1851 – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי

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1851

Events

January–March

January 11 – Taiping Rebellion: Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly.
January 23 – The flip of a coin, subsequently named Portland Penny, determines whether a new city in the Oregon Territory is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
January 28 – Northwestern University is founded in Illinois.
February 6 – Black Thursday in Australia: Bushfires sweep across the state of Victoria, burning about a quarter of its area.
February 12 – Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia.
February 15 – In Boston, Massachusetts, members of the anti-slavery Boston Vigilance Committee rescue fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins from a courtroom following his arrest by U.S. marshals.
March 1 – Victor Hugo uses the phrase United States of Europe in a speech to the French National Assembly.
March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
March 27 – The first white men reportedly see Yosemite Valley.
March 30 – A population census is taken in the United Kingdom. The population reaches 21 million. 6.3 million live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales and cities of 20,000 or more account for 35% of the total English population.

1851 – מילון אנגלי-עברי