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Originally Posted by Quoth
Only use regular hyphen for something like fish-like. Or it might be instead of to such as: 1851 - 1873
Other sorts of dash exist, like the minus (only used in formula). Any other sort of dash should only be on paper or PDF and only specialist use (though I can't think of it).
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A figure dash (‒) is the proper way to separate any sort of range (numbers, months, days of the week, etc.). So, your example would be:
1851-1873 (hyphen)
1851 - 1873 (hyphen with spaces)
1851‒1873 (figure dash)
In many fonts, a figure dash is slightly longer than an en-dash, but in some it is the same, or at least close enough that you can't see any difference.