The world in 1853 CE
Events, people and borders on the HistoryLayer map in 1853 CE.
Events
- Taiping take Nanjing
- Battle of Sinop
- Battle of Oltenitza
- Battle of Cetate
- Battle of Akhaltsikhe
- Battle of Başgedikler
- Siege of Ak-Mechet
- Gadsden Purchase
- Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
- Great Industrial Exhibition
- Foglianise founded
- Gornji Milanovac founded
- Votive Church built
- Notre-Dame de la Garde (church building) built
- University of Melbourne founded
- University of Florida founded
People born this year
- Vincent van Gogh
- Hendrik Lorentz
- José Martí
- Cecil John Rhodes
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
- Wilhelm Ostwald
- Chulalongkorn
- Albrecht Kossel
- Vladimir Korolenko
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Aleksey Brusilov
- Carl Larsson
- Kitasato Shibasaburō
- Hussein bin Ali
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Hans Christian Gram
- Flinders Petrie
- Jaroslav Vrchlický
- Hussein Kamel of Egypt
- Vladimir Shukhov
- Elihu Thomson
- Florentino Ameghino
- Nikolai Kibalchich
- Howard Pyle
- Wilhelm Dörpfeld
- Gaston Eugene Marie Bonnier
- Adolf Furtwängler
- Paul Julius Möbius
- Ferdinand Blumentritt