Explore January 18, 1840

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Events

Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Queen Victoria age 20
Martin Van Buren age 57
Nicholas I of Russia age 43
Louis Philippe I age 66
Pedro II of Brazil age 14
Leopold I of Belgium age 49
Abdülmecid I age 16
Ferdinand I of Austria age 46
Charles Albert age 41
Daoguang Emperor age 57
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 32
Heonjong of Joseon age 12
Frederick William III of Prussia age 69
Klemens von Metternich age 66
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 60
Roger B. Taney age 62
Richard Mentor Johnson age 59
John Forsyth age 59
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 60
James Buchanan age 48
Franklin Pierce age 35
John Quincy Adams age 72
Millard Fillmore age 40
James K. Polk age 44
Charles XIV John age 77
Isabella II age 9
Abraham Lincoln age 30
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 21
Leo Tolstoy age 11
Charles Darwin age 30
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 18
Charles Dickens age 27
Otto von Bismarck age 24
Louis Pasteur age 17
Richard Wagner age 26
Friedrich Engels age 19
Michael Faraday age 48
Dmitri Mendeleev age 5
Giuseppe Verdi age 26
Andrew Jackson age 72
James Clerk Maxwell age 8
Ulysses S. Grant age 17
Florence Nightingale age 19
James A. Garfield age 8
Grover Cleveland age 2
Andrew Johnson age 31
Zachary Taylor age 55
John Tyler age 49
William Henry Harrison age 66
Rutherford B. Hayes age 17
Benjamin Disraeli age 35
Benjamin Harrison age 6
Gregor Mendel age 17
Ada Lovelace age 24
Chester A. Arthur age 10
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 32
Napoleon III age 31
Pius X age 4
Leo XIII age 29
Charles Babbage age 48
Alexander II of Russia age 21
Harriet Tubman age 17
Robert E. Lee age 33
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 70
Empress Dowager Cixi age 4
William Ewart Gladstone age 30
Giuseppe Mazzini age 34
Leopold II of Belgium age 4
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 29
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 175
Frederick Douglass age 21
Wilhelm I age 42
Susan B. Anthony age 19
José de San Martín age 61
Jefferson Davis age 31
Benito Juárez age 33
Adolphe Thiers age 42
Porfirio Díaz age 9
Victor Emmanuel II age 19
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 24
Patrice de MacMahon age 31
Robert Peel age 51
Frederick III, German Emperor age 8
Abdulaziz age 9
John C. Calhoun age 57
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 70
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 39
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 55
Joseph Bonaparte age 72
William Tecumseh Sherman age 19
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 9
Charles XV age 13
Maximilian I of Mexico age 7
Christian IX of Denmark age 21
Oscar II of Sweden age 10
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 45
Oscar I age 40
Stonewall Jackson age 16
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 47
William H. Seward age 38
Jules Grévy age 32
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 2
Deodoro da Fonseca age 12
Sam Houston age 46
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 8
Hannibal Hamlin age 30
Carol I of Romania age 9 months
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 56
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 3
William R. King age 53
Émile Loubet age 1
John C. Breckinridge age 19
Henry Wilson age 27
Abdur Rahman Khan age 0 months
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 40
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 1
George M. Dallas age 47
Levi P. Morton age 15
William A. Wheeler age 20
Leo von Caprivi age 8
Schuyler Colfax age 16
Thomas A. Hendricks age 20
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 75
Saigō Takamori age 11
Clara Barton age 18
Daniel Webster age 58
Emperor Kōmei age 8
Xianfeng Emperor age 8
Henry Addington age 82
Guadalupe Victoria age 53
Yamagata Aritomo age 1
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 20
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 68
Demetrios Vikelas age 4
Joseph Chamberlain age 3
Francesco Crispi age 21
George B. McClellan age 13
Henry Clay age 62
David Farragut age 38
Matsukata Masayoshi age 4
Floriano Peixoto age 8 months
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 2
Hong Xiuquan age 26
George Meade age 24
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 22
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 57
Bettino Ricasoli age 30
Abraham Kuyper age 2
Agostino Depretis age 26
Urbano Rattazzi age 31
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 35
James G. Blaine age 9
Paolo Boselli age 1
Winfield Scott age 53
John Hay age 1
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 13
Tewodros II age 22
James Longstreet age 19
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 18
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 14
P. G. T. Beauregard age 21
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 30
Tomás Estrada Palma age 4
Joseph E. Johnston age 32
Luigi Carlo Farini age 27
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 16
Ambrose Burnside age 15
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 9 months
Yohannes IV age 2
Edward Everett age 45
John Sherman age 16
J. E. B. Stuart age 6
Marco Minghetti age 21
Giuseppe Saracco age 18
Alexander H. Stephens age 27
François Achille Bazaine age 28
Salmon P. Chase age 32
Giovanni Lanza age 29
Edwin Stanton age 25
Zeng Guofan age 28
Heungseon Daewongun age 18
Braxton Bragg age 22
Benedetto Cairoli age 14
Henry Halleck age 25
Manuel González age 6
Lewis Cass age 57
Joseph Hooker age 25
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 21
Sanjō Sanetomi age 2
Luigi Pelloux age 10 months
William L. Marcy age 53
Hamilton Fish age 31
Thomas Gage age 121
Manuel Quintana age 4
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 8
Winfield Scott Hancock age 15
Albert Sidney Johnston age 36
Louis McLane age 53
William M. Evarts age 21
Thomas F. Bayard age 11