Historical Events In 1851

Jan 01   City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line on this day in history.  

Jan 09   Giuseppi Gallignani, composer in the year 1851.  

Jan 12   Johan Herman Koekkoek, painter, dies at 72 in the year 1851.  

Jan 14   On this day in history theophile EA de Bock, Dutch painter/etcher/drawer  

Jan 15   Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera on this day in history.  

Jan 15   General Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera in the year 1851.  

Jan 19   On this day in history david Starr Jordan, NY, biologist/university pres (Leland Stanford)  

Jan 21   Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

Jan 24   On this day in history gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76  

Jan 25   Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar) on this day in history.  

Jan 25   Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) in the year 1851.  

Jan 25   Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) in the year 1851.  

Jan 27   John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65 on this day in history.  

Jan 27   Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega) in the year 1851.  

Jan 28   Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered on this day in history.  

Jan 31   Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk in the year 1851.  

Jan 31   In Hamilton Ontario Hamilton Gas Light Company installs first lamps on this day in history.  

Jan 31   San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California founded on this day in history.  

Feb 01   On this day in history anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies.  

Feb 01   In the year 1851 death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein.  

Feb 01   On this day in history mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53.  

Feb 01   On this day in history mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53  

Feb 03   Johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies in the year 1851.  

Feb 06   On this day in history robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Düsseldorf  

Feb 06   On this day in history robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf  

Feb 08   Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist on this day in history.  

Feb 11   1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston on this day in history.  

Feb 11   First cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs Victoria, Launceston on this day in history.  

Feb 15   Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave in the year 1851.  

Feb 15   On this day in history black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave  

Feb 16   Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95 on this day in history.  

Feb 20   Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81 in the year 1851.  

Feb 22   On this day in history the Kirkwood runs aground in New Jersey, mistaking the Smith Hotel for a vessel that refused to return its signal.  

Feb 25   On this day in history ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53  

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Jan 09   In the year 1851 birth of giuseppi Gallignani, composer  

Jan 14   Theophile EA de Bock, Dutch painter/etcher/drawer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 17   In the year 1851 birth of a. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)  

Jan 19   David Starr Jordan, NY, biologist/university pres (Leland Stanford) was born in the year 1851.  

Jan 19   On this day in history birth of johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer  

Jan 25   On this day in history birth of arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar)  

Jan 25   In the year 1851 birth of jan Blockx, Belgium, opera composer (Sea Bride princess of Herberg)  

Jan 27   Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 10   Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775) died in the year 1851.  

Jan 12   On this day in history johan Herman Koekkoek, painter, dies at 72  

Jan 19   Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805) died on this day in history.  

Jan 21   Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49 in the year 1851.  

Jan 24   Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76 in the year 1851.  

Jan 27   In the year 1851 john James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65  

Feb 01   On this day in history mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53  

Feb 16   Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95 in the year 1851.