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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 58
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 33
King - France
George III age 49
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 46
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 62
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 76
Emperor - Imperial China
Frederick William II of Prussia age 43
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Emperor Kōkaku age 16
Emperor - Japan
Victor Amadeus III age 61
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 35
King - Joseon
William Pitt the Younger age 28
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 36
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 3 months
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 8 months
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 5
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 48
Governor of New York - United States
John Hancock age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund Randolph age 34
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Adams age 52
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 5
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 54
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 56
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 53
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 61
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 54
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 71
King - Spain
Gustav III age 41
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 18
George Washington age 55
Ludwig van Beethoven age 17
Thomas Jefferson age 44
Adam Smith age 64
Benjamin Franklin age 81
Jane Austen age 12
James Madison age 36
Simón Bolívar age 4
John Quincy Adams age 20
Andrew Jackson age 20
James Watt age 51
James Monroe age 29
Zachary Taylor age 3
William Henry Harrison age 14
Marie Antoinette age 32
Maximilien Robespierre age 29
Edward Jenner age 38
Alexander I of Russia age 10
Horatio Nelson age 29
Alexander Hamilton age 32
Shaka age 5 months
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 20
William IV age 22
Klemens von Metternich age 14
Paul I of Russia age 33
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 33
George IV age 25
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 122
Georges Danton age 28
Louis XVIII age 32
José de San Martín age 9
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 19
Charles X of France age 30
Louis Philippe I age 14
Mahmud II age 2
Charles XIV John age 24
Ferdinand VII age 3
Aaron Burr age 31
Selim III age 26
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 24
Joachim Murat age 20
Marquis de Lafayette age 30
George Stephenson age 6
John C. Calhoun age 5
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 18
Mikhail Kutuzov age 42
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 40
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 3
Joseph Bonaparte age 19
George Canning age 17
Toussaint Louverture age 44
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 20
Mustafa IV age 8
Samuel Adams age 65
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 39
Charles IV of Spain age 39
William I of the Netherlands age 15
Frederick William III of Prussia age 17
Lazare Carnot age 34
Louis XVII age 2
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 34
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 29
Bernardo O'Higgins age 9
Michel Ney age 18
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 15
Elbridge Gerry age 43
Daniel D. Tompkins age 13
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 3
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 45
William Wilberforce age 28
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 58
John Jay age 42
Agustín de Iturbide age 4
Charles XIII age 39
Ioannis Kapodistrias age 11
Christian VIII age 1
Richard Mentor Johnson age 7
Davy Crockett age 1
Frederick VI of Denmark age 19
Pyotr Bagration age 22
Gustav IV Adolf age 9
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 26
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 36
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 8
Jean Lannes age 18
Daniel Webster age 5
Tecumseh age 19
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 17
André Masséna age 29
Jérôme Bonaparte age 3
Marie Thérèse of France age 9
Guadalupe Victoria age 1
Francisco de Miranda age 37
Maria Carolina of Austria age 35
Charles Cornwallis age 49
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 16
Vicente Guerrero age 5
Józef Poniatowski age 24
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 11
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 34
Eugène de Beauharnais age 6
Daoguang Emperor age 5
Henry Clay age 10
Frederick North, Lord North age 55
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 49
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 18
Jiaqing Emperor age 27
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 50
Auguste de Marmont age 13
Benedict Arnold age 46
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 28
Charles Felix age 22
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia age 8
Rama II age 19
Charles Emmanuel IV age 36
Edward, Duke of Kent age 20
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 5
Victor Emmanuel I age 28
Lin Tse-hsu age 2
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 24
Francis I of the Two Sicilies age 10
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 5
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 21
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 28
Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) age 8
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 22
Benjamin Rush age 41
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily age 15
Bernardino Rivadavia age 7
William I of Württemberg age 6
Frederick I of Württemberg age 33
William V, Prince of Orange age 39
Maria Luisa of Spain age 42
Winfield Scott age 1
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 25
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 34
Nicolas Oudinot age 20
Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 18
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 19
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 45
Anthony, King of Saxony age 32
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 21
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 16
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 23
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 1
Charles François Dumouriez age 48