Historical Events In 1851

Jan 01   City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line   

Jan 09   Giuseppi Gallignani, composer.   

Jan 12   Johan Herman Koekkoek, painter, dies at 72   

Jan 14   Theophile EA de Bock, Dutch painter/etcher/drawer.   

Jan 15   In this year, Gen Arista adopts in place of Mexican Pres Herrera.   

Jan 15   In this year, General Arista adopts in place of Mexican President Herrera   

Jan 19   David Starr Jordan, NY, biologist/university pres (Leland Stanford)   

Jan 21   Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49.   

Jan 24   Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76   

Jan 25   Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar).   

Jan 25   Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)   

Jan 25   Sojourner Truth addresses inaugural Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)   

Jan 27   John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65   

Jan 27   Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega)   

Jan 28   Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered   

Jan 31   Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk.   

Jan 31   In Hamilton Ontario Hamilton Gas Light Company installs inaugural lamps.   

Jan 31   San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, inaugural in California founded.   

Feb 01   Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies   

Feb 01   Cholera in United States.   

Feb 01   Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein   

Feb 01   Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53   

Feb 01   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53.   

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

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

Feb 08   Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist   

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

Feb 11   inaugural cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs Victoria, Launceston   

Feb 15   Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave   

Feb 15   Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave.   

Feb 16   Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95   

Feb 20   Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81   

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

Feb 25   Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53.   

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Jan 09   On this day in history birth of giuseppi Gallignani, composer   

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

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

Jan 19   In the year 1851 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   Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 25   Jan Blockx, Belgium, opera composer (Sea Bride princess of Herberg) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 10   On this day in history death of karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)   

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

Jan 19   In the year 1851 death of esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)   

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

Jan 24   Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Jan 27   In the year 1851 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   Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95 in the year 1851.