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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
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
Battle of Plum Point Bend 1862-05-10 - 1862-05-10
Battle of Drewry's Bluff 1862-05-15 - 1862-05-15
Battle of Front Royal 1862-05-23 - 1862-05-23
First Battle of Winchester 1862-05-25 - 1862-05-25
Battle of Seven Pines 1862-05-31 - 1862-06-01
Battle of Memphis 1862-06-06
Battle of Port Republic 1862-06-09 - 1862-06-09
Seven Days Battles 1862-06-25 - 1862-07-01
Battle of Cedar Mountain 1862-08-09 - 1862-08-09
Second Battle of Bull Run 1862-08-28 - 1862-08-30
Battle of Antietam 1862-09-17
Battle of Cixi 1862-09-20 - 1862-09-21
Battle of Perryville 1862-10-08 - 1862-10-08
Battle of Fredericksburg 1862-12-11 - 1862-12-15
Battle of Chickasaw Bayou 1862-12-26 - 1862-12-29
Battle of Stones River 1862-12-31 - 1863-01-02
Emancipation Proclamation 1863-01-01
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Battle of Arkansas Post 1863-01-09 - 1863-01-11
First Battle of Charleston Harbor 1863-04-07 - 1863-04-07
Battle of Chancellorsville 1863-04-30 - 1863-05-06
Battle of Champion Hill 1863-05-16 - 1863-05-16
Siege of Vicksburg 1863-05-18 - 1863-07-04
Siege of Port Hudson 1863-05-22 - 1863-07-09
West Virginia admitted to Union 1863-06-20
Battle of Gettysburg 1863-07-01 - 1863-07-03
First Battle of Fort Wagner 1863-07-10 - 1863-07-11
Second Battle of Fort Wagner 1863-07-18
Battle of Chickamauga 1863-09-18 - 1863-09-20
Second Battle of Chattanooga 1863-11-23 - 1863-11-25
Battle of Fort Sanders 1863-11-29 - 1863-11-29
Sinking of USS Housatonic 1864-02-17 - 1864-02-17
Battle of Olustee 1864-02-20 - 1864-02-20
Red River Campaign 1864-03-10 - 1864-05-22
Third Battle of Nanjing 1864-03-14 - 1864-07-19
Battle of Mansfield 1864-04-08 - 1864-04-08
Battle of the Wilderness 1864-05-05 - 1864-05-07
Battle of Spotsylvania 1864-05-08 - 1864-05-21
Battle of Resaca 1864-05-13 - 1864-05-15
Battle of New Market 1864-05-15
Battle of Cold Harbor 1864-05-31 - 1864-06-12
Siege of Petersburg 1864-06-09 - 1865-03-25
Battle of Cherbourg (1864) 1864-06-19 - 1864-06-19
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain 1864-06-27 - 1864-06-27
Battle of Monocacy 1864-07-09 - 1864-07-09
Battle of Fort Stevens 1864-07-11 - 1864-07-12
Battle of Peachtree Creek 1864-07-20 - 1864-07-20
Battle of Atlanta 1864-07-22 - 1864-07-22
Battle of the Crater 1864-07-30
Battle of Mobile Bay 1864-08-05
First Geneva Convention 1864-08-22
Battle of Jonesborough 1864-08-31 - 1864-09-01
Third Battle of Winchester 1864-09-19 - 1864-09-19
Battle of Fisher's Hill 1864-09-21 - 1864-09-22
Battle of Cedar Creek 1864-10-19 - 1864-10-19
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01
Sherman's March to the Sea 1864-11-15 - 1864-12-21

People

Abraham Lincoln age 40
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 30
Queen - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 58
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 65
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 49
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 45
President - United States
Napoleon III age 41
President - France
Alexander II of Russia age 31
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 53
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Wilhelm I age 52
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 41
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 43
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 29
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 23
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 58
King - Belgium
Abdulaziz age 19
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 26
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 55
President - Mexico
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 18
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 18
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 18
Emperor - Imperial China
Gojong of the Korean Empire born 1852-09-08
King - Joseon
Daoguang Emperor age 67
Emperor - Imperial China
Tongzhi Emperor born 1856-04-27
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 31
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 34
President - Guatemala
José Ignacio Pavón age 58
President - Mexico
Yohannes III age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 19
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 18
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 54
King - Kingdom of Prussia
José Joaquín de Herrera age 57
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 47
President - Mexico
Juan Bautista Ceballos age 38
President - Mexico
Manuel María Lombardini age 47
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 49
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 37
President - Mexico
Juan Álvarez age 59
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 42
President - Mexico
Otto von Bismarck age 34
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bettino Ricasoli age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Carlo Farini age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 31
Prime Minister - Italy
Roger B. Taney age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 40
Vice President - United States
William R. King age 63
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 28
Vice President - United States
Ulysses S. Grant age 27
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 67
Secretary of State - United States
George B. McClellan age 22
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Winfield Scott age 63
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Edward Everett age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edwin Stanton age 34
Secretary of War - United States
Lewis Cass age 67
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 62
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 39
Secretary of State - United States
John Adams Dix age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Caleb Cushing age 49
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Corwin age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 62
Attorney General - United States
Howell Cobb age 34
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William P. Fessenden age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Bates age 56
Attorney General - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Holt age 42
Secretary of War - United States
James Guthrie age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William M. Meredith age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George W. Crawford age 50
Secretary of War - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Reverdy Johnson age 53
Attorney General - United States
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 51
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Hunter age 44
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Nathan Clifford age 46
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Charles Herries age 71
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 61
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 40
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 67
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 56
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 37
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 30
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 72
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 26
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 41
Senate - United States
Thomas Ewing age 59
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 53
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 36
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 34
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 68
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 57
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 38
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 36
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 47
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 54
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William A. Wheeler age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 26
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 33
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George S. Boutwell age 31
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 22
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 6
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody born 1853-12-23
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nathaniel P. Banks age 33
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Martin Van Buren age 67
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 14
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 31
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 2
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 30
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 19
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 23
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 31
King - Denmark
Oscar I age 50
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 45
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 41
Monarch - Denmark
Bartolomé Mitre age 28
President - Argentina
Rama III age 61
King - Thailand
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 40
President - Liberia
Justo José de Urquiza age 48
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 59
President - Paraguay
Fructuoso Rivera age 65
President - Uruguay
Gabriel García Moreno age 27
President - Ecuador
Stephen Allen Benson age 33
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 40
President - Chile
Manuel Bulnes age 49
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 57
President - Uruguay
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 38
Viceroy - British Raj
José Joaquín Pérez age 48
President - Chile
Venancio Flores age 41
President - Uruguay
Santiago Derqui age 40
President - Argentina
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 34
President - Liberia
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 65
President - Uruguay
José Gregorio Monagas age 54
President - Venezuela
Bernardo Berro age 46
President - Uruguay
José Rufino Echenique age 41
President - Peru
Manuel Felipe de Tovar age 46
President - Venezuela
Juan Lindo age 59
President - Honduras
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 29
President - Venezuela
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera age 51
President - Colombia
José Tadeo Monagas age 65
President - Venezuela
José María Obando age 54
President - Colombia
José Santos Guardiola age 33
President - Honduras
Atanasio Aguirre age 48
President - Uruguay
Pedro Gual Escandón age 66
President - Venezuela
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 35
President - Costa Rica
Julián Castro age 39
President - Venezuela
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 38
Viceroy - British Raj
John Lawrence age 38
Viceroy - British Raj
Jorge Córdova age 27
President - Bolivia
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 41
President - Bolivia