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

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )

* 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 )

Frederic William Henry Myers was the son of Revd Frederic Myers ( 1811 – 1851 ) and his second wife Susan Harriet Myers nee Marshall ( 1811 – 1896 ).

He married his cousin, Harriet, in 1850, which entitled him, in 1851, to a junior partnership in the family business.

After months of stalemate, and using the money of his mistress, Harriet Howard, he staged a coup d ' état and seized dictatorial powers on 2 December 1851, the 47th anniversary of Napoleon I's crowning as Emperor ( hence another of Louis-Napoléon's nicknames: " The Man of December ", " l ' homme de décembre ").

This paper had a considerable circulation, and in it, in 1851 — 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published.

" Inspired by prior wedding statements made by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill in 1851, and by Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina Grimké in 1838, the two wrote up a tract they called " Marriage Protest " and printed a number of copies to hand out at their wedding.

On 23 December 1851, he married Harriet Bradley, the sister of his old school friend George Bradley.

In 1851 he married Frances Harriet Henslow ( 1825 – 1874 ), daughter of John Stevens Henslow.

A year after his first wife Harriet died in 1850, he married Miss Laura Howard, daughter of Dean Howard of the University of Virginia, in 1851.

Harriet Lee ( 1757, London-1 August 1851, Clifton, England ) was a novelist and playwright.

* April Alliston, ‘ Lee, Harriet ( 1757 / 8 – 1851 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 13 November 2006

* Harriet Hoxie, American clipper ship built in 1851

* Harriet Hoxie ( clipper ), 1851 clipper, first whale oil charter from Honolulu

While some scholars agreed by 2009 that John Stuart Mill was the sole author, it is also noted that some of the arguments are similar to Harriet Taylor Mill's essay The Enfranchisement of Women which was published in 1851.

First published in serialized form from 1851 – 52 ( in the abolitionist journal National Era ), and in book form in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe quickly became the best-selling novel of the 19th century ( and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible ).

Governor Gaines ' appointment to the governorship cost him the death of several of his family: two daughters ( Harriet & Florella ) in 1850 in Brazil, his wife ( Elizabeth ) in 1851 in a fall from a horse, at which time his remaining children were sent back to relatives in the east.

Henry Beecher Dierdorff ( January 29, 1851 in Seville, Ohio – January 26, 1935 in Columbus, Ohio ) was an American inventor in the field of mining.

Richard Jackson believes Foster took inspiration from Harriett Beecher Stowe's 1851 bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin, and hoped to exploit its popularity.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.