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Events

Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
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 - 1868

People

Queen Victoria age 32
Queen - United Kingdom
Millard Fillmore age 51
President - United States
Napoleon III age 43
President - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 55
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 31
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 26
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 61
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 28
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 20
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 20
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 20
Emperor - Imperial China
Rafael Carrera age 36
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 54
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 21
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 20
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 56
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Mariano Arista age 49
President - Mexico
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Daniel Webster age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 65
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Thomas Corwin age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 64
Attorney General - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 46
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 52
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 53
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 63
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
William H. Seward age 50
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 58
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 42
Senate - United States
William R. King age 65
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 74
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 43
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 69
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 43
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 55
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 70
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 40
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 56
Senate - United States
Andrew Johnson age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 82
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 30
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 57
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 8
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 39
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 15
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 33
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John B. Floyd age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
John McDougal age 33
Governor of California - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
Reuben Wood age 59
Governor of Ohio - United States
William B. Campbell age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John Selden Roane age 34
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Washington Hunt age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Enoch Louis Lowe age 31
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 41
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Franklin Fort age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin Van Buren age 69
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 32
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 16
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 33
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 4
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 32
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 21
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 52
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 47
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 43
Monarch - Denmark
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 42
President - Liberia
Carlos Antonio López age 61
President - Paraguay
Manuel Montt age 42
President - Chile
José Gregorio Monagas age 56
President - Venezuela
José Rufino Echenique age 43
President - Peru
Juan Lindo age 61
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 37
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 43
President - Bolivia
Francisco Dueñas age 41
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 34
King - Netherlands
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Antonios Kriezis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 61
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jean-Jacques Willmar age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Karl Marx age 33
Abraham Lincoln age 42
Leo Tolstoy age 23
Charles Darwin age 42
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 30
Friedrich Nietzsche age 7
Thomas Edison age 4
Charles Dickens age 39
Otto von Bismarck age 36
Louis Pasteur age 28
Richard Wagner age 38
Friedrich Engels age 31
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 11
Michael Faraday age 60
Dmitri Mendeleev age 17
Giuseppe Verdi age 38
James Clerk Maxwell age 20
Alexander Graham Bell age 4
Ulysses S. Grant age 29
Claude Monet age 11
Florence Nightingale age 31
James A. Garfield age 20
Grover Cleveland age 14
James Buchanan age 60
John Tyler age 61
William McKinley age 8
Rutherford B. Hayes age 29
Franklin Pierce age 47
Benjamin Harrison age 18
Gregor Mendel age 29
Ada Lovelace age 36
Chester A. Arthur age 22
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 44
Pius X age 16
Leo XIII age 41
Charles Babbage age 59
Carl Benz age 7
Paul von Hindenburg age 4
Edward VII age 10
Alexander II of Russia age 33
Harriet Tubman age 29
Abdul Hamid II age 9
Robert E. Lee age 44
Georges Clemenceau age 10
Empress Dowager Cixi age 16
Alexander III of Russia age 6
Giuseppe Mazzini age 46
Klemens von Metternich age 78
Leopold II of Belgium age 16
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 41
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 186
Frederick Douglass age 33
Wilhelm I age 54
Susan B. Anthony age 31
Arthur Balfour age 3
Jefferson Davis age 43
Benito Juárez age 45
Adolphe Thiers age 54
Ferdinand Foch age 2 months
Porfirio Díaz age 21
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 36
Patrice de MacMahon age 43
Frederick III, German Emperor age 20
Umberto I of Italy age 7
Abdulaziz age 21
Mehmed V age 7
Itō Hirobumi age 10
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 51
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 48
William Tecumseh Sherman age 31
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 21
Charles XV age 25
Murad V age 11
Maximilian I of Mexico age 19
Ferdinand I of Austria age 58
Christian IX of Denmark age 33
Oscar II of Sweden age 22
Alexandra of Denmark age 7
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 57
Lajos Kossuth age 49
Amadeo I of Spain age 6
John A. Macdonald age 36
Stonewall Jackson age 27
Armand Fallières age 10
Jules Grévy age 44
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 14
Deodoro da Fonseca age 24
Auguste Beernaert age 22