1851: Encyclopedia II - 1851 - Events

1851 - Events

• January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
• March 1 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times
• March 27 - First reported case of white men seeing Yosemite Valley.
• March 30 - A population census was taken of all people living in the United Kingdom.
• April 28 - Santa Clara College is chartered in Santa Clara, California.
• May 1 - The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London is opened by Queen Victoria. It runs until October 18.
• May 15 - Rama IV is crowed King of Thailand.
• July - The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played.
• July 1 - Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales.
• July 1 - Serial poisoner Helene Jegado is arrested in Rennes, France
• July 29 - Annibale de Gasparis, in Naples, Italy discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
• August 5 - Mount Pelee erupts and kills 30 people.
• August 22 - The yacht America wins the first America's Cup race.
• September 15 - Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• September 18 - The New York Times is founded.
• October - Reuters news service founded.
• October 18 - The Great Exhibition in London is closed.
• October 24 - Ariel and Umbriel, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Lassell.
• November 13 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.
• November 14 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, by Richard Bentley, London.
• December 2 - Louis Napoleon, president of France, dissolves French National Assembly and declares a new constitution to extend his term. Later he declares himself as an emperor Napoleon III. End of the Second Republic.
• December 6 - Trial of Helene Jegado begins; she is eventually sentenced to death and executed in a guillotine.
• December 9 - The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
• December 24 - The Library of Congress burns.
• December 26-27 - Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos island; Oba Kosoko is wounded and flees to Epe.
• December 29 - The first YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts.

1851 - Undated

• Dictator Rosas overthrown in Brazil. New government recognizes independent Paraguay. New Blanco government in Uruguay
• Florida State University is founded.
• Gold discovered in Australia.
• St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded.
• Macy's department store founded by R.H. Macy.

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