1851

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1848 1849 1850 - 1851 - 1852 1853 1854 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* 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.\n* March 1 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times\n* March 27 - First reported case of white men seeing Yosemite Valley.\n* March 30 - A population census was taken of all people living in the United Kingdom.\n* May 1 - The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in Crystal Palace of Hyde Park, London is opened by Queen Victoria. It runs until October 18.\n* May 15 - Rama IV is crowed King of Thailand.\n* July - The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played.\n* July 1 - Colony of Victoria seperates from New South Wales.\n* July 29 - Annibale de Gasparis, in Naples, Italy discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.\n* October 18 - The Great Exhibition in London is closed\n* November 13 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.\n* 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.\n* December 24 - The Library of Congress burns\n* December 29 - The first YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts \n* Dictator Rosas overthrown in Brazil. New government recognizes independent Paraguay. New Blanco government in Uruguay\n* Reuters news service founded\n* The first America's Cup is organized (see Yachting).\n* Gold discovered in Australia.\n* The New York Times is founded.\n* Ariel and Umbriel, moonss of Uranus, discovered by William Lassell.\n* St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded.

Births

\n*January 19 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer\n*March 27 - Vincent d'Indy, composer and teacher (+ 1931)\n*April 21 - Charles Barrois, geologist\n*May 6 – Aristide Bruant, cabaret singer and comedian (d. 1925)\n*May 20 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer\n*October 31 - Princess Louise of Sweden

Deaths

\n*February 1 - Mary Shelley, author\n*March 9 - Hans Christian Ørsted, scientist\n*September 11 - Sylvester Graham inventor of Graham cracker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n