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1851
 
    
Richard Wagner writes an anti-semitic tract, Jewishness in Music       
1851
 
     
Marian Evans meets the journalist George Henry Lewes in William Jeff's bookshop in Burlington Arcade        
1851
 
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Lord and Lady Russell of Pembroke Lodge found the Russell School in Petersham See in Google maps   
1851
 
    
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick; or, The Whale, a novel based on his own 18-month experience on a whaler in 1841-2       
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      
1851
 
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The president of France, Louis Napoleon, stages a coup d'état, rounding up his political opponents during a long December night      
1851
 
     
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are entered in the ten-yearly census, and were staying on the night in question in Buckingham Palace        
Queen Victoria's census return at Buckingham Palace in 1851
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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        
1852
 
  
After years of strain and overwork, Pugin has a nervous breakdown and he is certified insane