* October 24 – Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia ( b. 1853 )

According to the San Francisco Herald, in a series of articles run in 1853, they give this honor to Captain Joseph R. Walker, who in January 1851 with his nephew James T. Walker and six men, traveled up the Colorado River to a point where it joined the Virgin River and continued east into Arizona, traveling along the Grand Canyon and making short exploratory side trips along the way.

He came to Grand Bay in 1853, establishing a homesite near the headwaters of Franklin Creek located today near the intersection of Highway 90 and Ramsey Road.

John Green had the village platted in 1853 and it was a station on the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western Railroad.

As of 1853, the only operating post office in the Grand Traverse Bay region was the one located at Old Mission, which was then known as " Grand Traverse.

In 1853 Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden purchased the island as his personal property and built a summer palace there.

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ( later Duchess of Edinburgh and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ; 17 October 1853 – 24 October 1920 ) was a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Empress Maria Alexandrovna.

* 17 October 1853 – 23 January 1874: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

* A single post of Resident was also created in Côte d ' Ivoire, i. e. Ivory Coast ( from 1881 subordinated to the Superior Commandant of Gabon and the Gulf of Guinea Settlements ; from 1886 subordinated to the Lieutenant Governors of Guinea ), where in 1842 France had declared protectorates over the Kingdoms of Nzima and Sanwi ( posts at Assinié 1843 – 1870, and Grand Bassam, Fort Dabou 1853 – 1872, part of the Colony of Gorée and Dependencies in Senegal

The village was the birthplace of ' black ' Tom Oliver, who, after adding an l to his name to become Olliver, became the winning rider of the 1842, 1843 and 1853 Grand Nationals.

The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad opened between Montreal and Portland, Maine, on April 4, 1853 and was purchased four months later and absorbed into the Grand Trunk Railway ( GTR )' s system.

From the time of the Taiping Rebellion ( 1853 ) to the end of the Communist revolution ( 1949 ) Yangzhou was in decline, due to war damage and neglect of the Grand Canal as railways replaced it in importance.

Ahmet Tevfik İleri ( who was born in Yaltkaya ( Gomno ) village of Hemşin ), a Deputy Prime Minister and before that, a Minister of Education in Turkey within successive Adnan Menderes governments between 1950 – 1960, as well as Damat Mehmet Ali Pasha, the Ottoman Grand Vizier on the eve of the Crimean War in 1853 were also Hamshenis.

The then-owners, the Sulpician Order, divided the area into lots and auctioned them off starting in 1853, with the Grand Trunk Railway purchasing a large area for use as a railyard.

The certificate is registered at la Grande Chancellerie No. 1871, and bears the stamped signature of the Duc de Plaisance Général Anne-Charles Lebrun, Grand Chancelier ( 1853 – 1859 ).

He arranged the Jade Treaty of 20 July 1853, in which Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg jointly withdrew from a region on the west bank of the Jade bay, where from 1854 onward Prussia established the fortress, naval base and city of Wilhelmshaven.

* 1853: Greater Grand Crossing, Chicago-feud between the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway and the Illinois Central Railroad ; a crash killed 18 people.

* Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg ( 1783 – 1853 )

In the Jade Treaty ( Jade-Vertrag ) of 1853, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg ceded to Prussia the so-called Jade District.

Joseph Lateiner ( 1853, Iaşi-1935 ) was a playwright in the early years of Yiddish theater, first in Bucharest, Romania and later in New York City, where he was a co-founder in 1903 with Sophia Karp of the Grand Theater, New York's first purpose-built Yiddish language theater building.

On August 4, 1853, Captain Gennady Nevelskoy founded a military post named after Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin, and renamed the bay to Imperatorskaya Gavan (' Emperor's Harbor '), after the then reigning Emperor Nicholas I. Nikolay Boshnyak was appointed the commander of the post, which became the first Russian settlement in the area, and the predecessor of today's Sovetskaya Gavan.

# Karl Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ( b. Weimar, 2 February 1783-d. Schloss Belvedere, near Weimar, 8 July 1853 ).

He was appointed Commander of the Order of St. Olav at its founding in 1847 and was awarded the Grand Cross in 1853.

Having begun operations in 1853, the company was purchased in August 1882 by the Grand Trunk Railway system and fully merged by 1884.

The station building was constructed in 1903 by the Grand Trunk Railway in replacement of the original built in 1853 by the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Union Railroad, that burned down.

At Danville, the A & K connected with the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, which opened in 1853 and was subsequently sold to Grand Trunk Railway.

Poor himself was also promoting a connection from Portland to Richmond and built the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad ( SL & A ), opening in 1853, the same year it was purchased by Grand Trunk.

Via Rail gained ownership in the 1986 It is the third station to be built on the site, first in 1853 by Great Western Railway and then 1898 by Grand Trunk.

The Waterford and Limerick Railway linked the city to the Dublin-Cork railway line in 1848 and to Waterford in 1853.

Ogdensburg was an important trading city and station in the development of railroads in northern New York and southeastern Canada ; the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad ( 1849 ), Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad ( 1853 ) and Portland and Ogdensburg Railway ( never completed ), all involved lines through the area.

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.

In 1842 an Act of Parliament was obtained authorising the Caledonian Railway to take over the Forth and Clyde Canal along with the Forth and Cart Canal, although this did not take effect until 1853.

* John Frank Stevens ( 1853 – 1943 ), builder of the Great Northern Railway in the U. S., and chief engineer on the Panama Canal

* The main central section opened from 1850 to 1852 as the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway ( renamed the North London Railway ( NLR ) in 1853 ).

* In the west, the North & South Western Junction Railway was opened in 1853 from station to a junction with the Hounslow Loop Line near.

On 16th April, 1853 the Great Indian Peninsula Railway operated the historic first passenger train in India from Bori Bunder to Thane covering a distance of 34 km, formally heralding the birth of the Indian Railways.

A series of negotiations took place with the Yorkshire Railway Company, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and the Aire and Calder Navigation between 1846 and 1853.

In 1853 the tenders for the bridge were considered by the Cornwall Railway Board, and it was decided to let the work to Charles Mare, a shipbuilder from Blackwall who had built the ironwork for the Britannia Bridge.

Category: Railway companies established in 1853

The first railway in the town was a branch line from the Bristol and Exeter Railway near Taunton to a terminus at on the western side of the town, which opened on 1 October 1853.

The British troops withdrew to Europe in 1853 to train for the Crimean War, but their barracks were used to house escaped slaves from the United States, as one of the end stations of the Underground Railway.

Opened in 1853, a 12 km ( 7 mi ) long railway line ran from Waterford ’ s Railway Square to the Terminus in Tramore.

He also began a campaign of railway construction, resigning as Provincial Secretary in 1853 to become Nova Scotia's first Chief Commissioner of Railways ; as Commissioner he oversaw the initial construction of the Nova Scotia Railway.

John Frank Stevens ( 25 April 1853 – 2 June 1943 ) was an American engineer who built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal between 1905 and 1907.

* 1875: Widnes Railway ( 1853 ) ( jointly with Midland Railway ( MidR )

* the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway ( D & BJct ), incorporated in 1845 and opened in stages between 1849 and 1853.

* Waterford and Tramore Railway 12 km ( 7. 25 mi ); incorporated 1851, opened 1853 ; four locomotives, 32 other vehicles ; unique in being the only line to remain unconnected to the rest of the Irish railway.