1853

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