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| 1851 |
| | | Thomas Cubitt completes Osborne House, designed as a quiet retreat for Victoria and Albert on the Isle of Wight | |
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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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| 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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| 1856 |
| | | Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland | |
|  | Balmoral Castle
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| 1859 |
| | | A 13-ton bell is installed above London's Houses of Parliament, soon giving its name (Big Ben) to both the clock and the clock-tower | |
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| 1863 |
| | | British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens | |
|  | Sculptural group, Albert Memorial
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| 1881 |
| | | The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Antoni Gaudí begins a life-long commitment to the building of a modern cathedral in Barcelona, El Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia | |
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| 1898 |
| | | English town-planner Ebenezer Howard puts forward a Utopian scheme in Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform | |
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