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1853
Franklin Pierce becomes 14th President of the United States .	Commodore Matthew Perry arrives with his black ships in Japan , the opening of the country to force
At the beginning of the Crimean War, Russia destroys the anchored Ottoman fleet in the sea ​​battle at Sinope .
1853 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1301/02 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1845/46 (turn of the year 10/11 September)
Baha'i calendar	09/10 (turn of the year 20/21 March)
Bengali solar calendar	1248/49 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2396/97 (southern Buddhism); 2395/96 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	75th (76th) cycle Year of the water buffalo癸丑 ( at the beginning of the year water rat 壬子)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1215/16 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4186/87 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1231/32 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1269/70 (3rd / 4th October)
Jewish calendar	5613/14 (October 2-3)
Coptic calendar	1569/70 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar	1028/29
Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire)	1268/69 (March 1)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2163/64 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2164/65 (turn of the year October)
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1909/10 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Crimean War

• July 3 : The Imperial Russian Army occupies the Danube principalities in the Balkans under Ottoman suzerainty .
• October 16 : With the declaration of war by the Ottoman Empire on Russia , the Crimean War begins .

The Battle of Sinope , painting by Alexei Bogolyubov

• November 30th : The Russian Black Sea Fleet under Vice Admiral Pawel Stepanowitsch Nachimow destroys the Ottoman fleet in the port of Sinope (see Battle of Sinope ). Following this news, the great powers Great Britain and France decide to support the Ottoman Empire . Your entry into the Crimean War is looming.

German Confederation

Assassination attempt in 1853 , painting by J. Reiner

• February 18 : The Hungarian tailor Janos Libényi carries out an assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph in Vienna, which is foiled by the imperial adjutant Maximilian Karl Lamoral O'Donnell and the butcher Josef Ettenreich .
• April 1 : The last ships of the German Reichsflotte , which was dissolved in the previous year, are auctioned.

Portugal

Pedro V.

• November 15 : With the death of Mary II , the House of Braganza dies out in Portugal . Her son Peter V from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha takes over the throne, initially under the reign of his father Ferdinand II because of his minority .

Switzerland

Wilhelm Matthias Naeff

• January 1 : Wilhelm Matthias Naeff becomes Federal President of Switzerland .

United States

• January 6 : In a railroad accident in Andover , Massachusetts , the only passenger car on the train in which the newly elected President of the United States , Franklin Pierce , and his family are traveling, crashes down an embankment. The only casualty in the accident is the president's 11-year-old son. His parents subsequently struggled with severe depression and Franklin Pierce developed a drinking problem.
• March 4 : Franklin Pierce is inducted into office as 14th US President. He replaces Millard Fillmore .
• April 18 : Vice President William R. King dies of tuberculosis after only 45 days in office . Since the appointment of a successor is not permitted at this point in time, the Pierce cabinet remains without a vice-president for almost the entire legislative period .

Assignment of territory of Mexico to the United States in the Gadsden purchase (yellow)

• December 30th : The Gadsden purchase gives the United States border areas with Mexico .

South America

• Vélez in the Republic of New Granada , today's Colombia , is the first city to introduce women's suffrage .

Japan

• Tokugawa Iesada becomes the 13th Shogun of the Tokugawa after the death of his brother Tokugawa Ieyoshi .

Commodore Perry lands in Yokohama

• July 8 : The American admiral Matthew C. Perry enters the port of Uraga in Japan with a fleet of black ships and calls for the opening of the country , which has been in isolation for two hundred years .
• August 21 : The Russian admiral Putyatin appears with four warships in Nagasaki Bay .

Indian Ocean and Oceania

• September 24th : France takes possession of the Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia .
• November 25 : The American captain John Heard discovers the island named after him in the southern Indian Ocean .

economy

International exhibitions

The exhibition grounds with the New York Crystal Palace

• July 14 : Franklin Pierce opens the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City . The World's Fair lasted until November 1, 1854 . Around four thousand exhibitors present industrial and consumer goods as well as arts and crafts objects.

Mining

• In the pit unity in Jáchymov in Bohemia the scheduled reduction of starts uranium ore .

Business start-ups

• April 2 : In Darmstadt , the Bank für Handel und Industrie starts operations as the second stock corporation in the banking sector after receiving its license .
• September 26 : The Allgemeine Eisenbahn-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft , from which Victoria-Versicherung later emerges, is founded in Berlin .

• Theobald Grieben founds the Griebens travel library named after him in Berlin . A collection of practical travel guides with travel maps and city plans . The collection is its reliability in Germany quickly known and one of the main competitors of the Baedeker Guide .
• Founding of the metal goods factory "Straub & Schweizer", from which WMF emerged in 1880
• 1853 is considered to be the "golden year" of piano building history , when three famous manufacturers were founded: Bechstein , Blüthner and Steinway & Sons .

traffic

• April 16 : With the opening of the railway line between Bombay and Thane by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway , the first Indian passenger train runs. This is also the first railway connection in Asia.

Others

• August 24 : According to tradition, chef George Crum served potato chips for the first time in a hotel in Saratoga Springs after a guest repeatedly complained about fried potatoes that were too thick.

science and technology

Africa research

Heinrich Barth (on horseback, in Arab costume) approaches Timbuktu

• Heinrich Barth arrives in Timbuktu on September 7th .

Natural sciences

• William John Macquorn Rankine introduced the concept of energy to thermodynamics .

Culture

Architecture and fine arts

• June 22nd : Georges-Eugène Haussmann is appointed Prefect of Paris and in the same year begins a radical architectural renovation of the city .

The New Pinakothek around 1854

• October 25 : The Neue Pinakothek in Munich opens.

• The hall of fame in Munich is completed.

literature

→ Main article : Literature year 1853

Colorful stones : frontispiece of the first editions with engravings after Ludwig Richter on granite and rock crystal

• The stories Bunte Steine by Adalbert Stifter appear in two volumes by Gustav Heckenast in Pest .
• The essay The Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine appears.
• The first edition of the journal Die Gartenlaube is published by Ernst Keil . The first publisher is Ferdinand Stolle until 1862 , as Keil lost his civil rights due to a press offense.

Music and theater

→ Main article : Music year 1853

World premiere of La Traviata

• March 6 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the novel La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger is premiered at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice and initially fails the audience. Only a revised new version later becomes one of the most successful operas in music history.
• March 16 : Secret money, secret love , a farce with singing by Johann Nestroy with music by Carl Binder , fails at its premiere and is removed from the program the next day.

• The Heidelberg City Theater is built.
• Stephen Foster wrote the song My Old Kentucky Home , today the official anthem of Kentucky .

society

• January 30th : In the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral , the French Emperor Napoleon III. and Eugénie de Montijo .

religion

• January 21 : The founding of the Jerusalem Society is announced in the Berlin Cathedral . He is supposed to support the Protestant parishes in the Holy Land .
• March 7th : A papal allocation through the establishment of five dioceses in the Netherlands triggers indignation among the majority Protestant population, which subsequently moves Prime Minister Johan Rudolf Thorbecke to resign.

Disasters

• May: A yellow fever epidemic breaks out in New Orleans , killing nearly 8,000 people during the year.

Sports

• The Revised London Prize Ring Rules for Boxing are published.

Born

January February

• 0January 1 : Karl von Eine , Prussian Minister of War († 1934 )
• 0January 1 : Hans Koessler , German composer († 1926 )
• 0January 1 : Harry Alden Richardson , American politician († 1928 )
• 0January 3 : Marie Arnsburg , Austrian painter († 1940 )
• 0January 3 : Iwan Knorr , German composer and music teacher († 1916 )
• 0January 9 : Henning von Holtzendorff , German Grand Admiral († 1919 )
• January 11 : Gustav Falke , German writer († 1916 )
• January 12 : Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro , Italian mathematician († 1925 )
• January 13 : Carola Bruch-Sinn , Austrian writer († 1911 )
• January 15 : Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius , Swedish entomologist († 1928 )
• January 15 : Wilhelm Kaspar , Latvian pastor and evangelical confessor († 1919 )
• January 15 : Albert McIntire , American politician († 1935 )
• January 16 : Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton , British general († 1947 )
• January 22 : Francis Hagerup , Norwegian politician, lawyer and diplomat († 1921 )
• January 26 : Anna von Krane , German writer († 1937 )
• January 28 : José Martí , Cuban national poet and independence fighter († 1895 )
• January 28 : Carl Ulrich , first Prime Minister of the People's State of Hesse († 1933 )
• January 29 : Shibasaburo Kitasato , Japanese doctor and bacteriologist († 1931 )
• January 31 : Maria Belpaire , Belgian writer († 1948 )

• 0February 1 : Johann Gottlieb Schoch , German garden architect and garden director († 1905 )
• 0February 9 : Gustav Aufschläger , German explosives chemist and company manager († 1934 )
• 0February 9 : Leander Jameson , South African Prime Minister and leader of the Jameson Raid († 1917 )
• February 10 : Richard Leopold Oskar Anders , German sculptor and university lecturer († 1917 )
• February 10 : Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt , German mineralogist († 1933 )
• February 11 : Lorenz Ludwig Auler , German politician († 1922 )
• February 13 : Louis Müller-Unkel , German glass technician († 1938 )
• February 13 : Pierre de Ségur , French writer († 1916 )
• February 15 : Max Wilhelm Meyer , German astronomer, naturalist and writer († 1910 )
• February 15 : Frederick Treves , British surgeon († 1923 )
• February 16 : Charles J. Hughes , American politician († 1911 )
• February 19 : Jacques Doucet , French fashion designer († 1929 )
• February 20 : Amanda Röntgen-Maier , Swedish composer († 1894 )
• February 25 : Karl von Weizsäcker , German politician († 1926 )
• February 27 : Josef Holeček , Czech writer, translator and journalist († 1929 )
• February 27 : Jules Lemaître , French writer († 1914 )
• February 28 : Albert Koebele , German-American entomologist († 1924 )

March April

• 0March 2 : Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht , Dutch zoologist († 1915 )
• 0March 5 : Arthur Foote , American composer († 1937 )
• 0March 7 : Paul Wittig , German architect († 1943 )
• March 10 : Paul-Émile Boutigny , French painter and illustrator († 1929 )
• March 11 : George Alburtus Anderson , American politician († 1896 )
• March 12 : Carl Johann Moritz Arnold , German chemist and mineralogist, scholar, lecturer, privy councilor, alpinist, non-fiction author and writer († 1929 )
• March 12 : Georg von Schanz , German professor († 1931 )
• March 13 : James Murray , British general († 1919 )
• March 14 : Ferdinand Hodler , Swiss painter († 1918 )
• March 16 : Heinrich Kayser , German physicist († 1940 )
• March 18 : Émile-Alexandre Taskin , French opera singer († 1897 )
• March 18 : Emilie Kempin-Spyri , first woman to do her doctorate and habilitation as a lawyer in Switzerland († 1901 )
• March 21 : Berthold Deimling , Prussian general and later pacifist († 1944 )
• March 21 : William W. Stickney , American politician († 1932 )
• March 28 : Jacob B. Bull , Norwegian author († 1930 )
• March 28 : Rudolf Kittel , German Old Testament scholar († 1929 )
• March 29 : Elihu Thomson , British-American electrical engineer († 1937 )
• March 29 : Hans Bußmeyer , German composer and pianist († 1930 )

Vincent van Gogh at the age of 19

• March 30 : Vincent van Gogh , Dutch painter († 1890 )
• March 31 : Otto Nikolaus Witt , Russian chemist († 1915 )

• 0April 3 : Leopold Freiherr von Aichelburg-Labia , Austrian politician († 1926 )
• 0April 4 : Otto Stolten , German politician († 1928 )
• 0April 4 : Just Knud Qvigstad , Norwegian philologist and politician († 1957 )
• 0April 5 : Lily Alice Lefevre , Canadian poet († 1938 )
• 0April 5 : Conrad von Seelhorst , German agricultural scientist († 1930 )
• 0April 6 : Emil Jellinek , German businessman and consul († 1918 )
• 0April 7 : Leopold Georg, Duke of Albany , child of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Prince Albert († 1884 )
• April 12 : Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Augst , German politician († 1913 )
• April 13 : Hector Archibald MacDonald , British general († 1903 )
• April 17 : Arthur Moritz Schoenflies , German mathematician († 1928 )
• April 21 : Xaver Imfeld , Swiss cartographer († 1909 )
• April 21 : Charles Théodore Malherbe , French musicologist and composer († 1911 )
• April 22 : Alphonse Bertillon , French criminalist and anthropologist († 1914 )
• April 28 : William Wright Heard , American politician († 1926 )

May June

• 0May 1 : Alexander Meyer-Cohn , German banker and autograph collector († 1904 )
• 0May 2 : Carl Rabl , doctor and anatomist († 1917 )
• 0May 5 : Ignaz Glaser , Austrian entrepreneur in Prague and Bürmoos (Salzburg) († 1916 )
• 0May 6 : Philander C. Knox , American politician († 1921 )
• May 11 : Benedetto Lorenzelli , Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal († 1915 )
• May 12 : Adam Karillon , German doctor and writer († 1938 )
• May 12 : Jonathan Paul , German Protestant pastor, tent missionary and publicist († 1931 )
• May 13 : Adolf Hölzel , Austrian-German painter († 1934 )
• May 17 : Paul Arendt , German theater actor († 1940 )
• May 21 : Heinrich Lammasch , last Prime Minister of Austria-Hungary († 1920 )
• May 21 : Edward Gawler Prior , Canadian politician († 1920 )
• May 28 : Carl Larsson , Swedish painter († 1919 )

• 0June 3 : Flinders Petrie , British Egyptologist († 1942 )
• June 11 : Samuel Rousseau , French composer († 1904 )
• June 12 : Gustav Lehmann , German educator and botanist († 1928 )
• June 14 : John E. Weeks , American politician († 1949 )
• June 16 : Hermann Aust , German entrepreneur († 1943 )
• June 18 : Mato Kosyk , Sorbian poet († 1940 )
• June 20 : Erich Schmidt , German literary historian († 1913 )
• June 21 : Peder Klint , Danish painter and architect († 1930 )
• June 22nd : Viktor Martin Otto Denk , German writer and editor († 1918 )
• June 26 : Frederick H. Evans , British photographer († 1943 )
• June 27 : Peter von Bradke , German linguist and Sanskritist († 1897 )
• June 28 : Adolf von Strümpell , German neurologist († 1925 )
• June 29 : Johannes Kaltenboeck , writer of Austrian descent († 1927 )
• June 30th : Adolf Furtwängler , German archaeologist († 1907 )

July August

• 0July 4 : Ernst Otto Beckmann , German chemist († 1923 )

Cecil Rhodes

• 0July 5 : Cecil Rhodes , British politician and founder of the State of Rhodesia († 1902 )
• 0July 5 : Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry , Hungarian painter († 1919 )
• 0July 6th : Max von Gruber , Austrian physician and founder of modern hygiene († 1927 )
• July 10 : William Coleman Anderson , American politician († 1902 )
• July 14 : Eduard Franz Ludwig Kullmann , German craftsman and assassin († 1892 )
• July 15 : Marija Yermolowa , Russian theater actress († 1928 )
• July 17 : Alexius Meinong , Austrian philosopher and psychologist († 1920 )

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

• July 18 : Hendrik Antoon Lorentz , Dutch mathematician and physicist († 1928 )
• July 18 : Albert O. Brown , American politician († 1937 )
• July 19 : Ernst von Stubenrauch , German politician († 1909 )
• July 22nd : Alfred Messel , German architect († 1909 )
• July 24 : Henri-Alexandre Deslandres , French astronomer († 1948 )
• July 24 : William Gillette , American actor, playwright and author († 1937 )
• July 26 : Martin Segitz , German union leader and politician († 1927 )
• July 27 : Wladimir Galaktionowitsch Korolenko , Russian writer († 1921 )
• July 29 : Ignaz Gaugengigl , German painter († 1932 )
• July 31 : Tereza Nováková , Czech writer, representative of realism and village prose († 1912 )
• 0August 4 : John Henry Twachtman , American impressionist painter († 1902 )
• 0August 6th : Otto Beutler , German lawyer, politician, Lord Mayor of Dresden († 1926 )
• August 14 : Dominique Gauchet , French admiral († 1931 )
• August 19 : Siegmund Seligmann , German businessman and entrepreneur († 1925 )
• August 21 : Émile Mayade , French car pioneer and racing driver († 1898 )
• August 21 : Teodoro Valfrè di Bonzo , Archbishop of Vercelli and Cardinal († 1922 )
• August 24 : Charles William Fulton , American politician († 1918 )
• August 30 : Percy Goetschius , American music theorist and composition teacher († 1943 )
• August 31 : Alexei Alexejewitsch Brussilow , Russian Adjutant General († 1926 )

September October

Wilhelm Ostwald

• 0September 2 : Wilhelm Ostwald , Baltic German chemist and Nobel Prize winner († 1932 )
• 0September 2 : Ferdinand Karsch , German entomologist and sexologist († 1936 )
• 0September 4 : Hermann von Wissmann , German Reich Commissioner and Governor in German East Africa († 1905 )
• 0September 5 : David Demerest Aitken , American politician († 1930 )
• 0September 9 : Hanns von Zobeltitz , German journalist and writer († 1918 )
• September 10 : Ferdinand Blumentritt , Sudeten German ethnographer, teacher and grammar school director in Leitmeritz († 1913 )
• September 11th : Katharina Schratt , Austrian actress († 1940 )
• September 13 : Hans Christian Gram , Danish bacteriologist († 1938 )
• September 14 : Marc-Emile Ruchet , Swiss politician († 1912 )

Albrecht Kossel

• September 16 : Albrecht Kossel , German physician and physiologist († 1927 )
• September 20 : Joseph Kürschner , German writer and lexicographer († 1902 )
• September 20 : Chulalongkorn , Siamese king († 1910 )
• September 21 : Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist († 1926 )
• September 25 : Alexander S. Clay , American politician († 1910 )
• September 25 : Allen M. Fletcher , American politician († 1922 )
• September 25 : Juan Francisco González , Chilean painter († 1933 )

• 0October 6th : Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht , German agricultural geographer († 1934 )
• 0October 6 : Johannes von Kries , German psychologist, physiologist and philosopher († 1928 )
• 0October 7 : Luis Andreoni , Italian engineer and architect († 1936 )
• October 10 : Victor H. Metcalf , American politician († 1936 )
• October 14 : Ciprian Porumbescu , Romanian composer († 1883 )
• October 16 : Emilio Aceval , Paraguayan politician († 1931 )
• October 16 : Willibrord Benzler , German bishop and monk († 1921 )
• October 20 : Teibi Andō , Japanese general († 1932 )
• October 26 : Paul Homeyer , German organist († 1908 )
• October 26 : Elisabeth von Plotho , German nobleman, role model for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest († 1952 )
• October 30 : Louise Abbéma , French painter († 1927 )

November December

• 0November 1 : José Santos Zelaya , Nicaraguan politician and President († 1919 )
• 0November 9 : Stanford White , American architect († 1906 )
• November 12th : Oskar Panizza , German doctor and writer († 1921 )
• November 13 : Arnold von Siemens , German industrialist († 1918 )
• November 16 : Wilhelm Feldmann , German engineer († 1905 )
• November 21 : Hussein Kamil , Sultan of Egypt and King of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan († 1917 )
• November 23 : Leo Anton Carl de Ball , German astronomer († 1916 )
• November 26th : Karl Sudhoff , German medical historian, founder of medical history as a scientific discipline († 1938 )

• 0December 7th : Oskar Ludwig Auster , Saxon royal building officer († 1919 )
• 0December 8 : Carl von Bergen , German painter († 1933 )
• December 11th : Anton von Perfall , German hunting writer († 1912 )
• December 11th : Jacob Wackernagel , Swiss classical philologist and Indo-Europeanist († 1938 )
• December 14 : Errico Malatesta , Italian anarchist († 1932 )
• December 15 : Theodor von Frimmel , Austrian art historian and musicologist († 1928 )
• December 17 : Émile Roux , French scientist and pioneer in the field of microbiology († 1933 )
• December 17th : Herbert Beerbohm Tree , English theater actor († 1917 )
• December 21 : Isolde Kurz , German writer († 1944 )
• December 22nd : Jewgraf Stepanowitsch Fjodorow , Russian crystallographer and mineralogist († 1919 )
• December 22 : Teresa Carreño , Venezuelan composer († 1917 )
• December 22nd : Édouard de Reszke , French opera singer (bass) of Polish origin († 1917 )
• December 23 : Italo Azzoni , Italian composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher († 1935 )
• December 26 : Jane Sutherland , Australian landscape painter († 1928 )
• December 26 : René Bazin , French writer and professor of law († 1932 )
• December 26 : Wilhelm Dörpfeld , German architect and archaeologist († 1940 )
• December 31 : Jakob Reumann , Austrian politician († 1925 )
• December 31 : Tasker H. Bliss , American general and diplomat († 1930 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Georg Ahsbahs , German horse breeder († 1923 )
• Cesare Bernardo Bellini , Italian composer and singing teacher († 1940 )
• Henry Morton Dunham , American organist and composer († 1929 )
• Martiniano Leguizamón , Argentine writer († 1935 )
• Charles Vance Millar , Canadian lawyer and entrepreneur († 1926 )
• Paul Véronge de la Nux , French composer († around 1911)
• Jesse Evans , American cowboy and bandit († unknown)

Died

January February

• 0January 1 : Valentin Sibbern , Norwegian officer and politician (* 1779 )
• 0January 2 : Carl Heinrich Behn , Danish budget adviser (* 1799 )
• 0January 8 : Charles Humphrey Atherton , American politician (* 1773 )
• January 16 : Matteo Carcassi , Italian guitarist and composer (* 1792 )
• January 19 : Charles Baker Adams , American naturalist (* 1814 )
• January 21 : Karl August Friedrich Brückner , German educator and historian (* 1803 )

• 0February 6 : August Kopisch , Silesian painter and writer (* 1799 )
• 0February 7th : Robert Lucas , American politician (* 1781 )
• February 12 : Heinrich Leonhard Heubner , German Lutheran theologian (* 1780 )
• February 25 : Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns , German architect and building contractor in Göttingen (* 1787 )

March April

• 0March 4 : Leopold von Buch , German geologist (* 1774 )
• 0March 5 : August Kestner , German diplomat and art collector (* 1777 )
• 0March 9 : Charles K. Williams , American politician (* 1782 )
• March 11th : Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , German nobleman (* 1785 )
• March 14 : Vincenz Eduard Milde , Archbishop of Vienna (* 1777 )
• March 15 : Isaac Johnson , American politician (* 1803 )
• March 15 : Giovanni Ricordi , Italian music publisher (* 1785 )

Christian Doppler

• March 17 : Christian Doppler , Austrian mathematician and physicist (* 1803 )
• March 22nd : Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova , Duke of Padua, French general and politician (* 1778 )
• March 23 : Alexander Duncan , American politician (* 1788 )
• March 27 : Johann Adam Ackermann , German landscape painter (* 1780 )

• 0April 3 : Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg , German politician (* 1787 )
• April 11th : Louis Emmanuel Jadin , French composer (* 1768 )
• April 13 : Leopold Gmelin , German chemist (* 1788 )
• April 15 : Auguste Laurent , French chemist (* 1807 )
• April 18 : William R. King , American politician (* 1786 )
• April 21 : Hippolyte Colet , French composer, music teacher and theorist (* 1808 )
• April: Elise Garnerin , French balloonist, aerial acrobat and parachutist (* around 1791 )

Ludwig Tieck, 1838

• April 28 : Ludwig Tieck , German poet, writer, editor and translator (* 1773 )

May June

• 0May 2 : Jesse B. Thomas , American politician (* 1777 )
• May 11 : Dominikus Kuenzer , German Catholic priest (* 1793 )
• May 18 : Marco Berra , Italian music publisher in Prague (* 1784 )
• May 18 : Lionel Kieseritzky , French-Polish chess master (* 1806 )
• May 30th : Ernst Gottlob Pienitz , German physician and psychiatry reformer (* 1777 )

• 0June 6 : Bennett C. Riley , American officer (* 1790 )
• 0June 7th : Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis , Italian opera singer (* 1800 )
• June 11 : Johannes Cornelis de Jonge , Dutch historian (* 1793 )
• June 16 : Joseph W. Chalmers , American politician and lawyer (* 1806 )
• June 17th : Traugott Leberecht Hasse , German mining official and writer (* 1775 )
• June 29 : Karl Wilhelm Walch , German legal scholar (* 1776 )

July August

• 0July 6 : Charles Paine , American politician (* 1799 )
• July 15 : Johann Jakob Hürlimann , Swiss entrepreneur and politician (* 1796 )
• July 15 : Wilhelm von Kobell , German painter (* 1766 )
• July 23 : Andries Pretorius , South African (Boer) politician and Voortrekker (* 1798 )
• July 25 : Joaquín Murrieta , Mexican gunslinger (* 1829 )
• July 25th : Johann Joachim Wachsmann , German choir conductor and composer (* 1787 )

• 0August 5th : Johann Kaspar Adolay , German notary (* 1771 )
• August 17th : Frederick Adam , British general and governor of Madras (* 1784 )
• August 21 : John Anderson , American politician (* 1792 )
• August 26th : Karl Theodor von Pappenheim , Bavarian Feldzeugmeister and last ruling Imperial Count of the County of Pappenheim (* 1771 )
• August 29 : Charles James Napier , British general, commander in chief of the troops of the East India Company (* 1782 )

September October

• 0September 1 : Adolf Asher , German bookseller, antiquarian, publisher and bibliographer (* 1800 )
• 0September 5 : George Poindexter , American politician (* 1779 )
• September 12 : Carl Barth , German draftsman and engraver (* 1787 )
• September 18 : Jan Isaac Wolterbeek , Dutch medic (* 1773 )
• September 29 : Johann Christian Zimmermann , German upper mountain ridge and planner of the Ernst-August-Stollen (* 1786 )

• 0October 1 : Karl Philipp Friedrich Arnsperger , Baden forest official (* 1791 )
• 0October 2 : François Arago , French astronomer, physicist and politician (* 1786 )
• 0October 3 : George Onslow , French composer (* 1784 )
• 0October 5 : Mahlon Dickerson , American politician (* 1770 )
• October 14 : Elisha Mathewson , American politician (* 1767 )
• October 29th : Pierre Zimmermann , French piano teacher and composer (* 1785 )

November December

• 0November 5 : Heinrich Joseph Wetzer , German orientalist (* 1801 )
• November 14th : Johann August Zeune , German pedagogue, geographer and Germanist (* 1778 )
• November 15 : Charles Gordon Atherton , American politician (* 1804 )
• November 15 : Maria II , Queen of Portugal (* 1819 )
• November 19 : Samuel C. Crafts , American politician (* 1768 )
• November 23 : Friedrich Schneider , German composer, organist and Kapellmeister (* 1786 )

• 0December 3 : Nicolás Rodríguez Peña , Argentine politician (* 1775 )
• 0December 4 : Carl Ernst Dietrich Alexander von Arnim , German administrative officer (* 1813 )
• 0December 6th : Carl Joseph Pratobevera , Austrian lawyer (* 1769 )

Georg Friedrich Grotefend

• December 15 : Georg Friedrich Grotefend , German linguist (* 1775 )
• December 16 : Johann Peter Hasenclever , German genre painter (* 1810 )
• December 19 : Adolf Heinrich Schletter , German silk goods dealer, consul and founder in Leipzig (* 1793 )
• December 20 : Carlo Evasio Soliva , Italian composer of Swiss origin (* 1791 )
• December 25 : Joseph von Radowitz , Prussian general, diplomat and politician (* 1797 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Conrad Christoph von Ahlefeldt , heir and court lord from Ascheberg, chamberlain, regional and high court counselor in Glückstadt and provost of the monastery of Uetersen (* 1768 )
• Álvaro Flórez Estrada , Spanish economist (* 1769 )

Web links

Commons : 1853  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Digitized newspapers from 1853 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans - 1853. (No longer available online.) Lafayette Cemetery Research Project, New Orleans, archived from the original on May 9, 2015 ; accessed on June 29, 2015 . 
2. ↑ The Pestilence of New Orleans . In: The Gazebo . 1853, p. 432-435 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).