Major Events
- Jun 24 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico)
- Jul 8 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade
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1853 in Music
- Jan 19 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premieres in Rome
- Mar 5 Piano company Steinway & Sons founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City
- Mar 6 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premieres at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
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Fun Fact About 1853
Dinner party held inside life-sized model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur), created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in South London
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Famous Weddings in 1853
- Jan 30 Emperor and French President Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo, Countess of Teba
- May 19 Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
- Jun 13 Prince Albert of Prussia (41) weds second wife, German noblewoman Rosalie Wilhelmine Johanna von Rauch (33), in Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia
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