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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30

People

Queen Victoria age 36
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 51
President - United States
Napoleon III age 47
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 37
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 35
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 30
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 65
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 32
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 24
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 24
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 24
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 38
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 40
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 59
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 25
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 24
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 60
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Ignacio Comonfort age 43
President - Mexico
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 40
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Jefferson Davis age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Winfield Scott age 69
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Caleb Cushing age 56
Attorney General - United States
James Guthrie age 63
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 57
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 51
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 56
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Matthew Talbot Baines age 56
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 67
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
William H. Seward age 54
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 62
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 46
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 43
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 73
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 47
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 59
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 68
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 59
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 49
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 63
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 45
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 42
Senate - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 32
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 61
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 39
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 12
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Salmon P. Chase age 48
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry A. Wise age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
J. Neely Johnson age 30
Governor of California - United States
Henry Gardner age 36
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
Rodman M. Price age 39
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Myron H. Clark age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 73
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 36
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 20
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 40
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 38
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 37
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 8
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 36
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 25
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 56
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 51
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 47
Monarch - Denmark
Justo José de Urquiza age 54
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 65
President - Paraguay
Stephen Allen Benson age 39
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 46
President - Chile
José Tadeo Monagas age 71
President - Venezuela
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 41
President - Costa Rica
Jorge Córdova age 33
President - Bolivia
Manuel Basilio Bustamante age 70
President - Uruguay
José María San Martín age 44
President - El Salvador
Francisco de Aguilar age 46
President - Honduras
William III of the Netherlands age 38
King - Netherlands
Peter Georg Bang age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 53
Prime Minister - Greece
Pierre de Decker age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
Floris Adriaan van Hall age 64
Prime Minister - Netherlands
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 65
Prime Minister - Portugal
Charles-Mathias Simons age 53
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 32
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thomas Gore Browne age 48
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 37
Abraham Lincoln age 46
Leo Tolstoy age 27
Charles Darwin age 46
Vincent van Gogh age 2
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 34
Friedrich Nietzsche age 11
Thomas Edison age 8
Charles Dickens age 43
Otto von Bismarck age 40
Louis Pasteur age 33
Richard Wagner age 42
Friedrich Engels age 35
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 15
Michael Faraday age 64
Dmitri Mendeleev age 21
Giuseppe Verdi age 42
James Clerk Maxwell age 24
Alexander Graham Bell age 8
Ulysses S. Grant age 33
Claude Monet age 15
Florence Nightingale age 35
James A. Garfield age 24
Grover Cleveland age 18
Andrew Johnson age 47
James Buchanan age 64
John Tyler age 65
William McKinley age 12
Millard Fillmore age 56
Rutherford B. Hayes age 33
Benjamin Harrison age 22
Gregor Mendel age 33
Chester A. Arthur age 26
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 48
Pius X age 20
Leo XIII age 45
Charles Babbage age 64
Benedict XV age 1
Carl Benz age 11
Paul von Hindenburg age 8
Edward VII age 14
Harriet Tubman age 33
Abdul Hamid II age 13
Robert E. Lee age 49
Georges Clemenceau age 14
Empress Dowager Cixi age 20
Alexander III of Russia age 10
Giuseppe Mazzini age 50
Klemens von Metternich age 82
Leopold II of Belgium age 20
Cecil Rhodes age 2
Emperor Meiji age 3
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 45
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 191
Frederick Douglass age 37
Wilhelm I age 58
Susan B. Anthony age 35
Arthur Balfour age 7
Benito Juárez age 49
Adolphe Thiers age 58
Ferdinand Foch age 4
Porfirio Díaz age 25
H. H. Asquith age 3
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 40
Patrice de MacMahon age 47
Frederick III, German Emperor age 24
Umberto I of Italy age 11
Abdulaziz age 25
Mehmed V age 11
Itō Hirobumi age 14
Chulalongkorn age 2
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 55
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 52
William Tecumseh Sherman age 35
Charles XV age 29
Murad V age 15
Maximilian I of Mexico age 23
Ferdinand I of Austria age 62
Christian IX of Denmark age 37
Oscar II of Sweden age 27
Alexandra of Denmark age 11