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

People

Catherine the Great age 50
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 24
King - France
Frederick the Great age 67
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George III age 41
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 38
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 54
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 67
Emperor - Imperial China
Victor Amadeus III age 53
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 26
King - Joseon
Frederick North, Lord North age 47
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 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 22
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 18
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 30
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Jefferson age 36
Governor of Virginia - 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 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 53
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
Adam Smith age 56
Benjamin Franklin age 73
Jane Austen age 3
James Madison age 28
John Quincy Adams age 11
Andrew Jackson age 12
James Watt age 43
James Monroe age 21
William Henry Harrison age 6
Marie Antoinette age 23
Maximilien Robespierre age 21
Edward Jenner age 30
Alexander I of Russia age 1
Maria Theresa age 62
Horatio Nelson age 20
Alexander Hamilton age 24
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 11
William IV age 13
Klemens von Metternich age 6
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 1
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 12
Marquis de Lafayette age 21
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 10
Mikhail Kutuzov age 33
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 32
Joseph Bonaparte age 11
George Canning age 9
Toussaint Louverture age 36
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 11
Samuel Adams age 56
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 31
Charles IV of Spain age 30
William I of the Netherlands age 6
Frederick William III of Prussia age 8
Lazare Carnot age 26
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 26
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 20
Bernardo O'Higgins age 9 months
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
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 49
Charles XIII age 30
Ioannis Kapodistrias age 3
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 7 months
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 17
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 28
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 3 months
Jean Lannes age 10
Tecumseh age 11
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 9
André Masséna age 21
Marie Thérèse of France age 5 months
Francisco de Miranda age 29
Maria Carolina of Austria age 26
Charles Cornwallis age 40
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 7
Józef Poniatowski age 16
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 3
John Hancock age 42
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 25
Emperor Kōkaku age 7
Henry Clay age 2
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 49
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 41
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 10
Jiaqing Emperor age 18
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 42
Auguste de Marmont age 4
Benedict Arnold age 38
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 19
Charles Felix age 14
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia age 1 month
Rama II age 11
Charles Emmanuel IV age 28
Edward, Duke of Kent age 11
Victor Emmanuel I age 19
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 16
Francis I of the Two Sicilies age 1
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 13
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 19
Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) age 4 months
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 13
Benjamin Rush age 33
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily age 7
Frederick I of Württemberg age 24
William V, Prince of Orange age 31
Maria Luisa of Spain age 33
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 17
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 26
Nicolas Oudinot age 12
Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 10
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 11
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 37
Anthony, King of Saxony age 23
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 12
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 8
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 14
Charles François Dumouriez age 40
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 15
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 58
Edmund Randolph age 25
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 18
Pierre Augereau age 21
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 43
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 15
John Dickinson age 47
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 49
John Paul Jones age 31
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 9
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 15
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 12
Louis Desaix age 10
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands age 4
Nathanael Greene age 36
Roger Sherman age 58
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738) age 40
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 33
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 22
Ferdinand I of Parma age 28
John Rutledge age 39
Henry Knox age 28
John Burgoyne age 57
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 26
Roger B. Taney age 2
Comte de Rochambeau age 53
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau age 18
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 2
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 39
Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg age 47
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 1
Louis I of Etruria age 5