* Rigoletto, 11 March 1851

Twenty arrived in November 1849 and 46 arrived in March 1851.

# Gorham Dummer Abbott ( born March 29, 1851 )

From December 1851 to March 1852 Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, a work on the French Revolution of 1848, in which he expanded upon his concepts of historical materialism, class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat, advancing the argument that victorious proletariat has to smash the bourgeois state.

In the U. S., the use of postage stamps caught on quickly and became more widespread when on March 3, 1851, the last day of its legislative session, Congress passed the Act of March 3, 1851 ( An Act to reduce and modify the Rates of Postage in the United States ).

* March 18 – William Elbridge Sewell, American naval officer and Governor of Guam ( b. 1851 )

* March 12 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician ( b. 1851 )

* March 20 – Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces in World War I ( b. 1851 )

* March 7 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon ( b. 1851 )

* March 11 – Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer ( b. 1851 )

* March 4 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist ( d. 1851 )

* March 29 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal ( d. 1851 )

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

While the members of that first expedition of the Mariposa Battalion had heard rumours of what could be found up the Merced River, none were prepared for what they saw March 27, 1851 from what is now called Old Inspiration Point ( close to the better visited Tunnel View ).

Named for Hans Christian Ørsted ( often rendered Oersted in English ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851 ), a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism.

" Treaty negotiations ensued during the period between March 19, 1851 and January 7, 1852, during which the Commission interacted with 402 Indian chiefs and headmen ( representing approximately one-third to one-half of the California tribes ) and entered into eighteen treaties.

California Senator William M. Gwin's Act of March 3, 1851 created the Public Land Commission, whose purpose was to determine the validity of Spanish and Mexican land grants in California.

It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.

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.

* Emanuele Alberto Guerrieri ( 16 March 1851 – 1894 ), Count of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda, married and had issue.

He was then elected to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses ( March 4, 1851 – March 4, 1855 ).

Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.

# Sofie ( 10 March 1485, Ansbach – 24 May 1537, Liegnitz ), married on 14 November 1518 to Duke Frederick II of Legnica.

# Frederick ( b. Dresden, 15 March 1504 – d. Dresden, 26 February 1539 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 27 January 1539 to Elisabeth of Mansfeld.

* John George, Duke of Jägerndorf ( 16 December 1577 – 2 March 1624 ) married Eva Christina of Württemberg ( 1590-1657 ), daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg and Sibylla of Anhalt.

* John Frederick of Brandenburg ( 18 August 1607 – 1 March 1608 ).

In March, Frederick crowned himself in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but because of his excommunication and the interdict Jerusalem was never truly reincorporated into the kingdom, which continued to be ruled from Acre.

In March 1848, Prussia faced a revolution ( one of the revolutions of 1848 in various European nations ), which completely overwhelmed King Frederick William IV.

After the death of Emperor Henry VI, who had recently also conquered the Kingdom of Sicily, the succession became disputed: as Henry's son Frederick was still a small child, the partisans of the Staufen dynasty elected Henry ’ s brother, Philip, Duke of Swabia, king in March 1198, whereas the princes opposed to the Staufen dynasty elected Otto, Duke of Brunswick, of the House of Welf.

The city became the centre of the German Liberation movement against Napoleon, and the gathering place for volunteers from all over Germany, with the Iron Cross military decoration founded by Frederick William III of Prussia in early March 1813.

* March 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1998 )

* March 10 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier ( b. 1826 )

* March 9 – Frederick III is crowned German Emperor.

* March 8 – George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero ( d. 1904 )

* March 13 – Upon the death of Christian VII, Frederick VI becomes king of Denmark.

* March 3 – John Frederick, Elector of Saxony ( b. 1503 )

* March 28 – King Frederick III of Denmark ( d. 1670 )

* March – The Frankfurt Parliament completes its drafting of a liberal constitution and elects Frederick William IV emperor of the new German national state.

* March 31 – King Frederick V of Denmark ( d. 1766 )

* March 25 – King Frederick I of Sweden ( b. 1676 )

* March 31 – Frederick, Prince of Wales ( b. 1707 )

* March 4 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.

* March 18 – Sixth Crusade: Frederick II crowns himself King of Jerusalem.

* March 25 – Frederick of Bohemia

Frederick Seitz ( July 4, 1911 – March 2, 2008 ) was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics.