* 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 – 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 )

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

* Isaac Singer ( 1851 – 1863 )

Isaac and Simon Glazier ran the Old Corner Cigar Store from 1851 to 1862, when they moved to San Francisco.

The town was laid out in 1851 by Isaac and John R. Metsker, and the plat map was made by county surveyor Perrin Kent.

* Isaac Hill ( 1788 – 1851 ), NH State Representative, NH State Senator, Comptroller of the United States Treasury in the Andrew Jackson administration, U. S. Senator from NH, and Governor of New Hampshire.

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.

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.

In 1851 Isaac Pierce, a successful " California Gold Rush 49er ," joined forces with Norton ; the two established the firm of Pierce and Norton.

However, his birth certificate ( supported by census data ) shows he was born Barnet Isaacs in the City of London on 21 February 1851, the son of Isaac and Leah Isaacs.

Isaac R. " Cuff " Harrington ( 1789 – 1851 ) was mayor of Buffalo, New York, serving in 1841 – 1842.

Isaac Alfred Fisher ( 12 April 1851 – 19 June 1944 ) was an umpire in one Test match in Australia.

A Singer 1851 sewing machine

John Webb Singer was born in Frome and established his art metal work foundry in 1851.

Frederick Gilbert " Commodore " Bourne ( December 20, 1851 – March 1919 ) was President of the Singer Manufacturing Company between 1889 and 1905.

As long ago as 1851 it was pointed out by Niepce ( 1851 ) that there is a connection between the pituitary and the thyroid.

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 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.

* 1851 – The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.

It is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick ( 1851 – 1924 ), a professor of psychiatry at the German branch of Charles University in Prague.

He is better known, however, for his work as a social researcher, publishing an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle, later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor ( 1851 ), a groundbreaking and influential survey of the poor of London.

A later painting, Keats, at Hampstead, when he first imagined his Ode to a Nightingale ( 1851 ), is also notable.

The history of the Empire in the longue durée is mainly known from the Royal Chronicle or Girgam discovered in 1851 by the German traveller Heinrich Barth.

This experiment is a more precise variation of the famous Fizeau experiment ( 1851 ).

* 1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.

* 1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex ( a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts ) 2, 000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story ).

* 1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

Leicester Secular Society founded in 1851 is the world's oldest secular society.

* 1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Portrait of my sister, Artje, painted in 1851, is numbered opus I, while two months before his death he completed Preparations in the Coliseum, opus CCCCVIII.

The first recorded secular celebration of the Saints Cyril and Methodius Day as the " Day of the Bulgarian script ", as it is traditionally accepted by Bulgarian history, was held in the town of Plovdiv on 11 May 1851, when a local Bulgarian school was named " Saints Cyril and Methodius ", both acts on the initiative of the prominent Bulgarian educator Nayden Gerov, although an Armenian traveller mentioned his visit at the " celebration of the Bulgarian script " in the town of Shumen on 22 May 1803.

The New York Times ( NYT ) is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851.

; 1851: The Great Exhibition ( the first World's Fair ) is held at the Crystal Palace, with great success and international attention.

For example, his method of getting up in the morning incorporates a bed that tips over to wake up its owner, an invention that was exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851 by Theophilus Carter, and is similar to a device sold in Japan that is used to ensure the sleeper awakens on time by inflating a pillow under their normal pillow and rolling the person, thus waking them up.

In 1851 he started his famous exploration of the upper Zambezi River, and in 1855 he became the first European to see Mosi-oa-Tunya, the waterfalls on the Zambezi River, which he named after Queen Victoria, and the Zambian town near the falls is named after him.