1851

1851 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a of the 12-day-slower ).

January - June

 * - : officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
 * - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in the is named after, or , with  winning.
 * - uses the phrase  in a speech to the  national assembly.
 * - opera Rigoletto is first performed at  in.
 * - First reported case of white men seeing.
 * - A population is taken in the.
 * - is chartered in,.
 * - The  of the Works of Industry of All Nations in, , is opened by . It runs until.
 * Sorority, the first secret society for women, founded at in.
 * is crowned King of.
 * is crowned King of.

July - September

 * -, a famous game, is played.
 * Colony of separates from.
 * Serial poisoner is arrested in ,
 * - is chartered as California Wesleyan College in
 * -, in ,  discovers asteroid.
 * - closes its Reform Constitutional Convention deciding that all white men have the right to vote.
 * - erupts and kills 30 people.
 * - The yacht  wins the first race.
 * - is founded in,.
 * -  is founded.
 * - The Fregatten Eugenies (or the Frigate Eugenie) left from, to begin its voyage as the first  vessel to circumnavigate the world.
 * - The Fregatten Eugenies (or the Frigate Eugenie) left from, to begin its voyage as the first  vessel to circumnavigate the world.

October - December

 * -  founded.
 * - The Great Exhibition in London is closed.
 * - and, s of , discovered by.
 * - The lands at, the first settlers of what will become.
 * - 's novel ; or The Whale is published in the U.S. by,  - after it was first published, on  in  by , in 3 volumes as The Whale.
 * -, president of France, dissolves and declares a new constitution to extend his term. Later he declares himself as an emperor . End of the.
 * - Trial of begins; she is eventually sentenced to death and executed by.
 * - The first  in  is established in.
 * - The burns.
 * - - warship bombards  island;   is wounded and flees to.
 * - The first  opens (in ).

Undated

 * is founded.
 * discovered in by Edward Hargraves
 * is founded.
 * is founded.
 * founded by R.H. Macy.
 * A powerful explosion on the caused copper wires to burn off in some countries.

Ongoing events

 * (1851-)

January - June

 * -, American illustrator (d. )
 * -, Dutch astronomer (d. )
 * -, Argentinian religious pioneer (d. )
 * -, American writer (d. )
 * -, Business Leader (d. )
 * -, French composer and teacher (d. )
 * -, Portuguese President (d. )
 * -, American surgeon (d. )
 * -, Scottish golfer (d. )
 * -, French geologist (d. )
 * -, French cabaret singer and comedian (d. )
 * -, telephone and recording pioneer (d. )
 * -, French statesman, recipient of the (d. )

July - December

 * -, German legal philosopher(d. )
 * -, Argentinian author (d. )
 * -, Czechoslovakian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. )
 * -, German mathematician (d. )
 * -, American gambler and gunfighter (d. )
 * -, American politician (d. )
 * -, French commander of allied forces in World War I (d. )
 * -, English suffragist and socialist (d. )
 * -, American businessman and politician (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, Prussian field marshal (b. )
 * -, French-American naturalist and illustrator (b. )
 * -, Congressman from Texas (b. )
 * -, English author (b. )
 * -, German mathematician (b. )
 * -, Scottish poetess and dramatist (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, Danish scientist (b. )

July - December

 * -, American educator (b. )
 * -, American nutritionist and inventor (b. )
 * -, American writer (b. )
 * -, Spanish statesman (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, French marshal and politician (b. )
 * -, English artist (b. )
 * date unknown -, Abolitionist (b. )


 * See also .