Fontane's Gedichte ( 1851 ) and ballads Männer und Helden ( 1860 ) tell of Britain's former glories.

Three years later the first nine miles ( 14 km ) or so of this line, the stretch from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom, was superseded by a more viable section linking Six Mile Bottom directly with Cambridge, and so the Great Chesterford-Six Mile Bottom section closed in 1851, one of the earliest closures in British railway history ( the former Bourne Bridge station is believed to have been partly incorporated into a public house just across the road from a station opened later on another line-Pampisford, on the now-closed Cambridge-Haverhill-Sudbury route ).

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.

* Northwestern University-Created in 1851 to serve the people of the former Northwest Territory

In 1851, Governor FitzRoy officially named the town " Grafton ", after his grandfather, the Duke of Grafton, a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

He wrote two letters to his former teacher von Siebold in May and August 1851 describing his findings.

In 1849 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and in 1851 was made Solicitor General for England and Wales and knighted, vacating the former position in 1852.

It was not until 1961 that the population of Somerton had risen above its former population in 1851, over a century ago.

* Margherita of Savoy, former Queen Consort of Italy and wife of Umberto I ( 1851 – 1926 )

* Juan Gualberto González ( 1851 – 1912 ), former president of Paraguay

Together with his wife, Margaret Gordon the grand daughter of former Governor Walter Patterson, Bannerman returned to the colony of her birth, when he took up the appointment in 1851 as governor of Prince Edward Island.

H. James Palmer ( August 26, 1851 – December 22, 1939 ) was the 11th Premier of Prince Edward Island and the son of former colonial Premier Edward Palmer.

Rather than demolishing the shops in Dunkirk, the facility was leased to Horatio G. Brooks, the former chief engineer of the NY & E who was at the controls of the first train into Dunkirk in 1851.

In 1851 he would purchase the former Jesuit estate of Hacienda de San Pedro de Macati, which would become the future basis of the Zobel de Ayala Family wealth.

His father was an innkeeper and former member of the Virginia General Assembly who was elected Clerk of Court of Morgan County in 1851.

Upon his return to Barcelona, he was named director of the Queen's Regimental Band in 1851 and travelled with them to Cuba where he met and befriended Antonio López de Santa Anna, the former Mexican president.

The hierarchy was restored in 1850 by Pope Pius IX, and the Western District was created the Diocese of Clifton, so-called because the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 made it illegal for Catholic dioceses to use the same title as current or former Anglican dioceses, despite the fact that the Diocese of Clifton had its Cathedral Church within the City of Bristol.

Originally founded as the Koyōsha by Hiraoka Kotarō ( 1851 – 1906 ), a wealthy ex-samurai and mine-owner, with mining interests in Manchuria, Toyama Mitsuru, and other former samurai of the Fukuoka Domain, it agitated for a return to the old feudal Japanese order with special privileges and government stipends for the samurai class.

In 1851, legislation introduced by Jefferson Davis, senator from Mississippi and former secretary of war as well as a graduate from West Point, was enacted by Congress and funds were appropriated for the creation of the United States Soldiers ’ Home.

Coming to the city's rescue was Horatio G. Brooks ( 1828 – 1887 ), the former chief engineer of the NY & E who was at the controls of the first train into Dunkirk in 1851.

Bellevue, the Cunard mansion which dates from 1851, is extant ( now Cunard Hall ) as is the neighboring former hotel for visitors which also dates from the 19th century ( initially named North Hall and is now Reynolds House ).

Substantial development began soon afterwards, and housing began to spread up the hillside overlooking the estuary a former gunpowder magazine being closed down in 1851.

It forms the meeting point between the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Haringey and includes the location of the former Colney Hatch Asylum on Friern Barnet Road, opened in 1851.

As for the former days of the last Trentham Hall built in the 1830s, William White wrote 1851: " Trentham Hall is the principal residence of the Most Noble George Granville Leveson Gower, Duke of Sutherland, Marquess of Stafford, Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, and Hereditary Sheriff of Sutherland.

* 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

In the excitement following the rescue and safe transport of fugitive slave William " Jerry " Henry in Syracuse on October 1, 1851, Frances wrote to her husband, " two fugitives have gone to Canada — one of them our acquaintance John.

On September 11, 1851, Christiana was the site of the Battle of Christiana ( also called the Christiana riot ), in which the local residents defended with firearms a fugitive slave, killing the slaveowner.

He served as counsel in 1851 in the trials that arose out of the forcible rescue of the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins from the custody of the United States Marshal in Boston.

An April 24, 1851 poster warning colored people in Boston about policemen acting as slave catchers.

In 1851, the Neale farmhouse burned to the ground ( an escaped family slave was suspected of setting the blaze ).

From 1849 to 1853, Devens was United States Marshal for Massachusetts, in which capacity he was called upon in 1851 to remand the fugitive slave, Thomas Sims, to slavery.

* North Star ( anti-slavery newspaper ), an anti-slavery newspaper published from 1847 – 1851 by the escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass

* Shadrach Minkins ( 1815 ?- 1875 ), American-born fugitive slave rescued from federal custody in Boston in 1851.

In 1851, Fairbank helped a slave named Tamar escape from Kentucky to Indiana.

* Christiana incident ( or riot ), 1851, an armed intervention by local citizens in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to save a fugitive slave

In 1851 the return of a fugitive slave from Boston back to the southern states caused her to say of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that the United States had " committed an atrocious act ... against humanity, against itself, against God.

In 1851 Kelsey married Thomas Peake, a freed slave who worked in the merchant marine.

In 1851, Sojourner Truth attended a convention and extemporaneously delivered the original " Ain't I a Woman?

When the Ohio Women's Rights Convention came to Akron in 1851, Sojourner Truth extemporaneously delivered her speech named Ain't I A Woman ?, at the Universalist Old Stone Church.

In 1851, Sojourner Truth addressed women ’ s rights issues through her publication, “ Ain ’ t I a Woman .” Sojourner Truth addressed the issue of women having limited rights due to men's flawed perception of women.