Editing 1851 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 15]] 
** The City of [[Winona, Minnesota]] is founded.
** The Great Exhibition in London closes.
* [[October 17]] &ndash; The first [[Parsi-Muslim riots|Parsi-Muslim riot]] begins in [[Bombay]], India.
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Ariel (moon)|Ariel]] and [[Umbriel]], [[natural satellite|moon]]s of [[Uranus]], are discovered by [[William Lassell]].
* [[October]] &ndash; The [[Reuters]] [[News agency|news service]] is founded in [[London]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway]] officially opened in Russia.
* [[November 13]]
** The [[Denny Party]] lands at [[Alki Point]], the first settlers of what later becomes [[Seattle]].
** The first protected [[Submarine communications cable|submarine telegraph cable]] is laid, across the [[English Channel]].
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Herman Melville]]'s novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]; or The Whale'' is published in the U.S. by [[Harper & Brothers]], New York, after being first published on [[October 18]] in London, by [[Richard Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley]], in three volumes as ''The Whale''.
* [[November 21]] &ndash; Mutineers [[mutiny of Cambiazo|take control]] of the Chilean [[penal colony]] of [[Punta Arenas]] in the [[Strait of Magellan]].<ref name=Nagel>{{Citation
 |last         = Nagel Behnke
 |first        = Harold
 |title        = Capitán de fragata Benjamín Muñoz Gamero (1817–1851)
 |journal      = [[Revista de Marina]]
 |volume       = 6
 |issue        = 
 |year         = 1994
 |pages        = 1–8
 |url          = http://revistamarina.cl/revistas/1994/6/nagel.pdf
 |language     = Spanish
 |access-date  = September 25, 2022
 |archive-date = May 24, 2014
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20140524022441/http://revistamarina.cl/revistas/1994/6/nagel.pdf
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref>
* [[November 26]]–[[November 27|27]] &ndash; [[Morocco]]: French naval forces [[Bombardment of Salé (1851)|bombard the Moroccan city]] of [[Salé]], in retaliation for looting of a French cargo ship.
* [[December 2]] &ndash; In what amounts to a [[French coup of 1851|coup d'etat]], President [[Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte]] of France dissolves the [[French National Assembly]], and declares a new constitution to extend his term. [[1852|A year later]] he declares himself as Emperor [[Napoleon III]], ending the [[French Second Republic|Second Republic]].
* [[December 9]] &ndash; The first [[YMCA]] in North America is established in [[Montreal]].
* [[December 22]] &ndash; The first railway operates in [[India]], hauling canal construction material in [[Roorkee]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; The [[Library of Congress]] in Washington, D.C., burns.
* [[December 26]]–[[December 27|27]] &ndash; A British [[Royal Navy]] warship bombards [[Lagos]] Island; [[Oba (ruler)|Oba]] [[Kosoko]] is wounded, and flees to [[Epe, Nigeria|Epe]].
* [[December 29]] &ndash; The first [[YMCA]] in the United States opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[1851 Chilean Revolution]]: At the [[Battle of Loncomilla]], Chilean rebels are defeated, ending the revolution.