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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Napoleonic Wars 1803-05-18 - 1815-11-20
Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-05-14 - 1806-09-23

People

Napoleon age 35
Emperor of the French - France
Thomas Jefferson age 61
President - United States
Alexander I of Russia age 27
Emperor - Russian Empire
George III age 66
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 36
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Selim III age 43
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 32
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 44
Emperor - Imperial China
Tekle Giyorgis I age 54
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sunjo of Joseon age 14
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 34
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Victor Emmanuel I age 45
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 33
Emperor - Japan
William Pitt the Younger age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 49
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Aaron Burr age 48
Vice President - United States
James Madison age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 34
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Henry Dearborn age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 55
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Chase age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 16
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John Quincy Adams age 37
Senate - United States
Timothy Pickering age 59
Senate - United States
John Breckinridge age 44
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 52
Senate - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Canning age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wilberforce age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 5
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 17
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 33
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 51
House of Representatives - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Philip Yorke age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sturges Bourne age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 56
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 22
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Harrison age 31
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Adams age 69
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 22
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 3
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 73
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 70
New York State Senate - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 56
King - Spain
Gustav IV Adolf age 26
King - Sweden
Ludwig van Beethoven age 34
Jane Austen age 29
Michael Faraday age 13
Simón Bolívar age 21
Andrew Jackson age 37
James Watt age 69
James Monroe age 46
James Buchanan age 13
Zachary Taylor age 20
James K. Polk age 9
John Tyler age 14
Millard Fillmore age 5
Franklin Pierce age 1 month
Benjamin Disraeli age 0 months
Charles Babbage age 13
Edward Jenner age 55
Nicholas I of Russia age 8
Horatio Nelson age 46
Shaka age 17
William IV age 39
Klemens von Metternich age 31
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 50
George IV age 42
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 140
Wilhelm I age 7
Louis XVIII age 49
José de San Martín age 26
Adolphe Thiers age 7
Charles X of France age 47
Pedro I of Brazil age 6
Louis Philippe I age 31
Leopold I of Belgium age 14
Mahmud II age 19
Charles XIV John age 42
Robert Peel age 16
Ferdinand VII age 20
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 41
Joachim Murat age 37
John C. Calhoun age 22
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 35
Mikhail Kutuzov age 59
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 4
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 20
Joseph Bonaparte age 37
Ferdinand I of Austria age 11
Mustafa IV age 25
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 10
Lajos Kossuth age 2
Oscar I age 5
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 12
Antonio José de Sucre age 9
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 51
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 46
Michel Ney age 36
Elbridge Gerry age 60
Sam Houston age 11
George Clinton age 65
Daniel D. Tompkins age 30
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 20
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 62
Mongkut age 3 months
John Jay age 59
Agustín de Iturbide age 21
Charles XIII age 56
Christian VIII age 18
Richard Mentor Johnson age 24
Davy Crockett age 18
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 5
George M. Dallas age 12
Frederick VI of Denmark age 36
Pyotr Bagration age 39
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 43
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 25
Daniel Webster age 23
Tecumseh age 36
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 34
Charles Albert age 6
Guadalupe Victoria age 18
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 33
Vicente Guerrero age 22
Daoguang Emperor age 22
Henry Clay age 27
David Farragut age 3
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 66
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 67
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 45
Charles Felix age 39
Emperor Ninkō age 4
Rama III age 16
Rama II age 36
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 22
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 39
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 7
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 2 months
Bernardino Rivadavia age 24
Winfield Scott age 18
Justo José de Urquiza age 3
Francisco de Paula Santander age 12
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 33
Juan José Flores age 4
Carlos Antonio López age 14
Edmund Randolph age 51
Francisco Morazán age 12
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 75
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 41
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 13
Fructuoso Rivera age 20
Henry Knox age 54
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 52
Vicente López y Planes age 19
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 14
Konstantinos Kanaris age 15
Roger B. Taney age 27
Lewis Cass age 22
Alexandre Pétion age 34
Ioannis Kolettis age 32
Oliver Ellsworth age 59
William L. Marcy age 18
William H. Crawford age 32
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 28
Thomas Gage age 86
Edward Livingston age 40
Albert Sidney Johnston age 1
Horatio Gates age 77
Levin August von Bennigsen age 59
Charles Rogier age 4
Manuel Bulnes age 5
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 19
Manuel Oribe age 12
Louis McLane age 18