The Canterbury Province was formed in 1853 following the passing of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 from the part of New Munster Province and covered both the east and west coasts of the South Island of New Zealand.

* William Whitehouse Collins ( 1853 – 1923 ), New Zealand Member of Parliament for Christchurch in the South Island

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.

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.

On January 18, 1853, the Corregidor Island Lighthouse was first lit on the highest part of the island to mark the entrance of Manila Bay to vessels coming in from the South China Sea.

) The SS Winfield Scott built in 1850 by Westervelt & MacKay, wrecked on Middle Anacapa Island in 1853, and has been the object of numerous salvage operations since ; she currently rests underwater as part of the Channel Islands National Park and Marine Sanctuary.

Annie Maria Matthews ( 1853 – 1938 ) married Seymour Thorne George on 3 December 1872 on Kawau Island.

Stewart Island / Rakiura, which had since 1853 not been part of any province, was annexed to the Province of Southland on 10 November 1863.

* Ferry Advertisement, 1853, in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database

Last Island, Louisiana | Isles Dernieres in 1853 and 1978.

A previous mention of a Hans Island is found in Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, 1853 ,’ 54 ,’ 55, by Elisha Kent Kane ( 1857 ), pages 317 – 319, making the year 1853 often cited as the date of the discovery and naming of Hans Island, including in the letter by the Danish Ambassador to Canada, published in the Ottawa Citizen, July 28, 2005.

Later, after the failure of the campaign for Rome, Garibaldi spent a few years, circa 1850 – 53, with the Italian patriot and inventor, Antonio Meucci, in a modest gothic frame house ( now designated a New York City Landmark ), on Staten Island, New York City, before sailing for Italy in 1853.

From 1847 through 1853 he served on engineering assignments in Newport, Rhode Island, Bedford, Massachusetts, and ( on temporary assignment to the United States Navy ) at the Washington Navy Yard.

In 1853 Sir James Douglas, governor of Vancouver Island, took a journey up the coast of Vancouver Island in the SS Beaver, and recognized the area's agricultural potential.

He was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1853 to 1858.

Helen Magill White ( November 28, 1853, Providence, Rhode Island – October 28, 1944, Kittery Point, Maine ) was the first woman to earn a Ph. D. in the United States.

Graham Island was named in 1853 by James Charles Prevost, commander of HMS Virago, for Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time.

This novel is based on the true story of Juana Maria, better known to history as " The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island ", a Nicoleño Indian left alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island, one of the Channel Islands off the California coast, before being discovered in 1853.

Professor Hale was spouse to Harriet Swinburne ( 1853 – 1928 ) of Newport, Rhode Island.

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.

The original settlement in what is now the downtown was initially called " Contra Costa " (" opposite shore ", the Spanish name for the lands on the east side of the Bay ) and was included in Contra Costa County before Alameda County was established on March 25, 1853.

The county was finally organized and separated from Pottawattamie County on March 12, 1853.

Until 1853, Marion County included most of what are now Lake and Sumter counties.

Berlin was chosen as the site of the seat for the County of Waterloo in 1853.

Sumter County was created in 1853.

San Bernardino County was formed in 1853 from parts of Los Angeles County.

Parts of the county were given to Klamath County in 1852 and to Humboldt County in 1853.

File: Will County Illinois 1853. png | Will County in 1853, reduced to its current borders by the creation of Kankakee County

Thaddeus Stevens, the noted Radical Republican, served Lancaster County in the United States House of Representatives from 1849 – 1853 and from 1859 until his death in 1868.

Pima County, one of the four original counties in Arizona, was created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature with land acquired through the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico in 1853.

In 1833 the town was renamed Berlin because of the recent German immigration from the Breuckmann family, and in 1853 Berlin became the County Seat of the newly created County of Waterloo, elevating it to the status of Village.

Jackson County was formed from Crawford County in 1853.

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.

In 1853 he became Inspector of Charities and was later Assistant Commissioner on the Royal City Charities Commission, about which he published several books.

In 1853, Sherman resigned his captaincy and became manager of the San Francisco branch of a St. Louis-based bank.

In 1853, in Turin, Guglielmo Stefani founded the Agenzia Stefani, that became the most important agency in the Kingdom of Italy, and took international relevance with Manlio Morgagni.

There were over 173 city-states and kingdoms in the African regions affected by the slave trade between 1502 and 1853, when Brazil became the last Atlantic import nation to outlaw the slave trade.

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.

In 1853, he became rector of the University.

He became sous-préfet of Nérac in 1830, and advanced rapidly in the civil service until in 1853 he was chosen by Persigny to be prefect of the Seine in succession to Jean Jacques Berger, who hesitated to incur the vast expenses of the imperial schemes for the embellishment of Paris.

Regaining freedom in 1853, he published his memoir that year, became nationally known and lectured on the abolitionist circuit.

In 1853, the church became the local parish church.

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.

" Having been one of the biggest influences in the establishment of the College, Hosea Ballou II became the first president in 1853, and College Hall, the first building on campus, was completed the following year.

He took his first photographs in 1853 and in 1858 became the first person to take aerial photographs.

A minister from the Netherlands, Dirk Van der Hoff went to the Transvaal in 1853, and became a minister in the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk, which was constituted in 1856, and in 1860 recognised as the State Church of the South African Republic, separate from the Cape Church.

* 1853 Moses Hughes and his invalid wife, Hannah ( Berry ), became the first permanent settlers, seeking to take advantage of the medicinal springs.

The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.

Sullivan was founded in 1853 and became the county seat.

In 1832, Terre Haute became a town and, in May 1853, elected to become a city.

Following the Gadsden purchase in 1853, Nogales became a part of the United States of America.

The gold from the initially discovered placers gave out after a few years, but the discovery of gold in an underground river channel in 1853 revitalized the camp and it soon became a town.

At that time Trinidad became part of the newly created Humboldt County after its creation in 1853, with its county seat in Eureka.

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