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Everything about 1851 totally explained1851 ( 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
of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1851
January - June
July - September
July - The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played.
July 1
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's 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
Northwestern University is founded.
St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded.
Macy's department store founded by R.H. Macy.
Western Union is founded.
Ongoing events
New Zealand land wars (1845-1872)
Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864)
Births
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 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, Abolitionist (b. 1799)Further Information
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