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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Queen Victoria age 21
Martin Van Buren age 57
Nicholas I of Russia age 44
Louis Philippe I age 66
Pedro II of Brazil age 14
Leopold I of Belgium age 49
Abdülmecid I age 17
Ferdinand I of Austria age 47
Charles Albert age 41
Daoguang Emperor age 57
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 32
Emperor Ninkō age 40
Heonjong of Joseon age 12
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 44
Klemens von Metternich age 67
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 61
Roger B. Taney age 63
Richard Mentor Johnson age 59
John Forsyth age 59
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 61
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 43
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 44
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 57
Robert Peel age 52
James Buchanan age 49
Franklin Pierce age 35
John Quincy Adams age 73
Millard Fillmore age 40
James K. Polk age 44
William H. Seward age 39
Charles XIV John age 77
Isabella II age 9
Abraham Lincoln age 31
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 22
Leo Tolstoy age 11
Charles Darwin age 31
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 18
Charles Dickens age 28
Otto von Bismarck age 25
Louis Pasteur age 17
Richard Wagner age 27
Friedrich Engels age 19
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 3 months
Michael Faraday age 48
Dmitri Mendeleev age 6
Giuseppe Verdi age 26
Andrew Jackson age 73
James Clerk Maxwell age 9
Ulysses S. Grant age 18
Florence Nightingale age 20
James A. Garfield age 8
Grover Cleveland age 3
Andrew Johnson age 31
Zachary Taylor age 55
John Tyler age 50
William Henry Harrison age 67
Rutherford B. Hayes age 17
Benjamin Disraeli age 35
Benjamin Harrison age 6
Gregor Mendel age 18
Ada Lovelace age 24
Chester A. Arthur age 10
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 33
Napoleon III age 32
Pius X age 5
Leo XIII age 30
Charles Babbage age 48
Alexander II of Russia age 22
Harriet Tubman age 18
Robert E. Lee age 33
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 71
Empress Dowager Cixi age 4
William Ewart Gladstone age 30
Giuseppe Mazzini age 35
Leopold II of Belgium age 5
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 30
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 175
Frederick Douglass age 22
Wilhelm I age 43
Susan B. Anthony age 20
José de San Martín age 62
Jefferson Davis age 32
Benito Juárez age 34
Adolphe Thiers age 43
Porfirio Díaz age 9
Victor Emmanuel II age 20
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 24
Patrice de MacMahon age 32
Frederick III, German Emperor age 8
Abdulaziz age 10
John C. Calhoun age 58
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 71
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 39
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 55
Joseph Bonaparte age 72
William Tecumseh Sherman age 20
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 10
Charles XV age 14
Maximilian I of Mexico age 8
Christian IX of Denmark age 22
Oscar II of Sweden age 11
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 46
Oscar I age 41
Stonewall Jackson age 16
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 48
Jules Grévy age 33
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 2
Deodoro da Fonseca age 13
Sam Houston age 47
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 9
Hannibal Hamlin age 30
Carol I of Romania age 1
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 56
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 3
William R. King age 54
Émile Loubet age 1
John C. Breckinridge age 19
Henry Wilson age 28
Abdur Rahman Khan age 7 months
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 41
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 2
George M. Dallas age 48
Levi P. Morton age 16
William A. Wheeler age 21
Leo von Caprivi age 9
Schuyler Colfax age 17
Thomas A. Hendricks age 20
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 76
Saigō Takamori age 12
Clara Barton age 18
Daniel Webster age 58
Emperor Kōmei age 9
Xianfeng Emperor age 9
Henry Addington age 83
Guadalupe Victoria age 53
Yamagata Aritomo age 2
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 21
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 68
Demetrios Vikelas age 5
Joseph Chamberlain age 4
Francesco Crispi age 21
George B. McClellan age 13
Henry Clay age 63
David Farragut age 39
Matsukata Masayoshi age 5
Floriano Peixoto age 1
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 2
Hong Xiuquan age 26
George Meade age 24
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 23
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 57
Bettino Ricasoli age 31
Abraham Kuyper age 2
Agostino Depretis age 27
Urbano Rattazzi age 32
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 35
James G. Blaine age 10
Paolo Boselli age 2
Winfield Scott age 54
John Hay age 1
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 13
Tewodros II age 22
James Longstreet age 19
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 19
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 15
P. G. T. Beauregard age 22
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 30
Tomás Estrada Palma age 5
Joseph E. Johnston age 33
Luigi Carlo Farini age 27
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 17
Ambrose Burnside age 16
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 1
Yohannes IV age 3
Edward Everett age 46
John Sherman age 17
J. E. B. Stuart age 7
Marco Minghetti age 21
Giuseppe Saracco age 18
Alexander H. Stephens age 28
François Achille Bazaine age 29
Salmon P. Chase age 32
Titu Maiorescu age 5 months
Giovanni Lanza age 30
Edwin Stanton age 25
Albert Gallatin age 79
Zeng Guofan age 28
Heungseon Daewongun age 19
Braxton Bragg age 23
Benedetto Cairoli age 15
Henry Halleck age 25
Manuel González age 7
Lewis Cass age 57
Joseph Hooker age 25
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 21
Sanjō Sanetomi age 3
Luigi Pelloux age 1
William L. Marcy age 53
Hamilton Fish age 32
Manuel de Arriaga age 2 months