1851 (AD 1851) Historical Timeline & Archive

Notable Figures in 1851 (AD 1851) (8)

• Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (Died: 1851-02-18) — Pioneering German mathematician known for elliptic functions and differential equations.
• Emile Berliner (Born: 1851-05-20) — Pioneering inventor of the lateral-cut flat disc record and gramophone.
• Ferdinand Foch (Born: 1851-10-02) — French Marshal and Supreme Allied Commander, pivotal in the victory of World War I.
• Hans Christian Ørsted (Died: 1851-03-09) — Pioneering physicist who discovered the link between electricity and magnetism.
• J. M. W. Turner (Died: 1851-12-19) — Master of Romanticism, renowned for revolutionary depictions of light and atmosphere.
• Louis Daguerre (Died: 1851-07-10) — Pioneering French scientist and photographer, inventor of the daguerreotype process.
• Mary Shelley (Died: 1851-02-01) — Pioneering Gothic novelist, author of Frankenstein, and advocate for feminist thought.
• Walter Reed (Born: 1851-09-13) — U.S. Army physician credited with proving yellow fever transmission by mosquitoes.