Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis described " kinetic energy " in 1829 in its modern sense, and in 1853, William Rankine coined the term " potential energy ".

* 1853 – William Gillette, American actor and author ( d. 1937 )

When Congress reconvened on December 5, 1853, this group, termed the “ F Street Mess ”, along with Virginian William O. Goode, formed the nucleus that would insist on slaveholder equality in Nebraska.

He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on August 10, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children ( Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857 ).

Grace was married on 9 October 1873 to Agnes Nicholls Day ( 1853 – 1930 ), who was the daughter of his first cousin William Day.

* May 22 – William Grant Broughton, first Anglican bishop in Australia ( d. 1853 )

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

* April 29 – William Gillette, American actor ( b. 1853 )

In 1848, William Aspdin further improved his cement and in 1853, he moved to Germany where he was involved in cement making .. William Aspdin made what could be called meso-Portland cement ( a mix of Portland cement and hydraulic lime ).

He was appointed United States District Attorney for Delaware from 1853 until 1854 and then practiced law in Philadelphia with his friend, William Shippen, from 1854 until 1858, before returning permanently to his father ’ s practice in Wilmington.

* The Roman Traitor or the Days of Cicero, Cato and Catiline: A True Tale of the Republic by Henry William Herbert originally published in 1853 in two volumes.

A much larger shipment of seed collected ( also in the Calaveras Grove ) by William Lobb, acting for the Veitch Nursery at Budlake near Exeter, arrived in England in December 1853 ; seed from this batch was widely distributed throughout Europe.

* William H. Douglas ( 1853 – 1944 ), U. S. Representative from New York

Coal tar was subsequently used to produce the first synthetic dye, mauve, by William Henry Perkin in 1856 and in 1853 was found, by Charles Gerhardt to contain the chemical acetylsalicylic acid, now known as aspirin.

* 1853: William Walker, with 45 men, captures the capital city of La Paz and declares himself President of the Republic of Lower California.

* George Finlay, History of the Byzantine Empire from 716 – 1057, William Blackwood & Sons, 1853

* George Finlay, History of the Byzantine Empire from 716 – 1057, William Blackwood & Sons, 1853

* George Finlay, History of the Byzantine Empire from 716 – 1057, William Blackwood & Sons, 1853

Speech of William Henry Seward, in Senate of the United States, January 26, 1853 ( 1853 ; Digitized page images & text )

Speech of William H. Seward, at the dedication of Capital University, at Columbus, Ohio, September 14, 1853 ( 1853 ; Digitized page images & text )

* William Beaumont ( 1785 – 1853 ), " Father of Gastric Physiology " whose book describing digestion, published in 1833, became a classical medical study still used today.

) The King Ranch is a ranch, founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis, includes portions of six Texas counties, including most of Kleberg County and much of Kenedy County, with portions extending into Brooks, Jim Wells, Nueces, and Willacy Counties.

* C. Savona-Ventura: The naval career of Sir Thomas Spencer Wells in the Mediterranean: 1842 – 1853.

In September 1853 Wells Fargo & Company acquired Livingston, Wells & Company, which had been its express and banking correspondent in England, France and Germany.

The first known novel by an African American is William Wells Brown's Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter ( 1853 ), but it was first published in the United Kingdom, where he was living at the time.

In 1853 he resigned his position as examining chaplain to the bishop of Bath and Wells owing to his pronounced eucharistic views.

Wells ' father Joseph, a gardener, was employed at Uppark in 1851 and he and Sarah married in 1853.

Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown, an escaped slave from Kentucky who was active on the anti-slavery circuit.

* William Wells Brown, CLOTEL ; or the President's Daughter ( 1853 ), An Electronic Scholarly Edition, edited by Professor Christopher Mulvey

Trackage was completed as far as Wells River, Vermont, in 1853.

Her father served as president of Wells Fargo & Company from 1853 to 1866.

In 1853 she began editing the women's newspaper The Una, which she edited till 1855 when she handed it over to Caroline Wells Healey Dall.

Later, William Wells Brown's 1853 novel Clotel, or the President's Daughter, although first published in England where he was living at the time, came to be viewed as the first novel by an African-American author.

* Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter, 1853 novel by William Wells Brown

In 1851 the railroad began to purchase the land needed to build a new station to the east of the river, and construction of this station at Wells Street took place during 1852 and 1853.

On January 6, 1853, Florida Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support for higher education in the state of Florida.

Brown from Pennsylvania and Patten W. Davis from Virginia started farming in the vicinity in 1853.

* George H. Brown ( 1810 – 1865 ), represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855.

The village is the site in 1853 of the first ordination of a woman minister in the United States, Antoinette Brown.

Emma Hill by Ford Madox Brown ( 1853 ), a woman wearing a later version of the poke bonnet.

Stone was asked to speak at and promote Temperance meetings because Stanton and Anthony were very interested in alcohol reform, and her best friend " Nettie " Brown, newly appointed pastor in the spring of 1853, was preaching against alcohol abuse.

Brown wrote to Stone enjoining her participation, and the two traveled to the meeting which convened on May 12, 1853.

" Stone's friends often felt differently about the issue ; " Nettee " Brown wrote to Stone in 1853 that she was not ready to accept the idea, even if both parties wanted divorce.

Born a slave just like his mother, the baby John Louis Brown's ownership passed to his father / much-older half-brother Judge Morgan W ( elles ) Brown ( January 1, 1800-March 7, 1853 ) after his father's death in 1840, as did the ownership of his mother.

After the death of his father / half-brother in 1853 John Louis's ownership had stayed within the family and he remained known as the slave of Morgan W. Brown even though Judge Morgan Welles Brown was deceased.

It was during this period that Foster would write most of his best-known songs: " Camptown Races " ( 1850 ), " Nelly Bly " ( 1850 ), " Old Folks at Home " ( known also as Swanee River, 1851 ), My Old Kentucky Home ( 1853 ), Old Dog Tray ( 1853 ), and Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair ( 1854 ), written for his wife Jane Denny McDowell.

* Thomas Brown ( Florida politician ) ( 1785 – 1867 ), American politician, second Governor of Florida, 1849 – 1853

* Mariotti L. ( Antonio Gallenga ), " Historical memoir of Fra Dolcino and his times ", Brown, London 1853, pp. XII-376.

* George Houston Brown ( 1810 – 1865 ), New Jersey politician 1853 – 1855

* Sarah Brown ( 1 Jan 1834 – 9 May 1909 ), m. 13 March 1853

* 1853: Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States.

* Joseph E. Brown ( 1821 – 1894 ), governor of the U. S. state of Georgia, 1853 – 1865

In 1853 Brown & Campbell purchased Henry's land surrounding the recently protected One Tree Hill Domain.

But expansion proceeded apace throughout the 1850s at a rate of several chapters per year: Epsilon was chartered at Brown University and Rho ( later re-chartered as Rho Epsilon ) at Harvard University in 1852 ; Psi ( later re-chartered as Psi Epsilon ) at Dartmouth College in 1853 ; Kappa at Tufts University in 1855 ; Theta at Union College in 1856 ; Tau at Lafayette College in 1857 ; Xi at University of Michigan in 1858.

* Original Hymns For Public, Private, and Social Devotion, London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1853

Warkworth, previously known as Browns Mill, was founded in 1853 by John Anderson Brown ( born Newcastle upon Tyne ), who named it after the village of Warkworth, Northumberland, where one of his relatives had taught for many years.

Thomas Brown ( October 24, 1785 – August 24, 1867 ) was an American politician who served as Florida's second Governor from 1849 to 1853.