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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31

People

Queen Victoria age 36
Franklin Pierce age 51
Napoleon III age 48
Alexander II of Russia age 38
Victor Emmanuel II age 36
Pedro II of Brazil age 30
Leopold I of Belgium age 65
Abdülmecid I age 33
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 24
Emperor Kōmei age 24
Xianfeng Emperor age 24
Tewodros II age 38
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 25
Cheoljong of Joseon age 24
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 60
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 71
Roger B. Taney age 79
Jefferson Davis age 47
Winfield Scott age 69
William L. Marcy age 69
Caleb Cushing age 56
George Cornewall Lewis age 50
Salmon P. Chase age 48
Isabella II age 25
Oscar I age 56
Karl Marx age 38
Abraham Lincoln age 47
Leo Tolstoy age 27
Charles Darwin age 47
Vincent van Gogh age 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 34
Friedrich Nietzsche age 11
Thomas Edison age 9
Charles Dickens age 44
Otto von Bismarck age 41
Louis Pasteur age 33
Richard Wagner age 42
Friedrich Engels age 35
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 16
Michael Faraday age 64
Dmitri Mendeleev age 22
Giuseppe Verdi age 42
James Clerk Maxwell age 24
Alexander Graham Bell age 9
Ulysses S. Grant age 34
Claude Monet age 15
Florence Nightingale age 36
James A. Garfield age 24
Grover Cleveland age 19
Martin Van Buren age 73
Andrew Johnson age 47
James Buchanan age 65
John Tyler age 66
William McKinley age 13
Millard Fillmore age 56
Rutherford B. Hayes age 33
Benjamin Disraeli age 51
Benjamin Harrison age 22
Gregor Mendel age 33
Chester A. Arthur age 26
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 48
Pius X age 20
Leo XIII age 46
Charles Babbage age 64
Benedict XV age 1
Carl Benz age 11
Paul von Hindenburg age 8
Edward VII age 14
Harriet Tubman age 34
Abdul Hamid II age 13
Robert E. Lee age 49
Georges Clemenceau age 14
Empress Dowager Cixi age 20
William Ewart Gladstone age 46
Alexander III of Russia age 11
Giuseppe Mazzini age 50
Philippe Pétain age 0 months
Klemens von Metternich age 83
Leopold II of Belgium age 21
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 38
Wilhelm I age 59
Susan B. Anthony age 36
Arthur Balfour age 7
Benito Juárez age 50
Adolphe Thiers age 59
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 12
Abdulaziz age 26
Mehmed V age 11
Itō Hirobumi age 14
Chulalongkorn age 2
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 55
William Tecumseh Sherman age 36
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 26
Charles XV age 30
Murad V age 15
Maximilian I of Mexico age 23
Ferdinand I of Austria age 63
Christian IX of Denmark age 38
Oscar II of Sweden age 27
Alexandra of Denmark age 11
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 62
Amadeo I of Spain age 10
Joseph Joffre age 4
Stonewall Jackson age 32
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 63
Armand Fallières age 14
William H. Seward age 55
Jules Grévy age 48
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 18
Deodoro da Fonseca age 28
Elihu Root age 11
Sam Houston age 63
Edmund Barton age 7
Bernhard von Bülow age 7
Thomas R. Marshall age 2
Hannibal Hamlin age 46
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 12
Carol I of Romania age 17
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 72
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 19
Félix Faure age 15
Sergei Witte age 6
Émile Loubet age 17
Menelik II age 11
John C. Breckinridge age 35
Henry Wilson age 44
Jean Casimir-Perier age 8
Charles W. Fairbanks age 3
Paul Deschanel age 1
Abdur Rahman Khan age 16
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 57
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 18
George M. Dallas age 63
Garret Hobart age 11
Levi P. Morton age 31
William A. Wheeler age 36
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 7
Leo von Caprivi age 25
Schuyler Colfax age 33
Thomas A. Hendricks age 36
Katsura Tarō age 8
Saigō Takamori age 28
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 5
Clara Barton age 34
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 9
Peter I of Serbia age 11
James S. Sherman age 6 months
Georg von Hertling age 12
Constantin Fehrenbach age 4
Giovanni Giolitti age 13
Yamagata Aritomo age 17
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 37
Demetrios Vikelas age 21
Joseph Chamberlain age 19
Ismail Kemal age 12
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 3
Terauchi Masatake age 4
Hara Takashi age 1 month
Francesco Crispi age 37
George B. McClellan age 29
Tongzhi Emperor age 0 months
Wilfrid Laurier age 14
Nikola Pašić age 10
David Farragut age 54
Matsukata Masayoshi age 21
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 11 months
Floriano Peixoto age 17
Victoriano Huerta age 5
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 18
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 15
Prudente de Morais age 14
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 3
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 3
Hong Xiuquan age 42
George Meade age 40
George Reid age 11
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 38
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 7
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 73
Saionji Kinmochi age 6
Bettino Ricasoli age 47
Antonio Salandra age 2
Rodrigues Alves age 7
Afonso Pena age 8
Julio Argentino Roca age 12
Abraham Kuyper age 18
Agostino Depretis age 43
Sidney Sonnino age 9
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 4
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 3