1851 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

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Sport

1851 English cricket season

Events from the year 1851 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Liberal

Events

• 30 March - The United Kingdom Census 1851 is the first to include detailed ages, date of birth, occupations, and marital status of those listed.
• 1 May - The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London is opened by Queen Victoria.^[1]
• 26 May - the first international chess tournament is held in London.
• 24 June - Abolition of the Window Tax.^[2]
• 22 August - The first 100 Guineas Cup, later to be known as the America's Cup, yacht race is held around the Isle of Wight.^[3]
• 15 October - End of the Great Exhibition.^[3]
• 24 October - Ariel and Umbriel, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Lassell.^[4]
• 19 December - Palmerston sacked as Foreign Secretary for sending a congratulatory telegram to Napoleon III on his recent coup d'etat.^[2]

Undated

• Royal School of Mines established, as the Government School of Mines and Science Applied to the Art.

Births

• 20 April - Young Tom Morris, golfer (died 1875)
• 12 June - Oliver Joseph Lodge, physicist (died 1940)
• 19 September - William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, soap-maker and philanthropist (died 1925)

Deaths

• 1 February - Mary Shelley, author (born 1797)
• 23 February - Joanna Baillie, writer (born 1762)
• 17 July - John Lingard, Roman Catholic priest (born 1771)
• 19 December - J. M. W. Turner, artist (born 1775)

References

See also