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1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
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 .
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 - Rama IV is crowed 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 .
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 24 - The Library of Congress burns.
December 26 a href="December_27.html" title="December 27">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
Births
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 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 )
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 )
Tom Morris, Jr. , Scottish golfer (d. 1875 )
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 )
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 )
November 26 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult , French marshal (b. 1769 )
December 19 - Joseph Mallord William Turner , English artist (b. 1775 )
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