* SS Republic of 1853, a ship lost in an 1865 hurricane with a large cargo of gold coins

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.

The height of mining activity in Forest Hill began in 1853 after a winter landslide at the head of Jenny Lind Canyon exposed numerous nuggets of gold.

A full decimal coinage was introduced between 1851 and 1853, consisting of copper ½ and 1 centavo, silver ½ and 1 décimo, 20 and 50 centavos, and 1 peso, and gold 5 and 10 pesos.

Canada had already been on the gold standard since 1853, as had Newfoundland since 1865.

Greed of gold, social moralization, ultramontanism, lust of power, these are satirized Les Effrontés ( 1861 ), Le Fils de Giboyer ( 1862 ), La Contagion announced under the title of Le Baron d ' Estrigaud ( 1866 ), Lions et renards ( 1869 )-which, with Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier ( 354 ), written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, reach the high water mark of Augier's art ; in Philiberte ( 1853 ), he produced a graceful and delicate drawing-room comedy ; and in Jean de Thommeray, acted in 1873 after the great reverses of 1870, the regenerating note of patriotism rings high and clear.

In California, from 1853 to 1884, " hydraulicking " of placers removed an enormous amount of material from the gold fields, material that was carried downstream and raised the level of the Central Valley by some seven feet in some areas and settled in long bars up to 20 feet thick in parts of San Francisco Bay.

In October 1853 Pieter Jacob Marais, born in Cape Town on 31 July 1826, discovered gold on the banks of the Jukskei River, this find too was hushed up.

But the gold discoveries had increased the cost of living, and on 19 March 1853 Sturt and his family sailed for England.

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

1849 to 1853 gold dollar coins were 13 mm across and are called Type I.

examination ( 1853 ), he came first in philosophy and won the gold medal.

The town site was first settled during the gold rush of 1853 and was named Pleasant Creek, but was later renamed to honour Sir William Foster Stawell ( 1815 – 89 ), the Chief Justice of Victoria.

In 1853, silver ½ and 1 decimo & gold 10 peso coins were introduced, followed by 2 decimos in 1854 & 1 peso in 1855, both in silver.

In 1853 the Royal Mint was overwhelmed with producing silver and gold coins.

He emigrated to Australia with his wife and four children in 1853, and arrived in Tasmania after three months in the Victorian gold fields.

Alfred Beit ( 15 February 1853 – 16 July 1906 ) was a German, British South African, Jewish gold and diamond magnate, a supporter of British imperialism in Southern Africa and a major donor towards infrastructure development in central and Southern Africa, and to university education and research in several countries.

HMS Rattlesnake, painted by Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, 1853. Europeans settled the nearby mainland during the 1800s, seeking gold, timber and grazing land.

A gold and silver candelabrum was presented by the settlers to Cadell, with an inscription that it had been presented to him " in commemoration of his first having opened the steam navigation and commerce of the River Murray 1853 ".

In 1853 gold was found at Four Mile Flat, near Avoca, and the main lead at Avoca itself was opened up a few months later.

By the beginning of December 1853, the population had increased from 100 to 2, 200, and by June the following year, Avoca, with a population of 16, 000, was regarded as one of Victoria's more important gold rush districts.

In December 1853, gold was discovered at Cairn Curran ( the name given to one of the sheep runs ), and Maldon became a part of the Victorian Gold Rush.

Caillié mentions salt being taken to the town of Sansanding and Heinrich Barth, during his visit to Timbuktu in 1853, learnt that some of the gold trade also passed directly from Sansanding to Araouane.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

In March 1853, Alcott was invited to teach fifteen students at Harvard Divinity School in an extracurricular, non-credit course.

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.

Bahá ' u ' lláh was eventually released from prison but ordered into exile, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá then eight joined his father on the journey to Baghdad in the winter ( January to April ) of 1853.

The little hamlet of Anderson was named for Mr. John Anderson who was a Director in the South Western Railroad at the time it was extended from Oglethorpe to Americus in 1853.

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

Construction began during summer 1853, on a site some north-west of the original building, which was considered to have a better outlook.

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.

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.

Charlotte's third published novel, the last to be published during her lifetime, was Villette, which came out in 1853.

Christian Andreas Doppler () ( 29 November 1803 – 17 March 1853 ) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist.

During his time there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, played an influential role in the development of young Gregor Mendel, known as the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853.

At the age of 13 he read Thomas's Elpis Israel and was subsequently baptised in 1853 at the age of 14 in the River Dee and joined the " Baptised Believers ".

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

In Bendigo in 1853, an Anti-Gold Licence Association was formed and the miners were apparently on the brink of an armed clash with authorities.

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.

The musician Theodor Uhlig ( 1822 – 1853 ) was an illegitimate son of Frederick Augustus.

Lockwood, chaplain of the Contrabands, stated in the sheet music the song was from Virginia, dating from about 1853.

There followed the second and third of the three major operas of Verdi's " middle period ": in 1853 Il Trovatore was produced in Rome and La traviata in Venice.

In 1848 he received an appointment in the Prussian ministry for foreign affairs, and in 1853 was promoted to be privy councillor of legation ( Geheimer Legationsrath ).

She was used for harbour service from 1853 and was sold in 1865.