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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
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
Battle of Fort Henry 1862-02-06 - 1862-02-06
Battle of Fort Donelson 1862-02-11 - 1862-02-16
Battle of Island Number Ten 1862-02-28 - 1862-04-08
Battle of Hampton Roads 1862-03-08 - 1862-03-09
First Battle of Kernstown 1862-03-23 - 1862-03-23
Battle of Shiloh 1862-04-06 - 1862-04-07
Capture of New Orleans 1862-04-25
Siege of Corinth 1862-04-29 - 1862-05-30

People

Abraham Lincoln age 27
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 17
Queen - United Kingdom
Andrew Jackson age 69
President - United States
Martin Van Buren age 54
President - United States
James Buchanan age 45
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 52
President - United States
James K. Polk age 41
President - United States
John Tyler age 46
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 37
President - United States
William Henry Harrison age 63
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 32
President - United States
Napoleon III age 28
President - France
Alexander II of Russia age 18
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
William IV age 71
King - United Kingdom
Wilhelm I age 39
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 28
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 30
President - Mexico
Louis Philippe I age 63
King of the French - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 16
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 11
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 51
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdulaziz age 6
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 13
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 43
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 42
President - Mexico
Sam Houston age 43
President - Republic of Texas
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 5
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 5
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 5
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Albert age 38
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 54
Emperor - Imperial China
Tongzhi Emperor born 1856-04-27
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 29
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 36
Emperor - Japan
Tewodros II age 19
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 21
President - Guatemala
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 38
President - Republic of Texas
José Ignacio Pavón age 46
President - Mexico
Yohannes III age 40
Emperor - Ethiopia
Anson Jones age 38
President - Republic of Texas
Mariano Rivera Paz age 32
President - Guatemala
José Venancio López age 46
President - Guatemala
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 6
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Heonjong of Joseon age 9
King - Joseon
Cheoljong of Joseon age 5
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 66
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 41
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 69
President - France
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 34
President - France
José Joaquín de Herrera age 44
President - Mexico
Nicolás Bravo age 50
President - Mexico
Anastasio Bustamante age 56
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 42
President - Mexico
Valentín Gómez Farías age 55
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 34
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 40
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 47
President - Mexico
Valentín Canalizo age 42
President - Mexico
Francisco Javier Echeverría age 39
President - Mexico
Juan Bautista Ceballos age 25
President - Mexico
José Justo Corro age 42
President - Mexico
Manuel María Lombardini age 34
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 39
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 36
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 24
President - Mexico
Juan Álvarez age 46
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 30
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 63
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 26
Prime Minister - Italy
Robert Peel age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 37
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bettino Ricasoli age 27
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 28
Prime Minister - Italy
Roger B. Taney age 59
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 27
Vice President - United States
William R. King age 50
Vice President - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 56
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 15
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 44
Vice President - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 32
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 27
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John C. Calhoun age 54
Secretary of State - United States
William H. Seward age 35
Secretary of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 54
Secretary of State - United States
George B. McClellan age 10
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Winfield Scott age 50
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Edward Everett age 42
Secretary of State - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 28
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edwin Stanton age 22
Secretary of War - United States
Lewis Cass age 54
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 50
Secretary of State - United States
John Forsyth age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Abel P. Upshur age 46
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 26
Secretary of State - United States
John Adams Dix age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Levi Woodbury age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Ewing age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 37
Secretary of War - United States
Caleb Cushing age 36
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 30
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 26
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Corwin age 42
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 49
Attorney General - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 40
Secretary of War - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 21
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Felix Grundy age 59
Attorney General - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 57
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 43
Attorney General - United States
George M. Bibb age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Forward age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 32
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Holt age 30
Secretary of War - United States
James Guthrie age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Nelson age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 33
Attorney General - United States
Henry D. Gilpin age 35
Attorney General - United States
William M. Meredith age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Isaac Toucey age 44
Attorney General - United States
John Y. Mason age 37
Attorney General - United States
George W. Crawford age 38
Secretary of War - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 30
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh S. Legaré age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 40
Attorney General - United States
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 38
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 37
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 54
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 30
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 35
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William S. Derrick age 34
Secretary of State - United States
William Hunter age 31
Secretary of State - United States
Jacob L. Martin age 26
Secretary of State - United States
John Charles Herries age 58
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 48
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 28
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 24
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 59
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 13
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 28
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 30
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 23
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 55
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 26
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 23
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 35
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 41
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William A. Wheeler age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 18
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Elihu B. Washburne age 20
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sterling Price age 27
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 67
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Ramsey age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 10
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 age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 88
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom