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

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.

Sir Arthur John Evans FRS ( 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941 ) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

For example, several of the battles that Edward Shepherd Creasy listed in his famous 1851 book The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World rate hardly a mention here, and the confrontation between Muslims and Christians at Poitiers-Tours in 732, once considered a watershed event, has been downgraded to a raid in force.

George Caleb Bingham's Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap ( 1851 – 52 ) is a famous depiction of Boone.

However, it was with his religious paintings that he became famous, initially The Light of the World ( 1851 – 1853, now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford ; a later version ( 1900 ) toured the world and now has its home in St Paul's Cathedral.

Gomersal had quite a number of places of worship given the size of population, including Gomersal St Mary C of E Church ( 1851 ), the Methodist Wesleyan Chapel, Latham Lane 1827 ( the famous Pork Pie Chapel ) the Grove Congregational Chapel in Oxford Road, the Methodist Free United chapel ( off Reform Street ), the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Moor Lane, and the Moravian Chapel in Little Gomersal.

Karl Lachmann ( 1793 – 1851 ) greatly contributed to making this method famous, even though he did not invent it ( see Timpanaro, The genesis of Lachmann's method ).

For example, one year before their famous experiment of 1887, Michelson and Morley ( 1886 ) performed a repeat of the Fizeau experiment of 1851, replacing Fizeau's setup with an even-reflection Sagnac interferometer of such high stability, that even placing a lighted match in the light path did not cause artifactual fringe displacement.

With Friedrich August Ukert ( 1780 – 1851 ) he founded the famous historical collection, Geschichte der europäischen Staaten ( Gotha, 1819 seq.

* Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ( Mary Shelley ) ( 1797 – 1851 ), most famous for her novel Frankenstein, was born at 29 Polygon Square

The stereoscope was improved by Jules Duboscq who made stereoscopes and stereoscopic daguerreotypes, and a famous picture of Queen Victoria that was displayed at The Great Exhibition in 1851.

Other famous examples include Shadrach Minkins in 1851 and Lucy Bagby in 1861, whose forcible return in 1861 has been cited by historians as important and " allegorical.

Among his publications were the famous Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor ( 1828 ), which shows his gifts as a humorist, Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine ( 1831 ), and Sketch of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half Century ( 1851 ).

His most famous painting, ' The Monarch of the Glen ' ( 1851 ), is said to have been created at Stoke Poges with the deer in the park used as models.

In 1851 former slave Sojourner Truth gave a famous speech, called " Ain't I a Woman ?," at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio.

Daniel Leavitt was the subject of a famous lawsuit after producing a transitional revolver in 1851 with an identical loading lever to the Colt Dragoon.

Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães, 2nd Baron de Vila Nova de Famalicao, (; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 28 March 1851 – Porto, Portugal, 29 April 1944 ), was a famous Portuguese political figure, the third and eighth President of Portugal ( 1915 – 17, 1925 – 26 ).

His famous works included Lectures on Tumours ( 1851 ) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology ( 1853 ).

In December 1851 he made his first appearance in Pencil and, after nine years of steady work, was called to a seat at the famous table.

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.

He was the brother of the famous physicist Hans Christian Ørsted ( 1777 – 1851 ), and uncle of the botanist Anders Sandøe Ørsted ( 1816 – 1872 ).

He sang his own songs, as they were composed, at the workmens ' concerts in the Salle de la Fraternité du Faubourg Saint-Denis ; the public performance of his famous " Le Pain " was forbidden ; " Le Chant des ouvriers " was even more popular ; and in 1851 he paid the penalty of having become the poet laureate of the socialistic aspirations of the time by being condemned to seven years of exile from France.

He exhibited at the Society of British Artists in 1849, at the Academy in 1851, and in 1855 gained the enthusiastic praise of John Ruskin for, ‘ The Moorland ’, which was painted in illustration of a famous passage in ‘ Locksley Hall ’.

In 1850 and 1851 Pablo Fanque, the popular black equestrian and circus owner ( immortalised later in The Beatles ' song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Items from the Royal Collection lost included the Sir William Beechey equestrian portrait George III at a Review, which was too large to remove from its frame ; a large late 1820s sideboard by Morel and Seddon ( 18 feet long ); several pieces of porcelain ; several chandeliers ; as well as the Willis organ ; and the 1851 Great Exhibition Axminster carpet partly burnt.

* A statue by John Henry Foley was shown at the 1851 Great Exhibition and later donated to the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon where it now stands.

A statue of General Nott was erected in his home town of Carmarthen in 1851.

From 1851 the statue is kept in the Kraków Archeological Museum, however its copies are available in the Moscow Historical Museum, the Ternopil Regional Museum, and the Pochaiv Museum of Atheism.

Following a shipwreck in 1851, when the ship's figurehead washed up in the Devil's Hole, a statue of a devil adapted from the figurehead was set up above the Hole.

* 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.

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.

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.

* 1851 – Empress Myeongseong, first official wife of Korean King Gojong ( d. 1895 )

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

Action was also taken against African leaders who refused to agree to British treaties to outlaw the trade, for example against " the usurping King of Lagos ", deposed in 1851.

***** HM The Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, King Ernst August I of Hanover ( 1771 – 1851 )

Though originally ruled by the Kingdom of Dahomey, in 1851 the French made a treaty with the Dahomean King Ghezo that allowed them to establish a trading post at Cotonou.

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

Arthedain was not badly affected by the Great Plague and it can be guessed that warfare with Angmar resumed in earnest sometime after 1800, with mention being made of a victory gained in 1851 by King Araval ( r. 1813 – 1891 ), although sources for the Kingdom's history are sketchy until the beginning of the 20th century of the Third Age.

Between 1848 and 1851, the policies of King Ferdinand caused many to go into exile.

His father was the eldest son and heir of King George I of Greece ( 1845 – 1913 ) and his wife Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia ( 1851 – 1926 ); his mother was the daughter of Emperor Frederick III of Germany ( 1831 – 1888 ) and his wife Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom ( 1840 – 1901 ).

Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthramaha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua (), or Rama IV, known in foreign countries as King Mongkut ( 18 October 18041 October 1868 ), was the fourth monarch of Siam ( Thailand ) under the House of Chakri, ruling from 1851 – 1868.

Prince Chutamani was crowned in 1851 as King Pinklao.

After his twenty-seven years of pilgrimage, King Mongkut ascended the throne in 1851, aged 47.

* Constance Marilyn Wilson, State and Society in the Reign of King Mongkut, 1851 – 1868: Thailand on the Eve of Modernization, Ph.

Ernest Augustus I ( 5 June 1771 – 18 November 1851 ) was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death.

* The Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale ( 1771 – 1851 ), fifth son of George III, became King of Hanover in 1837

The Crown Prince succeeded his father as the King of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, as well as Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and Earl of Armagh, in the Peerage of Ireland, on 18 November 1851, assuming the style George V.

* 18 November 1851 – 12 June 1878: His Majesty The King of Hanover

Samuel Ward King ( May 23, 1786 – January 20, 1851 ) was the 15th Governor of Rhode Island from 1839 to 1843.

Empress Myeongseong ( 19 October 1851 – 8 October 1895 ), also known as Queen Min, was the first official wife of King Gojong, the twenty-sixth king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea.