1853

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  1840s  – 1850s –  1860s  1870s  1880s
Years:	1850 1851 1852 – 1853 – 1854 1855 1856

1853 Media

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  July 14: Japan welcomes the first U.S. envoys from the Perry Expedition, begins to end isolation.

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  November 30 (November 18 O.S.): The Battle of Sinop is fought in the Crimean War as the Russian Empire destroys the Ottoman Turkish fleet in the last major naval battle involving sailing warships.

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  • Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, oil on board, 1887
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  Ella Eaton Kellogg, age 60

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  Cecil Rhodes

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  Hendrik Lorentz, a Dutch physicist, in front of a blackboard with tensor formulas from Einstein's general theory of relativity in Lorentz' handwriting.

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  Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927)

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  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

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  Photograph of en:Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist, in Berlin, c. 1903

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  Photographic portrait of Christian Doppler (1803-1853)

1853 (MDCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1853rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 853rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1853, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• October 4–5 – the Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire begins war with the Russian Empire
• August 24 - George speck, AKA George Crum, prepares the first ever Potato chip in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Births

• March 30 – Vincent van Gogh, painter
• July 18 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and mathematician

Deaths

• March 30 – Abigail Fillmore, wife of U.S. President Millard Fillmore