1851

1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1851st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 851st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1851, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1851 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1851
MDCCCLI
Ab urbe condita2604
Armenian calendar1300
ԹՎ ՌՅ
Assyrian calendar6601
Baháʼí calendar7–8
Balinese saka calendar1772–1773
Bengali calendar1258
Berber calendar2801
British Regnal year14 Vict. 1  15 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2395
Burmese calendar1213
Byzantine calendar7359–7360
Chinese calendar庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4547 or 4487
     to 
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4548 or 4488
Coptic calendar1567–1568
Discordian calendar3017
Ethiopian calendar1843–1844
Hebrew calendar5611–5612
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1907–1908
 - Shaka Samvat1772–1773
 - Kali Yuga4951–4952
Holocene calendar11851
Igbo calendar851–852
Iranian calendar1229–1230
Islamic calendar1267–1268
Japanese calendarKaei 4
(嘉永4年)
Javanese calendar1779–1780
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4184
Minguo calendar61 before ROC
民前61年
Nanakshahi calendar383
Thai solar calendar2393–2394
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

Events

JanuaryMarch

  • January 11 Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
  • January 15 Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly.
  • January 23 The flip of a coin, subsequently named Portland Penny, determines whether a new city in the Oregon Territory is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
  • January 28 Northwestern University is founded in Illinois.
  • February 1 Brandtaucher, the oldest surviving submersible craft, sinks during acceptance trials in the German port of Kiel, but the designer, Wilhelm Bauer, and the two crew escape successfully.
  • February 6 Black Thursday in Australia: Bushfires sweep across the state of Victoria, burning about a quarter of its area.
  • February 12 Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia.
  • February 15 In Boston, Massachusetts, members of the anti-slavery Boston Vigilance Committee rescue fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins from a courtroom, following his arrest by U.S. marshals.
  • March 1 Victor Hugo uses the phrase United States of Europe, in a speech to the French National Assembly.
  • March 11 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
  • March 27 The first European men reportedly see Yosemite Valley.
  • March 30 A population census is taken in the United Kingdom. The population reaches 21 million. 6.3 million live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales, and cities of 20,000 or more account for 35% of the total English population.

AprilJune

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

Births

JanuaryJune

Ella Giles Ruddy
Rose Coghlan, 1870s
  • January 9 Rudolf von Brudermann, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1941)
  • January 16 William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1936)
  • January 17 A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
  • January 19
    • David Starr Jordan, American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (d. 1931)
    • Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
  • January 21 Pietro Frugoni, Italian general (d. 1940)
  • February 2 Ella Giles Ruddy, American author and essayist (d. 1917)
  • February 13 Joseph B. Murdock, United States Navy admiral, New Hampshire politician (d. 1931)
  • February 15 Antero Rubín, Spanish general, politician (d. 1935)
  • February 23 Frederick Warde, English actor (d. 1935)
  • March 14 John Sebastian Little, American politician, congressman (d. 1916)
  • March 18
    • Rose Coghlan, English actress (d. 1932)
    • Julien Dupré, French artist (d. 1910)
  • March 19
    • Pierre Ruffey, French general (d. 1928)
    • William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
  • March 24 Friedrich von Scholtz, German general (d. 1927)
  • March 27 Vincent d'Indy, French composer, teacher (d. 1931)
  • March 28 Bernardino Machado, Portuguese President (d. 1944)
  • March 31 Francis Bell, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1936)
  • April 1 Bruno von Mudra, German general (d. 1931)
  • April 4 James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer, politician (d. 1931)
  • April 13
    • Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
    • Helen M. Winslow, American editor, author, and publisher (d. 1938)
  • April 15 Auguste Dubail, French general (d. 1934)
  • April 20 Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
  • April 21 Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
  • May 6 Aristide Bruant, French cabaret singer, comedian (d. 1925)
  • May 7 Adolf von Harnack, German Lutheran theologian, church historian (d. 1930)
  • May 11 Madre Teresa Nuzzo, Maltese nun, foundress of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart (d. 1923)
  • May 14 Anna Laurens Dawes, American author, suffragist (d. 1938)
  • May 15 Lillian Resler Keister Harford, American church organizer, editor (d. 1935)
Emile Berliner

JulyDecember

Dora Montefiore

Date unknown

  • Stefania Wolicka, Polish historian

Deaths

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

Karl Drais

Date unknown

  • Gustafva Lindskog, Swedish athlete (b. 1794)

References

  1. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents (1936). Pooling of Patents: Hearings Before the Committee on Patents. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1912.
  2. Castle and Cooke, Ltd; Castle & Cooke (1951). The First 100 Years: A Report on the Operations of Castle & Cooke for the Years 1851-1951. p. 11.
  3. "The Invention That Spawned a Fashion Revolution". Time. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  4. Nagel Behnke, Harold (1994), "Capitán de fragata Benjamín Muñoz Gamero (1817–1851)" (PDF), Revista de Marina (in Spanish), 6: 1–8
  5. "Biografia de Andrés Quintana Roo" (in Spanish). L'historia. March 10, 2015.
  6. "MANUEL GÓMEZ PEDRAZA" (in Spanish). Presidencia de la Republica. Archived from the original on May 30, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  7. James, Winston (2010). The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm. New York, NY: New York University Press. pp. 25, 90, 105. ISBN 978-0-8147-4289-1.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.