Page 6: Historical Events In 1853
Tuesday, 08 July 2025
Dec 09 Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, Rochester NY, pitcher (60-12 in 1884) on this day in history.
Dec 13 On this day in history joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter
Dec 14 Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas) on this day in history.
Dec 15 In the year 1853 jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies
Dec 17 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby) in the year 1853.
Dec 21 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter) in the year 1853.
Dec 22 Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor in the year 1853.
Dec 23 Giacomo Puccini, Italy, composer in the year 1853.
Dec 30 On this day in history a dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
Dec 30 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer on this day in history.
Dec 30 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico in the year 1853.
Dec 30 In the year 1853 the US purchases 30,000 square miles of land from Mexico in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona. The Gadsden Purchase cost the US $10 million.