✦ History

Explore May 23, 1862 – May 23, 1862

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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
Siege of Corinth 1862-04-29 - 1862-05-30
Battle of Front Royal 1862-05-23 - 1862-05-23

People

Abraham Lincoln age 53
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 43
Queen - United Kingdom
Napoleon III age 54
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm I age 65
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 54
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 56
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 42
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 36
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 71
King - Belgium
Abdulaziz age 32
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 30
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 30
Emperor - Japan
Tongzhi Emperor age 6
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 46
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 31
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 30
King - Joseon
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 77
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Urbano Rattazzi age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Roger B. Taney age 85
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 52
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 61
Secretary Of State - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 54
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Edwin Stanton age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 68
Attorney General - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Andrew Johnson age 53
Governor Of Tennessee - United States
Isabella II age 31
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 36
King - Sweden
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 50
Viceroy - British Raj
Karl Marx age 44
Leo Tolstoy age 33
Charles Darwin age 53
Vincent van Gogh age 9
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 40
Friedrich Nietzsche age 17
Thomas Edison age 15
Sigmund Freud age 6
Charles Dickens age 50
Rabindranath Tagore age 1
Otto von Bismarck age 47
Nikola Tesla age 5
Louis Pasteur age 39
Richard Wagner age 49
Friedrich Engels age 41
Theodore Roosevelt age 3
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 22
Woodrow Wilson age 5
Max Planck age 4
Michael Faraday age 70
Dmitri Mendeleev age 28
Giuseppe Verdi age 48
James Clerk Maxwell age 30
Alexander Graham Bell age 15
Ulysses S. Grant age 40
Claude Monet age 21
Florence Nightingale age 42
James A. Garfield age 30
William Howard Taft age 4
Grover Cleveland age 25
Martin Van Buren age 79
James Buchanan age 71
William McKinley age 19
Millard Fillmore age 62
Rutherford B. Hayes age 39
Franklin Pierce age 57
Benjamin Disraeli age 57
Benjamin Harrison age 28
Gregor Mendel age 39
Chester A. Arthur age 32
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 54
Wilhelm II age 3
Pius XI age 4
Pius X age 26
Leo XIII age 52
Charles Babbage age 70
Benedict XV age 7
Carl Benz age 17
Paul von Hindenburg age 14
Edward VII age 20
Harriet Tubman age 40
Abdul Hamid II age 19
Robert E. Lee age 55
Georges Clemenceau age 20
Empress Dowager Cixi age 26
Alexander III of Russia age 17
Giuseppe Mazzini age 56
Philippe Pétain age 6
Leopold II of Belgium age 27
Cecil Rhodes age 8
Emperor Meiji age 9
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 197
Frederick Douglass age 44
Susan B. Anthony age 42
Arthur Balfour age 13
Adolphe Thiers age 65
Emmeline Pankhurst age 3
Mehmed VI age 1
Ferdinand Foch age 10
Porfirio Díaz age 31
H. H. Asquith age 9
Raymond Poincaré age 1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 46
Patrice de MacMahon age 53
Frederick III, German Emperor age 30
Umberto I of Italy age 18
Aristide Briand age 1 month
Mehmed V age 17
Itō Hirobumi age 20
Chulalongkorn age 8
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 61
Gustaf V of Sweden age 3
William Tecumseh Sherman age 42
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 32
Pyotr Stolypin age 1 month
Andrew Bonar Law age 3
Murad V age 21
Maximilian I of Mexico age 29
Ferdinand I of Austria age 69
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 5
Christian IX of Denmark age 44
Hjalmar Branting age 1
Alfonso XII age 4
Oscar II of Sweden age 33
Alexandra of Denmark age 17
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 68
Alexandre Millerand age 3
Amadeo I of Spain age 16
George Curzon age 3
Yuan Shikai age 2
Joseph Joffre age 10
Paul Doumer age 5
Stonewall Jackson age 38
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 69
Armand Fallières age 20
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 1
Jules Grévy age 54
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 24
Deodoro da Fonseca age 34
John J. Pershing age 1
Elihu Root age 17
Sam Houston age 69
Edmund Barton age 13
Bernhard von Bülow age 13
Charles Curtis age 2
Thomas R. Marshall age 8
Frank B. Kellogg age 5
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 18
Carol I of Romania age 23
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 2
Alfred Deakin age 5
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 25
Félix Faure age 21
Sergei Witte age 12
Émile Loubet age 23
Menelik II age 17
John C. Breckinridge age 41
Henry Wilson age 50
Georgy Lvov age 6 months
Jean Casimir-Perier age 14
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 11
Charles W. Fairbanks age 10
Paul Deschanel age 7
Abdur Rahman Khan age 22
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 5 months
Douglas Hyde age 2
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 24
George M. Dallas age 69
Garret Hobart age 17
Levi P. Morton age 38
William A. Wheeler age 42
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 14
Leo von Caprivi age 31
Schuyler Colfax age 39
Thomas A. Hendricks age 42
William Jennings Bryan age 2
Christian Michelsen age 5
Katsura Tarō age 14
Saigō Takamori age 34
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 11
Clara Barton age 40
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 15
Peter I of Serbia age 17
James S. Sherman age 6
Erich von Falkenhayn age 8 months
Georg Michaelis age 4
Georg von Hertling age 18
Constantin Fehrenbach age 10
Giovanni Giolitti age 19
Yamagata Aritomo age 23
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 43
Demetrios Vikelas age 27
Joseph Chamberlain age 25
Ismail Kemal age 18
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 9
Terauchi Masatake age 10