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1851 Historical Event(s)
January 28, 1851
– Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
March 11, 1851
– The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
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.
July 29, 1851
– Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
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 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 22, 1851
– The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
December 24, 1851
– Library of Congress burns.
Who Were Born On 1851?
February 28, 1851
– Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
March 3, 1851
– Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
March 19, 1851
– William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
April 13, 1851
– Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
May 21, 1851
– Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1925)
September 3, 1851
– Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
September 4, 1851
– John Dillon, Irish nationalist (d. 1927)
December 18, 1851
– Graciano Lopez Jaena, Filipino orator and satirist (d. 1896)
December 21, 1851
– Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician (d. 1929)
December 31, 1851
– Henry Carter Adams, American economist (d. 1921)