Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1851.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
| Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
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| May | 1 | Great Exhibition opened by Queen Victoria in London | This website | |
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| October | 15 | Great Exhibition closes | This website | |
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| Unspecified | Acland appointed Radcliffe librarian at Oxford | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Pitt-Rivers begins collecting ethnographic and archaeological artefacts (notably locks and keys) | Chapman, 1981; Thompson, 1977: 122; Pitt-Rivers, 1883: title page | ||
| Unspecified | Rolleston studies medicine at St Bartholomew's in London | DNB entry |
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