Information about 1851
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
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| Years: | 1848 1849 1850 - 1851 - 1852 1853 1854 |
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Events of 1851
January - March
May 1: Great Exhibition in Hyde Park
- January 11 - Taiping Rebellion: Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
- January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in the Oregon Territory is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
- March 1 - Victor Hugo uses the phrase United States of Europe in a speech to the French national assembly.
- March 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
- March 27 - First reported case of white men seeing Yosemite Valley.
- March 30 - A population census is taken in the United Kingdom.
April - June
- April 28 - Santa Clara College is chartered in Santa Clara, California.
- May 1 - The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London is opened by Queen Victoria. It runs until October 18.
- May 15
- Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, the first secret society for women, founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.
- Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
July - September
- July - The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played.
- July 1
- Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales.
- Serial poisoner Helene Jegado is arrested in Rennes, France
- July 10 - University of the Pacific is chartered as California Wesleyan College in Santa Clara, California
- July 29 - Annibale de Gasparis, in Naples, Italy discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
- August 1 - Virginia closes its Reform Constitutional Convention deciding that all white men have the right to vote.
- August 5 - Mount Pelee erupts and kills 30 people.
- August 22 - The yacht America wins the first America's Cup race.
- September 15 - Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- September 18 - The New York Times is founded.
- September 30 - The Fregatten Eugenies (or the Frigate Eugenie) left from Karlskrona, Sweden to begin its voyage as the first Swedish Royal Navy vessel to circumnavigate the world.
October - December
- October - Reuters news service founded.
- October 18 - The Great Exhibition in London is closed.
- October 24 - Ariel and Umbriel, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Lassell.
- November 13 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.
- November 14 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick; or The Whale is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published, on October 18 in London by Richard Bentley, in 3 volumes as The Whale.
- December 2 - Louis Napoleon, president of France, dissolves French National Assembly and declares a new constitution to extend his term. Later he declares himself as an emperor Napoleon III. End of the Second Republic.
- December 6 - Trial of Helene Jegado begins; she is eventually sentenced to death and executed by guillotine.
- December 9 - The first YMCA (1844) in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
- December 24 - The Library of Congress burns.
- December 26-27 - Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos island; Oba Kosoko is wounded and flees to Epe.
- December 29 - The first Boston YMCA opens (in Massachusetts).
Undated
- Florida State University is founded.
- Gold discovered in Australia by Edward Hargraves
- Northwestern University is founded.
- St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded.
- Macy's department store founded by R.H. Macy.
- A powerful explosion on the sun caused copper wires to burn off in some countries.
Ongoing events
- Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864)
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1851 MDCCCLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2604 |
| Armenian calendar | 1300 ԹՎ ՌՅ |
| Bah' calendar | 7 – 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2395 |
| Chinese calendar | 4487/4547-7-26 (庚戌年七月廿六日) — to — 4488/4548-7-6(辛亥年七月初六日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1567 – 1568 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1843 – 1844 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5611 – 5612 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1906 – 1907 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1773 – 1774 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4952 – 4953 |
| Holocene calendar | 11851 |
| Iranian calendar | 1229 – 1230 |
| Islamic calendar | 1267 – 1268 |
| Japanese calendar | Kaei 0 (嘉永0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2511 (皇紀2511年) |
| Julian calendar | 1896 |
| Korean calendar | 4184 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2394 |
January - June
- January 17 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
- January 19 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
- January 21 - Reinhard Hetze, Argentinian religious pioneer (d. 1939)
- February 8 - Kate Chopin, American writer (d. 1904)
- March 19 - William Henry Stark, Business Leader (d. 1936)
- March 27 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
- March 28 - Bernardino Machado, Portuguese President (d. 1944)
- April 13 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
- April 20 - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
- April 21 - Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
- May 6 - Aristide Bruant, French cabaret singer and comedian (d. 1925)
- May 20 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929)
- May 21 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1925)
July - December
- June 16 - Georg Jellinek, German legal philosopher(d. 1911)
- July 15 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
- July 20 - Arnold Pick, Czechoslovakian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1924)
- July 24 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
- August 14 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (d. 1887)
- September 7 - David King Udall, American politician (d. 1938)
- October 2 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (d. 1929)
- December 20 - Dora Montefiore, English suffragist and socialist (d. 1933)
- December 30 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)
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Deaths
January - June
- January 10 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
- January 27 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (b. 1785)
- January 31 - David Spangler Kaufman, Congressman from Texas (b. 1813)
- February 1 - Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797)
- February 18 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
- February 23 - Joanna Baillie, Scottish poetess and dramatist (b. 1762)
- February 28 - Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France (b. 1775)
- March 9 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish scientist (b. 1777)
July - December
- September 10 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
- September 11 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and inventor (b. 1794)
- September 14 - James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (b. 1789)
- October 4 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
- October 19 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
- November 26 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal and politician (b. 1769)
- December 19 - Joseph Mallord William Turner, English artist (b. 1775)
- date unknown - John Brown Russwurm, Abolitionist (b. 1799)
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1. ^ "Calendar in year 1851 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage: Julian-1851 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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- February 4 - The Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville Railroad is incorporated in Ohio.
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1851 in Australia was a watershed year. It saw the start of the Australian gold rushes with significant gold discoveries in both New South Wales and Victoria. As a result of the Gold Rushes, the European population of Victoria increased from 97,489 in 1851 to 538,628 in 1861 and
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- April 7 - The first Canadian postage stamps are printed
- April 25 - Prince Edward Island wins responsible government
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- Construction of MacNeill's Egyptian Arch, a railway bridge near Newry on the Dublin-Belfast railway line is completed.
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