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| 1851 |
| | | A journalist in the Terre Haute Express gives a piece of advice, 'Go west, young man', that chimes perfectly with the US pioneer spirit | |
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| 1851 |
| | | The president of France, Louis Napoleon, stages a coup d'état, rounding up his political opponents during a long December night | |
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| 1851 |
| | | Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are entered in the ten-yearly census, and were staying on the night in question in Buckingham Palace | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Pugin does not attend the opening of the completed Houses of Parliament, and there is hardly a mention of him | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Lord John Russell's Whig administration collapses, and Lord Derby follows him as a Conservative prime minister at the head of a coalition government | |
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| 1852 |
| | | After years of strain and overwork, Pugin has a nervous breakdown and he is certified insane | |
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| 1852 |
| | | The citizens of the US are scandalized to discover that the Mormons practise polygamy | |
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| 1852 |
| | | The first Metropolis Water Act is passed which forbids the taking of water by the water companies from the tidal Thames and this leads to the establishment of what was to become Hampton Waterworks | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin | |
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| 1852 |
| | | The Crystal Palace is dismantled in Hyde Park, to be re-erected south of the river Thames at Sydenham | |
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