Page 6: Historical Events In 1853
Sunday, 15 June 2025
Dec 09 Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, Rochester NY, pitcher (60-12 in 1884) in the year 1853.
Dec 13 Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter in the year 1853.
Dec 14 On this day in history salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)
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) on this day in history.
Dec 21 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter) in the year 1853.
Dec 22 In the year 1853 maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor
Dec 23 On this day in history giacomo Puccini, Italy, composer
Dec 30 In the year 1853 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 On this day in history andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer
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.