1853

1853 (MDCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1853rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 853rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1853, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1853 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1853 MDCCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2606
Armenian calendar	1302 ԹՎ ՌՅԲ
Assyrian calendar	6603
Bahá'í calendar	9–10
Balinese saka calendar	1774–1775
Bengali calendar	1260
Berber calendar	2803
British Regnal year	16 Vict. 1 – 17 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2397
Burmese calendar	1215
Byzantine calendar	7361–7362
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 4549 or 4489     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4550 or 4490
Coptic calendar	1569–1570
Discordian calendar	3019
Ethiopian calendar	1845–1846
Hebrew calendar	5613–5614
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1909–1910
- Shaka Samvat	1774–1775
- Kali Yuga	4953–4954
Holocene calendar	11853
Igbo calendar	853–854
Iranian calendar	1231–1232
Islamic calendar	1269–1270
Japanese calendar	Kaei 6 (嘉永６年)
Javanese calendar	1781–1782
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4186
Minguo calendar	59 before ROC 民前59年
Nanakshahi calendar	385
Thai solar calendar	2395–2396
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1979 or 1598 or 826     — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1980 or 1599 or 827

Events

• October 4–5 – the Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire begins war with the Russian Empire
• August 24 - George speck, AKA George Crum, prepares the first ever Potato chip in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Births

• March 30 – Vincent van Gogh, painter
• July 18 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and mathematician

Deaths

• March 30 – Abigail Fillmore, wife of U.S. President Millard Fillmore