* 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 )

The most significant figure of the era, however, was General José María Urbina, who first came to power in 1851 through a coup d ' état, remained in the presidency until 1856, and then continued to dominate the political scene until 1860.

In 1851, the Argentinian caudillo Justo José de Urquiza turned against Rosas and signed a pact with the exiled Unitarios, the Uruguayan Colorados and Brazil against him.

Slapped with fresh embargoes and a joint blockade, Argentina by 1851 found itself bankrupt and with " rogue nation " standing ; on 3 February 1852, a surprise military campaign led by the Governor of Entre Ríos Province, Justo José de Urquiza, put an end to the Rosas regime and, until 1878, at least, serious Argentine foreign policy misadventures.

** José Joaquim Lopes de Lima ( Comissário Régio ) – 1851 – 1852

Gaspar Villate ( 1851 – 1891 ) produced abundant and wide-ranging work, all centered on opera .< sup > p239 </ sup > José White ( 1836 – 1918 ), a mulatto of a Spanish father and an Afrocuban mother, was a composer and a violinist of international merit.

The first Bayamesa was composed in 1851 by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and José Fornaris at the request of their friend Francisco Castillo Moreno, who is sometimes also credited with the lyrics.

José Mariano Martín Buenaventura Ignacio Nepomuceno García de Arista Nuez ( 26 July 1802 – 7 August 1855 ) was a noted veteran of many of Mexico's nineteenth-century wars who served as president of Mexico from 15 January 1851 to 6 January 1853.

In 1851, Arista succeeded José Joaquín de Herrera as president and sought to bring fiscal stability to the nation.

* José Laureano Pineda Ugarte: 5 May 1851-4 August 1851

* José Laureano Pineda Ugarte ( in dissidence ): 5 August 1851-11 August 1851

* José Francisco del Montenegro ( acting, in rebellion ): 5 August 1851-11 August 1851

* José de Jesús Alfaro ( in rebellion ): 11 August 1851-2 November 1851

* José Laureano Pineda Ugarte ( in rebellion from 2 November 1851 ): 11 November 1851-1 April 1853

* José Miguel Carrera Fontecilla ( 1821 – 1860 ), leader of the Chilean Civil War of 1851

José Rafael Carrera Turcios ( 24 October 1814 Guatemala City – 14 April 1865 Guatemala City ) was the ruler of Guatemala from 1844 to 1848 and from 1851 until his death in 1865.

Graced by a mansion of an eclectic, Neogothic-inspired style, the main house was commissioned by Miguel José de Azcuénaga in 1851 and designed by renowned local artist and architect Prilidiano Pueyrredón.

She had an affair with a provisional intendant, Rodulfo Gautier and on November 12, 1851 bore him her first child, José Gautier Benítez who was to become a famous poet, out of wedlock in the City of Caguas, Puerto Rico.

José Gautier Benítez ( April 12, 1851 – January 24, 1880 ) is considered by some to be Puerto Rico's best poet of the Romantic Era.

José Jacques established the first white settlement on the river in 1851.

# Pedro José García, 1850 – 1851

* José Maria de Yermo y Parres ( 1851 – 1904 )

Facundo and Amalia went on to have a number of children, many of whom would play important parts in building the rum business for which the family became famous: Emilio was born in 1844, Juan in 1846, Facundo Jr. in 1848, María in 1851, José in 1857, and Amalia Jr. in 1861.

He was Minister of War on December 1850 and was defeated at the Battle of Sitio in San José La Arada on February 1851.

In the middle of the 19th century José Mármol published the first Argentine novel, Amalia ( 1851 – 1852 ), a historical novel set during the dark year of 1840 which mixed fictional characters ( Amalia, Daniel Bello, Eduardo Belgrano ) with actual historical characters like Juan Manuel de Rosas.