✦ 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 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
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
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

Queen Victoria age 33
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 48
President - United States
Napoleon III age 45
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 35
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 56
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 33
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 27
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 62
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 30
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 59
President - Mexico
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 21
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 21
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 21
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 35
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 37
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 56
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 22
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 21
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 57
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Ewart Gladstone age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jefferson Davis age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Winfield Scott age 66
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 66
Secretary Of State - United States
Caleb Cushing age 53
Attorney General - United States
James Guthrie age 60
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 60
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 54
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Isabella II age 22
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 53
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 35
Abraham Lincoln age 44
Leo Tolstoy age 24
Charles Darwin age 44
Vincent van Gogh age 1 month
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 31
Friedrich Nietzsche age 8
Thomas Edison age 6
Charles Dickens age 41
Otto von Bismarck age 38
Louis Pasteur age 30
Richard Wagner age 39
Friedrich Engels age 32
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 13
Michael Faraday age 61
Dmitri Mendeleev age 19
Giuseppe Verdi age 39
James Clerk Maxwell age 21
Alexander Graham Bell age 6
Ulysses S. Grant age 31
Claude Monet age 12
Florence Nightingale age 33
James A. Garfield age 21
Grover Cleveland age 16
Martin Van Buren age 70
Andrew Johnson age 44
James Buchanan age 62
John Tyler age 63
William McKinley age 10
Millard Fillmore age 53
Rutherford B. Hayes age 30
Benjamin Disraeli age 48
Benjamin Harrison age 19
Gregor Mendel age 30
Chester A. Arthur age 23
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 45
Pius X age 17
Leo XIII age 43
Charles Babbage age 61
Benedict XV born 1854-11-21
Carl Benz age 8
Paul von Hindenburg age 5
Edward VII age 11
Harriet Tubman age 31
Abdul Hamid II age 10
Robert E. Lee age 46
Georges Clemenceau age 11
Empress Dowager Cixi age 17
Alexander III of Russia age 8
Giuseppe Mazzini age 47
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
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
William Tecumseh Sherman age 33
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 23
Charles XV age 27
Murad V age 12
Maximilian I of Mexico age 20
Ferdinand I of Austria age 60
Christian IX of Denmark age 35
Oscar II of Sweden age 24
Alexandra of Denmark age 8
Amadeo I of Spain age 7
Joseph Joffre age 1
Stonewall Jackson age 29
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 60
Armand Fallières age 11
William H. Seward age 52
Jules Grévy age 45
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 15
Deodoro da Fonseca age 25
Elihu Root age 8
Sam Houston age 60
Edmund Barton age 4
Bernhard von Bülow age 4
Thomas R. Marshall born 1854-03-14
Hannibal Hamlin age 43
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 9
Carol I of Romania age 14
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 16
Félix Faure age 12
Sergei Witte age 3
Émile Loubet age 14
Menelik II age 8
John C. Breckinridge age 32
Henry Wilson age 41
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
Garret Hobart age 8
Levi P. Morton age 28
William A. Wheeler age 33
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 4
Leo von Caprivi age 22
Schuyler Colfax age 30
Thomas A. Hendricks age 33
Katsura Tarō age 5
Saigō Takamori age 25
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 2
Clara Barton age 31
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 6
Peter I of Serbia age 8
Georg von Hertling age 9
Constantin Fehrenbach age 1
Giovanni Giolitti age 10
Yamagata Aritomo age 14
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 34
Demetrios Vikelas age 18
Joseph Chamberlain age 16
Ismail Kemal age 9
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 8 months
Terauchi Masatake age 1
Francesco Crispi age 34
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
Victoriano Huerta age 2
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 15
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 12
Prudente de Morais age 11
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 1 month
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 5 months
Hong Xiuquan age 39
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
Julio Argentino Roca age 9
Abraham Kuyper age 15
Agostino Depretis age 40
Sidney Sonnino age 6
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 1