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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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| 1858 |
| | | The stench in central London, rising from the polluted Thames in a hot summer, creates what becomes known as the Great Stink | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Samuel Smiles provides an inspiring ideal of Victorian enterprise in Self-Help, a manual for ambitious young men | |
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| 1863 |
| | | St Mary's hospital opens in Rochester, Minnesota, soon to be known as the Mayo Clinic from the three Drs Mayo who run it | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The Metropolitan Railway, the world's first to go underground, opens in London using steam trains between Paddington and Farringdon Street | |
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London's Transport Museum
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| 1864 |
| | | The Federal government confiscates the Arlington estate of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and turns it into a war cemetery | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Grange as a social organization to benefit US farmers | |
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| 1867 |
| | | William Cody earns his nickname Buffalo Bill by killing thousands of the animals to feed construction workers on the Union Pacific Railroad | |
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| 1869 |
| | | English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy, an influential collection of essays about contemporary society | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Thousands of distinguished guests assemble at Port Said for the opening of the Suez Canal | |
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