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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 22
Queen - United Kingdom
John Tyler age 51
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 45
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 68
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 16
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 51
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 18
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 48
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 47
President - Mexico
Charles Albert age 43
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 59
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 33
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 41
Emperor - Japan
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 43
President - Republic of Texas
Yohannes III age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mariano Rivera Paz age 36
President - Guatemala
Heonjong of Joseon age 14
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 46
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich age 68
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Daniel Webster age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 55
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Walter Forward age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh S. Legaré age 44
Attorney General - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 49
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 62
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 53
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
James Buchanan age 50
Senate - United States
Franklin Pierce age 37
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 59
Senate - United States
William R. King age 55
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 64
Senate - United States
Levi Woodbury age 51
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 54
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 60
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 84
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 47
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 23
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 41
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 26
House of Representatives - United States
William P. Fessenden age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Nathan Clifford age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 93
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas Corwin age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
James C. Jones age 32
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Pennington age 45
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Archibald Yell age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Rutherfoord age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
Samuel Bigger age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
William Grason age 53
Governor of Maryland - United States
Martin Van Buren age 59
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 29
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 6
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 25
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 23
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 23
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 78
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 11
Queen - Spain
Christian VIII age 55
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 53
King - Thailand
Juan José Flores age 41
President - Ecuador
Fructuoso Rivera age 57
President - Uruguay
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 65
President - Haiti
Manuel Bulnes age 41
President - Chile
José Ballivián age 36
President - Bolivia
Braulio Carrillo Colina age 41
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Ferrera age 47
President - Honduras
Pedro Alcántara Herrán age 41
President - Colombia
José Antonio Páez age 51
President - Venezuela
William II of the Netherlands age 49
King - Netherlands
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb age 36
Prime Minister - Belgium
William Hobson age 48
Governor-General - New Zealand
Abraham Lincoln age 32
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 23
Leo Tolstoy age 13
Charles Darwin age 32
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 20
Charles Dickens age 29
Otto von Bismarck age 26
Louis Pasteur age 18
Richard Wagner age 28
Friedrich Engels age 21
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 1
Michael Faraday age 50
Dmitri Mendeleev age 7
Giuseppe Verdi age 28
Andrew Jackson age 74
James Clerk Maxwell age 10
Ulysses S. Grant age 19
Claude Monet age 1
Florence Nightingale age 21
James A. Garfield age 10
Grover Cleveland age 4
Andrew Johnson age 32
Zachary Taylor age 57
James K. Polk age 46
Rutherford B. Hayes age 19
Benjamin Harrison age 8
Gregor Mendel age 19
Ada Lovelace age 26
Chester A. Arthur age 12
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 34
Napoleon III age 33
Pius X age 6
Leo XIII age 31
Charles Babbage age 49
Edward VII age 0 months
Alexander II of Russia age 23
Harriet Tubman age 19
Robert E. Lee age 34
Georges Clemenceau age 2 months
Empress Dowager Cixi age 6
Giuseppe Mazzini age 36
Leopold II of Belgium age 6
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 31
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 176
Frederick Douglass age 23
Wilhelm I age 44
Susan B. Anthony age 21
José de San Martín age 63
Jefferson Davis age 33
Benito Juárez age 35
Adolphe Thiers age 44
Porfirio Díaz age 11
Victor Emmanuel II age 21
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 26
Patrice de MacMahon age 33
Frederick III, German Emperor age 10
Abdulaziz age 11
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 72
Itō Hirobumi age 1 month
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 41
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 38
Joseph Bonaparte age 73
William Tecumseh Sherman age 21
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 11
Charles XV age 15
Murad V age 1
Maximilian I of Mexico age 9
Christian IX of Denmark age 23
Oscar II of Sweden age 12
Lajos Kossuth age 39
Oscar I age 42
John A. Macdonald age 26
Stonewall Jackson age 17
Armand Fallières age 0 months
Jules Grévy age 34
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 4
Deodoro da Fonseca age 14
Auguste Beernaert age 12
Sam Houston age 48
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 10
Hannibal Hamlin age 32
Carol I of Romania age 2
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 57
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 5
Félix Faure age 10 months
Mongkut age 37
Émile Loubet age 2
Richard Mentor Johnson age 61
Frederick VII of Denmark age 33
Abdur Rahman Khan age 1