1851 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1851?
- January 28, 1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- February 12, 1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
- March 11, 1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
- March 27, 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
- April 2, 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
- May 1, 1851 – Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
- June 5, 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- August 12, 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
- August 22, 1851 – The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
- September 15, 1851 – Saint Joseph’s University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- September 22, 1851 – The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
- October 18, 1851 – Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- October 24, 1851 – William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
- November 9, 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
- November 13, 1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliot Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
- December 2, 1851 – French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
- December 9, 1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
- December 22, 1851 – The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
- December 24, 1851 – Library of Congress burns.
- December 29, 1851 – The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
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