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| 1850 |
| | | Queen Victoria knights her favourite painter of animals, Edwin Landseer | |
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| 1850 |
| | | Alfred Tennyson's elegy for a friend, In Memoriam, captures perfectly the Victorian mood of heightened sensibility | |
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| 1850 |
| | | British engineer Robert Stephenson completes a box-girder railway bridge over the Menai Strait, between Anglesey and mainland Wales | |
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| c. 1850 |
| | | English cartoonist John Tenniel begins a 50-year career drawing for the satirical magazine Punch | |
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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 |
| | | English photographer Frederick Scott Archer publishes the details of his collodion process, a marked improvement on the earlier calotype negative | |
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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 |
| | | The Great Exhibition attracts six million visitors to London's new Crystal Palace in a period of only six months | |
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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 | |
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