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1852
 
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The citizens of the US are scandalized to discover that the Mormons practise polygamy       
1852
 
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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 See in Google maps   
1852
 
     
Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin        
Charles Barry, photograph by Watkins, c.1859
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1852
 
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The Crystal Palace is dismantled in Hyde Park, to be re-erected south of the river Thames at Sydenham      
1852
 
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France demands that Turkey should end Russia's exclusive control of the Christian Holy Places in the Ottoman empire     
1852
 
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In the four years since the discovery of gold, the population of California has leapt from 14,000 to 250,000      
1852
 
    
Scottish physicist William Thomson formulates the second law of thermodynamics, concerning the transfer of heat within a closed system       
1852
 
    
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes a massively successful antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that sells 300,000 copies in its first year       
1852
 
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The church of St Mary Magdalen in Mortlake, designed in Gothic style by Gilbert Blount, is completed See in Google maps   
1852
 
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US entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt conveys passengers across the American continent through Nicaragua by steamship and horse and carriage