Notable Historical Events - 1851
1851 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line |
Jan 15 |
Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera |
Jan 28 |
Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered |
Jan 31 |
Gail Borden announces invention of condensed milk |
Jan 31 |
SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded |
Feb 6 |
Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf |
Feb 11 |
1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston |
Feb 15 |
Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave |
Mar 3 |
Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece) |
Mar 6 |
Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze" premieres in London |
Mar 7 |
Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends |
Mar 11 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice |
Mar 25 |
Yosemite Valley discovered in California |
Apr 15 |
Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary |
Apr 23 |
Canada issues its 1st postage stamps |
May 1 |
Great Exhibition opens in the Crystal Palace, London |
May 3 |
Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die |
May 4 |
1st major SF fire |
May 6 |
Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine" |
May 6 |
Linus Yale patents Yale lock |
May 6 |
New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname |
May 6 |
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts |
May 15 |
Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned |
May 18 |
Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked |
May 29 |
Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) |
Jun 2 |
1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine) |
Jun 3 |
1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers |
Jun 9 |
SF Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time) |
Jun 15 |
Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory |
Jun 22 |
Fire destroys part of San Francisco |
Jun 30 |
Battle of Viervoet (Basotho-British war) |
Jul 13 |
John F Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton |
Jul 23 |
Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians & US |
Jul 24 |
Window tax abolished in Britain |
Jul 28 |
Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph |
Jul 29 |
Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. |
Aug 12 |
1st America's Cup - US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora after race around the Isle of Wight |
Aug 12 |
Isaac Singer patents sewing machine |
Aug 22 |
Gold fields discovered in Australia |
Aug 22 |
Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup) |
Sep 15 |
Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
Sep 18 |
New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy) |
Sep 22 |
The city of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines. |
Oct 1 |
1st Hawaiian stamps issued |
Oct 2 |
The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake. |
Oct 24 |
William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus |
Oct 30 |
Alfred de Musset's "Bettine" premieres in Paris |
Nov 9 |
Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. |
Nov 11 |
Alvan Clark patents telescope |
Nov 13 |
1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands & Orange" |
Nov 13 |
Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked |
Nov 13 |
The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington. |
Nov 14 |
"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville published |
Nov 22 |
Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced (Paris) |
Dec 2 |
French President Charles Louis Bonaparte in a Coup d'etat overthrows the Second Republic establishing himself as Emperor. |
Dec 4 |
Pres Louis Napoleon Boaparte's forces crush an attempted coup d'etat in France |
Dec 9 |
1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal) |
Dec 22 |
The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India. |
Dec 24 |
Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes |
Dec 29 |
1st American Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston Massachusetts. |
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