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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09
Haitian Revolution 1791-08-21 - 1804-01-01
French Revolutionary Wars 1792-04-20 - 1802-03-25
Italian campaign of 1796–1797 1796-04-10 - 1797-10-17

People

John Adams age 61
President - United States
George III age 59
King - Great Britain
Paul I of Russia age 42
Emperor - Russian Empire
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 29
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Selim III age 35
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 24
Shah - Iran
Frederick William II of Prussia age 52
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jiaqing Emperor age 36
Emperor - Imperial China
Yonas age 0 months
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 44
King - Joseon
Charles Emmanuel IV age 46
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 25
Emperor - Japan
William Pitt the Younger age 38
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Oliver Ellsworth age 52
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas Jefferson age 54
Vice President - United States
Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha age 54
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Timothy Pickering age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James McHenry age 43
Secretary of War - United States
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Samuel Chase age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 9
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Philip Schuyler age 63
Senate - United States
Andrew Jackson age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 46
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 9
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 9
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel Smith age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 49
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 15
House of Representatives - United States
John Jay age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Increase Sumner age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
James Wood age 56
Governor of Virginia - United States
Richard Howell age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John Hoskins Stone age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Jared Irwin age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Martin Van Buren age 14
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 66
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 62
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 71
New York State Senate - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 48
King - Spain
Gustav IV Adolf age 18
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 28
George Washington age 65
Ludwig van Beethoven age 26
Jane Austen age 21
Michael Faraday age 5
James Madison age 46
Simón Bolívar age 14
John Quincy Adams age 30
James Watt age 61
James Monroe age 39
James Buchanan age 6
Zachary Taylor age 12
James K. Polk age 1
John Tyler age 7
William Henry Harrison age 24
Charles Babbage age 5
Edward Jenner age 48
Alexander I of Russia age 19
Nicholas I of Russia age 1
Horatio Nelson age 38
Alexander Hamilton age 42
Shaka age 10
William IV age 32
Klemens von Metternich age 24
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 43
George IV age 35
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 132
Wilhelm I age 5 months
Louis XVIII age 41
José de San Martín age 19
Adolphe Thiers age 4 months
Charles X of France age 39
Louis Philippe I age 23
Leopold I of Belgium age 6
Mahmud II age 12
Charles XIV John age 34
Robert Peel age 9
Ferdinand VII age 12
Aaron Burr age 41
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 34
Joachim Murat age 30
John C. Calhoun age 15
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 28
Mikhail Kutuzov age 51
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 12
Joseph Bonaparte age 29
George Canning age 27
Toussaint Louverture age 54
Ferdinand I of Austria age 4
Qianlong Emperor age 85
Mustafa IV age 17
Samuel Adams age 74
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 3
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 5
Antonio José de Sucre age 2
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 44
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 38
Michel Ney age 28
Elbridge Gerry age 53
Sam Houston age 4
George Clinton age 58
Daniel D. Tompkins age 23
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 13
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 54
William Wilberforce age 38
Agustín de Iturbide age 13
Charles XIII age 48
Christian VIII age 10
Richard Mentor Johnson age 16
Davy Crockett age 11
George M. Dallas age 5
Frederick VI of Denmark age 29
John Marshall age 41
Pyotr Bagration age 32
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 35
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 18
Daniel Webster age 15
Tecumseh age 29
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 27
Guadalupe Victoria age 10
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 25
Vicente Guerrero age 15
Daoguang Emperor age 14
Henry Clay age 20
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 60
Benedict Arnold age 56
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 37
Charles Felix age 32
Rama III age 9
Rama II age 29
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 14
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 31
Bernardino Rivadavia age 17
Winfield Scott age 11
Francisco de Paula Santander age 5
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 26
Carlos Antonio López age 6
Edmund Randolph age 44
Francisco Morazán age 4
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 68
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 28
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 33
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 6
Fructuoso Rivera age 12
John Rutledge age 57
Henry Knox age 47
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 45
Vicente López y Planes age 12
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 7
Konstantinos Kanaris age 7
Roger B. Taney age 20
Lewis Cass age 14
Alexandre Pétion age 27
Ioannis Kolettis age 24
William L. Marcy age 10
William H. Crawford age 25
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 21
Thomas Gage age 79
Edward Livingston age 33
Horatio Gates age 70
Levin August von Bennigsen age 52
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 12
Manuel Oribe age 5
Henry Lee III age 41
Louis McLane age 11
Joaquín Prieto age 11
Ramón Freire age 9
Spyridon Trikoupis age 9
Robert Smith age 39
John Forsyth age 16
Bhimsen Thapa age 22
Abel P. Upshur age 7
John M. Clayton age 1