The world expositions of 1851 London, 1853 New York, 1862 London, Philadelphia ( 1876 ), 1889 Paris, 1893 Chicago, 1900 Paris, 1901 Buffalo, 1904 St. Louis and 1915 San Francisco were landmarks in this respect.

* Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, ( 1853 – 1937 ) 31 mayor of Chicago ( 1905 – 1907 ); governor of Illinois ( 1913 – 1917 ) was born in Watertown.

The Chicago & North Western Railroad came through in 1853 from Chicago and continued to Freeport, Illinois.

In 1853, then the Chicago & Galena Union railroad extended to the west from Rockford to Freeport.

At this location in Lawrence County, the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad, better known by the shorter name of " the Monon ", was built as a north-south line from New Albany to Chicago, passing through the area which became Mitchell in 1853.

The harbor was improved and the economy flourished briefly until the railroad connection to Chicago was completed in 1853, after which the use of the harbor for shipping declined.

* Charles McNeill Gray ( 1807 – 1885 ), U. S. politician, Mayor of Chicago, 1853 – 1854

The canal connected the Illinois River ( and thus, the Mississippi River ) with the Great Lakes, while the railroad connected Chicago with the lead mines in Galena, Illinois ( it would be completed in 1853 ).

The southern section of the state of Illinois split from Chicago diocese in 1853, becoming the Diocese of Quincy.

Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne ( October 12, 1853 – May 24, 1937 ) was an American politician who was the 24th Governor of Illinois from 1913 to 1917 and previously served as the 38th mayor of Chicago from April 5, 1905 to 1907.

* James Oliver Van de Velde ( 1795 – 1855 ), Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago between 1849 and 1853

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.

Woodworth did not stand for re-election in 1850 and returned briefly to private life as a banker in Chicago, but returned to public service in 1853, serving as the Water Commissioner, until his election to the United States Congress in the elections of 1854.

Charles McNeill Gray ( March 7, 1807 in Sherburne, New York-October 17, 1885 ; buried in Graceland Cemetery ) served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois ( 1853 – 1854 ) for the Democratic Party.

* June 2 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ( born 1853 ).

In 1853 William B. Ogden, who had been Chicago's first mayor, formed the Chicago Land Company, which purchased land on the east side of the river to excavate clay for brick-making.

Member banks of Merchants National consist of: Anderson Banking Company ( 1890 ); Batesville State Bank ( 1889 ); Central National Bank of Greencastle ( 1883 ); Citizens National Bank of Tipton ( 1904 ); Elston Bank & Trust Company ( 1853 ); Farmers National Bank of Shelbyville ( 1886 ); Fayette Bank and Trust Company ( 1902 ); First National Bank of East Chicago ( 1909 ); First National Bank of Indiana, Logansport ( 1931 ); Hancock Bank & Trust Company, Greenfield ( 1874 ); Madison Bank & Trust Company ( 1833 ); Mid State Bank, Zionsville ( 1882 ); Mid State Bank of Hendricks County, Danville ( 1904 ); The National Bank of Greenwood ( 1934 ); The Seymour National Bank ( 1891 ); and Union State Bank, Carmel ( 1923 ).

He taught school in western New York before going to Illinois in 1853, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1855.

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.

On February 26, 1853 it was renamed the Cincinnati, Logansport and Chicago Railway to better reflect its expanded role.

The Cincinnati, Cambridge and Chicago Short Line Railway was incorporated in Indiana on January 25, 1853, to build from New Castle southeast via Cambridge to the Ohio state line ; the Cincinnati, New Castle and Michigan Railroad was incorporated April 11 of the same year to build northwest from New Castle towards St. Joseph, Michigan.

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.

From the 1800s to the 1853 abolition of penal transportation ( known simply as " transportation "), Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia.

Complaints from Victorians about recently released convicts from Van Diemen's Land re-offending in Victoria was one of the contributing reasons for the eventual abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land in 1853.

In 1853 he contributed Athenians with the Minotaur and Moses Putting Off his Sandals within Sight of the Promised Land to the Great Exhibition.

* David H. Miller and Mark J. Stegmaier, James F. Milligan: His Journal of Fremont's Fifth Expedition, 1853 – 1854 ; His Adventurous Life on Land and Sea, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1988.

Guttenberg was formerly a farm owned by William Cooper, sold in 1853 to a group of New Yorkers, who had formed the Weehawken Land and Ferry Association.

He also ended transportation to Van Diemen's Land for prisoners by passing the Penal Servitude Act 1853, which also reduced the maximum sentences for most offences.

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.

In 1853, when her son escaped from his exile in Van Diemen's Land and went to the United States, she, with her other son and two of her daughters, went there to receive him.

Separation of imperforate stamps by scissors, knife or tearing often leads to uneven margins on the stamp as in this 1853 stamp of Van Diemen's Land.

In the winter and spring of 1852 – 1853 he made a tour in Egypt and the Holy Land, the result of which was his well-known volume on Sinai and Palestine ( 1856 ).

General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron GCB ( 20 May 1808 – 8 June 1888 ) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), commanded troops during part of the New Zealand Land Wars and was Governor of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1868 to 1875.

* Thomas Brennan ( Irish Land League ) ( 1853 – 1912 ), Irish politician

Land for the town was first surveyed in 1849, then again in 1853.

Land sales began in 1853, the same year the name was changed to Queenscliff by Lieutenant Charles La Trobe, in honour of Queen Victoria.

Land in Sandgate became available in 1853, allowing a small seaside settlement to develop.

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

* 19 December-Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League ( born 1853 ).

Land was gazetted for development in 1853, but development was relatively slow.

One of Alemany's first acts as Archbishop was to file a petition with the Public Land Commission on February 19, 1853 for the return of all former mission lands in California.