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Events
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Celebrations,
Festivals and Events
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1826
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First
Cowes Week
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1836
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First
North-counties-versus-South-counties cricket match
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1838
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First
Great Yorkshire Show, Fulford, York
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1839
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First
Aintree Grand National (name adopted 1847)
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1839
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First
Henley Regatta
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1851
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First
America's Cup Race off the Solent, Isle of Wight
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1851
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First
World Expo, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry
of all Nations, Crystal Palace, London
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1851
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Henley
Regatta renamed Henley Royal Regatta
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1853
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Crimean
War 1853-1856
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1860
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First
Open Golf Championship, Prestwick.
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1860s
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First
Buckingham Palace Garden Parties
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1862
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London
International Exhibition on Industry and Art, London
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1862 |
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Alexandra
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Royal
Agricultural Hall built (now Business Design Centre, Islington)
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1871
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Royal
Albert Hall Opened
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1871
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World
Exposition, London
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1872
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First
FA Cup
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1877
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First
Wimbledon Tennis Championship
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1880s
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First
Rugby Union County Cup
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1880
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Grand
Military Tournament and Assault at Arms opened at the Agricultural
Hall, Islington (retitled Royal Tournament in 1920)
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1882
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First
Cricket Test match in England against Australia
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1886
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Colonial
and Indian Exhibition, London
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1886
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International
Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, Edinburgh
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1886
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Olympia
Grand Hall opens
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1887
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Earls
Court Exhibition Ground (now Earls Court Exhibition
Centre) opens
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1888
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Glasgow
International Exhibition, Glasgow
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1891
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First
Crufts Dog Show, Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington
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1895
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First
Proms
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1897
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Queen
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (first state event ever filmed)
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