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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02

People

Queen Victoria age 27
Queen - United Kingdom
James K. Polk age 51
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 50
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 73
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 21
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 56
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 24
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 54
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Emperor Kōmei age 15
Emperor - Japan
Charles Albert age 48
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 64
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 39
Shah - Iran
Rafael Carrera age 31
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Heonjong of Joseon age 19
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 51
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Pedro María de Anaya age 53
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 74
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George M. Dallas age 54
Vice President - United States
James Buchanan age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 60
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 60
Secretary of War - United States
Nathan Clifford age 43
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 48
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Levi Woodbury age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 59
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John C. Calhoun age 65
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 54
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 65
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 64
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 50
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 48
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 48
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 52
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 59
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 65
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 51
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Quincy Adams age 79
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 61
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 26
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 53
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 86
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 47
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 78
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 36
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 3
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George W. Crawford age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States
Martin Van Buren age 64
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 27
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 11
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 31
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 29
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 29
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 27
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 16
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 47
King - Sweden
Christian VIII age 60
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 59
King - Thailand
Carlos Antonio López age 56
President - Paraguay
Manuel Bulnes age 47
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 54
President - Uruguay
Faustin Soulouque age 64
President - Haiti
José Ballivián age 42
President - Bolivia
Juan Lindo age 57
President - Honduras
José Tadeo Monagas age 62
President - Venezuela
William II of the Netherlands age 54
King - Netherlands
Ioannis Kolettis age 74
Prime Minister - Greece
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 56
Prime Minister - Portugal
Karl Marx age 29
Leo Tolstoy age 18
Charles Darwin age 38
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 25
Friedrich Nietzsche age 2
Thomas Edison age 3 months
Charles Dickens age 35
Otto von Bismarck age 32
Louis Pasteur age 24
Richard Wagner age 34
Friedrich Engels age 26
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 7
Michael Faraday age 55
Dmitri Mendeleev age 13
Giuseppe Verdi age 33
James Clerk Maxwell age 15
Alexander Graham Bell age 2 months
Ulysses S. Grant age 25
Claude Monet age 6
Florence Nightingale age 27
James A. Garfield age 15
Grover Cleveland age 10
Zachary Taylor age 62
John Tyler age 57
William McKinley age 4
Millard Fillmore age 47
Rutherford B. Hayes age 24
Franklin Pierce age 42
Benjamin Harrison age 13
Gregor Mendel age 24
Ada Lovelace age 31
Chester A. Arthur age 17
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 39
Napoleon III age 39
Pius X age 11
Leo XIII age 37
Charles Babbage age 55
Carl Benz age 2
Edward VII age 5
Alexander II of Russia age 29
Harriet Tubman age 25
Abdul Hamid II age 4
Robert E. Lee age 40
Georges Clemenceau age 5
Empress Dowager Cixi age 11
William Ewart Gladstone age 37
Alexander III of Russia age 2
Giuseppe Mazzini age 41
Leopold II of Belgium age 12
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 36
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 182
Frederick Douglass age 29
Wilhelm I age 50
Susan B. Anthony age 27
José de San Martín age 69
Jefferson Davis age 38
Benito Juárez age 41
Adolphe Thiers age 50
Porfirio Díaz age 16
Victor Emmanuel II age 27
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 31
Patrice de MacMahon age 38
Frederick III, German Emperor age 15
Umberto I of Italy age 3
Abdulaziz age 17
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 78
Mehmed V age 2
Itō Hirobumi age 5
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 46
William Tecumseh Sherman age 27
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 17
Charles XV age 21
Murad V age 6
Maximilian I of Mexico age 14
Christian IX of Denmark age 29
Oscar II of Sweden age 18
Alexandra of Denmark age 2
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 53
Lajos Kossuth age 44
Amadeo I of Spain age 1
John A. Macdonald age 32
Stonewall Jackson age 23
Armand Fallières age 5
Jules Grévy age 39
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 9
Deodoro da Fonseca age 19
Auguste Beernaert age 17
Elihu Root age 2
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 15
Hannibal Hamlin age 37
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 3
Carol I of Romania age 8
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 63
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 10
Félix Faure age 6
Mongkut age 42
Émile Loubet age 8