1853

1853 — China: Nian Rebellion / Japan: July — Matthew C. Perry arrives off the coast of Japan in four ships. Perry orders harbor buildings to be shelled to force negotiations for a letter President Millard Fillmore sent to the ruler of Japan. This incident was coined as the "Arrival of the Black Ships" in Japanese history / United States: Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan

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KoreaJoseon 1392–1897ChinaQing dynasty 1636–1912JapanEdo period 1603–1868United StatesUnited States 1776–
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  • 1851명성왕후 민씨(고종비) 여주 근동면 섬낙리 사제에서 출생함.
  • 1851서류를 허통시켜 모든 사환에 각별히 거두어 쓰라고 명함.
  • 1851황해도 사람 채희재(蔡喜載)가 주동이 되어 난을 도모하다 처형됨
  • 1852봉화현감 임백능(任百能) 부임
  • 1854경상도 봉화에서 괘서한 사람들을 문초함
  • 1854영의정 김좌근(金左根)이 은화를 주조하여 동전과 함께 사용할 것을 건의韓國銀行,
  • Nian Rebellion
  • 1851Jintian Uprising
  • 1851洪秀全成立太平天國。
  • 1852曾国藩组湘军。
  • 1852Battle of Changsha
  • 1854Red Turban Rebellion
  • 1854Miao Rebellion
  • 1854Battle of Muddy Flat
  • 1855Punti-Hakka Clan Wars: An ethnic conflict began in Guangdong between the Punti and Hakka peoples which would claim roughly a million lives.
  • 1855Third plague pandemic
  • 1855咸丰黄河大改道。
  • July — Matthew C. Perry arrives off the coast of Japan in four ships. Perry orders harbor buildings to be shelled to force negotiations for a letter President Millard Fillmore sent to the ruler of Japan. This incident was coined as the "Arrival of the Black Ships" in Japanese history.
  • Tokugawa Iesada, accession
  • 1854Convention of Kanagawa
  • 1854Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty
  • 1854December — The Ansei great earthquakes series starts with the 1854 Tōkai earthquake and tsunami.
  • 1854February — Matthew C. Perry returns to Japan with eight Black Ships and finds that the shogunate had prepared a treaty accepting virtually all demands from President Millard Fillmore.
  • 18541854 Iga–Ueno earthquake
  • 1855Treaty of Shimoda
  • 18551855 Edo earthquake
  • 1855November — The Ansei great earthquakes series ends with the 1855 Edo earthquake followed by a devastating fire.
  • 1855August — With the arrival of the modern Dutch paddle steamer Kankō Maru, the Tokugawa shogunate establishes the Nagasaki Naval Training Center as part of its modernization efforts to meet the perceived military threat posed by the western nations and learn Western-style science and naval theory. The cadets who attended the center such as Enomoto Takeaki and Katsu Kaishū would go on to found the Imperial Japanese Navy following the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
  • Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan
  • March 4, 1853 – Pierce becomes the 14th president; King becomes the 13th vice president
  • April 18, 1853 – Vice President King dies after only six weeks in office.
  • 1851Battle of Grand Coteau
  • 1852U.S. presidential election, 1852: Franklin Pierce elected president; William R. King elected vice president
  • 1854Gadsden Purchase
  • 1854피의 캔자스
  • 1854Kansas–Nebraska Act
  • 1854Ostend Manifesto
  • 1854Grattan massacre
  • 1854Sioux Wars
  • 1854Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty
  • 1854미류수호조약
  • 1854Treaty of Kanagawa with Japan
  • 1854Walker Expedition into Nicaragua
  • 18541855 Know-Nothing Party, mushroom growth and sudden collapse
  • 1854Whig Party collapses
  • 1855Battle of Ash Hollow
  • 1855The Farmers' High School, which becomes Penn State University is founded.