✦ 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

Leopold II of Tuscany age 55
Adelaide of Austria age 30
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 48
Teófilo Braga age 10
James Longstreet age 32
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 31
Alexei Kuropatkin age 5
José Antonio Páez age 62
Georg I of Saxony age 20
Louis IV of Hesse age 15
John Sparrow David Thompson age 7
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 35
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 27
P. G. T. Beauregard age 34
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 43
Hermes da Fonseca born 1855-05-12
Emilio Castelar age 20
Paul von Rennenkampf born 1854-04-29
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 67
Charles I of Württemberg age 30
Louise of the Netherlands age 24
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany age 1 month
José Manuel Balmaceda age 12
Juan José Flores age 52
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 34
Richard Cobden age 48
Midhat Pasha age 30
Roque Sáenz Peña age 2
Tomás Estrada Palma age 17
Kiyoura Keigo age 3
Luigi Carlo Farini age 40
Robert Todd Lincoln age 9
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 30
Andrew Mellon born 1855-03-24
Francesc Pi i Margall age 29
Otto Liman von Sanders born 1855-02-17
Prince Louis of Battenberg born 1854-05-24
Nicolás Avellaneda age 15
Bernardino Machado age 2
Ambrose Burnside age 28
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 14
Luigi Luzzatti age 12
Yohannes IV age 15
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 86
Karl Nesselrode age 72
Tokugawa Iemochi age 6
Empress Myeongseong age 1
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 51
Maria Anna of Savoy age 49
Maria Pia of Savoy age 5
Charles Tupper age 31
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 62
Émile Combes age 17
Ōyama Iwao age 10
Joseph Gallieni age 4
J. E. B. Stuart age 20
Marco Minghetti age 34
Giuseppe Saracco age 31
Alessandro Fortis age 10
Alexander H. Stephens age 41
François Achille Bazaine age 42
Charles Dupuy age 1
Nogi Maresuke age 3
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 20
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 22
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 46
Princess Louise of Prussia age 14
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 26
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry age 54
Mackenzie Bowell age 29
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 8
Titu Maiorescu age 13
Erik Gustaf Boström age 11
John French age 7 months
Giovanni Lanza age 43
Edwin Stanton age 38
Osman Nuri Pasha age 21
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 25
Radomir Putnik age 6
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 28
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 6
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 61
Vicente López y Planes age 68
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 63
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 17
Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 65
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau age 6
Zeng Guofan age 41
Heungseon Daewongun age 32
Alexander von Kluck age 6
Braxton Bragg age 36
Benedetto Cairoli age 28
Henry Halleck age 38
Manuel González age 19
Valentín Gómez Farías age 72
Enomoto Takeaki age 16
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 65
Archduke John of Austria age 71
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 60
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 33
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 21
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 13
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 75
Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870) age 45
Princess Maria Annunciata of the Two Sicilies age 10
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 10
Stefan Stambolov born 1854-01-30
Carlos Pellegrini age 6
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 15
Sanford B. Dole age 9
Joseph Hooker age 38
Sanjō Sanetomi age 16
Luigi Pelloux age 14
Nicolás Bravo age 66
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner born 1854-03-23
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 20
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 27
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 25
Alfred von Waldersee age 21
Empress Shōken age 4
Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia age 9
José Evaristo Uriburu age 21
Gabriel García Moreno age 31
Alexandre Ribot age 11
Eloy Alfaro age 10
Manuel de Arriaga age 12
Eduardo López de Romaña age 6
José Canalejas born 1854-07-31
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 8
Nubar Pasha age 28
Mariano Arista age 50
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 7
Frederick Francis II age 30
Karl von Bülow age 7
Frederick Francis III age 2
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 56
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands age 43
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Sardinia age 52
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 28
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 10
Luis Sáenz Peña age 31
Charilaos Trikoupis age 20
Stephen Allen Benson age 36
Robert Themptander age 9
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 41
Samuel J. Tilden age 39
Henri Brisson age 17
Jules Méline age 14
Thomas Gage age 135
Victorino de la Plaza age 12
Manuel Quintana age 17
Gunnar Knudsen age 4
Antonio Maura age 0 months
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 21
Winfield Scott Hancock age 29
Albert Sidney Johnston age 50
Estanislao Figueras age 33
Katsu Kaishū age 30
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 64
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 35
Hermann von Eichhorn age 5
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 4
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 30
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 70
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia age 3
Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg age 5 months
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria age 3
Charles Rogier age 52
José María Iglesias age 30
Manuel Bulnes age 53
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 67
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 28
Manuel Oribe age 60
Arvid Posse age 33
Carl Johan Thyselius age 41
Cyrus West Field age 33
Edward Douglass White age 7
Louis McLane age 66
William M. Evarts age 35
Thomas F. Bayard age 24
John W. Foster age 17
Walter Q. Gresham age 21
William R. Day age 4
Boutros Ghali age 7
Spyridon Lambros age 2
Jørgen Løvland age 5
Nicholas Golitsyn age 3
Ivan Goremykin age 13
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 41
A. P. Hill age 27
Juan Álvarez age 63
Prince Gong age 20
George Dewey age 15
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 4
Damat Ferid Pasha age 4 months
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 11
Prince Charles of Prussia age 51
Marie of Prussia age 27
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 27
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies age 36