1791 – Prague, Bohemia – first industrial exhibition on the occasion of the coronation of Leopold II as king of Bohemia, took place in Clementinum, considerable sophistication of manufacturing methods. For this occasion, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his final opera La clemenza di Tito.[1]
1798 – Paris, France – L'Exposition des produits de l'industrie française, Paris, 1798.[2] This was the first public industrial exposition in France although earlier in 1798 the Marquis d'Avèze had held a private exposition of handicrafts and manufactured goods at the Maison d'Orsay in the Rue de Varenne and it was this that suggested the idea of a public exposition to Nicolas François de Neufchâteau, Minister of the Interior for the French Republic.[3]
1801 – Paris, France – Second Exposition (1801). After the success of the exposition of 1798 a series of expositions for French manufacturing followed (1801, 1802, 1806, 1819, 1823, 1827, 1834, 1844 and 1849) until the first properly international (or universal) exposition in France in 1855.[4]
1829 – Turin, Piedmont-Sardinia – Prima Triennale Pubblica Esposizione dell’anno 1829. In Turin, a second 'triennale' followed in 1832 before other national agricultural, industrial, commercial, and applied arts expositions there in 1838, 1844, 1850 and 1858.[5]
1884 – Melbourne, Victoria[30] – Victorian International Exhibition 1884 of Wine, Fruit, Grain & other products of the soil of Australasia with machinery, plant and tools employed
1953 – St Louis, Missouri, United States – intended to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase's sesquicentennial, but never held[115]
1953 – Manila, Philippines – the Philippines International Fair of 1953, 1 February – 30 April 1953, to show off the recovery of the Philippines from WW2 and as the first democracy in the Far East[118][119][120][121]
^Raimondo Riccini, 'Tracce di design. La produzione di oggetti fra tecnica e arti applicate,' in Giorgio Bigatti and Sergio Onger (eds), Arti technologi pogeto: Le exposizioni d'industria in Italia prima dell'Unità (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2007) 257–276, 266.
^Giudicio della Regia Camera di Agricoltura e di commercio di Torino sui prodotti dell'Industria de'R. Stati ammessi alla Pubblica esposizione dell'anno 1838 nelle sale del Real Castello del Valentino (Turin: Chirio e Mina, 1838).
^Quarta esposizione di Industria e Belle arti al Real Valentino. da Remi amera di Agricoltura e di commercio di Torino, e notizie sulla patria industria, compilate da Carlo Ign. Giulio, relatore centrale (Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1844).
^Giudizio della Regia Camera di Agricoltura e di commercio di Torino sulla quinta Esposizione di industria e di belle arti al Castello del Valentino nel 1850 et notizie sulla patria industria (Turin: 1851).
^ abcPelle, Findling, ed. (2008). "Appendix D:Fairs Not Included". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 422. ISBN978-0-7864-3416-9.
^Paci, Giacomo Maria (1854). Relazione della solenne pubblica esposizione di arti e manifatture del 1853 tratta dai fascicoli XCVIII e XCIX degli Annali Civili del Regno delle Due Sicilie. Stab. Tip. del Ministero dell'Interno.
^Album descrittivo dei principali oggetti esposti nel Real Castello de Valentino in occasione della sesta Esposizione nazionale i prodotti d'industria nell'anno 1858 (Turin: presso Ufficio dei brevetti d'inveznione con Gabinetto di disegno industriale e litografico, 1858).
^"Exposition Universelle at Metz". The Scotsman. Midlothian, Scotland: British Newspaper Archive. 19 February 1861. p. 2.
^"World's Fair Collection". Fresno State Henry Madden Library. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
^McCarthy, Conal (2008). "Dunedin 1865". In Pelle, Findling (ed.). Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 34. ISBN978-0-7864-3416-9.
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^Tseng, Alice Y. (2004). "Styling Japan: The Case of Josiah Conder and the Museum at Ueno, Tokyo". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 63 (4): 472–497. doi:10.2307/4128015. ISSN0037-9808. JSTOR4128015.
^"Inauguration Day". Exhibition supplement to The Inquirer. 16 November 1881. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
^Davison, Patricia. Visual Narratives of the Anglo-Zulu war. Horns engraved by an unknown African artist. p. 32.
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^Not generally considered an official World's Fair as the celebration had no national pavilions or international representation. CGJ was essentially a California Exposition and not an international exposition or World's Fair. This is a comment and not really a reference
^"Earls Court". Exhibition Study Group. 2004. Archived from the original on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
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^Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberley D., eds. (2008). "Appendix E: Fairs That Never Were". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 429. ISBN978-0-7864-3416-9.
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^"Hawera Chamber of Commerce". Hawera & Normanby Star. Vol. 65. New Zealand. 9 December 1913. p. 2. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
^"GREAT LAKES EXPOSITION". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University. 2022-02-04. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
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^ abcPelle, Findling, ed. (2008). "Appendix E:Fairs That Never Were". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 433. ISBN978-0-7864-3416-9.
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^ abPelle, Findling, ed. (2008). "Appendix E:Fairs That Never Were". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 434. ISBN978-0-7864-3416-9.
^Heller (2008). "Aichi 2005". In Pelle, Findling (ed.). Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 399. ISBN978-0-7864-3416-9.
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