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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 56
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 31
King - France
George III age 47
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 44
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 60
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 74
Emperor - Imperial China
Jeongjo of Joseon age 33
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 59
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 14
Emperor - Japan
Frederick the Great age 73
King - Kingdom of Prussia
William Pitt the Younger age 26
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 59
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 34
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 36
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 37
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 3
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 46
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams age 50
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 3
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 54
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 51
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 59
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 69
King - Spain
Gustav III age 39
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 16
George Washington age 53
Ludwig van Beethoven age 15
Thomas Jefferson age 42
Adam Smith age 62
Benjamin Franklin age 80
Jane Austen age 10
James Madison age 34
Simón Bolívar age 2
John Quincy Adams age 18
Andrew Jackson age 18
James Watt age 49
James Monroe age 27
Zachary Taylor age 1
William Henry Harrison age 12
Marie Antoinette age 30
Maximilien Robespierre age 27
Edward Jenner age 36
Alexander I of Russia age 8
Horatio Nelson age 27
Alexander Hamilton age 30
William IV age 20
Klemens von Metternich age 12
Paul I of Russia age 31
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 31
George IV age 23
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 120
Georges Danton age 26
Louis XVIII age 30
José de San Martín age 7
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 17
Charles X of France age 28
Louis Philippe I age 12
Mahmud II age 5 months
Charles XIV John age 22
Ferdinand VII age 1
Aaron Burr age 29
Selim III age 24
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 22
Joachim Murat age 18
John C. Calhoun age 3
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 16
Mikhail Kutuzov age 40
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 38
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 1
Joseph Bonaparte age 17
George Canning age 15
Toussaint Louverture age 42
Mustafa IV age 6
Samuel Adams age 63
Charles IV of Spain age 37
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 32
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 27
Michel Ney age 16
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 13
Elbridge Gerry age 41
Daniel D. Tompkins age 11
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 1
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 43
William Wilberforce age 26
John Jay age 40
Agustín de Iturbide age 2
Charles XIII age 37
Richard Mentor Johnson age 5
Frederick William II of Prussia age 41
Frederick VI of Denmark age 17
Pyotr Bagration age 20
Gustav IV Adolf age 7
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 24
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 6
Daniel Webster age 3
Tecumseh age 17
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 15
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 14
Vicente Guerrero age 3
John Hancock age 48
Daoguang Emperor age 3
Henry Clay age 8
Frederick North, Lord North age 53
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 47
Jiaqing Emperor age 25
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 48
Benedict Arnold age 44
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 26
Charles Felix age 20
Rama II age 17
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 3
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 19
Bernardino Rivadavia age 5
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 14
Edmund Randolph age 32
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 56
John Paul Jones age 38
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 16
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 22
Fructuoso Rivera age 1
Nathanael Greene age 43
John Rutledge age 46
Henry Knox age 35
John Burgoyne age 63
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 33
Vicente López y Planes age 8 months
Roger B. Taney age 8
Lewis Cass age 3
Alexandre Pétion age 15
Ioannis Kolettis age 13
Oliver Ellsworth age 40
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 55
William H. Crawford age 13
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 9
Thomas Gage age 67
Edward Livingston age 21
Horatio Gates age 58
Levin August von Bennigsen age 40
Lotf Ali Khan age 17
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 4 months
Henry Lee III age 29
Robert Smith age 28
John Forsyth age 5
Henry Clinton age 55
Bhimsen Thapa age 10
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 0 months
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 5
Anthony Wayne age 41
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 25
Francisco Antonio Pinto age 5 months
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 1
William Paterson age 40
William Huskisson age 15
DeWitt Clinton age 16
James McHenry age 32
Faustin Soulouque age 3
Georgios Kountouriotis age 4
Vicente Rocafuerte age 2
Carlos Anaya age 8
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 61
Bernardo de Gálvez age 39
Richard Rush age 5
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 7
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland age 1
William Wirt age 13
John Breckinridge age 25
James Barbour age 10
William Bradford age 30
José Tadeo Monagas age 1
John Armstrong Jr. age 27
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 14
Domingo Caycedo age 2
José de la Riva Agüero age 2
Andrés Narvarte age 5
Pedro Gual Escandón age 2
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 23