Rulers:
• Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (1850-1853)
• Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837-1901)
Events:
• Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo opened in Brescia.
Births:
• Evans, Arthur (1851-1941)
• Roulin, Augustine (1851-1930)
Deaths:
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
• Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851)
Literature:
• Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): Some Christmas Stories (1850-1853)
• Gautier, Théophile (1811-1872): Partie carrée (1851)
Music:
• Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Hungarian Rhapsodies (1846-53)
• Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): La Campanella (1851)
• Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Symphony no. 4 (1851)
• Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Rigoletto (1851)
Art:
• Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899): Le Transport du charbon (1851)
• Bouguereau, William (1825–1905): Fraternal Love (1851)
• Corot, Camille (1796-1875): Le port de La Rochelle (1851)
• Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877): Jeunes femmes du village (1851-52)
• Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877): Pompiers courant à un incendie (1851)
• Daubigny, Charles (1817-1878): Moisson (1851)
• Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863): Lion attaquant un sanglier (1851)
• Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904): Portrait de femme (1851)
• Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910): The Light of The World (1851-56)
• Ingres, J. A. D. (1780-1867): Jupiter et Antiope (1851)
• Millais, John Everett (1829-1896): Mariana (1851)
• Millais, John Everett (1829-1896): Ophelia (1851-52)
• Millais, John Everett (1829-1896): The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851)
• Millais, John Everett (1829-1896): The Woodman’s Daughter (1851)
• Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870): Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (1851)
• Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870): Retrato de Manuelita Rosas, estudio (1851)