Discovery of gold nuggets at the site of present-day Yreka in 1851 brought thousands of gold-seekers up the Siskiyou Trail and throughout California's northern counties.

The Maryland Constitution of 1851 lengthened the Governor's term of office from three to four years, which brought elections for Governor in line with elections for Federal offices that occur only in even years.

Higbee, born in Ohio and brought to Adams Township as a child, did, indeed, lay out a town he called Millwood on land adjacent to the district school ( built 1851 ) on the state road.

By working together eight families managed to bring in the first successful crop in 1851 using water brought down from Bingham Creek by what was later called Gardner ’ s Millrace.

The son was brought up as Reuben G. Walker in the Brighton household of Frances Walker ( 1841 and 1851 census, apparently born ca. 1836 ).

The three English artists credited with establishing watercolor as an independent, mature painting medium are Paul Sandby ( 1730 – 1809 ), often called " the father of the English watercolor ", Thomas Girtin ( 1775 – 1802 ), who pioneered its use for large format, romantic or picturesque landscape painting, and Joseph Mallord William Turner ( 1775 – 1851 ), who brought watercolor painting to the highest pitch of power and refinement and created with it hundreds of superb historical, topographical, architectural and mythological paintings.

He edited Procopius for Niebuhr's Corpus of the Byzantine writers, and between 1846 and 1851 brought out at Oxford an important edition of Demosthenes ; he also edited Lucian and Josephus for the Didot classics, while his work on Homeric scholarship is represented by his four-volume edition of the Homeric scholia.

This achievement brought him the reputation that secured his election as successor to Louis Jacques Thénard in the chair of chemistry at the faculty of sciences in Paris, and in 1851 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the College de France, where he had M. P. E.

He had previously been called on to clear himself from charges of heterodoxy brought against him in the Quarterly Review ( 1851 ) and had been acquitted by a committee of inquiry.

Exhibition at the 1850 – 1851 Paris Salon created an " explosive reaction " and brought Courbet instant fame.

The discovery of gold in 1851 at Yreka ( and throughout Siskiyou and Trinity counties ) brought California Gold Rush-era prospectors up the rivers of the region in search of gold, leading to the first non-Native American settlements in the area, including at Old Shasta, Portuguese Flat, Upper Soda Springs, Weaverville, and Yreka itself.

Major Thomas ( Broken-Hand ) Fitzpatrick, from Cavan, Indian Agent to the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes brought peace to the Plains Indians of North America in 1851 at Fort Laramie.

By 1851, new species of trees were brought in: chestnuts from Gorj County, walnuts from Dâmboviţa County, and other plants from places such as Vienna and Braşov.

The revolution caused by the discovery of gold in 1851, brought more ministers and a vastly increased population.

Gold discoveries in Victoria in 1851 brought a severe labour shortage due to the exodus of workers leaving to seek their fortunes on the goldfields.

The American freighter Auckland picked up seventeen survivors from the sea, who might have been the first Japanese people to set foot on California when they were brought to San Francisco in February 1851, although Hasekura Tsunenaga had earlier sailed past Cape Mendocino.

In 1851 George Hennet was given permission to build a coal depot at St Thomas from where he could distribute coal, brought by train from his quay at Teignmouth.

In 1849 he founded the Urwählerzeitung, in which ( in 1851 ) he published some ultra-democratic articles which brought about his imprisonment.

When the Russian Imperial Navy brought the first steamships into the land-locked Aral Sea, the local Governor-General Vasily Perovsky ordered the commander of Fort Aralsk to collect " as large as possible supply " of saxaul wood ( Anabasis saxaul, in the source ) for use by the new steamships on their maiden navigation of 1851.

In 1850 the second model was brought to the Robbins & Lawrence Company of Windsor, Vermont where the Model 1851 was developed for mass production.

The railway brought tourists, and as early as 1851 the Lord Mayor of London stayed at the Seacote Hotel.

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

Until the mid-19th century, the Museum's collections were relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff of Augustus Wollaston Franks to curate the collections, the Museum began for the first time to collect British and European medieval antiquities, prehistory, branching out into Asia and diversifying its holdings of ethnography.

Young took out a patent on his process and the resulting products in 1850, and built the first truly commercial oil-works in the world at Bathgate in 1851, using oil extracted from locally mined torbanite, shale, and bituminous coal.

After a heated argument in Bismarck's office Wilhelm, whom Bismarck had allowed to see a letter from Tsar Alexander III describing him as a " badly brought-up boy ", stormed out, after first ordering the rescinding of the Cabinet Order of 1851, which had forbidden Prussian Cabinet Ministers to report directly to the King of Prussia, requiring them instead to report via the Prime Minister.

" As to his " short-sightedness ", Engels admitted as much in a letter written to Joseph Weyedemeyer on June 19, 1851 in which he says he was not worried about being selected for the Prussian military because of " my eye trouble, as I have now found out once and for all which renders me completely unfit for active service of any sort.

When Louis Bonaparte carried out a coup against the French government and made himself president for life on December 2, 1851, Marx and Engels, like many people, were shocked.

" In November 1851 Bache went to live with Mellon, who was then living in London, and in 1852 was given a contract by Addison, Hollier and Lucas to write light piano pieces ; he turned out these works in considerable numbers.

Rigoletto premiered on 11 March 1851 to a sold out La Fenice as the first part of a double bill with Giacomo Panizza's ballet Faust.

The Falmouth Packet Service operated out of Falmouth for over 160 years between 1689 and 1851.

The town was platted and laid out on the east side of the Wabash and Erie Canal by John Perkins in 1851.

William Conner and Josiah Polk laid out what is now downtown Noblesville in 1823, which was designated as the Hamilton County seat in 1824 and in corporated in 1851.

On January 8, 1851 John Pleak and Marquis L. Smith, laid out the town of Sidney, which is the predecessor to Argos.

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

It was named for Robert Campbell, who laid out the streets in 1851.

Winona was settled by non-Native Americans in 1851, and the town was laid out into lots in 1852-3 with growth expanding rapidly over the years.

Graham was laid out in 1849 as the county seat of the newly formed Alamance County, and was incorporated as a town in 1851 ; it became a city in 1961.

In 2008, St. Charles reports it had the largest number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists per capita in the Columbus Metro Area ( 10 out of a total enrollment of 621 ), and was second overall only to Upper Arlington High School, an excellent public school in the neighboring city of Upper Arlington ( 18 out of a total enrollment of 1851 ).

In March 1851 the township of Cuyahoga Falls was created out of the village limits.

On 2 December 1851 Louis Napoleon — who had been elected President of France in 1848 — carried out a coup d ' état by dissolving the National Assembly and arresting the leading Republicans.

In 1851, Victoria County was formed out of the northeastern part of Cape Breton County and a year later, in 1852, the present boundaries of Cape Breton County were defined by the colonial government in Halifax.

After practicing his profession for some years, he became commissioner of the Court of Requests, and after the creation in 1851 of the colony of Victoria, out of the Port Phillip district of New South Wales, was the first Solicitor-General, with a seat in the Legislative Council and a member of the Executive Council.

" 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.