Great Exhibition Planned
1850
Prince Albert and Henry Cole were busy planning a monster trade show to fill a vast glass-and-iron palace in Hyde Park. Joseph Paxton, a gardener who had built greenhouses, sketched the shed on a piece of blotting paper. It would open the next spring and draw six million visitors - a third of Britain's population.
In context
Also in 1850 (4 other events on record)
- Taiping Rebellion Begins · East Asia · War
- Fugitive Slave Act · North America · Politics
- California Admitted · North America · Politics
- Bloomer Dress Introduced · North America · Culture
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Culture
- Before: 1847: Jane Eyre Published
- After: May 1, 1851: Great Exhibition Opens
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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