WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1851
Find out what all happened March to September 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. (5. June 1851)

The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America. (22. August 1851)

The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice. (11. March 1851)

First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans. (27. March 1851)

Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves stand against their former owner in armed resistance in Christiana, Pennsylvania, creating a rallying cry for the abolitionist movement. (11. September 1851)

Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America. (21. May 1851)

Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London. (1. May 1851)

First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times. (18. September 1851)

Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand. (2. April 1851)

Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (15. September 1851)

Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine. (12. August 1851)

Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. (29. July 1851)

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