Trade links with the rest of the Australian states were established with the Murray River being successfully navigated in 1853 by Francis Cadell, an Adelaide resident.

Swedish engineers Georg and Edvard Scheutz, inspired by a description of the difference engine, created a mechanical calculation device based on the design in 1853.

High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.

* 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 ).

This, along with European diseases, so impacted the Nicoleños, that by 1853, only one living Nicoleña person remained.

On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

Le Plat ( Antwerp, 1779 ) and by F. Schulte and A. L. Richter ( Leipzig, 1853 ).

Another early example of a whodunit is a subplot in the novel Bleak House ( 1853 ) by Charles Dickens.

** Kalevipoeg by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald ( 1853 Estonian mythology )

Following his education in Giessen, he took postdoctoral fellowships in Paris ( 1851 – 52 ), in Chur, Switzerland ( 1852 – 53 ), and in London ( 1853 – 55 ), where he was decisively influenced by Alexander Williamson.

Published by Virtue & Co., London, 1853 ( revised 1868 ).

In response this latest change of mind by the Ottomans / Turks, the Russians, on 2 July 1853 occupied the Turkish-satellite states of Wallachia and Moldavia, as they had during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774.

A pen and ink study by John Ruskin, 1853, is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Schumann, amazed by the 20-year-old's talent, published an article entitled "" ( New Paths ) in the 28 October 1853 issue of the journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik alerting the public to the young man, who, he claimed, was " destined to give ideal expression to the times.

A biography, Memoirs of John Abernethy, by George Macilwain ( 1797 – 1882 ), appeared in 1853.

On the night of July 31, 1853, doctors at the local hospital needed to perform an emergency operation, virtually impossible by candlelight.

In early 1853 the House of Representatives passed a bill by a 107-to-49 vote that organized the Nebraska Territory in land west of Iowa and Missouri.

Published by Virtue & Co., London, 1853 ( revised 1868 ).

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.

The Kingdom of Sikkim, which had already lost its Darjeeling region to British India in 1853, was annexed by the post-colonial Republic of India in April 1975 and, in the following month, Sikkim's people voted to join the Indian Union.

The United States acquired the southwestern boot heel of the state and southern Arizona below the Gila river in the mostly desert Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which was related to the construction by the US of a transcontinental railroad.

The Saharan family was recognized by Heinrich Barth in 1853, the Nilotic languages by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1880, the various constituent branches of Central Saharan ( but not the connection between them ) by Friedrich Müller in 1889, and the Maban family by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes in 1907.

** Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman ( b. 1853 )

In 1853 Charles Dickens wrote a scathingly sarcastic review in his weekly magazine Household Words of painter George Catlin's show of American Indians when it visited England.

The modelling profession was first established in 1853, when Charles Frederick Worth used his wife Marie Vernet Worth to model his clothes.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

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.

In 1853 it published an anonymous and unfavourable review of Charles Dickens ’ Bleak House, later revealed to be by George Brimley, typical of the paper's enduring contempt for him as a ‘ popular ’ writer " amusing the idle hours of the greatest number of readers ; not, we may hope, without improvement to their hearts, but certainly without profoundly affecting their intellects or deeply stirring their emotions.

* John Scott – Matilda ( 1827 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Margrave ( 1832 ), Touchstone ( 1834 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), The Baron ( 1845 ), Newminster ( 1851 ), West Australian ( 1853 ), Warlock ( 1856 ), Imperieuse ( 1857 ), Gamester ( 1859 ), The Marquis ( 1862 )

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

* Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, translated by Charles Duke Yonge ( 1853 ) ( Uses a different method of enumerating the sections from the modern editions.

During 1853, when Villiers was made a privy counsellor the Times stated " it was Mr Charles Villiers who practically originated the Free Trade movement ".

The county was created by the Georgia General Assembly on December 15, 1853, from a part of Baker County and was named after Charles Dougherty, a respected judge and lawyer from Athens, Georgia.

Dougherty County was created on December 15, 1853, from Baker County and named for Judge Charles Dougherty.

The date of Charles ' death was also chosen by a student association in Lund for annual torch marches starting in 1853.

Charles Chambille arrived in 1853 to serve the French living in the area, which was then called the " Swan Creek Settlement.

* Charles G. Atherton ( 1804 – 1853 ), US congressman and senator

* Charles Humphrey Atherton ( 1773 – 1853 ), US congressman

* Charles Mason, Chief Justice of Iowa ( 1838 – 1842 ) and US Commissioner of Patents ( 1853 – 1857 ).

Charles Wilson started what is now Deer Park in 1853 about eleven years after the Long Island Railroad arrived in 1842-when he established a large and productive farm.

* James Arthur Charles Liddell ( 28 December 1850 – 27 November 1853 ).

Martha Washington by Rembrandt Peale, probably 1853, based on a portrait by his father, Charles Willson Peale ( National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery, Washington )

He was for some time curate to Charles Simeon, the evangelical churchman, and his low church views involved him in disputes with his own parishioners at St Michael's, Cambridge, of which he was perpetual curate from 1823 till his death at Hastings on 4 April 1853.

* General Sir Charles James Napier GCB ( 10 August 1782 – 1853 )