Writing in " Eine Mitteilung an meine Freunde " (" A Communication to my Friends ") in 1851, Wagner claimed that Der fliegende Holländer represented a new start for him: " From here begins my career as poet, and my farewell to the mere concoctor of opera-texts.

* Andrew K. Hay ( 1809 – 1881 ), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1849 to 1851.

* Nathan T. Stratton ( 1813 – 1887 ), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855.

* Nathan T. Stratton ( 1813-1887 ), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855.

* James G. King ( 1791 – 1853 ), businessman and politician who represented from 1849 to 1851.

* Nathan T. Stratton ( 1813 – 1887 ), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855.

* Samuel Fowler ( 1851 – 1919 ), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1893 – 1895.

* Rodman M. Price ( 1816 – 1894 ), represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 – 1853, and served as the 17th Governor of New Jersey, from 1854 to 1857.

* Charles Skelton ( 1806 – 1879 ), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855.

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.

From 1851 to 1860 he represented his country in Florence.

In 1851 he obtained a seat in the British House of Commons, where he represented, first Aylesbury until 1859, then Wolverhampton for the next two years.

In 1851, this had a population of only 4, 800, but even that represented great growth necessitating division of the parish.

It and its rival, the Liberals have alternated in power since responsible government was granted in 1851 and are the only two parties represented in the PEI Legislative Assembly.

He represented Arundel from 1851 to 1852 and Nottingham from 1852 to 1856.

Newcastle was returned to Parliament for South Nottinghamshire in 1832, a seat he held until 1846, and then represented Falkirk Burghs until 1851, when he succeeded his father in the dukedom.

The Lipps – Meyer law, named for Theodor Lipps ( 1851 – 1914 ) and Max F. Meyer ( 1873 – 1967 ), hypothesizes that the closure of melodic intervals is determined by " whether or not the end tone of the interval can be represented by the number two or a power of two ", in the frequency ratio between notes ( see octave ).

The district ( and its predecessors ) has been in Republican hands continuously since 1871, and some parts of the district have not been represented by a Democrat since 1851.

He represented Vermont in the U. S. Congress from 1847 to 1851.

He represented Georgia in the U. S. Congress from 1843 to 1851.

He represented New York in the United States House of Representatives for two terms ( 1847 – 1851 ).

James Gore King ( May 8, 1791, New York City-October 3, 1853, Weehawken, New Jersey ) was an American businessman and Whig Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1849 to 1851.

He represented several constituencies in the House of Commons and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1851.

He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1851, and then represented Wairarapa on the Wellington Provincial Council from 1858 to 1865.

The Cocheco Railroad was chartered in 1847 and opened in 1849 and 1851, running from the B & M in Dover to Alton Bay, New Hampshire.

The town would be connected by railroad to Dover in 1849, the line extended to Alton Bay in 1851.

After seeing a corrugated iron cottage at the Great Exhibition of 1851, Prince Albert ordered a pre-fabricated iron building for Balmoral from E. T. Bellhouse & Co., to serve as a temporary ballroom and dining room.

* December 4 – Charles Dow, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company ( b. 1851 )

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

With the arrival of the Kennebec & Portland Railroad in 1851, Augusta became an even more productive mill town.

* Charles Dow ( 1851 – 1902 ), founder of Dow Jones & Co

* Ellen Pontifex ( born ca. 1831 ; housemaid of Theobald and Christina ; pregnant by John the coachman & married him 15 August 1851 ; separated ; married bigamously to Ernest late 1850s ; annulled 1862 ).

Soon came the establishment of the B & B foundry in 1847, the delivery of its first steam engine in 1848, the renting of the Jacob Holm Shipyard at the ' Englishman's Place ' in 1851, and the delivery of their first ship S / S Hermod in 1854, before Baumgarten retired from regular duties in 1861.

The V & A has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, with which Henry Cole, the museum's first director, was involved in planning ; initially it was known as the Museum of Manufactures, first opening in May 1852 at Marlborough House, but by September had been transferred to Somerset House.

The building, built on land acquired for " educational purposes " by the commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and next to another of Science and Art Department's projects the South Kensington Museum ( later the V & A ), had originally been intended to be a new school of naval architecture.

Tile, 1845 – 1851, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin V & A Museum no.

In 1848, the Montgomery & West Point Railroad Company extended a rail line from Montgomery, Alabama to Opelika, and in 1851 completed a connection to West Point, Georgia, thus connecting Opelika with Atlanta, Georgia.

* Charles Dow ( 1851 – 1902 ), journalist and founder of the Dow Jones & Company was born in Sterling.

In 1851, the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad Company built the first rail line through the city, and by 1852 the first passenger train passed through town.

In 1851, the Scrantons founded the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ( DL & W ) to transport iron and coal products from the Lackawanna valley.

The original main line of the Baltimore and Ohio ( B & O ) Railroad reached the site of Piedmont on July 21, 1851, and in 1853 connected Baltimore, Maryland, and the Ohio River at Wheeling, then ( like Piedmont ) in Virginia, and now in West Virginia.

In 1851 the Boardmans sold the sawmill to Hannah, Lay & Co ( Perry Hannah, Albert Tracy Lay and James Morgan ), who improved the mill greatly.

By 1838, the Spen Valley, centred around Cleckheaton had at least 11 card clothing factories and by 1893 it was generally accepted as the card cloth capital of the world, though by 2008 only two manufacturers of metallic and flexible card clothing remained in England, Garnett Wire Ltd dating back to 1851 and Joseph Sellers & Son Ltd established in 1840.

* March 31-Mabel Collins, British theosophist & author ( born 1851 )

By James Braid, M. R. C. S., Edinburgh, C. M. W. S., & c. & c .", Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 76, No. 188, ( 1 July 1851 ), pp. 239 – 248.

Edinburgh, & c. & c. ( Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, Manchester, March 26, 1851 )", The Monthly Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 12, ( June 1851 ), pp. 511 – 530.