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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

Queen Victoria age 11
Queen - United Kingdom
Andrew Jackson age 63
President - United States
Martin Van Buren age 48
President - United States
James Buchanan age 39
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 46
President - United States
James K. Polk age 35
President - United States
John Tyler age 40
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 31
President - United States
William Henry Harrison age 57
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 26
President - United States
Napoleon III age 22
President - France
Alexander II of Russia age 12
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 34
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 4 months
Emperor - Austrian Empire
William IV age 65
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 62
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Benito Juárez age 24
President - Mexico
Pedro I of Brazil age 32
Emperor - Brazil
Louis Philippe I age 57
King of the French - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 10
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 5
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 40
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 45
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 7
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 37
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 35
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 36
President - Mexico
Frederick William III of Prussia age 60
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 58
Shah - Iran
Sam Houston age 37
President - Republic of Texas
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar born 1831-07-17
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei born 1831-07-22
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor born 1831-07-17
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Albert age 32
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 48
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 23
Shah - Iran
Charles Felix age 65
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 30
Emperor - Japan
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 28
President - France
Tewodros II age 13
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 63
President - France
Cheoljong of Joseon born 1831-07-25
King - Joseon
Sunjo of Joseon age 40
King - Joseon
Valentín Gómez Farías age 49
President - Mexico
Heonjong of Joseon age 3
King - Joseon
Rafael Carrera age 15
President - Guatemala
Nicolás Bravo age 44
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 28
President - Mexico
Anastasio Bustamante age 50
President - Mexico
Juan Álvarez age 40
President - Mexico
Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 41
President - Mexico
José Joaquín de Herrera age 38
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 34
President - Mexico
Miguel Miramón born 1831-09-29
President - Mexico
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 32
President - Republic of Texas
Melchor Múzquiz age 42
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 18
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 33
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 41
President - Mexico
Miguel Barragán age 41
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 30
President - Mexico
Valentín Canalizo age 36
President - Mexico
Francisco Javier Echeverría age 33
President - Mexico
José Justo Corro age 36
President - Mexico
Manuel María Lombardini age 28
President - Mexico
José Ignacio Pavón age 40
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 36
President - Mexico
Félix María Zuloaga age 17
President - Mexico
Manuel Robles Pezuela age 13
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 24
President - Mexico
Juan Bautista Ceballos age 19
President - Mexico
Yohannes III age 34
Emperor - Ethiopia
Anson Jones age 32
President - Republic of Texas
Mariano Rivera Paz age 26
President - Guatemala
David G. Burnet age 42
President - Republic of Texas
José Venancio López age 40
President - Guatemala
José Bernardo Escobar age 33
President - Guatemala
Juan Antonio Martínez
President - Guatemala
Mariano Paredes (Guatemalan politician) age 31
President - Guatemala
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Klemens von Metternich age 57
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 42
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 38
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 31
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 51
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 53
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 48
Vice President - United States
William R. King age 44
Vice President - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 50
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 9
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 38
Vice President - United States
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 30
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 15
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Reşid Mehmed Pasha age 51
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha age 62
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha age 51
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mustafa Naili Pasha age 33
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Topal Izzet Mehmed Pasha age 39
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
İbrahim Sarim Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha age 18
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha age 18
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 26
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 21
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jefferson Davis age 22
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 27
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Daniel Webster age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 44
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Edward Everett age 36
Secretary of State - United States
Edwin Stanton age 16
Attorney General - United States
Lewis Cass age 48
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 44
Secretary of State - United States
Edward Livingston age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Louis McLane age 44
Secretary of State - United States
John Forsyth age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Abel P. Upshur age 40
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 20
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Ewing age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Caleb Cushing age 30
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 24
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 20
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Corwin age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 43
Attorney General - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 34
Secretary of War - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 15
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Eaton (politician) age 40
Secretary of War - United States
Felix Grundy age 53
Attorney General - United States
William J. Duane age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 51
Secretary of War - United States
George M. Bibb age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John M. Berrien age 49
Attorney General - United States
Samuel D. Ingham age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Forward age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 26
Secretary of War - United States
James Guthrie age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Nelson age 39
Secretary of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 27
Attorney General - United States
Henry D. Gilpin age 29
Attorney General - United States
William M. Meredith age 31
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Isaac Toucey age 38
Attorney General - United States
John Y. Mason age 31
Attorney General - United States
George W. Crawford age 32
Secretary of War - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 24
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 33
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh S. Legaré age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 34
Attorney General - United States
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 32
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 34
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 30
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 31
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset age 26
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 48
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 24
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 50
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 29
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William S. Derrick age 28
Secretary of State - United States
William Hunter age 25
Secretary of State - United States
Jacob L. Martin age 20
Secretary of State - United States
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby age 4
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle age 19
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea age 20
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet age 20
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 18
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland age 46
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 15
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 30
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 28
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 17
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton age 56
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland age 15
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 52
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Charles Williams-Wynn age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham age 31
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley age 28
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Thomas Milner Gibson age 24
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
J. W. Henley age 38
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore age 7
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Robert Nisbet-Hamilton age 27
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 42
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 22
Senate - United States