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A rebellion against the Qing dynasty, led by Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, breaks out in southern China
Whitton Place is demolished and the grounds are rejoined with Whitton Park.
Allan Pinkerton retires from the Chicago police force and forms the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
The Kneller Hall Training School for the Teaching of Pauper and Criminal Children opens with Dr Frederick Temple as Principal.
English cartoonist John Tenniel begins a 50-year career drawing for the satirical magazine Punch
Lord and Lady Russell of Pembroke Lodge found the Russell School in Petersham
Marian Evans meets the journalist George Henry Lewes in William Jeff's bookshop in Burlington Arcade
An American clergyman, L.L. Langstroth, discovers the 'bee space', which becomes a standard feature of the modern beehive
Samson Raphael Hirsch becomes rabbi of a synagogue in Frankfurt, where he develops the theme of neo-Orthodoxy
Thomas Cubitt completes Osborne House, designed as a quiet retreat for Victoria and Albert on the Isle of Wight
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a play by Victor Hugo, is a huge success at its premiere in Venice
English photographer Frederick Scott Archer publishes the details of his collodion process, a marked improvement on the earlier calotype negative
German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz invents the ophthalmoscope, making it possible for a doctor to examine the inside of a patient's eye
English textile magnate Titus Salt begins to build Saltaire as a model industrial village for his workers
Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, built in London in six months, is the world's first example of prefabricated architecture
French physicist Léon Foucault demonstrates the rotation of the earth by means of a long pendulum suspended in the Pantheon in Paris
The Australian gold rush begins with the discovery of gold fields at Ballarat and a few months later at Bendigo
Marian Evans (her new spelling of her name) moves to London and gets a job as subeditor of Westminster Review
In London's Great Exhibition numerous examples of Pugin's designs and craftsmanship are displayed by different exhibitors
The Great Exhibition attracts six million visitors to London's new Crystal Palace in a period of only six months
The first American branch of the Young Men's Christian Association is established in Boston
The New York Times is founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond as a conservative daily with an emphasis on accuracy
US author Nathaniel Hawthorne bases his novel The House of the Seven Gables on a curse invoked against his own family
Richard Wagner writes an anti-semitic tract, Jewishness in Music
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick; or, The Whale, a novel based on his own 18-month experience on a whaler in 1841-2
