✦ History

Explore May 8, 1846 – May 8, 1846

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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02
Siege of Fort Texas 1846-05-03 - 1846-05-09
Battle of Palo Alto 1846-05-08 - 1846-05-08

People

Queen Victoria age 26
Queen - United Kingdom
James K. Polk age 50
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 49
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 72
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 20
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 55
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 23
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 53
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Emperor Kōmei age 14
Emperor - Japan
Charles Albert age 47
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 63
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 38
Shah - Iran
Yohannes III age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Heonjong of Joseon age 18
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 50
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Mariano Paredes age 49
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 73
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George M. Dallas age 53
Vice President - United States
James Buchanan age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 59
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 59
Secretary of War - United States
John Y. Mason age 47
Attorney General - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 53
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Levi Woodbury age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 58
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John C. Calhoun age 64
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 53
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 64
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 63
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 49
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 47
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 47
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 51
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 58
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 64
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 49
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 78
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jefferson Davis age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hannibal Hamlin age 36
House of Representatives - United States
William R. King age 60
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 25
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 52
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 85
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Sterling Price age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 46
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 2
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George W. Crawford age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Martin Van Buren age 63
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 45
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 34
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 26
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 10
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 28
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 28
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 26
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 15
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 46
King - Sweden
Christian VIII age 59
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 58
King - Thailand
Carlos Antonio López age 55
President - Paraguay
Manuel Bulnes age 46
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 53
President - Uruguay
José Ballivián age 41
President - Bolivia
Carlos Soublette age 56
President - Venezuela
Coronado Chávez age 38
President - Honduras
William II of the Netherlands age 53
King - Netherlands
Ioannis Kolettis age 73
Prime Minister - Greece
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Karl Marx age 28
Abraham Lincoln age 37
Leo Tolstoy age 17
Charles Darwin age 37
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 24
Friedrich Nietzsche age 1
Charles Dickens age 34
Otto von Bismarck age 31
Louis Pasteur age 23
Richard Wagner age 32
Friedrich Engels age 25
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 6
Michael Faraday age 54
Dmitri Mendeleev age 12
Giuseppe Verdi age 32
James Clerk Maxwell age 14
Ulysses S. Grant age 24
Claude Monet age 5
Florence Nightingale age 26
James A. Garfield age 14
Grover Cleveland age 9
Zachary Taylor age 61
John Tyler age 56
William McKinley age 3
Millard Fillmore age 46
Rutherford B. Hayes age 23
Franklin Pierce age 41
Benjamin Harrison age 12
Gregor Mendel age 23
Ada Lovelace age 30
Chester A. Arthur age 16
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 38
Napoleon III age 38
Pius X age 10
Leo XIII age 36
Charles Babbage age 54
Carl Benz age 1
Edward VII age 4
Alexander II of Russia age 28
Harriet Tubman age 24
Abdul Hamid II age 3
Robert E. Lee age 39
Georges Clemenceau age 4
Empress Dowager Cixi age 10
William Ewart Gladstone age 36
Alexander III of Russia age 1
Giuseppe Mazzini age 40
Leopold II of Belgium age 11
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 35
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 181
Frederick Douglass age 28
Wilhelm I age 49
Susan B. Anthony age 26
José de San Martín age 68
Benito Juárez age 40
Adolphe Thiers age 49
Porfirio Díaz age 15
Victor Emmanuel II age 26
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 30
Patrice de MacMahon age 37
Frederick III, German Emperor age 14
Umberto I of Italy age 2
Abdulaziz age 16
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 77
Mehmed V age 1
Itō Hirobumi age 4
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 45
William Tecumseh Sherman age 26
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 16
Charles XV age 20
Murad V age 5
Maximilian I of Mexico age 13
Christian IX of Denmark age 28
Oscar II of Sweden age 17
Alexandra of Denmark age 1
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 52
Lajos Kossuth age 43
Amadeo I of Spain age 11 months
John A. Macdonald age 31
Stonewall Jackson age 22
Armand Fallières age 4
Jules Grévy age 38
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 8
Deodoro da Fonseca age 18
Auguste Beernaert age 16
Elihu Root age 1
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 14
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 2
Carol I of Romania age 7
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 62
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 9
Félix Faure age 5
Mongkut age 41
Émile Loubet age 7
Menelik II age 1
Richard Mentor Johnson age 65
Frederick VII of Denmark age 37
Abdur Rahman Khan age 6