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"Calendar in year 1851 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage:
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(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919 ).
of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
: Great Exhibition in Hyde Park]]
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- October - Reuters News Service founded.
- October 18 - The Great Exhibition in London is closed.
- October 24 - Ariel and Umbriel , Moon s of Uranus , discovered by William Lassell .
- November 13 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point , the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington .
- November 14 - Herman Melville 's novel '' Moby-Dick ; or The Whale'' is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers , New York - after it was first published, on October 18 in London by Richard Bentley , in 3 volumes as ''The Whale''.
- December 2 - Louis Napoleon , president of France, dissolves French National Assembly and declares a new constitution to extend his term. Later he declares himself as an emperor Napoleon III . End of the Second Republic .
- December 6 - Trial of Helene Jegado begins; she is eventually sentenced to death and executed by Guillotine .
- December 9 - The first YMCA ( 1844 ) in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec .
- December 24 - The Library Of Congress burns.
- December 26 - 27 - Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos island; Oba Kosoko is wounded and flees to Epe .
- December 29 - The first Boston YMCA opens (in Massachusetts ).
- January 17 - A. B. Frost , American illustrator (d. 1928 )
- January 19 - Jacobus Kapteyn , Dutch astronomer (d. 1922 )
- January 21 - Reinhard Hetze , Argentinian religious pioneer (d. 1939 )
- February 8 - Kate Chopin , American writer (d. 1904 )
- March 19 - William Henry Stark , Business Leader (d. 1936 )
- March 27 - Vincent D'Indy , French composer and teacher (d. 1931 )
- March 28 - Bernardino Machado , Portuguese President (d. 1944 )
- April 13 - Robert Abbe , American surgeon (d. 1928 )
- April 20 - Young Tom Morris , Scottish golfer (d. 1875 )
- April 21 - Charles Barrois , French geologist (d. 1939 )
- May 6 - Aristide Bruant , French cabaret singer and comedian (d. 1925 )
- May 20 - Emil Berliner , telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929 )
- May 21 - Léon Bourgeois , French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1925 )
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