✦ History

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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
Capture of Valdivia 1820-02-03 - 1820-02-04
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
Decembrist revolt 1825-12-26
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
July Revolution 1830-07-27 - 1830-07-29
Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27
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
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
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
Battle of Changsha (1852) 1852-09-11 - 1852-11-30

People

Queen Victoria age 7 months
Queen - United Kingdom
John Quincy Adams age 52
President - United States
Andrew Jackson age 52
President - United States
James Monroe age 61
President - United States
Martin Van Buren age 37
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 35
President - United States
James K. Polk age 24
President - United States
John Tyler age 29
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 19
President - United States
William Henry Harrison age 46
President - United States
Napoleon III age 11
President - France
Alexander I of Russia age 42
Emperor - Russian Empire
George III age 81
King - United Kingdom
Nicholas I of Russia age 23
Emperor - Russian Empire
William IV age 54
King - United Kingdom
George IV age 57
King - United Kingdom
Louis XVIII age 64
King - France
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 51
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Charles X of France age 62
King - France
Pedro I of Brazil age 21
Emperor - Brazil
Louis Philippe I age 46
King of the French - France
Victor Emmanuel II born 1820-03-14
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil born 1825-12-02
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 29
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 34
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I born 1823-04-25
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 26
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 25
President - Mexico
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 47
Shah - Iran
Sam Houston age 26
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 21
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Guadalupe Victoria age 33
President - Mexico
Vicente Guerrero age 37
President - Mexico
Daoguang Emperor age 37
Emperor - Imperial China
Jiaqing Emperor age 59
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 11
Shah - Iran
Charles Felix age 54
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 19
Emperor - Japan
Rafael Carrera age 4
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 23
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mariano Rivera Paz age 15
President - Guatemala
Gigar age 75
Emperor - Ethiopia
José Venancio López age 29
President - Guatemala
Franz Joseph I of Austria born 1830-08-18
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Sunjo of Joseon age 29
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 49
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 24
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Victor Emmanuel I age 60
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 52
President - France
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 17
President - France
José Joaquín de Herrera age 27
President - Mexico
Nicolás Bravo age 33
President - Mexico
Anastasio Bustamante age 39
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 25
President - Mexico
Valentín Gómez Farías age 38
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 17
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 22
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 30
President - Mexico
Melchor Múzquiz age 31
President - Mexico
Valentín Canalizo age 25
President - Mexico
Francisco Javier Echeverría age 22
President - Mexico
Pedro Vélez age 32
President - Mexico
Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 30
President - Mexico
José María Bocanegra age 32
President - Mexico
José Justo Corro age 25
President - Mexico
Miguel Barragán age 30
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 22
President - Mexico
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Klemens von Metternich age 46
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 31
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Canning age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 27
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 20
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 40
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 37
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 42
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 37
Vice President - United States
Daniel D. Tompkins age 45
Vice President - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 39
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 27
Vice President - United States
James Buchanan age 28
Secretary of State - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 15
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Daniel Webster age 37
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Addington age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Clay age 42
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 33
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 37
Secretary of War - United States
William L. Marcy age 33
Secretary of War - United States
William H. Crawford age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Livingston age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Louis McLane age 33
Secretary of State - United States
John Forsyth age 39
Secretary of State - United States
Abel P. Upshur age 29
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 23
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Richard Rush age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Ewing age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wirt age 47
Attorney General - United States
James Barbour age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Thomas Corwin age 25
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 32
Attorney General - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 23
Secretary of War - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 32
Secretary of War - United States
John Eaton (politician) age 29
Secretary of War - United States
Felix Grundy age 42
Attorney General - United States
William J. Duane age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 40
Secretary of War - United States
George M. Bibb age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John M. Berrien age 38
Attorney General - United States
Samuel D. Ingham age 40
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Forward age 33
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 15
Secretary of War - United States
John Nelson age 28
Secretary of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 16
Attorney General - United States
Henry D. Gilpin age 18
Attorney General - United States
William M. Meredith age 20
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 37
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Isaac Toucey age 27
Attorney General - United States
John Y. Mason age 20
Attorney General - United States
Peter Buell Porter age 46
Secretary of War - United States
George W. Crawford age 21
Secretary of War - United States
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 22
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh S. Legaré age 23
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Reverdy Johnson age 23
Attorney General - United States
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 27
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 23
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 19
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 20
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 38
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 27
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 37
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 13
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 29
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 31
Secretary of State - United States
William S. Derrick age 17
Secretary of State - United States
William Sturges Bourne age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Jacob L. Martin age 9
Secretary of State - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 10
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 15
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 11
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Davy Crockett age 33
House of Representatives - United States
William H. Seward age 18
Governor of New York - United States
Edward Everett age 25
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Hamilton Fish age 11
Governor of New York - United States
John B. Floyd age 13
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Eustis age 66
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Charles XIV John age 56
King - Sweden
Isabella II born 1830-10-10
Queen - Spain
Ferdinand VII age 35
King - Spain
Oscar I age 20
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 1
Napoleon age 50
Leo Tolstoy born 1828-09-09
Charles Darwin age 10
Ludwig van Beethoven age 49
Fyodor Dostoevsky born 1821-11-11
Friedrich Nietzsche born 1844-10-15
Thomas Edison born 1847-02-11
Charles Dickens age 7
Thomas Jefferson age 76
Otto von Bismarck age 4
Louis Pasteur born 1822-12-27
Richard Wagner age 6
Friedrich Engels born 1820-11-28
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky born 1840-05-07
John Adams age 84
Michael Faraday age 28
Dmitri Mendeleev born 1834-02-08
Giuseppe Verdi age 6
James Madison age 68
Simón Bolívar age 36
James Clerk Maxwell born 1831-06-13
Alexander Graham Bell born 1847-03-03
Ulysses S. Grant born 1822-04-27
Claude Monet born 1840-11-14
Florence Nightingale born 1820-05-12
James A. Garfield born 1831-11-19
Grover Cleveland born 1837-03-18
Andrew Johnson age 11
William McKinley born 1843-01-29
Rutherford B. Hayes born 1822-10-04
Benjamin Harrison born 1833-08-20
Gregor Mendel born 1822-07-20
Ada Lovelace age 4