✦ History

Explore March 5, 1855 – May 29, 1857

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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
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) 1854-10-17 - 1855-09-11
Siege of Kars (1855) 1855-06-01 - 1855-11-29
Bombardment of Sveaborg 1855-08-09 - 1855-08-10
Battle of the Chernaya 1855-08-16 - 1855-08-16
Battle of Malakoff 1855-09-08 - 1855-09-08
Battle of Kinburn (1855) 1855-10-17 - 1855-10-17
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24
Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857-03-06
Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857-05-10 - 1858-11-01

People

Queen Victoria age 35
Queen - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 63
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 50
President - United States
Napoleon III age 46
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 36
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 24
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 34
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 29
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 64
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 31
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 59
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 61
President - Mexico
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 23
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 23
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 23
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 37
Emperor - Ethiopia
Cheoljong of Joseon age 23
King - Joseon
Rafael Carrera age 39
President - Guatemala
Juan Álvarez age 65
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 43
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 54
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 48
President - Mexico
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 34
Vice President - United States
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 55
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 40
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Jefferson Davis age 46
Secretary of War - United States
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 62
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 68
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 72
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 68
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 45
Attorney General - United States
Caleb Cushing age 55
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 48
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James Guthrie age 62
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 56
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 62
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 54
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 50
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 55
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby age 56
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 56
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 53
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 62
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 45
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 43
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 46
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 44
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 58
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 56
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 67
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 59
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 48
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 62
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 41
Senate - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Schuyler Colfax age 31
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 60
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 38
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Salmon P. Chase age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry A. Wise age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
J. Neely Johnson age 29
Governor of California - United States
John Bigler age 50
Governor of California - United States
Henry Gardner age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
Joseph Johnson age 69
Governor of Virginia - United States
John A. King age 67
Governor of New York - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Rodman M. Price age 38
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Myron H. Clark age 48
Governor of New York - United States
William Medill age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
William A. Newell age 37
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ashbel P. Willard age 34
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 72
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 35
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 19
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 37
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 35
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 36
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 7
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Isabella II age 24
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 55
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 50
King - Thailand
William III of the Netherlands age 38
King - Netherlands
Frederick VII of Denmark age 46
Monarch - Denmark
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 46
President - Liberia
Justo José de Urquiza age 53
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 64
President - Paraguay
Stephen Allen Benson age 38
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 45
President - Chile
Venancio Flores age 46
President - Uruguay
José Tadeo Monagas age 70
President - Venezuela
José Santos Guardiola age 38
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 41
President - Costa Rica
Jorge Córdova age 32
President - Bolivia
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 46
President - Bolivia
José Trinidad Cabañas age 49
President - Honduras
Manuel Basilio Bustamante age 69
President - Uruguay
Francisco Robles age 44
President - Ecuador
José María Plá age 60
President - Uruguay
José de Obaldía age 48
President - Colombia
Francisco Dueñas age 44
President - El Salvador
Rafael Campo age 41
President - El Salvador
José María San Martín age 43
President - El Salvador
José Santiago Bueso age 72
President - Honduras
Francisco de Aguilar age 45
President - Honduras
Peter Georg Bang age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Christian Hall age 43
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ age 42
Prime Minister - Denmark
Pierre de Decker age 43
Prime Minister - Belgium
Henry Sewell age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
William Fox age 42
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Henri de Brouckère age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Floris Adriaan van Hall age 63
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Justinus van der Brugghen age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 64
Prime Minister - Portugal
Charles-Mathias Simons age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 35
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainivoninahitriniony age 31
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thomas Gore Browne age 47
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 36
Abraham Lincoln age 46
Leo Tolstoy age 26
Charles Darwin age 46
Vincent van Gogh age 1
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 33
Friedrich Nietzsche age 10
Thomas Edison age 8
Sigmund Freud born 1856-05-06
Charles Dickens age 43
Otto von Bismarck age 39
Nikola Tesla born 1856-07-10
Louis Pasteur age 32
Richard Wagner age 41
Friedrich Engels age 34
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 14
Woodrow Wilson born 1856-12-28
Michael Faraday age 63
Dmitri Mendeleev age 21
Giuseppe Verdi age 41
James Clerk Maxwell age 23
Alexander Graham Bell age 8
Ulysses S. Grant age 32
Claude Monet age 14
Florence Nightingale age 34
James A. Garfield age 23
Grover Cleveland age 17
Andrew Johnson age 46
John Tyler age 64
William McKinley age 12
Millard Fillmore age 55
Rutherford B. Hayes age 32
Benjamin Harrison age 21
Gregor Mendel age 32
Chester A. Arthur age 25
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 47
Pius X age 19
Leo XIII age 45
Charles Babbage age 63
Benedict XV age 3 months
Carl Benz age 10
Paul von Hindenburg age 7
Edward VII age 13