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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Siege of Boston 1775-04-19 - 1776-03-17
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03

People

Catherine the Great age 46
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 20
King - France
George III age 37
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 34
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 50
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 63
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 80
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 49
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Frederick the Great age 63
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick North, Lord North age 43
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 24
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 26
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 27
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 13
House of Representatives - United States
John Adams age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 41
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 44
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 40
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 59
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 49
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 42
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 59
King - Spain
Gustav III age 29
King - Sweden
John Hancock age 38
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
George Washington age 43
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon age 5
Ludwig van Beethoven age 4
Thomas Jefferson age 32
Adam Smith age 52
Benjamin Franklin age 69
James Madison age 24
John Quincy Adams age 8
Andrew Jackson age 8
James Watt age 39
James Monroe age 17
William Henry Harrison age 2
Marie Antoinette age 19
Maximilien Robespierre age 17
Edward Jenner age 26
Horatio Nelson age 16
Alexander Hamilton age 20
William IV age 9
Klemens von Metternich age 2
Paul I of Russia age 20
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 21
George IV age 12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 110
Georges Danton age 15
Louis XVIII age 19
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 7
Charles X of France age 17
Louis Philippe I age 1
Charles XIV John age 12
Aaron Burr age 19
Selim III age 13
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 12
Joachim Murat age 8
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 6
Mikhail Kutuzov age 29
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 28
Joseph Bonaparte age 7
George Canning age 5
Toussaint Louverture age 32
Samuel Adams age 52
Charles IV of Spain age 26
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 22
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 16
Michel Ney age 6
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 2
Elbridge Gerry age 31
George Clinton age 36
Daniel D. Tompkins age 1
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 32
William Wilberforce age 15
John Jay age 29
Charles XIII age 26
Frederick William II of Prussia age 30
Frederick VI of Denmark age 7
John Marshall age 19
Pyotr Bagration age 10
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 13
Tecumseh age 7
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 5
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 3
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 45
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 37
Jiaqing Emperor age 14
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 38
Benedict Arnold age 34
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 15
Charles Felix age 10
Rama II age 7
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 9
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 4
Edmund Randolph age 21
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 46
John Paul Jones age 28
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 6
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 11
Nathanael Greene age 33
John Rutledge age 35
Henry Knox age 25
John Burgoyne age 53
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 22
Alexandre Pétion age 5
Ioannis Kolettis age 2
Oliver Ellsworth age 30
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 44
William H. Crawford age 3
Thomas Gage age 57
Edward Livingston age 11
Horatio Gates age 48
Levin August von Bennigsen age 30
Lotf Ali Khan age 6
Henry Lee III age 19
Robert Smith age 17
Henry Clinton age 45
Bhimsen Thapa age 0 months
Anthony Wayne age 30
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 15
William Paterson age 29
William Huskisson age 5
DeWitt Clinton age 6
James McHenry age 21
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 50
Bernardo de Gálvez age 29
Peyton Randolph age 53
William Wirt age 2
John Breckinridge age 14
James Barbour age 1 month
William Bradford age 19
John Armstrong Jr. age 16
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 3
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 13
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 59
Federico Gravina age 18
Pavel Chichagov age 8
William Pinkney age 11
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 33
Cuthbert Collingwood age 26
Caleb Strong age 30
Henry Laurens age 51
Alexander J. Dallas age 16
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 16
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 8
Mahlon Dickerson age 5
James Jackson age 17
Tekle Giyorgis I age 24
Domingo Matheu age 10
Christopher Gore age 16
Edward Tiffin age 9
Wilson Cary Nicholas age 14
John Tayler age 33
John Sevier age 29
Peter Buell Porter age 1
Ádám Récsey age 5 months
Littleton Waller Tazewell age 7 months
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 1
Return J. Meigs Jr. age 10
Increase Sumner age 28
John Francis Mercer age 16
Aaron Ogden age 18
Jeremiah Morrow age 3
John Milledge age 18
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 9
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave age 20
John Henry age 24
Thomas Worthington age 2
James Sullivan age 31
William Branch Giles age 12
Morgan Lewis age 20
William H. Cabell age 3
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire age 15
James Pleasants age 5
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. age 6
José Miguel Pey age 12
James Patton Preston age 1
Moses Gill age 41
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby age 12
John Lambert age 29
John Tyler Sr. age 28