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

After the inauguration of the railway to Königsberg in 1853, Elbing's industry began to grow.

A Russian sea captain noted oil seeps along the shore of the Cook Inlet as early as 1853, and oil drilling began in 1898 in a number of locations along the southern coast of Alaska.

* Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception ( Gothic style Catholic cathedral, construction began in 1853, its spire rises to )

* July 27 – The first recorded snowfall in Auckland, New Zealand since records began in 1853.

The opera was first performed at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, on 19 January 1853 where it " began a victorious march throughout the operatic world ".

In 1853, the Chicago Land Company, of which Ogden was a trustee, purchased land at a bend in the Chicago River and began to cut a channel, formally known as North Branch Canal, but also referred to as Ogden's Canal.

Later, when Bruckner began teaching music himself, he would base his curriculum on Sechter's book Die Grundsätze der musikalischen Komposition ( Leipzig 1853 / 54 ).

Alexander Twining began experimenting with vapor-compression refrigeration in 1848, and obtained patents in 1850 and 1853.

Built of brick, at a cost of $ 11, 000, and very similar to the previous courthouse, the new Courthouse began serving the county in the Fall of 1853.

At age eleven, Degas ( in adulthood he abandoned the more pretentious spelling of the family name ) began his schooling with enrollment in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, graduating in 1853 with a baccalauréat in literature.

In 1853 he joined Fromental Halévy's composition class, and began to produce works of increasing sophistication and quality.

In 1853, works began with the west and southwest walling, followed by the towers of the porte Narbonnaise and the principal entrance to the cité.

Camp Elizabeth began as a Texas Rangers camp circa 1853.

In 1853, at the precocious age of 15, Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London ( now part of Imperial College London ), where he began his studies under August Wilhelm von Hofmann.

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.

On May 23, 1853 rail service began, and postal service began.

From 1852 to 1858 Owen held the diplomatic position of charge d ' affairs ( 1853 – 1858 ) in Naples, Italy, where he began studying spiritualism.

The village began with a store built in 1853 operated by Silas C. Hall, who also became the first postmaster in 1857.

Also in 1853, a circuit-riding preacher began holding services in the new settlement.

Rebuilding efforts began in 1853, with a small church.

In August 1853, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway ( BBB & C ), began operating its first twenty miles ( 32 km ) of rail line that stretched from Harrisburg ( now Houston ) to Stafford's Point ( now Stafford ).

A settlement called Stafford's Point established itself around the plantation ; it became a townsite in August 1853 when the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway began stopping at Stafford's Point.

After Stanton and most women's rights organizers began abandoning their bloomers and returning to long skirts in 1853, Stone and a few others held out.

He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist.

On 22 March 1853, Pierre married the daughter of a Paris plumber working as a doorman, Justine Elénore Rufflin, by whom he had had two children previously.

When the surveyors, working for the railroad ’ s chief engineer, Oliver H. Lee, reached the proposed location of the town in 1853 the speculators found that the tracks would pass slightly east of the planned central point and would go through lands in Morgan ’ s part of the land.

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.

In 1853, he returned to Puerto Rico and began working as a professor at the island's School of Commerce and the Seminario Concilar.

Peter Kakua started working for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1853 and served in Fort Victoria under Governor James Douglas.

In 1853, a surveyor named Lindsay Clarke was working on a township called Bryans Creek Crossing in Victoria, Australia.

In 1853, at age 17, Palmer went to work for a railroad building company working near Washington, Pennsylvania, on a line to Pittsburgh.

It was a huge area, but when Holy Cross arrived in 1853, there were only three priests working there-a Portuguese Augustinian and two young Irish diocesan priests, both of whom were dead of disease by 1854.

Having graduated Jefferson College in Pennsylvania in 1851, Bristow studied law and passed the bar in 1853, working as an Attorney until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.

Bielaski moved to Washington, D. C. to work for the General Land Office, working his way to principal draftsman in 1853.

Julius Richard Petri ( Barmen, May 31, 1853 – December 20, 1921 in Zeitz ) was a German bacteriologist who is generally credited with inventing the Petri dish while working as assistant to Robert Koch.

She was Prima Ballerina of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg from 1850 to 1853, working not only with Perrot but also Joseph Mazilier who staged for her La Jolie Fille de Gand and Vert-Vert especially for her.

In 1853, he finished school and started working as a writer and chancellor in various towns.

In 1853 an agreement was reached between the companies with the Eastern Counties Railway taking over the working of the EUR from 1 January 1854.

In 1853 he removed to Chicago, served for three years as bookkeeper, and in 1858 entered tile banking house of the Merchants Loan and Trust Company, of which he was cashier in 1861-1868.

Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy, KCVO ( 6 October 1853 – 10 December 1923 ) was an American-born Canadian railway administrator who rose from modest beginnings as a clerk and bookkeeper for the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad ( a predecessor of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ) to become the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, serving in that capacity from 1899 to 1918.