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).
Events of 1851
January - June
May 1: Great Exhibition in Hyde Park
July - September
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
Ongoing events
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
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Notes
- ^ "Calendar in year 1851 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage: Julian-1851 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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