In 1853 Island County became part of the newly created Washington Territory.

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.

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.

However, stamps from Henry Archer's perforation trials had been issued the last few months of 1850, then during the 1851 parliamentary session of 1851, at the House of Commons, and finally in 1853 / 54 after the government paid Mr. Archer £ 4, 000 for his machine and the patent.

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.

" Since the adoption of the 1853 constitution, the federal government has intervened over 200 times, mostly by presidential decree.

The Toronto observatory ended in 1853, but the Canadian government took over the service and continued collecting climate data.

The Late Tokugawa Shogunate ( Bakumatsu ) was the period between 1853 and 1867, during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government.

Whitworth was commissioned by the War Department of the British government to design a replacement for the calibre. 577-inch Pattern 1853 Enfield, whose shortcomings had been revealed during the recent Crimean War.

It was in 1853 that government surveyors set lines for the townships.

Emmet County remained attached to Mackinac County for administrative purposes until county government was organized in 1853.

The county boundaries were set off in 1840 and county government organized in 1853.

Cash-strapped from the start as a private institution, in 1853 it was merged in with the School of Mines, founded in 1851 in Jermyn Street, and placed under the newly-created British government Science and Art Department, although it continued to retain its own premises and substantially its own identity.

An 1853 US government survey declared that the contested area was in fact government property and could be acquired by private citizens.

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.

He also oversaw the passage of the Vaccination Act 1853 into law, which was introduced as a private member's bill, and which Palmerston persuaded the government to support.

Mexico filed 366 claims with the U. S. government for damages done by Comanche and Apache raids between 1848 and 1853.

After pledging himself to the integrity and independence of Turkey, Russell resigned from the government on February 21, 1853.

The example of Great Britain was then followed by the following countries in abolishing slavery within their dominions: in 1848 the slaves in all France's colonies were immediately emancipated ; in 1853 the Dutch commenced emancipation of slaves within their possessions ; in 1858 it was enacted that every slave belonging to a Portuguese subject should be freed within 20 years and, from 29 April 1878, slavery became illegal throughout Portuguese possessions ; the government of Buenos Aires enacted that all children of slaves after the 31 January 1813 should be free ; in Columbia those born after 16 July 1821 were to be liberated upon attaining 18 and Mexico ended slavery on 15 September 1829.

* In New Caledonia ( Nouvelle Calédonie in French, colonised in 1853 ; its Governors had been High Commissioners in the Pacific Ocean from 22 March 1907, see above ) the title ( commonly corrupted to Haussaire ) was chosen for the chief executive on 19 December 1981, when it was an overseas territory ( since 1946 ), even before autonomy was granted on 18 November 1984, and maintained after its status was changed on 20 July 1998 to the unique French collectivité sui generis ; he represents the Paris government, while there are a native legislature and government.

The Baden government in 1853 laid an embargo on his teaching owing to his liberal ideas, but the effect of this was to rouse considerable sympathy for his views, and in 1856 he obtained a professorship at Jena, where he soon acquired great influence by the dignity of his personal character.

It is characterized by major events occurring between 1853 and 1867 during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and transitioned from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government.

The first result was the 1853 Nesbitt issues of stamped envelopes, named after the contractor who produced them for the government.

In 1853, Wentworth had obtained the appointment of a sub-committee which brought forward a scheme for a new constitution for New South Wales that had the introduction of responsible government as its centrepiece.

Towards the close of the year 1837 he returned to France, and on 21 December married Mlle Agathe Delamalle ( Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, 15 October 1819 – Paris, 13 July 1853 ), daughter of the government prosecuting attorney at the court of Angers.