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.

* François Arago ( 1786 – 1853 ), the physicist, astronomer and liberal politician, who secured the abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1853, was born in the nearby village of Estagel ( Estagell ) and is memorialized in the eponymous Place Arago that bears his statue in the centre of the town.

Its population being steadily expanded from Oregon Trail immigrants, in 1853 the town settled on the name Olympia, at the suggestion of local resident Colonel Isaac N. Ebey, due to its view of the Olympic Mountains to the northwest.

In 1833 the town was renamed Berlin because of the recent German immigration from the Breuckmann family, and in 1853 Berlin became the County Seat of the newly created County of Waterloo, elevating it to the status of Village.

The town of Milford was established in 1816 by George Reed, Marysville in 1819 by Samuel Culbertson, Richwood in 1832 by Philip Plumber, Kingsville in 1834, Somerville in 1835, Watkins and Arbelia in 1838, Newton in 1838 by David Paul, York Center in 1841, Frankfort in 1846, Unionville in 1847, Pharisburg in 1847, New California in 1853, Dover in 1854, Union Center in 1863, Broadway in 1865, Pottersburg in 1869, Peoria in 1870, Magnetic Springs in 1879, and Claibourne in 1881.

The town of Dobson was established in 1853 to be the new county seat.

The town was chartered by Jackson County in 1850 and incorporated by the State of Missouri as the " City of Kansas " in 1853.

Since 1880 that town has been called Tate, and it is now ( since 1853 ) in Pickens County.

In 1832, Terre Haute became a town and, in May 1853, elected to become a city.

In 1853, a yellow fever epidemic struck the town, killing many residents, almost wiping out the town.

The year 1853 saw a yellow fever epidemic strike the city, with some interments in an ill-defined two acre cemetery to the north of town in the river bend.

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.

Subsequent investigation indicates instead that the town was in fact named for Selma Michelsen ( 1853 – 1910 ), wife of a railroad employee who had submitted her name for inclusion on a list of candidate names prepared by his supervisor.

In 1853 it became the town of Reynolds, although the origin of its name is unknown.

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.

When Huntley was platted in 1853, land was set aside in the center of town for a town park.

Though Claremont ( the town ) was founded in 1853, people first settled in Claremont Township in 1818, The year Illinois was admitted to the union.

The town was first incorporated in 1853.

The third incorporation of Anderson as a town occurred on June 9, 1853.

The town of Monon was platted by James Brooks in 1853 as " New Bradford ".

Its use spread quickly and gained royal approval in 1853 when John Snow gave it to Queen Victoria during the birth of Prince Leopold.

In the year 1851, the Provo City council gained power to establish, support and regulate common schools, and in 1853 property taxes were approved for building schools.

A Life Drama and other Poems ( 1853 ) was a work of promise, ran through several editions, and gained Smith the appointment of secretary to Edinburgh University in 1854.

In the 2nd Parliament, Parliament gained the powers it sought — for this reason, some see the 1855 elections, not the 1853 elections, as the beginning of New Zealand democracy.

He gained the second only in January 1852 and then lost it the same year, regaining it in 1853.

The United States later gained additional territory — a strip of land in New Mexico and Arizona — as a result of a treaty James Gadsden concluded with Mexico in 1853.

With Wives and Daughters ( 1865 ) and Cranford ( 1853 ), it is one of Elizabeth Gaskell ’ s best known novels and a television adaptation North & South ( TV serial ), broadcast at the end of 2004, renewed interest and gained it a wider audience.

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.

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.

* 1853 First post office is established at Hamilton.

On 22 August 1853, Nightingale took the post of superintendent at the Institute for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen in Upper Harley Street, London, a position she held until October 1854.

The post office was established in 1853 with John Davis as the first postmaster.

A post office was established at Diamond Spring in 1853 ; the name was changed to Diamond Springs in 1950.

The Shingle Spring post office operated from 1853 to 1855.

A U. S. post office was established at Hibernia on June 19, 1849, but its name was changed on October 17, 1853 to Magnolia Mills, and on July 30, 1866, it was changed to Green Cove Springs.

Established and laid out in 1854, the area was originally called Culvertown, although a post office had been established as River in 1853.

A post office operated from October 10, 1851 until August 8, 1853.

Another post office, named " South Henrietta " opened on September 5, 1851, with Henry Hurd as the first postmaster, and was succeeded by William D. Martin on May 10, 1853.

A post office named " Austin's Lake " was established on May 18, 1850, with Moses Austin as postmaster, and operated until August 15, 1853.

A post office named " Cedar " was established in 1838, but was renamed " Fowlerville " in 1853, after the village's plat name.

The Rockland Mine opened in 1847 and a post office named Rockland opened in January 1853 and closed in September 1860.

In the words of Luther E. Stanley, " When Isaac Ingle Stevens was ordered to Fort Owen in 1853, he came to what he supposed would be a military fort but much to his surprise, it was a trading post.

A post office named Ira was established at a settlement on the north shore of Lake St. Clair in May 1851 and operated until June 1853.

Casey had purchased the Nathanial Conklin estate in 1874 and he wanted a rail depot and post office located closer than the LIRR Deer Park depot that had opened in 1853.

A post office was established in 1853.

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.

The fort was established in 1853 as a military post to protect the movement of people and trade over the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe trails.

A year after the post was established in 1853, a temporary hospital was constructed near the present day Post / Cavalry Museum and Patton Hall on the main post.

In 1849 he was appointed to a teaching post in Ajaccio ( Corsica ), then in 1853 moved on to the lycée in Avignon.

From 1853 till his death in 1877 he held the post of director of the municipal gallery at Mainz.