✦ History

Explore August 2, 1818 – February 20, 1848

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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Mexican War of Independence 1810-09-16 - 1821-09-27
Battle of Boyacá 1819-08-07 - 1819-08-07
Peterloo Massacre 1819-08-16
Capture of Valdivia 1820-02-03 - 1820-02-04
Missouri Compromise 1820-03-06
Greek War of Independence 1821-02-21 - 1829-09-12
Battle of Carabobo 1821-06-24 - 1821-06-24
Battle of Pichincha 1822-05-24 - 1822-05-24
Independence of Brazil 1822-09-07
Battle of Lake Maracaibo 1823-07-24 - 1823-07-24
Monroe Doctrine 1823-12-02
Battle of Junín 1824-08-06 - 1824-08-06
Battle of Ayacucho 1824-12-09 - 1824-12-09
Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825-09-27
Decembrist revolt 1825-12-26
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
July Revolution 1830-07-27 - 1830-07-29
Belgian Revolution 1830-08-25 - 1831-07-21
Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27
Reform Act 1832 1832-06-07
Slavery Abolition Act 1833 1833-08-28
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29
Treaty of Waitangi 1840-02-06
Treaty of Nanking 1842-08-29
First Morse telegraph line 1844-05-24
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Texas annexation 1845-12-29
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
Battle of Resaca de la Palma 1846-05-09 - 1846-05-09
Repeal of the Corn Laws 1846-06-25
Battle of Monterrey 1846-09-21 - 1846-09-24
Battle of San Pasqual 1846-12-06 - 1846-12-07
Battle of El Brazito 1846-12-25 - 1846-12-25
Battle of Río San Gabriel 1847-01-08 - 1847-01-09
Battle of Buena Vista 1847-02-22 - 1847-02-23
Battle of the Sacramento River 1847-02-28 - 1847-02-28
Siege of Veracruz 1847-03-09 - 1847-03-29
Battle of Cerro Gordo 1847-04-18 - 1847-04-18
Battle of Contreras 1847-08-19 - 1847-08-20
Battle of Churubusco 1847-08-20 - 1847-08-20
Battle of Molino del Rey 1847-09-08 - 1847-09-08
Battle of Chapultepec 1847-09-12 - 1847-09-13
Siege of Puebla (1847) 1847-09-14 - 1847-10-12
Sonderbund War 1847-11-03 - 1847-11-29
Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848-02-02

People

Queen Victoria born 1819-05-24
Queen - United Kingdom
John Quincy Adams age 51
President - United States
Andrew Jackson age 51
President - United States
James Monroe age 60
President - United States
Martin Van Buren age 35
President - United States
James K. Polk age 22
President - United States
John Tyler age 28
President - United States
William Henry Harrison age 45
President - United States
Alexander I of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
George III age 80
King - United Kingdom
Nicholas I of Russia age 22
Emperor - Russian Empire
William IV age 52
King - United Kingdom
George IV age 56
King - United Kingdom
Louis XVIII age 62
King - France
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 50
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Charles X of France age 60
King - France
Pedro I of Brazil age 19
Emperor - Brazil
Louis Philippe I age 44
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil born 1825-12-02
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 27
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 33
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I born 1823-04-25
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 25
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 24
President - Mexico
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 45
Shah - Iran
Sam Houston age 25
President - Republic of Texas
Emperor Kōmei born 1831-07-22
Emperor - Japan
Charles Albert age 19
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Guadalupe Victoria age 31
President - Mexico
Vicente Guerrero age 36
President - Mexico
Daoguang Emperor age 35
Emperor - Imperial China
Jiaqing Emperor age 57
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 10
Shah - Iran
Charles Felix age 53
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 18
Emperor - Japan
Rafael Carrera age 2
President - Guatemala
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 19
President - Republic of Texas
Yohannes III age 21
Emperor - Ethiopia
Anson Jones age 20
President - Republic of Texas
Mariano Rivera Paz age 13
President - Guatemala
David G. Burnet age 30
President - Republic of Texas
Gigar age 73
Emperor - Ethiopia
José Venancio López age 27
President - Guatemala
Sunjo of Joseon age 28
King - Joseon
Heonjong of Joseon born 1827-09-08
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 48
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 22
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Victor Emmanuel I age 59
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
José Joaquín de Herrera age 26
President - Mexico
Nicolás Bravo age 31
President - Mexico
Anastasio Bustamante age 38
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 24
President - Mexico
Valentín Gómez Farías age 37
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 21
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 29
President - Mexico
Melchor Múzquiz age 30
President - Mexico
Valentín Canalizo age 24
President - Mexico
Francisco Javier Echeverría age 21
President - Mexico
Pedro Vélez age 31
President - Mexico
Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 29
President - Mexico
José María Bocanegra age 31
President - Mexico
José Justo Corro age 24
President - Mexico
Miguel Barragán age 29
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 21
President - Mexico
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Klemens von Metternich age 45
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 30
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Canning age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 25
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 39
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 35
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 41
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 36
Vice President - United States
Daniel D. Tompkins age 44
Vice President - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 37
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 26
Vice President - United States
James Buchanan age 27
Secretary of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 36
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Addington age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Clay age 41
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 32
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 35
Secretary of War - United States
William L. Marcy age 31
Secretary of War - United States
William H. Crawford age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Livingston age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Louis McLane age 32
Secretary of State - United States
John Forsyth age 37
Secretary of State - United States
Abel P. Upshur age 28
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 28
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Richard Rush age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Ewing age 28
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wirt age 45
Attorney General - United States
James Barbour age 43
Secretary of War - United States
John J. Crittenden age 30
Attorney General - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 22
Secretary of War - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 30
Secretary of War - United States
John Eaton (politician) age 28
Secretary of War - United States
Felix Grundy age 40
Attorney General - United States
William J. Duane age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 39
Secretary of War - United States
George M. Bibb age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John M. Berrien age 36
Attorney General - United States
Samuel D. Ingham age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Forward age 32
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Nelson age 27
Secretary of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 14
Attorney General - United States
Henry D. Gilpin age 17
Attorney General - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Y. Mason age 19
Attorney General - United States
Peter Buell Porter age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 21
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh S. Legaré age 21
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 36
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 26
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 22
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 17
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 19
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 36
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 25
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 35
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 34
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 38
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 28
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 30
Secretary of State - United States
William S. Derrick age 16
Secretary of State - United States
William Sturges Bourne age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Jacob L. Martin age 8
Secretary of State - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 8
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 34
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 19
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 19
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 13
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 10
Senate - United States
William R. King age 32
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 22
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 20
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 19
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 24
Senate - United States
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 46
Senate - United States
William Pinkney age 54
Senate - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 13
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 22
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 66
Senate - United States
John Chandler age 56
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hannibal Hamlin age 8
House of Representatives - United States
William Wilberforce age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge born 1821-01-16
House of Representatives - United States
Davy Crockett age 31
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine born 1830-01-31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 24
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman born 1823-05-10
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler born 1818-11-05
House of Representatives - United States
Hamilton Fish age 10
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Banastre Tarleton age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sterling Price age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 67
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 2
House of Representatives - United States
William P. Fessenden age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo born 1822-02-21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Eustis age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Bates age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna born 1843-08-10
House of Representatives - United States
Isaac Toucey age 25
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 6
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Crawford age 19
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum born 1827-09-24
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 31
House of Representatives - United States
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom