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Key Events in the History of Nova Scotia: 1851.
- March 30: A census was carried out in Great Britain
- March 30: A railroad from Halifax to Quebec authorized
- Jul 26: The Eighteenth Assembly of the Nova Scotia Legislature, first convened in 1848, was Dissolved
- Aug 28: Election Date
- September 1: First postage stamps went on sale in Nova Scotia
- An act to incorporate the Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Co.
- September 12: First telegraphic message sent from Halifax to Quebec
- Nov 4: The Nineteenth Assembly of the Nova Scotia Legislature convened. J. B. Uniacke continued on as Premier until his resignation in 1854.
- Norman MacLeod leads his flock of Scottish immigrants from St Ann's, Nova Scotia to New Zealand.
- In England, an act was passed allowing for the inspection of common lodging houses. So, too, in this year "the window-tax, that old enemy of health and light was at last repealed."
- The first undersea cable was laid between Calais and Dover. Reuters News Service was founded in this year.
- The first Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia are published in 1851. Uniacke's work of 1805 was "a revision and not a consolidation."
- Avon Mutual Marine Insurance Co. Incorporated by statute
- By an act of the legislature Cape Breton County (which had been divided in 1835 was further divided into two counties: Cape Breton and Victoria
- Letters Patent granted to Moore R Fletcher (M.D.) for a "Marine Alarm Bell"
- An act to incorporate the Halifax and Annapolis Steam Navigation Co.
- An Act to incorporate the Sons of Temperance of Nova Scotia
- An act to incorporate the Sydney Steamboat Co.
- The Great Exhibition was held at Hyde Park, in the Crystal Palace, a structure of iron and glass. Nova Scotia was an invited exhibitor. Among the exhibits were mineral ores and stuffed birds.
- Population of Halifax, 20,000
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[Forward In Time (1852)]- March 30: A census was carried out in Great Britain
