Explore May 5, 1851

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Events

Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09-01 - 1852-12-31
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Great Exhibition 1851-05-01 - 1851-10-15

People

Queen Victoria age 31
Millard Fillmore age 51
Napoleon III age 43
Nicholas I of Russia age 54
Victor Emmanuel II age 31
Pedro II of Brazil age 25
Leopold I of Belgium age 60
Abdülmecid I age 28
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 19
Emperor Kōmei age 19
Xianfeng Emperor age 19
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 20
Cheoljong of Joseon age 19
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 55
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 58
Roger B. Taney age 74
Daniel Webster age 69
Winfield Scott age 64
Charles Magill Conrad age 46
Jefferson Davis age 42
Isabella II age 20
Oscar I age 51
Karl Marx age 33
Abraham Lincoln age 42
Leo Tolstoy age 22
Charles Darwin age 42
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 29
Friedrich Nietzsche age 6
Thomas Edison age 4
Charles Dickens age 39
Otto von Bismarck age 36
Louis Pasteur age 28
Richard Wagner age 37
Friedrich Engels age 30
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 11
Michael Faraday age 59
Dmitri Mendeleev age 17
Giuseppe Verdi age 37
James Clerk Maxwell age 19
Alexander Graham Bell age 4
Ulysses S. Grant age 29
Claude Monet age 10
Florence Nightingale age 31
James A. Garfield age 19
Grover Cleveland age 14
Martin Van Buren age 68
Andrew Johnson age 42
James Buchanan age 60
John Tyler age 61
William McKinley age 8
Rutherford B. Hayes age 28
Franklin Pierce age 46
Benjamin Disraeli age 46
Benjamin Harrison age 17
Gregor Mendel age 28
Ada Lovelace age 35
Chester A. Arthur age 21
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 43
Charles Babbage age 59
Carl Benz age 6
Paul von Hindenburg age 3
Edward VII age 9
Alexander II of Russia age 33
Harriet Tubman age 29
Abdul Hamid II age 8
Robert E. Lee age 44
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 82
Georges Clemenceau age 9
Empress Dowager Cixi age 15
William Ewart Gladstone age 41
Giuseppe Mazzini age 45
Klemens von Metternich age 78
Leopold II of Belgium age 16
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 40
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 186
Frederick Douglass age 33
Wilhelm I age 54
Susan B. Anthony age 31
Arthur Balfour age 2
Benito Juárez age 45
Adolphe Thiers age 54
Porfirio Díaz age 20
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 35
Patrice de MacMahon age 42
Frederick III, German Emperor age 19
Umberto I of Italy age 7
Abdulaziz age 21
Mehmed V age 6
Itō Hirobumi age 9
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 50
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 66
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 21
Charles XV age 25
Murad V age 10
Maximilian I of Mexico age 18
Ferdinand I of Austria age 58
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 57
Amadeo I of Spain age 5
Armand Fallières age 9
William H. Seward age 50
Jules Grévy age 43
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 13
Deodoro da Fonseca age 23
Elihu Root age 6
Sam Houston age 58
Edmund Barton age 2
Bernhard von Bülow age 2
Hannibal Hamlin age 41
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 67
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 14
Félix Faure age 10
William R. King age 65
Émile Loubet age 12
Menelik II age 6
John C. Breckinridge age 30
Henry Wilson age 39
Jean Casimir-Perier age 3
Abdur Rahman Khan age 11
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 52
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 13
George M. Dallas age 58
Garret Hobart age 6
Levi P. Morton age 26
William A. Wheeler age 31
Leo von Caprivi age 20
Schuyler Colfax age 28
Thomas A. Hendricks age 31
Katsura Tarō age 3
Saigō Takamori age 23
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 9 months
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 3
Peter I of Serbia age 6
Georg von Hertling age 7
Giovanni Giolitti age 8
Yamagata Aritomo age 12
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 32
Joseph Chamberlain age 14
Ismail Kemal age 7
Francesco Crispi age 32
George B. McClellan age 24
Henry Clay age 74
Matsukata Masayoshi age 16
Floriano Peixoto age 12
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 13
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 10
Prudente de Morais age 9
Hong Xiuquan age 37
George Meade age 35
George Reid age 6
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 68
Saionji Kinmochi age 1
Bettino Ricasoli age 42
Rodrigues Alves age 2
Afonso Pena age 3
Julio Argentino Roca age 7
Agostino Depretis age 38
Sidney Sonnino age 4
Urbano Rattazzi age 42
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 46
Campos Sales age 10
James G. Blaine age 21
Paolo Boselli age 12
John Hay age 12
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 24
Tewodros II age 33
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 29
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 41
Roque Sáenz Peña age 1 month
Kiyoura Keigo age 1
Luigi Carlo Farini age 38
Robert Todd Lincoln age 7
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 28
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 12
Luigi Luzzatti age 10
Yohannes IV age 13
Ōyama Iwao age 8
Joseph Gallieni age 2
Edward Everett age 57
John Sherman age 28
Marco Minghetti age 32
Giuseppe Saracco age 29
Alessandro Fortis age 8
Alexander H. Stephens age 39
François Achille Bazaine age 40
Salmon P. Chase age 43
Giovanni Lanza age 41
Edwin Stanton age 36
Zeng Guofan age 39
Benedetto Cairoli age 26
Henry Halleck age 36
Manuel González age 17
Lewis Cass age 68
Sanjō Sanetomi age 14
Luigi Pelloux age 12
William L. Marcy age 64
Hamilton Fish age 42
Thomas Gage age 133
Victorino de la Plaza age 10
Manuel Quintana age 15
Albert Sidney Johnston age 48