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Millennium:	2nd millennium
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:

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Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

Sports - Rail Transport

Countries:     Australia - Canada - France - Germany - Ireland - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - UK - USA

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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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 ¹ 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

• 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.
• February 12 - Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia.
• 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 - The first white men reportedly see Yosemite Valley.
• March 30 - A population census is taken in the United Kingdom.
• April 9 - San Luis, the oldest permanent settlement in the state of Colorado, is founded by settlers from Taos, New Mexico.
• 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, is 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
  • The Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales.
  • Serial poisoner Helene Jegado is arrested in Rennes, France.
• July 10 - The 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) leaves from Karlskrona, Sweden to begin its voyage as the first Swedish Royal Navy vessel to circumnavigate the world.

October - December

• October - The Reuters news service is founded.
• October 15 - The City of Winona, Minnesota is founded.
• October 18 - The Great Exhibition in London is closed.
• October 24 - Ariel and Umbriel, moons of Uranus, are discovered by William Lassell.
• November 13 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what later becomes 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 being first published on October 18 in London by Richard Bentley, in 3 volumes as The Whale.
• December 2 - Louis Napoleon, president of France, dissolves the French National Assembly and declares a new constitution to extend his term. Later he declares himself as Emperor Napoleon III, ending the Second Republic.
• December 6 - The 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 - A Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos Island; Oba Kosoko is wounded and flees to Epe.
• December 29 - The first YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

Undated

• Scotch College in Melbourne is founded.
• Northwestern University is founded.
• St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded.
• Macy's department store is founded by R.H. Macy.
• Western Union is founded.
• The population of Britain reaches 21 million.
• 6.3 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales. Cities of 20,000 or more account for 35% of the total English population.
• Ramón Castilla loses power in Peru.

Ongoing events

• New Zealand land wars (1845-1872)
• 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
Byzantine calendar	7359 – 7360
Chinese calendar	庚戌年十一月廿九日 (4487/4547-11-29) — to — 辛亥年十一月初十日 (4488/4548-11-10)
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)
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)
• 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 17 - Madre Teresa Nuzzo, Foundress of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart (d. 1923)
• 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)

Deaths

January - June

• January 10 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
• January 19 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine poet and writer (b. 1805)
• January 23 - Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, Scottish politician (b. 1809)
• 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 13 - Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (b. 1788)
• May 22 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1785)

July - December

• July 17 - Roger Sheaffe, British General
• August 8 - James Shudi Broadwood, piano manufacturer (b. 1772)
• 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, American 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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