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List of 1851 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1851

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Date Event
January 28, 1851 Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
February 6, 1851 The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
March 11, 1851 The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
April 3, 1851 Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.
May 1, 1851 Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
May 15, 1851 The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
May 21, 1851 Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
May 29, 1851 Sojourner Truth delivers her famous Ain't I a Woman? speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
June 5, 1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
July 29, 1851 Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
August 12, 1851 Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
August 22, 1851 The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
September 11, 1851 Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
September 18, 1851 First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
October 18, 1851 Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
October 24, 1851 William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
November 9, 1851 Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
November 13, 1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
November 14, 1851 Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
November 21, 1851 Mutineers take control of the Chilean penal colony of Punta Arenas in the Strait of Magellan.
December 2, 1851 French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
December 8, 1851 Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.
December 9, 1851 The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
December 22, 1851 India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, to transport material for the construction of the Ganges Canal.
December 22, 1851 The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.