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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Argentine Civil Wars 1814 - 1880
Greek War of Independence 1821-02-21 - 1829-09-12

People

John Quincy Adams age 58
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 29
Emperor - Russian Empire
George IV age 63
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 58
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Charles X of France age 68
King - France
Pedro I of Brazil age 27
Emperor - Brazil
Mahmud II age 40
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick William III of Prussia age 55
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 53
Shah - Iran
Guadalupe Victoria age 39
President - Mexico
Daoguang Emperor age 43
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Felix age 61
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 26
Emperor - Japan
Sunjo of Joseon age 35
King - Joseon
Gigar age 81
Emperor - Ethiopia
Klemens von Metternich age 53
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 44
Vice President - United States
Mehmed Selim Pasha age 55
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Robert Peel age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Clay age 49
Secretary of State - United States
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Richard Rush age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wirt age 53
Attorney General - United States
James Barbour age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Huskisson age 56
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Martin Van Buren age 43
Senate - United States
William Henry Harrison age 53
Senate - United States
William R. King age 40
Senate - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 45
Senate - United States
Levi Woodbury age 36
Senate - United States
John Eaton (politician) age 35
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 44
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 73
Senate - United States
John Chandler age 64
Senate - United States
James Buchanan age 35
House of Representatives - United States
James K. Polk age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Canning age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sam Houston age 33
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Webster age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Addington age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 32
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Livingston age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Louis McLane age 40
House of Representatives - United States
John Forsyth age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 75
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 15
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel D. Ingham age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 78
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Lowry-Corry age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Ryder age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sturges Bourne age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Tyler age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
DeWitt Clinton age 57
Governor of New York - United States
Levi Lincoln Jr. age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jeremiah Morrow age 54
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joseph Kent age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
George Troup age 45
Governor of Georgia - United States
William Carroll age 38
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Isaac Halstead Williamson age 58
Governor of New Jersey - United States
James B. Ray age 32
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Adams age 90
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William H. Seward age 25
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 14
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 6
New York State Senate - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 10
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 8
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 6
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 8
New York State Senate - United States
Simón Bolívar age 42
President - Peru
Shaka age 38
King of the Zulu - Zulu Kingdom
Pope Leo XII age 65
Pope - Papal States
Charles XIV John age 63
King - Sweden
Ferdinand VII age 41
King - Spain
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma age 34
Duchess - Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
William I of the Netherlands age 53
King - Netherlands
Antonio José de Sucre age 31
President - Bolivia
Ludwig I of Bavaria age 39
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Frederick VI of Denmark age 58
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 38
King - Thailand
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony age 75
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Francis I of the Two Sicilies age 48
King of the Two Sicilies - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Bernardino Rivadavia age 46
President - Argentina
Leopold II of Tuscany age 28
Grand Duke of Tuscany - Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Akbar II age 66
Mughal Emperor - Mughal Empire
Kamehameha III age 12
Monarch of Hawaii - Kingdom of Hawaii
Louis I of Baden age 63
Grand Duke of Baden - Grand Duchy of Baden
Francis IV of Modena age 46
Duke of Modena - Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 50
President - Haiti
Tokugawa Ienari age 52
Shōgun - Tokugawa shogunate
Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse age 72
Grand Duke of Hesse - Grand Duchy of Hesse
William II, Elector of Hesse age 48
Elector of Hesse - Electorate of Hesse
Peter I of Oldenburg age 71
Duke - Oldenburg
Ghezo
King of Dahomey - Kingdom of Dahomey
Muhammed Bello age 45
Sultan of Sokoto - Sokoto Caliphate
Manuel José Arce age 39
President - Federal Republic of Central America
Osei Yaw Akoto age 26
Asantehene - Asante Empire
Kamaanya of Buganda
Kabaka - Kingdom of Buganda
Sikandar Jah age 57
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Ranjit Singh age 45
Maharaja - Sikh Empire
Bhimsen Thapa age 50
Prime Minister - Nepal
Karl Marx age 8
Abraham Lincoln age 17
Charles Darwin age 17
Ludwig van Beethoven age 55
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 4
Charles Dickens age 14
Thomas Jefferson age 83
Otto von Bismarck age 11
Louis Pasteur age 3
Richard Wagner age 13
Friedrich Engels age 5
Michael Faraday age 34
Giuseppe Verdi age 12
James Madison age 75
Queen Victoria age 6
Andrew Jackson age 59
Ulysses S. Grant age 4
James Monroe age 68
Florence Nightingale age 6
Andrew Johnson age 17
Zachary Taylor age 41
Millard Fillmore age 26
Rutherford B. Hayes age 3
Franklin Pierce age 21
Benjamin Disraeli age 21
Gregor Mendel age 3
Ada Lovelace age 10
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 18
Napoleon III age 18
Leo XIII age 16
Charles Babbage age 34
Alexander II of Russia age 8
Harriet Tubman age 4
Robert E. Lee age 19
William Ewart Gladstone age 16
Giuseppe Mazzini age 20
Lord Kelvin age 1
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 58
Samuel Morse age 35
Pope Gregory XVI age 60
William IV age 60
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 15
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 72
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 161
Frederick Douglass age 8
Wilhelm I age 29
Susan B. Anthony age 6
Pope Pius VIII age 64
José de San Martín age 48
Jefferson Davis age 17
Benito Juárez age 20
Adolphe Thiers age 29
Louis Philippe I age 52
Victor Emmanuel II age 6
Pedro II of Brazil age 5 months
Leopold I of Belgium age 35
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 10
Patrice de MacMahon age 17