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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Mexican War of Independence 1810-09-16 - 1821-09-27
Battle of Chacabuco 1817-02-12 - 1817-02-12
Battle of Maipú 1818-04-05 - 1818-04-05
Battle of Boyacá 1819-08-07 - 1819-08-07
Peterloo Massacre 1819-08-16
Capture of Valdivia 1820-02-03 - 1820-02-04
Missouri Compromise 1820-03-06
Greek War of Independence 1821-02-21 - 1829-09-12
Battle of Carabobo 1821-06-24 - 1821-06-24
Battle of Pichincha 1822-05-24 - 1822-05-24
Independence of Brazil 1822-09-07
Battle of Lake Maracaibo 1823-07-24 - 1823-07-24
Monroe Doctrine 1823-12-02
Battle of Junín 1824-08-06 - 1824-08-06
Battle of Ayacucho 1824-12-09 - 1824-12-09
Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825-09-27
Decembrist revolt 1825-12-26
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
July Revolution 1830-07-27 - 1830-07-29
Belgian Revolution 1830-08-25 - 1831-07-21
Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27
Reform Act 1832 1832-06-07
Slavery Abolition Act 1833 1833-08-28
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
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
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
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
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
Emancipation reform of 1861 1861-03-03
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy 1861-03-17
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Battle of Fort Sumter 1861-04-12 - 1861-04-13
Battle of Philippi 1861-06-03
First Battle of Bull Run 1861-07-21
Battle of Wilson's Creek 1861-08-10
Battle of Port Royal 1861-11-07 - 1861-11-07
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21

People

Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 18
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 35
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 24
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 20
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 15
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 17
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 34
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset age 11
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 23
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 33
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 10
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Graham age 42
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Goulburn age 32
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 36
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 26
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 38
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 28
Secretary of State - United States
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 15
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William S. Derrick age 14
Secretary of State - United States
William Hunter age 10
Secretary of State - United States
William Sturges Bourne age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Jacob L. Martin age 6
Secretary of State - United States
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 4
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
William Huskisson age 46
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland age 32
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 1
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 16
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg age 38
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 37
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 14
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 3
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby age 18
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland age 1
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 17
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Williams-Wynn age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham age 17
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 17
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Arbuthnot age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey age 33
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Bathurst age 62
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 15
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Robert Nisbet-Hamilton age 12
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Andrew Johnson age 7
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 4
Senate - United States
John Sherman born 1823-05-10
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 8
Senate - United States
George W. Campbell age 47
Senate - United States
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 44
Senate - United States
William Pinkney age 52
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 10
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 3
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 5
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 3
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 64
Senate - United States
John Chandler age 54
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 14
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 21
Senate - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury born 1830-02-03
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wilberforce age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Davy Crockett age 30
House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler born 1819-06-30
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax born 1823-03-23
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks born 1819-09-07
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine born 1830-01-31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander H. Stephens age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler born 1818-11-05
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Elihu B. Washburne age 1 month
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon born 1827-10-24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sterling Price age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 67
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom born 1827-05-10
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo born 1822-02-21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Eustis age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook born 1826-01-22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna born 1843-08-10
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody born 1853-12-23
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh born 1818-10-27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers born 1827-06-25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross born 1823-05-30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Philip Yorke age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt born 1825-07-30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum born 1827-09-24
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 29
House of Representatives - United States
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler born 1836-09-10
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leland Stanford born 1824-03-09
Governor of California - United States
DeWitt Clinton age 47
Governor of New York - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 9 months
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 8
Governor of California - United States
George S. Boutwell born 1818-01-28
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Horatio Seymour age 6
Governor of New York - United States
Milton Latham born 1827-05-23
Governor of California - United States
Henry A. Wise age 9
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Weller age 4
Governor of California - United States
J. Neely Johnson born 1825-08-02
Governor of California - United States
John Bigler age 11
Governor of California - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 5
Governor of New York - United States
Oliver P. Morton born 1823-08-04
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew born 1818-05-31
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mahlon Dickerson age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John G. Downey born 1827-06-24
Governor of California - United States
Francis Lubbock age 1
Governor of Texas - United States
Edward Clark age 1
Governor of Texas - United States
George N. Briggs age 20
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
J. Pinckney Henderson age 8
Governor of Texas - United States
William Dennison Jr. age 11 months
Governor of Ohio - United States
Wilson Cary Nicholas age 55
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Tayler age 74
Governor of New York - United States
Littleton Waller Tazewell age 41
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Floyd age 33
Governor of Virginia - United States
John McDougal born 1818-01-01
Governor of California - United States
Levi Lincoln Jr. age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 18
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown born 1821-04-15
Governor of Georgia - United States
Marcus Morton age 31
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 21
Governor of Texas - United States
Jeremiah Morrow age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Ethan Allen Brown age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Samuel L. Southard age 29
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Wilson Shannon age 14
Governor of Ohio - United States
Thomas Worthington age 43
Governor of Ohio - United States
Robert Lucas age 35
Governor of Ohio - United States
Silas Wright age 21
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph Kent age 37
Governor of Maryland - United States
James C. Jones age 7
Governor of Tennessee - United States
George Troup age 36
Governor of Georgia - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 6
Governor of Texas - United States
William Branch Giles age 54
Governor of Virginia - United States
David Tod age 11
Governor of Ohio - United States
James Sevier Conway age 17
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jonathan Jennings age 32
Governor of Indiana - United States
William Pennington age 20
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Emory Washburn age 16
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry Gardner born 1819-06-14
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry S. Lane age 5
Governor of Indiana - United States
John H. Clifford age 7
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
James Pleasants age 47
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Walker Gilmer age 14
Governor of Virginia - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 4
Governor of Texas - United States
Hardin Richard Runnels born 1820-08-30
Governor of Texas - United States
William Smith age 20
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Davis age 29
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Carroll age 28
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Thomas Pratt age 12
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
James W. Henderson born 1817-08-15
Governor of Texas - United States
Reuben Wood age 24
Governor of Ohio - United States
Neill S. Brown age 6
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William B. Campbell age 9
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Archibald Yell age 19
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Selden Roane born 1817-01-08
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James Patton Preston age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
Henry Rector age 6 months
Governor of Arkansas - United States
David Campbell age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph Johnson age 30
Governor of Virginia - United States
John A. King age 28
Governor of New York - United States
Washington Hunt age 5
Governor of New York - United States
Ratliff Boon age 35
Governor of Indiana - United States
Joseph Vance age 30
Governor of Ohio - United States
Thomas S. Drew age 14
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Brooks age 64
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Letcher age 3
Governor of Virginia - United States
Augustus Bradford age 10
Governor of Maryland - United States
Francis Thomas age 17
Governor of Maryland - United States
Enos T. Throop age 32
Governor of New York - United States
James McDowell age 21
Governor of Virginia - United States
Duncan McArthur age 44
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allen Trimble age 32
Governor of Ohio - United States
John M. Patton age 19
Governor of Virginia - United States
Garret D. Wall age 33
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Newton Cannon age 35
Governor of Tennessee - United States