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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03

People

Catherine the Great age 49
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 24
King - France
George III age 40
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 37
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 67
Emperor - Imperial China
Jeongjo of Joseon age 26
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 52
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Frederick the Great age 67
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick North, Lord North age 46
Prime Minister - Great Britain
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 63
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 28
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 29
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 30
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 17
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 39
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams age 43
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 45
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 47
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 52
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 63
King - Spain
Gustav III age 33
King - Sweden
John Jay age 33
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
George Washington age 47
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon age 9
Ludwig van Beethoven age 8
Thomas Jefferson age 35
Adam Smith age 55
Benjamin Franklin age 73
Jane Austen age 3
James Madison age 27
John Quincy Adams age 11
Andrew Jackson age 11
James Watt age 43
James Monroe age 20
William Henry Harrison age 6
Marie Antoinette age 23
Maximilien Robespierre age 20
Edward Jenner age 29
Alexander I of Russia age 1
Horatio Nelson age 20
Alexander Hamilton age 24
William IV age 13
Klemens von Metternich age 5
Paul I of Russia age 24
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 25
George IV age 16
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 114
Georges Danton age 19
Louis XVIII age 23
José de San Martín age 12 months
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 11
Charles X of France age 21
Louis Philippe I age 5
Charles XIV John age 16
Aaron Burr age 23
Selim III age 17
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 15
Joachim Murat age 11
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 9
Mikhail Kutuzov age 33
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 31
Joseph Bonaparte age 11
George Canning age 8
Toussaint Louverture age 35
Samuel Adams age 56
Charles IV of Spain age 30
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 25
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 20
Michel Ney age 10
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 6
Elbridge Gerry age 34
Daniel D. Tompkins age 4
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 36
William Wilberforce age 19
Charles XIII age 30
Frederick William II of Prussia age 34
Frederick VI of Denmark age 11
John Marshall age 23
Pyotr Bagration age 13
Gustav IV Adolf age 3 months
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 17
Tecumseh age 10
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 8
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 7
John Hancock age 42
Henry Clay age 1
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 48
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 40
Jiaqing Emperor age 18
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 41
Benedict Arnold age 38
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 19
Charles Felix age 13
Rama II age 10
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 13
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 7
Edmund Randolph age 25
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 49
John Paul Jones age 31
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 9
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 15
Nathanael Greene age 36
John Rutledge age 39
Henry Knox age 28
John Burgoyne age 57
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 26
Roger B. Taney age 1
Alexandre Pétion age 8
Ioannis Kolettis age 6
Oliver Ellsworth age 33
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 48
William H. Crawford age 6
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 3
Thomas Gage age 60
Edward Livingston age 14
Horatio Gates age 51
Levin August von Bennigsen age 34
Lotf Ali Khan age 10
Robert Smith age 21
Henry Clinton age 48
Bhimsen Thapa age 3
Anthony Wayne age 34
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 19
James McHenry age 25
Carlos Anaya age 1
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 54
Bernardo de Gálvez age 32
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 2 months
William Wirt age 6
John Breckinridge age 18
James Barbour age 3
William Bradford age 23
John Armstrong Jr. age 20
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 7
Federico Gravina age 22
Pavel Chichagov age 11
Felix Grundy age 1
William Pinkney age 14
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 36
Cuthbert Collingwood age 30
George M. Bibb age 2
Henry Laurens age 54
Alexander J. Dallas age 19
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 20
Francisco Ramón Vicuña age 3
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 12
Tekle Giyorgis I age 28
Domingo Matheu age 13
Peter Buell Porter age 5
Ádám Récsey age 4
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 12
José Miguel Pey age 15
Gigar age 34
Charles Philip Yorke age 14
John Graham age 5
Juan Francisco de Molina age 1 month
John Charles Herries age 6 months
Prince Euneon age 24
Edward Pakenham age 11 months
Richard Ryder age 12
William Sturges Bourne age 9
José Ramón de Loayza age 27
Marquis de Lafayette age 21
Charles Cornwallis age 40
Edward, Duke of Kent age 11
Charles Lee age 47
Comte de Rochambeau age 53
Comte de Grasse age 56
Bernardo O'Higgins age 6 months
Frederick William III of Prussia age 8
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 12
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 26
Charles Emmanuel IV age 27
Victor Emmanuel I age 19
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 11
Edmund P. Gaines age 1
Black Hawk age 12
Ar-pi-uck-i age 19