1851

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1851 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1851 MDCCCLI
Ab urbe condita	2604
Armenian calendar	1300 ԹՎ ՌՅ
Assyrian calendar	6601
Baháʼí calendar	7–8
Balinese saka calendar	1772–1773
Bengali calendar	1258
Berber calendar	2801
British Regnal year	14 Vict. 1 – 15 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2395
Burmese calendar	1213
Byzantine calendar	7359–7360
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4548 or 4341     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4549 or 4342
Coptic calendar	1567–1568
Discordian calendar	3017
Ethiopian calendar	1843–1844
Hebrew calendar	5611–5612
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1907–1908
- Shaka Samvat	1772–1773
- Kali Yuga	4951–4952
Holocene calendar	11851
Igbo calendar	851–852
Iranian calendar	1229–1230
Islamic calendar	1267–1268
Japanese calendar	Kaei 4 (嘉永４年)
Javanese calendar	1779–1780
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4184
Minguo calendar	61 before ROC 民前61年
Nanakshahi calendar	383
Thai solar calendar	2393–2394
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1977 or 1596 or 824     — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1978 or 1597 or 825

1851 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1851 MDCCCLI
Ab urbe condita	2604
Armenian calendar	1300 ԹՎ ՌՅ
Assyrian calendar	6601
Baháʼí calendar	7–8
Balinese saka calendar	1772–1773
Bengali calendar	1258
Berber calendar	2801
British Regnal year	14 Vict. 1 – 15 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2395
Burmese calendar	1213
Byzantine calendar	7359–7360
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4548 or 4341     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4549 or 4342
Coptic calendar	1567–1568
Discordian calendar	3017
Ethiopian calendar	1843–1844
Hebrew calendar	5611–5612
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1907–1908
- Shaka Samvat	1772–1773
- Kali Yuga	4951–4952
Holocene calendar	11851
Igbo calendar	851–852
Iranian calendar	1229–1230
Islamic calendar	1267–1268
Japanese calendar	Kaei 4 (嘉永４年)
Javanese calendar	1779–1780
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4184
Minguo calendar	61 before ROC 民前61年
Nanakshahi calendar	383
Thai solar calendar	2393–2394
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1977 or 1596 or 824     — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1978 or 1597 or 825

1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

Events

• January 11 - Hong Xiuquan begins the Taiping Rebellion.
• January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
• March 1 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times
• March 27 - First reported case of white men seeing Yosemite Valley.
• March 30 - A population census was taken of all people living 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.
• May 15 - Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
• July - The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played.
• July 1 - Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales.
• July 1 - Serial poisoner Helene Jegado is arrested in Rennes, France
• July 29 - Annibale de Gasparis, in Naples, Italy discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
• 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.
• 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 is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, by Richard Bentley, London.
• 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 in a guillotine.
• December 9 - The first YMCA 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 YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Undated

• Dictator Rosas overthrown in Argentina. New government recognizes independent Paraguay. New Blanco government in Uruguay
• Florida State University is founded.
• Gold discovered in Australia.
• Northwestern University is founded.
• St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded.
• Macy's department store founded by R.H. Macy.

Births

• 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 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 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)
• Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)

Deaths

• 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 28 - Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France (b. 1775)
• March 9 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish scientist (b. 1777)
• 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)
• 1851 - John Brown Russwurm, Abolitionist (b. 1799)