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I know it's just supposed to be fictional but looking up the history he didn't die until 1861 and the Great Exhibition was in 1851. So ten years seem to have been swallowed up if his end has come.
I don't know about others here but I would have preferred it if they had stuck far more closely to the history. People watch such things and believe it all happened as shown.