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Explore July 11, 1846 – January 22, 1866

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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02
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
Battle of Fort Sumter 1861-04-12 - 1861-04-13
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
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
Battle of Franklin 1864-11-30
Battle of Nashville 1864-12-15 - 1864-12-16
First Battle of Fort Fisher 1864-12-23 - 1864-12-27
Second Battle of Fort Fisher 1865-01-13 - 1865-01-15
Battle of Waynesboro (1865) 1865-03-02 - 1865-03-02
Battle of Averasborough 1865-03-16 - 1865-03-16
Battle of Bentonville 1865-03-19 - 1865-03-21
Battle of Five Forks 1865-04-01
Battle of Sailor's Creek 1865-04-06
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Battle of Appomattox Court House 1865-04-09
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865-04-14
Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution 1865-12-06

People

Abraham Lincoln age 37
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 27
Queen - United Kingdom
Andrew Johnson age 37
President - United States
James Buchanan age 55
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 61
President - United States
James K. Polk age 50
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 46
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 41
President - United States
Napoleon III age 38
President - France
Alexander II of Russia age 28
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 50
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 11
King - Belgium
Wilhelm I age 49
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 38
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 40
President - Mexico
Louis Philippe I age 72
King of the French - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 26
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 20
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 55
King - Belgium
Abdulaziz age 16
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 23
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 53
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 52
President - Mexico
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 14
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 14
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 14
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Albert age 47
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Gojong of the Korean Empire born 1852-09-08
King - Joseon
Daoguang Emperor age 63
Emperor - Imperial China
Tongzhi Emperor born 1856-04-27
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 38
Shah - Iran
Tewodros II age 28
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 30
President - Guatemala
José Ignacio Pavón age 55
President - Mexico
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 43
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 31
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 15
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Heonjong of Joseon age 18
King - Joseon
Cheoljong of Joseon age 14
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 50
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 79
President - France
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 43
President - France
José Joaquín de Herrera age 54
President - Mexico
Nicolás Bravo age 59
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 52
President - Mexico
Valentín Gómez Farías age 65
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 43
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 49
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 57
President - Mexico
Juan Bautista Ceballos age 35
President - Mexico
Manuel María Lombardini age 43
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 49
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 46
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 34
President - Mexico
Juan Álvarez age 56
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 39
President - Mexico
Otto von Bismarck age 31
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich age 73
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 35
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bettino Ricasoli age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Carlo Farini age 33
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 27
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 38
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 36
Vice President - United States
William R. King age 60
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 25
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 54
Vice President - United States
Ulysses S. Grant age 24
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 43
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 64
Secretary of State - United States
George B. McClellan age 19
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Winfield Scott age 60
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Edward Everett age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Edwin Stanton age 31
Secretary of War - United States
Lewis Cass age 63
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 59
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 49
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 36
Secretary of State - United States
John Adams Dix age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Caleb Cushing age 46
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 40
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 35
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Corwin age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 58
Attorney General - United States
Howell Cobb age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William P. Fessenden age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Bates age 52
Attorney General - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Holt age 39
Secretary of War - United States
James Guthrie age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nathan Clifford age 42
Attorney General - United States
William M. Meredith age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Isaac Toucey age 53
Attorney General - United States
James Speed age 34
Attorney General - United States
John Y. Mason age 47
Attorney General - United States
George W. Crawford age 47
Secretary of War - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Reverdy Johnson age 50
Attorney General - United States
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 47
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 54
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 50
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Hunter age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 46
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 66
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby age 48
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland age 31
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 67
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Robert Nisbet-Hamilton age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 58
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John C. Calhoun age 64
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 53
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 34
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 26
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 69
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 23
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 37
Senate - United States
Thomas Ewing age 56
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 50
Senate - United States
George Henry Williams age 23
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 33
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 30
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 64
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 35
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 32
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 44
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 50
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 79
House of Representatives - United States
James A. Garfield age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William A. Wheeler age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 23
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 85
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sterling Price age 36
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 28
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 77
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 19
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 2
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody born 1853-12-23
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leland Stanford age 22
Governor of California - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 38
Governor of California - United States