Historical Events In 1851

Jan 01   City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line in the year 1851.  

Jan 09   Giuseppi Gallignani, composer in the year 1851.  

Jan 12   Johan Herman Koekkoek, painter, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

Jan 14   In the year 1851 theophile EA de Bock, Dutch painter/etcher/drawer  

Jan 15   On this day in history gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera  

Jan 15   In the year 1851 general Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera  

Jan 19   David Starr Jordan, NY, biologist/university pres (Leland Stanford) on this day in history.  

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

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   On this day in history sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)  

Jan 25   Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) on this day in history.  

Jan 27   John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65 in the year 1851.  

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

Jan 28   On this day in history northwestern University (Chicago) chartered  

Jan 31   Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1851.  

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   In the year 1851 mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53.  

Feb 01   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53 in the year 1851.  

Feb 03   On this day in history johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies  

Feb 06   Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Düsseldorf in the year 1851.  

Feb 06   Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf in the year 1851.  

Feb 08   In the year 1851 kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist  

Feb 11   In the year 1851 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston  

Feb 11   First cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs Victoria, Launceston in the year 1851.  

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

Feb 15   Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave on this day in history.  

Feb 16   In the year 1851 anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95  

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

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

Feb 25   In the year 1851 ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53  

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Jan 09   Giuseppi Gallignani, composer was born in the year 1851.  

Jan 14   In the year 1851 birth of theophile EA de Bock, Dutch painter/etcher/drawer  

Jan 17   A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928) was born in the year 1851.  

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

Jan 19   Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer was born on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1851.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 27   On this day in history john James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65  

Feb 01   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53 in the year 1851.  

Feb 16   On this day in history anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95