WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1853
Find out what all happened January to June 1853

Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. (22. February 1853)

The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864. (19. March 1853)

The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane. (16. April 1853)

Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome. (19. January 1853)

President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash. (6. January 1853)

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