The Great Exhibition

1st World's Fair in 1851 in London, England
Event world_s_fair Q273095
The Great Exhibition
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Summary

The Great Exhibition is a world's fair[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of world s fair entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,102 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: London[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Followed by: Exposition Universelle of 1855[5]
  • Commons category: Great Exhibition[6]
  • Archives at: University of Maryland Libraries[7]
  • Start time: May 1, 1851[8]
  • End time: October 15, 1851[9]
  • Point in time: 1851[10]
  • Approved by: Bureau of International Expositions[11]
  • Official website: https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1851-london[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Great Exhibition[13]
  • Attendance: 6,000,000[14]
  • Described by source: Meyer’s Universum, Achtzehnter Band[15]
  • Historic county: Middlesex[16]

Why It Matters

The Great Exhibition has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . bie-paris.org. Retrieved . bie-paris.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → great-exhibition-1851-london-england
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: great-exhibition-1851-london-england, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289934363|great exhibition 1851 london england (#289934363)]] in [[:t"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → kso0J
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0368861-Great-Exhibition
    Point in time → +1851-00-00T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0368861-Great-Exhibition, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 22w ago · PantherStrix · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||pl, fr, sv, fi, cs, da, en, mul */ Cleanup: add mul alias ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  5. 22w ago · Looniverse · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.5032, 'lon': -0.1697}
    Historic county → Middlesex
    Official website → https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1851-london
    End time → +1851-10-15T00:00:00Z
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Fürthwiki article id: 59096"
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