It continued under the stimulating influence of the discovery of gold in California and Australia in 1848 and 1851, and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

Shortly after the Hiscock's gully gold rush of 1851 following the discovery of gold at Hiscock's, 3 kilometres west of Buninyong ( now Magpie approximately 10 kilometres south of Eureka ), the newly created Victorian colonial government announced in August 1851 that it would charge a licence fee to miners on the crown land.

* 1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.

Schliemann went to California in early 1851 and started a bank in Sacramento buying and reselling over a million dollars of gold dust in just six months.

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.

Melbourne's Chinatown originated during the Victorian gold rush in 1851 when Chinese prospectors joined the rush in search of gold.

The discovery of gold in Australia in 1851 led to an influx of immigrants from all around the world.

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.

In 1851 gold was first discovered in Clunes near Ballarat, and subsequently at Bendigo.

The town greatly benefitted from the 1851 gold rush at Omeo as it was situated on the Port Albert to Omeo route and was an important base for the goldfields, until the arrival of the railways.

In 1851, after the discovery of an important gold strike near today ’ s Yreka, California, thousands of prospectors flooded the area.

In 1851, a group of prospectors moved to the Illinois Valley and made the first discovery of gold in Southern Oregon.

Although plenty of placer gold was found there, gold-bearing quartz deposits were discovered in 1851 and mining those deposits for gold became the mainstay of the local economy for many years.

The discovery of gold at nearby Yreka, California in 1851, dramatically increased traffic along the Siskiyou Trail and through the site of present-day Mount Shasta.

Then in 1851, gold was discovered at nearby Whiskey Run Beach by French Canadian trappers, though the gold rush did not have much of an impact on the area.

Jacksonville was founded following discovery of gold deposits in 1851 – 1852.

The most significant of these, although not the only ones, were the Victorian gold rush in 1851, and the Western Australian gold rushes of the 1890s.

In 1851 Smith learned that the treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota would establish a reservation in the interior of the state, and realized that there would be a rush to develop townsites on the Minnesota side of the river.

Gold was discovered in Victoria in 1851 and the subsequent gold rush led to a huge influx of migrants, with the local population increasing from 29, 000 in 1851 to 139, 916 in 1861 ( Sydney had 93, 686 at the time ).

After news of the 1851 Victorian gold rush reached England, Australia became a very popular destination and the Isaacs decided to emigrate.

The Queen Charlotte Colony was created by the Colonial Office in response to the increase in American marine trading activity resulting from the gold rush on Moresby Island in 1851.

Gold was discovered in 1851 at Rocky River, approximately two kilometres west of Uralla and started a rush to the area.

The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s.

This find was published in the Melbourne Argus on 8 September 1851, leading to a rush to the Mount Alexander or Forest Creek diggings, centred on present-day Castlemaine, claimed as the richest shallow alluvial goldfield in the world.

* 1851 – Beginning of the Victorian gold rush with discovery of gold at Buninyong

At nearby Ophir the first payable discovery of gold in Australia was made in 1851 which led to the Australian gold rush.

Gold was first discovered in the town in 1851 and together, with towns like Bendigo and Ballarat, led the way in gold discoveries during the Victorian gold rush.

A small hamlet known as " Gardiners Creek " ( 1851 Melbourne Postal Directory ) was settled, but it diminished with the gold rush.

Begun in 1851, the work ground to a halt with the beginning of the Victorian gold rush.

But when the gold rush began in Australia in 1851 flocked to the volunteers, and it has been said that as many as 5000 Norwegian-born was in the periods.

He went to San Francisco during the gold rush, arriving in 1851.

The Gold rush era, beginning in 1851, led to an enormous expansion in population, including large numbers of British and Irish settlers, followed by smaller numbers of Germans and other Europeans, and Chinese.

As a result, ever since 1851 when the Senate restaurant opened in the new wing of the Capitol Building, the senators have never ceased to grumble about the food -- even while they opposed every move that might improve it.

As 1851 opened, Louis Napoleon was not allowed by the Constitution of 1848 to seek re-election as President of France.

This was a connecting line opened in October 1851 and running around the city just inside the customs wall, crossing numerous streets and squares at street level, and whose purpose was to allow goods to be transported between the various Berlin stations, thus creating a hated traffic obstruction that lasted for twenty years.

A Swiss-Italian businessman, Carlo Gatti, opened the first ice cream stall outside Charing Cross station in 1851, selling scoops of ice cream in shells for one penny.

In 1851 first scientific organization of Eastern Siberia – the Siberian branch of Russian geographical society, was opened.

In Grass Valley the historic Holbrooke Hotel opened in 1851 and housed Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and four U. S. presidents ( U. S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and James A. Garfield ).

The first YMCA in North America opened in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on 25 November 1851.

The first YMCA in the United States opened on 29 December 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1851, the Cherokee Male Seminary opened in Tahlequah and the Cherokee Female Seminary opened in Park Hill.

The county's first courthouse, built in 1851 at a cost of $ 11, 499. 00, was in use until 1894, when the current Courthouse first opened to the public.

" The area of Scott County, as well as much of southern Minnesota, was opened for settlement by two treaties signed at Mendota and Traverse des Sioux, in 1851 and 1853.

Starting in 1851 it was opened to the public during the month of September.

The first known school to operate at Pea Ridge was the Shelton Academy, opened in 1851 with a Professor Lockhart as teacher.

The first post office opened in 1851.

The first post office opened in Trinidad in 1851.

In time the old name was restored, and the Mariposa post office opened in 1851.

It became official in 1851 when a newly opened post office adopted the name.

The Georges Creek Coal Company had built a railroad from Piedmont to Knapp's Meadow to link the newly opened coal fields with the Eastern city markets by way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which had been extended from Cumberland to Piedmont in 1851.

The name was changed to Long Lake in 1850, and a post office with that name opened on March 6, 1851.

Another post office, named " South Henrietta " opened on September 5, 1851, with Henry Hurd as the first postmaster, and was succeeded by William D. Martin on May 10, 1853.

After the first white settler, Patrick McGlone, arrived in 1851 and opened an inn, the place was known as " McGlone Corners ".

The 1851 Treaty of Traverse de Sioux, signed between the Dakota and the U. S. Government, legally opened the area to white settlers.

In 1851, a treaty opened land west of the Mississippi River to settlement allowing pioneers to settle in what is now Eden Prairie.

The Missouri General Assembly had voted to establish an asylum for the insane in Fulton ( February 26, 1847 ), the first mental health facility west of the Mississippi ; the General Assembly agreed ( February 28, 1851 ) to establish a school for the education of the deaf in Fulton ; in 1842 the Presbyterian Church had opened a female seminary later known as Synodical College ; in the fall of 1851 the Presbyterian Church established the all-male Fulton College, now known as Westminster College ; and Fulton was the seat of county government.