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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 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 president of France, Louis Napoleon, stages a coup d'état, rounding up his political opponents during a long December night | |
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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 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Thomson formulates the second law of thermodynamics, concerning the transfer of heat within a closed system | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Russia insists that her exclusive rights over the Holy Places are enshrined in the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Louis Napoleon, asking the French people to approve his elevation to emperor as Napoleon III, receives a resounding yes in the plebiscite | |
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| 1852 |
| | | London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases | |
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| 1853 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is a success at its premiere in Rome | |
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