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Events

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

People

Queen Victoria age 21
Queen - United Kingdom
Martin Van Buren age 57
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 67
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 14
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 17
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 47
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Charles Albert age 42
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 58
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 32
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 40
Emperor - Japan
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 42
President - Republic of Texas
Yohannes III age 43
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mariano Rivera Paz age 35
President - Guatemala
Heonjong of Joseon age 13
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 44
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Anastasio Bustamante age 60
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 67
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Mentor Johnson age 59
Vice President - United States
John Forsyth age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 61
Secretary of War - United States
Henry D. Gilpin age 39
Attorney General - United States
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 52
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 52
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
James Buchanan age 49
Senate - United States
Franklin Pierce age 35
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 58
Senate - United States
William R. King age 54
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 58
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 63
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 53
Senate - United States
Felix Grundy age 63
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 46
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 79
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 40
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 30
House of Representatives - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Nathan Clifford age 37
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 92
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 4
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 78
House of Representatives - United States
James K. Polk age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William H. Seward age 39
Governor of New York - United States
Henry Wilson age 28
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 21
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 5
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 24
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 22
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 20
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 77
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 9
Queen - Spain
Christian VIII age 54
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 52
King - Thailand
Juan José Flores age 40
President - Ecuador
Fructuoso Rivera age 55
President - Uruguay
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 64
President - Haiti
Joaquín Prieto age 54
President - Chile
José Miguel de Velasco age 45
President - Bolivia
Braulio Carrillo Colina age 40
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Zelaya y Ayes age 42
President - Honduras
Agustín Gamarra age 55
President - Peru
José Antonio Páez age 50
President - Venezuela
William I of the Netherlands age 68
King - Netherlands
Joseph Lebeau age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Abraham Lincoln age 31
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 22
Leo Tolstoy age 12
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 4 months
Michael Faraday age 49
Dmitri Mendeleev age 6
Giuseppe Verdi age 27
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 18
Benjamin Harrison age 7
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
Empress Dowager Cixi age 4
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 10
Victor Emmanuel II age 20
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 24
Patrice de MacMahon age 32
Frederick III, German Emperor age 8
Abdulaziz age 10
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 71
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 39
Joseph Bonaparte age 72
William Tecumseh Sherman age 20
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 10
Charles XV age 14
Murad V age 0 months
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
Lajos Kossuth age 38
Oscar I age 41
John A. Macdonald age 25
Stonewall Jackson age 16
Jules Grévy age 33
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 3
Deodoro da Fonseca age 13
Auguste Beernaert age 11
Sam Houston age 47
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 9
Hannibal Hamlin age 31
Carol I of Romania age 1
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 56
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 4
Mongkut age 35
Émile Loubet age 1
Frederick VII of Denmark age 32
Abdur Rahman Khan age 9 months
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 2
George M. Dallas age 48
Levi P. Morton age 16
Leo von Caprivi age 9
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 29
Robert FitzRoy age 35
Schuyler Colfax age 17
Thomas A. Hendricks age 21
Saigō Takamori age 12
Clara Barton age 18
Emperor Kōmei age 9
Xianfeng Emperor age 9
Guadalupe Victoria age 54
Yamagata Aritomo age 2