* 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer ( d. 1932 )

* 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

* 1851 – Felix Adler, German-American religious leader and social reformer ( d. 1933 )

* 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian ( d. 1851 )

* 1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inverter and businessman, invented the phonograph ( b. 1851 )

* 1777 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist ( d. 1851 )

* 1851 – Yannoulis Chalepas, Greek sculptor ( d. 1938 )

* 1851 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist ( d. 1887 )

* 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

* 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.

* 1797 – Mary Shelley, English author ( d. 1851 )

* John Cramp, 1851 – 1853 ( and 1856 – 1869 )

* 1809 – John Kirk Townsend, American naturalist ( d. 1851 )

* 1851 – Charles Barrois, French geologist ( d. 1939 )

* 1851 – Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist ( d. 1901 )

* Platine War ( 1851 – 1852 ): The Brazilian Empire and its allies went to war against the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas of the Argentine Confederation.

* Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare ( 1851 – 1914 )

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.

#** Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( 1851 – 1921 ), U. S. Attorney General married Ellen Channing Day

* Reuben Cone ( 1788 – 1851 ), an important pioneer and landowner in Atlanta, Georgia

Internally, the Taiping Rebellion ( 1851 – 1864 ), a quasi-Christian religious movement led by the " Heavenly King " Hong Xiuquan, would raid roughly a third of Chinese territory for over a decade until they were finally crushed in the Third Battle of Nanking in 1864.

** Anne Darwin ( 1841 – 1851 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

The concept of the decisive battle became popular with the publication in 1851 of Edward Creasy's The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World.

I of Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo according to Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851 ( see also ). this is the battle of marathon

* 1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.

The children were: Jenny Caroline ( m. Longuet ; 1844 – 83 ); Jenny Laura ( m. Lafargue ; 1845 – 1911 ); Edgar ( 1847 – 1855 ); Henry Edward Guy (" Guido "; 1849 – 1850 ); Jenny Eveline Frances (" Franziska "; 1851 – 52 ); Jenny Julia Eleanor ( 1855 – 98 ) and one more who died before being named ( July 1857 ).

* 1851 – Province of Prince Edward Island

He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on August 10, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children ( Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857 ).

* 1851 – Edward Asahel Birge, American academic ( d. 1950 )

Astronomers before Eddy had also named the period after the solar astronomer Edward W. Maunder ( 1851 – 1928 ) who studied how sunspot latitudes changed with time.

Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark.

For example, several of the battles that Edward Shepherd Creasy listed in his famous 1851 book The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World rate hardly a mention here, and the confrontation between Muslims and Christians at Poitiers-Tours in 732, once considered a watershed event, has been downgraded to a raid in force.

* Creasy, Edward Shepherd ( 1851 / 2001 ).

In the following years, the British would extend responsible government to Prince Edward Island ( 1851 ), New Brunswick ( 1854 ), and Newfoundland ( 1855 ).

In 1885, Michelson began a collaboration with Edward Morley, spending considerable time and money to confirm with higher accuracy Fizeau's 1851 experiment on Fresnel's drag coefficient, to improve on Michelson's 1881 experiment, and to establish the wavelength of light as a standard of length.

On 20 August 1827, the British naval commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean ( i. e .. commander of " Blue " Squadron ), Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington ( 1770 – 1851 ), veteran of 44 years at sea and a popular hero for his role in the Battle of Trafalgar, received his government's instructions regarding enforcement of the treaty.

It was named for Edward Cash, who in 1851 became the first white settler in the area.

Robert's third son John Robert Livingston ( 1775 – 1851 ) deeded to his nephew Dr. Edward R. Livingston in 1822 around area then called Purvis, New York.

When the secession proposal failed, Gadsden, working with his cousin Isaac Edward Holmes, a lawyer in San Francisco since 1851, and the California state senator Thomas Jefferson Green, attempted to divide California in two.

* Edward Hain MP, ( 1851 – 1917 ) founder of the Hain Steamship Company Ltd

* Edward Lawrence Levy ( 1851 – 1932 ), English world champion weightlifter

* Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby ( 1775 – 1851 )

For the publisher Edward Lumley Thorpe produced Northern Mythology ( 1851 ) with notes and illustrations.

In April 1851, the rate for inland letters to Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island was 3d per ½ oz.

He was, however, able to reappear the following year, and he remained at the Haymarket ten years more, though his acting never again reached its former level ; Edward Dutton Cook recalls an 1851 performance in which Farren, though " acting admirably ", did not utter a single intelligible word.

In 1851, at the age of 26, Child succeeded Edward T. Channing as Harvard's Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position he held until Adams Sherman Hill was appointed to the professorship in 1876.