1851 - What happened in 1851 ?

March 1851

Thursday 27:

First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.

May 1851

Thursday 01:

The Great Exhibition opens in London.

Thursday 15:

Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.

June 1851

Thursday 05:

Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

July 1851

Tuesday 29:

Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.

August 1851

Tuesday 12:

Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine

Friday 22:

The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

September 1851

Thursday 18:

The New-York Daily Times, which will become The New York Times, begins publishing.

October 1851

Saturday 18:

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

November 1851

Sunday 09:

Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

Thursday 13:

The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.

Friday 14:

after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.

December 1851

Tuesday 02:

Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte violently overthrows the Second Republic.

Tuesday 09:

First YMCA in North America established in Montreal, Quebec

Monday 22:

The first freight train is operated in Roorkee in India.

Wednesday 24:

Library of Congress burns.

Monday 29:

The first American-based YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts