✦ History

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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Belgian Revolution 1830-08-25 - 1831-07-21
Nat Turner's slave rebellion 1831-08-21 - 1831-08-23
Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27
Reform Act 1832 1832-06-07
Slavery Abolition Act 1833 1833-08-28
Texas Revolution 1835-10-02 - 1836-04-21
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
Battle of the Alamo 1836-02-23 - 1836-03-06
Battle of San Jacinto 1836-04-21
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
Repeal of the Corn Laws 1846-06-25
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
Sonderbund War 1847-11-03 - 1847-11-29
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
Compromise of 1850 1850-09-09 - 1850-09-20
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
Battle of Nanjing (1853) 1853-03-08 - 1853-03-19
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
Kansas–Nebraska Act 1854-05-30
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
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
Battle of Sanhe 1858-11-07 - 1858-11-18
Battle of Solferino 1859-06-24
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry 1859-10-16 - 1859-10-18
Publication of On the Origin of Species 1859-11-24
Battle of Anqing 1860-04-01 - 1861-09-05
Expedition of the Thousand 1860-05-05 - 1860-10-26
Battle of Palikao 1860-09-21
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895

People

William H. Seward age 29
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 21
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 18
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 53
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 22
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 22
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 20
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 32
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 31
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 24
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 35
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 29
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 78
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 17
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 21
House of Representatives - United States
John Quincy Adams age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 11 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Davy Crockett age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Addington age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 11 months
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 23
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 12
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Elihu B. Washburne age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sterling Price age 21
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 61
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Ramsey age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna born 1843-08-10
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 82
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Napier age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody born 1853-12-23
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler born 1836-09-10
House of Representatives - United States
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Lowry-Corry age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 43
House of Representatives - United States
William Sturges Bourne age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 14
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 23
Governor of California - United States
George S. Boutwell age 12
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Horatio Seymour age 20
Governor of New York - United States
Milton Latham age 3
Governor of California - United States
Henry A. Wise age 24
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Weller age 18
Governor of California - United States
J. Neely Johnson age 5
Governor of California - United States
John Bigler age 25
Governor of California - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 19
Governor of New York - United States
John G. Downey age 3
Governor of California - United States
George N. Briggs age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
J. Pinckney Henderson age 22
Governor of Texas - United States
William Dennison Jr. age 15
Governor of Ohio - United States
Littleton Waller Tazewell age 56
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Floyd age 47
Governor of Virginia - United States
John McDougal age 13
Governor of California - United States
Levi Lincoln Jr. age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 32
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 9
Governor of Georgia - United States
Marcus Morton age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 35
Governor of Texas - United States
Samuel L. Southard age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Wilson Shannon age 29
Governor of Ohio - United States
Robert Lucas age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Silas Wright age 35
Governor of New York - United States
James C. Jones age 21
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 21
Governor of Texas - United States
James Sevier Conway age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Pennington age 34
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Emory Washburn age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry Gardner age 11
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John H. Clifford age 21
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Walker Gilmer age 28
Governor of Virginia - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 19
Governor of Texas - United States
Hardin Richard Runnels age 10
Governor of Texas - United States
William Smith age 35
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Davis age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Carroll age 42
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Thomas Pratt age 26
Governor of Maryland - United States
James W. Henderson age 13
Governor of Texas - United States
Reuben Wood age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
Neill S. Brown age 20
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William B. Campbell age 23
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Archibald Yell age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Selden Roane age 13
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry Rector age 14
Governor of Arkansas - United States
David Campbell age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph Johnson age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
John A. King age 43
Governor of New York - United States
Washington Hunt age 19
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph Vance age 44
Governor of Ohio - United States
Thomas S. Drew age 28
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Letcher age 17
Governor of Virginia - United States
Francis Thomas age 31
Governor of Maryland - United States
Enos T. Throop age 46
Governor of New York - United States
James McDowell age 35
Governor of Virginia - United States
Duncan McArthur age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
John M. Patton age 33
Governor of Virginia - United States
Newton Cannon age 49
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Trousdale age 40
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 18
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Wyndham Robertson age 27
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 20
Governor of Maryland - United States
Rodman M. Price age 14
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Enoch Louis Lowe age 10
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas W. Bartley age 18
Governor of Ohio - United States
Mordecai Bartley age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Seabury Ford age 29
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Bebb age 28
Governor of Ohio - United States
Myron H. Clark age 24
Governor of New York - United States
James Whitcomb age 35
Governor of Indiana - United States
William Schley age 44
Governor of Georgia - United States
William Medill age 28
Governor of Ohio - United States
Abram A. Hammond age 16
Governor of Indiana - United States
Samuel Turell Armstrong age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William A. Newell age 13
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas King Carroll age 37
Governor of Maryland - United States
Daniel Haines age 30
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Philemon Dickerson age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Elias P. Seeley age 39
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 20
Governor of Indiana - United States
Peter D. Vroom age 39
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William C. Bouck age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Richard C. Byrd age 26
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Samuel Adams (Arkansas politician) age 25
Governor of Arkansas - United States
David Wallace age 31
Governor of Indiana - United States
Noah Noble age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
James B. Ray age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Young age 28
Governor of New York - United States
Ashbel P. Willard age 10
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Munford Gregory age 26
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Howard age 41
Governor of Maryland - United States
Charles C. Stratton age 34
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George Franklin Fort age 21
Governor of New Jersey - United States
James Thomas age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
John Rutherfoord age 38
Governor of Virginia - United States
Paris C. Dunning age 24
Governor of Indiana - United States
Samuel Bigger age 28
Governor of Indiana - United States
Thomas Veazey age 56
Governor of Maryland - United States
Daniel Martin age 51
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Grason age 42
Governor of Maryland - United States
Charles Smith Olden age 31
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George W. Towns age 29
Governor of Georgia - United States
Herschel V. Johnson age 18
Governor of Georgia - United States
William A. Wheeler age 11
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney born 1835-09-15
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 11
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 12
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton born 1847-06-28
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles XIV John age 67
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 2 months
Queen - Spain
Ferdinand VII age 46
King - Spain
Charles XV age 4
King - Sweden
Bahadur Shah Zafar age 55
Mughal Emperor - Mughal Empire
Oscar I age 31
King - Sweden
William I of the Netherlands age 58
King - Netherlands
Ludwig I of Bavaria age 44
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
William II of the Netherlands age 38
King - Netherlands
Mongkut age 26
King - Thailand
William III of the Netherlands age 13
King - Netherlands
Christian VIII age 44
Monarch - Denmark
Frederick VII of Denmark age 22
Monarch - Denmark
Frederick VI of Denmark age 62
Monarch - Denmark
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 19
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Ernest Augustus of Hanover age 59
King of Hanover - Kingdom of Hanover
Rama III age 42
King - Thailand
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 20
King of the Two Sicilies - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Francis II of the Two Sicilies born 1836-01-16
King of the Two Sicilies - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Georg V of Hanover age 11
King of Hanover - Kingdom of Hanover
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 21
President - Liberia
John of Saxony age 29
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 33
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
José Antonio Páez age 40
President - Venezuela
Anthony, King of Saxony age 75
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Justo José de Urquiza age 29
President - Argentina