Page 2: Historical Events In 1851

Mar 03   Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)   

Mar 04   Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 70   

Mar 06   Alexander Aliabiev, composer, dies at 63.   

Mar 06   Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London   

Mar 07   Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends.   

Mar 11   Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto", premieres in Venice.   

Mar 11   Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice   

Mar 15   Jozef Surzynski, composer   

Mar 19   Roque Saenz Pena, pres of Argentina (1910-14)   

Mar 21   Yosemite Valley discovered in California   

Mar 27   Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer.   

Apr 06   Canadian postal service transferred from British control; sets uniform postal rate of 3 pence a letter.   

Apr 07   Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer   

Apr 08   John Parry, composer, dies at 75.   

Apr 09   Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80.   

Apr 09   C E Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (Neth Indies)   

Apr 12   Emil Liebling, composer   

Apr 15   Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary   

Apr 16   Ernst Josephson, Sweden, artist.   

Apr 23   Canada issues its 1st postage stamps.   

Apr 23   Civil engineer Sandford Fleming 1827-1915 designs the red Three-Pence Beaver stamp issued this day; the Province of Canada's inaugural regular postage stamp.   

Apr 24   Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria).   

May 01   Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London   

May 01   Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, at Crystal Palace.   

May 03   Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire; 30 die   

May 03   Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die.   

May 04   1st major SF fire   

May 04   The inaugural major San Fransisco fire.   

May 06   Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"   

May 06   Linus Yale patents Yale-lock   

May 06   New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname.   

May 06   San Fransisco Chamber of Commerce starts.   

May 15   Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned   

May 17   Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31   

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Jan 09   Giuseppi gallignani: Composer   

Jan 14   Theophile ea de bock: Dutch painter/etcher/drawer   

Jan 17   A. b. frost: American illustrator    

Jan 19   David starr jordan: Ny, biologist/university pres (leland stanford)   

Jan 19   Johannes c kapteyn: Dutch astronomer   

Jan 25   Arne garborg: Norwegian playwright (bondestudentar)   

Jan 25   Jan blockx: Belgium, opera composer (sea bride princess of herberg)   

Jan 27   Rafael obligado: Argentina, writer (santos vega)   

Jan 10   Karl freiherr von müffling: Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)   

Jan 12   Johan herman koekkoek: Painter,   

Jan 19   Esteban echeverría: Argentine writer (b. 1805)   

Jan 21   Gustav albert lortzing: Composer,    

Jan 24   Gaspare luigi pacifico spontini: Italian composer,   

Jan 27   John james audubon: Conservationist (audubon society),    

Feb 01   Mary wollstonecraft shelley: Novelist (frankenstein),   

Feb 16   Anne nagell van ampsen: Dutch politician,