrats.

In 1853, Pope Cyril IV established the first modern Coptic schools, including the first Egyptian school for girls.

* 1853 – Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.

It was the only painting he ever dated, and was the first work to garner him official recognition, a second-class medal at the 1853 salon.

However, the similarity of Brahms's music to that of late Beethoven had first been noted as early as November 1853, in a letter from Albert Dietrich to Ernst Naumann.

However in the 19th century the river supported a substantial commercial trade using shallow-draft paddle steamers, the first trips being made by two boats from South Australia on the spring flood of 1853.

* 1853 – Emilie Kempin-Spyri, first woman in Switzerland to graduate with a law degree ( d. 1901 )

Isaac I. Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory, wrote about Mount Baker in 1853:

* 1853 – Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a PhD ( d. 1944 )

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

On 16th April, 1853 the Great Indian Peninsula Railway operated the historic first passenger train in India from Bori Bunder to Thane covering a distance of 34 km, formally heralding the birth of the Indian Railways.

* The original Kells railway station serviced a line between Oldcastle and Drogheda via Navan and opened on 11 July 1853, closed for passenger traffic on 14 April 1958 and finally closed to all traffic on 1 April 1963.

It includes the first passenger railway line in India, which opened from Bombay to Thane on April 16, 1853.

Millstreet railway station opened on 16 April 1853 and closed for goods traffic on 6 September 1976, though it remains open for passenger train services.

* April 16, 1853 – Cheat River, Virginia ( now West Virginia ), United States: Two Baltimore & Ohio passenger cars tumble down a 100-foot ravine above the Cheat River in Virginia ( now West Virginia ), west of Cumberland, Maryland, after they are derailed by a loose rail.

Also in 1853, Samuel Hayes, the Master of Machinery for the railroad, had built a series of camel 4-6-0 locomotives for passenger service.

In 1853 the company launched the SS Himalaya for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, briefly the world's largest passenger ship before becoming a naval troopship.

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.

He is believed to have left New York as a passenger of the Canton on 4 March 1853, although when the ship reached Singapore on 11 July 1853 it was captained by Hayes, with the Canton being sold by Hayes in Singapore.

The first passenger station at this site was completed by Great Western Railway ( GWR ) in 1853.

On April 16, 1853 at 3: 35 pm, the first passenger train of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway left Boree Bunder station in Bombay ( present day Mumbai ) for Tannah ( present day Thane ) The train took fifty-seven minutes to reach Tannah.

Milford was next to receive an extension, which happened on February 4, 1853 ( passenger service to Milford beginning June 1 of that year ).

The steam locomotive named ‘ Thomason ’ ran with two wagons for carrying earth from Roorkee to Piran Kaliyar in 1851, two years before the first passenger train ran from Bombay to Thane in 1853.