1851

Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  1840s  - 1850s -  1860s  1870s  1880s
Years:	1848 1849 1850 - 1851 - 1852 1853 1854

1851 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

Sports - Rail Transport

Countries:     Australia - Canada - Germany - Ireland - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - U.S. - UK

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday

  "Calendar in year 1851 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage:
  Julian-1851
  (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).

of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1851 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - September 1.3 October - December 1.4 Undated 1.5 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 4 Notes

Events of 1851

January - June

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 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

May 15: Rama IV crowned.

• 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

September 18: NYT is founded.

• 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.

Ongoing events

• Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864)

Births

1851 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1851 MDCCCLI
Ab urbe condita	2604
Armenian calendar	1300 ԹՎ ՌՅ
Bahá\'í calendar	7 – 8
Berber calendar	2801
Buddhist calendar	2395
Burmese calendar	1213
Chinese calendar	4487/4547-11-29 (庚戌年十一月廿九日) — to — 4488/4548-11-10 (辛亥年十一月初十日)
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 4 (嘉永4年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2511 (皇紀2511年)
Korean calendar	4184
Thai solar calendar	2394
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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)
• October 20 - George Gandy, American entrepreneur (d. 1946)
• December 20 - Dora Montefiore, English suffragist and socialist (d. 1933)
• December 30 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)

See also Category: 1851 births.

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)
• May 22 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1785)

July - December

• July 17 - Roger Sheaffe, British General
• 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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