✦ History

Explore January 1, 1826 – December 15, 1851

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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Greek War of Independence 1821-02-21 - 1829-09-12
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
The Communist Manifesto published 1848-02-21
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Seneca Falls Convention 1848-07-19 - 1848-07-20
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Jintian Uprising 1851-01-11 - 1851-01-11
Great Exhibition 1851-05-01 - 1851-10-15

People

Queen Victoria age 6
Queen - United Kingdom
John Quincy Adams age 58
President - United States
Andrew Jackson age 58
President - United States
Martin Van Buren age 43
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 41
President - United States
James K. Polk age 30
President - United States
John Tyler age 35
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 26
President - United States
William Henry Harrison age 52
President - United States
Napoleon III age 17
President - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 29
Emperor - Russian Empire
William IV age 60
King - United Kingdom
George IV age 63
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 57
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Charles X of France age 68
King - France
Pedro I of Brazil age 27
Emperor - Brazil
Louis Philippe I age 52
King of the French - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 5
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 1 month
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 35
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 40
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 2
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 32
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 31
President - Mexico
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 53
Shah - Iran
Sam Houston age 32
President - Republic of Texas
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar born 1831-07-17
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei born 1831-07-22
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor born 1831-07-17
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Albert age 27
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Guadalupe Victoria age 39
President - Mexico
Vicente Guerrero age 43
President - Mexico
Daoguang Emperor age 43
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 18
Shah - Iran
Charles Felix age 60
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 25
Emperor - Japan
Rafael Carrera age 10
President - Guatemala
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 27
President - Republic of Texas
Yohannes III age 29
Emperor - Ethiopia
Anson Jones age 27
President - Republic of Texas
Mariano Rivera Paz age 21
President - Guatemala
David G. Burnet age 37
President - Republic of Texas
Gigar age 81
Emperor - Ethiopia
José Venancio López age 35
President - Guatemala
Franz Joseph I of Austria born 1830-08-18
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Sunjo of Joseon age 35
King - Joseon
Heonjong of Joseon born 1827-09-08
King - Joseon
Cheoljong of Joseon born 1831-07-25
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 55
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 30
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 58
President - France
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 23
President - France
José Joaquín de Herrera age 33
President - Mexico
Nicolás Bravo age 39
President - Mexico
Anastasio Bustamante age 45
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 31
President - Mexico
Valentín Gómez Farías age 44
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 23
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 29
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 36
President - Mexico
Melchor Múzquiz age 37
President - Mexico
Valentín Canalizo age 31
President - Mexico
Francisco Javier Echeverría age 28
President - Mexico
Pedro Vélez age 38
President - Mexico
Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 36
President - Mexico
José María Bocanegra age 38
President - Mexico
José Justo Corro age 31
President - Mexico
Miguel Barragán age 36
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 28
President - Mexico
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Klemens von Metternich age 52
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 37
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Canning age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 33
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 43
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 48
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 43
Vice President - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 45
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 33
Vice President - United States
James Buchanan age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Clay age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 39
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 43
Secretary of War - United States
William L. Marcy age 39
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Livingston age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Louis McLane age 39
Secretary of State - United States
John Forsyth age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Abel P. Upshur age 35
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 29
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Richard Rush age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Ewing age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wirt age 53
Attorney General - United States
James Barbour age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Thomas Corwin age 31
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 38
Attorney General - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 29
Secretary of War - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 38
Secretary of War - United States
John Eaton (politician) age 35
Secretary of War - United States
Felix Grundy age 48
Attorney General - United States
William J. Duane age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 46
Secretary of War - United States
George M. Bibb age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John M. Berrien age 44
Attorney General - United States
Samuel D. Ingham age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Forward age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 21
Secretary of War - United States
John Nelson age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 22
Attorney General - United States
Henry D. Gilpin age 24
Attorney General - United States
William M. Meredith age 26
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Isaac Toucey age 33
Attorney General - United States
John Y. Mason age 26
Attorney General - United States
Peter Buell Porter age 52
Secretary of War - United States
George W. Crawford age 27
Secretary of War - United States
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh S. Legaré age 29
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Reverdy Johnson age 29
Attorney General - United States
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 33
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 29
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 25
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 26
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 44
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 33
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 37
Secretary of State - United States
William S. Derrick age 23
Secretary of State - United States
William Sturges Bourne age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Jacob L. Martin age 15
Secretary of State - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 21
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 16
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 26
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 13
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
William Huskisson age 55
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland age 41
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 25
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg age 47
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 27
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 46
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 23
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton age 51
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland age 10
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Charles Williams-Wynn age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham age 26
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Arbuthnot age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 21
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 17
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 24
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 16
Senate - United States
William R. King age 39
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 17
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 17
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 27
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 26
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 14
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 73
Senate - United States
John Chandler age 63
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 30
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Davy Crockett age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Addington age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine born 1830-01-31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 31
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 7
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Banastre Tarleton age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sterling Price age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 74
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 10
House of Representatives - United States
William P. Fessenden age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Ramsey age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Bates age 32
House of Representatives - United States