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| 1851 |
| | | English textile magnate Titus Salt begins to build Saltaire as a model industrial village for his workers | |
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| 1851 |
| | | Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, built in London in six months, is the world's first example of prefabricated architecture | |
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| 1851 |
| | | French physicist Léon Foucault demonstrates the rotation of the earth by means of a long pendulum suspended in the Pantheon in Paris | |
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| 1851 |
| | | The Australian gold rush begins with the discovery of gold fields at Ballarat and a few months later at Bendigo | |
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| 1851 |
| | | Marian Evans (her new spelling of her name) moves to London and gets a job as subeditor of Westminster Review | |
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| 1851 |
| | | In London's Great Exhibition numerous examples of Pugin's designs and craftsmanship are displayed by different exhibitors | |
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| 1851 |
| | | The Great Exhibition attracts six million visitors to London's new Crystal Palace in a period of only six months | |
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| 1851 |
| | | The first American branch of the Young Men's Christian Association is established in Boston | |
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| 1851 |
| | | The New York Times is founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond as a conservative daily with an emphasis on accuracy | |
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| 1851 |
| | | US author Nathaniel Hawthorne bases his novel The House of the Seven Gables on a curse invoked against his own family | |
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