✦ History

Explore May 8, 1853 – May 31, 1855

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Events

California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) 1853-05-08 - 1855-05-31
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
Battle of Oltenița 1853-11-04 - 1853-11-04
Battle of Sinop 1853-11-30 - 1853-11-30
Battle of Başgedikler 1853-12-01 - 1853-12-01
Convention of Kanagawa 1854-03-31
Siege of Silistra (1854) 1854-05-15 - 1854-06-23
Battle of Kurekdere 1854-08-06 - 1854-08-06
Battle of Bomarsund 1854-08-08 - 1854-08-16
Battle of the Alma 1854-09-20 - 1854-09-20
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) 1854-10-17 - 1855-09-11
Battle of Balaclava 1854-10-25 - 1854-10-25
Battle of Inkerman 1854-11-05 - 1854-11-05

People

Robert E. Lee age 46
Georges Clemenceau age 11
Empress Dowager Cixi age 17
Alexander III of Russia age 8
Giuseppe Mazzini age 47
Lord Kelvin age 28
Samuel Morse age 62
Klemens von Metternich age 80
Leopold II of Belgium age 18
Cecil Rhodes born 1853-07-05
Emperor Meiji age 6 months
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 42
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 188
Frederick Douglass age 35
Wilhelm I age 56
Susan B. Anthony age 33
Arthur Balfour age 4
Benito Juárez age 47
Adolphe Thiers age 56
Empress Elisabeth of Austria age 15
Ferdinand Foch age 1
Porfirio Díaz age 22
H. H. Asquith age 7 months
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 37
Patrice de MacMahon age 44
Frederick III, German Emperor age 21
Umberto I of Italy age 9
Abdulaziz age 23
Mehmed V age 8
Itō Hirobumi age 11
Chulalongkorn born 1853-09-20
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 52
Ludwig II of Bavaria age 7
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 49
Liliʻuokalani age 14
William Tecumseh Sherman age 33
Prince Albert age 33
Charles XV age 27
Murad V age 12
Maximilian I of Mexico age 20
Ferdinand I of Austria age 60
George I of Greece age 7
Christian IX of Denmark age 35
Oscar II of Sweden age 24
Alexandra of Denmark age 8
Lajos Kossuth age 50
Amadeo I of Spain age 7
John Wilkes Booth age 15
Joseph Joffre age 1
John A. Macdonald age 38
Stonewall Jackson age 29
Armand Fallières age 11
Léon Bourgeois age 1
Jules Grévy age 45
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 15
Deodoro da Fonseca age 25
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 47
George Armstrong Custer age 13
Auguste Beernaert age 23
Elihu Root age 8
Edmund Barton age 4
Bernhard von Bülow age 4
Aleksey Brusilov born 1853-08-03
Thomas R. Marshall born 1854-03-14
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 9
Carol I of Romania age 14
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 16
Félix Faure age 12
Paul Kruger age 27
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 5
Sergei Witte age 3
Émile Loubet age 14
Menelik II age 8
Jean Casimir-Perier age 5
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 2
Charles W. Fairbanks age 12 months
Paul Deschanel born 1855-02-13
Abdur Rahman Khan age 13
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 15
George M. Dallas age 60
Edward Smith age 3
Victoria, Princess Royal age 12
Garret Hobart age 8
Levi P. Morton age 28
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 4
Leo von Caprivi age 22
Pavel Nakhimov age 50
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 54
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 42
Robert FitzRoy age 47
Katsura Tarō age 5
Saigō Takamori age 25
Tōgō Heihachirō age 5
Adlai Stevenson I age 17
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 2
Clara Barton age 31
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 6
Peter I of Serbia age 8
Maria II of Portugal age 34
Isma'il Pasha age 22
August von Mackensen age 3
Jérôme Bonaparte age 68
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 41
Georg von Hertling age 9
Constantin Fehrenbach age 1
Giovanni Giolitti age 10
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 11
Lew Wallace age 26
Yamagata Aritomo age 14
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 34
Demetrios Vikelas age 18
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 58
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 10
Joseph Chamberlain age 16
Ismail Kemal age 9
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 8 months
Terauchi Masatake age 1
Francesco Crispi age 34
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 8
Bartolomé Mitre age 31
George B. McClellan age 26
Wilfrid Laurier age 11
Nikola Pašić age 7
David Farragut age 51
Matsukata Masayoshi age 18
Floriano Peixoto age 14
Jules Ferry age 21
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 1
Francisco Solano López age 26
Charlotte of Belgium age 12
Allan Octavian Hume age 23
Victoriano Huerta age 2
Philip Henry Sheridan age 22
Lucretia Mott age 60
Gyula Andrássy age 30
Leland Stanford age 29
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 15
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 12
Prudente de Morais age 11
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 1 month
Otto, King of Bavaria age 5
Alexander Mackenzie age 31
Kate Sheppard age 6
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 5 months
Hong Xiuquan age 39
Li Hongzhang age 30
Luigi Cadorna age 2
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 28
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 6
George Meade age 37
George Reid age 8
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 35
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 4
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 70
Saionji Kinmochi age 3
Bettino Ricasoli age 44
Antonio Salandra born 1853-08-13
Rodrigues Alves age 4
Afonso Pena age 5
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 50
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 71
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 43
John Abbott age 32
Dadabhai Naoroji age 27
Julio Argentino Roca age 9
Abraham Kuyper age 15
Agostino Depretis age 40
Sidney Sonnino age 6
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 17
Matthew C. Perry age 59
Georg V of Hanover age 33
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 50
Marie Henriette of Austria age 16
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 8
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 55
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 25
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 1
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 5 months
Urbano Rattazzi age 44
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 48
Campos Sales age 12
Mikhail Skobelev age 9
Paolo Boselli age 14
Hussein Kamel of Egypt born 1853-10-21
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 41
William I of Württemberg age 71
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 3
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 56
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 19
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 5
John Hay age 14
Robert Borden born 1854-06-26
Takahashi Korekiyo born 1854-07-27
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 26
Tewfik Pasha age 5 months
Louis-Jules Trochu age 38
Albert I of Saxony age 25
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 25
Sophie of Württemberg age 34
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia born 1853-10-17