Important Events
- May 29 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
- Aug 12 American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine
1851 in Music
- Mar 11 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
1851 in Sport
Charles E. Hires
Doc HollidayWorld Leaders in 1851
John Russell
British Prime Minister- Millard Fillmore
13th US President
John Russell
Millard FillmoreFamous People in 1851
- Charles Dickens
Novelist - Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe VerdiWould You Believe?
1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
On June 3, 1851
Hans Christian Ørsted
James Fenimore Cooper
John James Audubon
Louis-Jacques Daguerre
Mary Shelley