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

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.

With Santa Anna in power in Mexico, the US in 1853 made the Gadsden Purchase, acquiring the southern portions of what is now New Mexico and Arizona for $ 10, 000, 000.

The Navy purchased the original 956 acres ( 3. 9 km² ) of MINSY in 1853 and commenced shipbuilding operations on September 16, 1854 under the command of then-Commander David Farragut, who would later gain fame during the US Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay, when he gave the order, " Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

In 1853, inspired by the Maine law in the US, the United Kingdom Alliance led by John Bartholomew Gough was formed aimed at promoting a similar law prohibiting the sale of alcohol in the UK.

It was renamed in 1853 after the seventh US Vice President secessionist John C. Calhoun.

* Bat Masterson ( 1853 – 1921 ), noted Western lawman ; Deputy to US Marshal for Southern District of New York, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt

In addition to disease, in 1853 the State of California ordered all non-European people of California-including the Maidu-exterminated in return for a $ 5. 00 ($ 134. 95 in 2010 US $) cash bounty for each verified male killed and a lesser cash bounty for a dead woman or child.

* Arthur Livermore ( 1766 – 1853 ), US congressman

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

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

A US Post Office named Hooper was established in one of the general stores near this site in 1853 and " Hooper " was the term commonly used for the unincorporated area of the Town of Union between the Villages of Johnson City and Endicott until " Endwell " was adopted in 1921.

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

Before 1853, when US silver coins were reduced in weight 7 %, coins had exactly their value in metal ( from 1830 to 1852 ).

That special flag on the veranda deck of the Missouri had been flown from Commodore Matthew Perry's flagship in 1853 – 1854 when he led the US Navy's Far East Squadron into Tokyo Bay to force the opening of Japan's ports to foreign trade.

The proposal to construct an " inter-oceanic railway " ( Ferrocarril Interoceánico ) in 1850, a product of the demand for transport from the Atlantic to the Pacific occasioned by the US Gold Rush, took shape in 1853 when work commenced to anchor the railroad at Puerto Cortés.

In the summer of 1853, Walker traveled to Guaymas, seeking a grant from the government of Mexico to create a colony that would serve as a fortified frontier, protecting US soil from Indian raids.

By 1853, the value of a US Silver Dollar contained in gold terms, $ 1. 07 of silver.

With the Mint Act of 1853, all US Silver coins, except for the US Silver Dollar and new 3 cent coin, were reduced by 6. 9 % as of weight with arrows on the date to denote reduction.

O ' Sullivan was an influential political writer and advocate for the Democratic Party at that time and served as US Minister to Portugal during the administration of President Franklin Pierce ( 1853 – 1857 ), but he largely faded from prominence soon thereafter.

Moses Alexander ( November 13, 1853 – January 4, 1932 ) was the second elected Jewish governor of a US state, serving as the 11th Governor of Idaho from 1915 until 1919.

The battalion's march and service was instrumental in helping the US secure much of the American Southwest, including new lands in several Western states, especially the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 of much of southern Arizona.

Although there had been significant developments in meteorology in the 18th century, Matthew Fontaine Maury, of the US Navy, instigated the convening of the first true International Meteorological conference from late August through early September 1853.

However, stamps from Henry Archer's perforation trials had been issued the last few months of 1850, then during the 1851 parliamentary session of 1851, at the House of Commons, and finally in 1853 / 54 after the government paid Mr. Archer £ 4, 000 for his machine and the patent.

In 1853, the Dutch government allowed the bishopric of Utrecht to be reinstated by Rome, and Utrecht became the centre of Dutch Catholicism once more.

" Since the adoption of the 1853 constitution, the federal government has intervened over 200 times, mostly by presidential decree.

The Toronto observatory ended in 1853, but the Canadian government took over the service and continued collecting climate data.

The Late Tokugawa Shogunate ( Bakumatsu ) was the period between 1853 and 1867, during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government.

Whitworth was commissioned by the War Department of the British government to design a replacement for the calibre. 577-inch Pattern 1853 Enfield, whose shortcomings had been revealed during the recent Crimean War.

It was in 1853 that government surveyors set lines for the townships.

Emmet County remained attached to Mackinac County for administrative purposes until county government was organized in 1853.

The county boundaries were set off in 1840 and county government organized in 1853.

Cash-strapped from the start as a private institution, in 1853 it was merged in with the School of Mines, founded in 1851 in Jermyn Street, and placed under the newly-created British government Science and Art Department, although it continued to retain its own premises and substantially its own identity.

In 1851 and in 1853, when the area was still forested, surveyors working for the U. S. government marked all the section corners in the square which now includes Marshfield, Hewitt, and Cameron, working on foot with compass and chain.

He also oversaw the passage of the Vaccination Act 1853 into law, which was introduced as a private member's bill, and which Palmerston persuaded the government to support.

In 1853, the Island government passed the Land Purchase Act which empowered them to purchase lands from those owners who were willing to sell, and then resell the land to settlers for low prices.

Mexico filed 366 claims with the U. S. government for damages done by Comanche and Apache raids between 1848 and 1853.

After pledging himself to the integrity and independence of Turkey, Russell resigned from the government on February 21, 1853.

The example of Great Britain was then followed by the following countries in abolishing slavery within their dominions: in 1848 the slaves in all France's colonies were immediately emancipated ; in 1853 the Dutch commenced emancipation of slaves within their possessions ; in 1858 it was enacted that every slave belonging to a Portuguese subject should be freed within 20 years and, from 29 April 1878, slavery became illegal throughout Portuguese possessions ; the government of Buenos Aires enacted that all children of slaves after the 31 January 1813 should be free ; in Columbia those born after 16 July 1821 were to be liberated upon attaining 18 and Mexico ended slavery on 15 September 1829.

* In New Caledonia ( Nouvelle Calédonie in French, colonised in 1853 ; its Governors had been High Commissioners in the Pacific Ocean from 22 March 1907, see above ) the title ( commonly corrupted to Haussaire ) was chosen for the chief executive on 19 December 1981, when it was an overseas territory ( since 1946 ), even before autonomy was granted on 18 November 1984, and maintained after its status was changed on 20 July 1998 to the unique French collectivité sui generis ; he represents the Paris government, while there are a native legislature and government.

The Baden government in 1853 laid an embargo on his teaching owing to his liberal ideas, but the effect of this was to rouse considerable sympathy for his views, and in 1856 he obtained a professorship at Jena, where he soon acquired great influence by the dignity of his personal character.

It is characterized by major events occurring between 1853 and 1867 during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and transitioned from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government.

The first result was the 1853 Nesbitt issues of stamped envelopes, named after the contractor who produced them for the government.

In 1853, Wentworth had obtained the appointment of a sub-committee which brought forward a scheme for a new constitution for New South Wales that had the introduction of responsible government as its centrepiece.

Towards the close of the year 1837 he returned to France, and on 21 December married Mlle Agathe Delamalle ( Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, 15 October 1819 – Paris, 13 July 1853 ), daughter of the government prosecuting attorney at the court of Angers.