Events from the year 1851 in Germany.
Incumbents King of Bavaria – Maximilian II King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus till 18 November 1851 George V after 18 November 1851 King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
Events February 1 – Brandtaucher, the oldest surviving submersible craft, sinks during acceptance trials in the German port of Kiel, but the designer, Wilhelm Bauer, and the two crew escape successfully.
Births March 24 – Friedrich von Scholtz, German general (d. 1927) April 1 – Bruno von Mudra, German general (d. 1931) May 7 – Adolf von Harnack, German Lutheran theologian, church historian (d. 1930)
May 20 – Emile Berliner, German-born American telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929) September 21 – Arthur Schuster, German-British physicist (d. 1934) November 27 – Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general (d. 1936)
Deaths
January 10 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775) January 21 – Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801) February 18 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804) July 17 – Roger Sheaffe, British general (b. 1763) November 18- Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (b. 1771) December 19 – Karl Drais, German inventor (b. 1785)
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