Significant 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 Sport
- Aug 22 Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
World Leaders in 1851
John Russell
British Prime Minister
Millard Fillmore
13th US President
Famous People in 1851
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Charles E. Hires
Doc HollidayWould You Believe?
1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
On June 3, 1851
Hans Oersted
James Fenimore Cooper
John James Audubon
Louis-Jacques Daguerre
Mary Shelley