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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Argentine Civil Wars 1814 - 1880
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Apache Wars 1849 - 1924
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868

People

Queen Victoria age 37
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 51
President - United States
Napoleon III age 48
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 38
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 26
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 36
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 30
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 65
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 33
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 60
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 25
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 25
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 25
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 38
Emperor - Ethiopia
Cheoljong of Joseon age 25
King - Joseon
Rafael Carrera age 40
President - Guatemala
Ignacio Comonfort age 44
President - Mexico
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 79
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 41
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Jefferson Davis age 48
Secretary of War - United States
Winfield Scott age 70
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 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 58
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 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 51
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 57
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley age 53
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 55
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 63
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 47
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 44
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 74
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 48
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 45
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 60
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 69
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 60
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 49
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 63
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 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 33
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 62
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 40
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
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 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 60
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 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 53
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 31
Governor of California - United States
Henry Gardner age 37
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 46
Governor of Maryland - United States
Rodman M. Price age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Myron H. Clark age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 46
Governor of Indiana - United States
Herschel V. Johnson age 44
Governor of Georgia - United States
Martin Van Buren age 73
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 37
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 21
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
Daniel Sickles age 36
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 38
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 9
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Isabella II age 25
Queen - Spain
Bahadur Shah Zafar age 80
Mughal Emperor - Mughal Empire
Oscar I age 57
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 51
King - Thailand
William III of the Netherlands age 39
King - Netherlands
Frederick VII of Denmark age 47
Monarch - Denmark
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 44
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 46
King of the Two Sicilies - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Georg V of Hanover age 37
King of Hanover - Kingdom of Hanover
John of Saxony age 54
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Leopold II of Tuscany age 59
Grand Duke of Tuscany - Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Justo José de Urquiza age 54
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 65
President - Paraguay
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 30
Grand Duke of Baden - Grand Duchy of Baden
Tokugawa Iesada age 32
Shōgun - Tokugawa shogunate
Louis III of Hesse age 50
Grand Duke of Hesse - Grand Duchy of Hesse
Robert I of Parma age 8
Duke of Parma - Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
Francis V of Modena age 37
Duke of Modena - Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Stephen Allen Benson age 40
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 47
President - Chile
Kamehameha IV age 22
Monarch of Hawaii - Kingdom of Hawaii
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 54
Elector of Hesse - Electorate of Hesse
Peter II of Oldenburg age 29
Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Oldenburg
José Tadeo Monagas age 71
President - Venezuela
Ghezo
King of Dahomey - Kingdom of Dahomey
José Santos Guardiola age 39
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 42
President - Costa Rica
Jorge Córdova age 34
President - Bolivia
Muteesa I of Buganda age 19
Kabaka - Kingdom of Buganda
Rafael Campo age 42
President - El Salvador
Mwezi IV of Burundi age 16
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Kwaku Dua I age 59
Asantehene - Asante Empire
Ali Babba bin Bello age 48
Sultan of Sokoto - Sokoto Caliphate
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff age 48
State President - Orange Free State
Pope Pius IX age 64
Pope - Papal States
Nasir-ud-Daula age 62
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Mpande age 58
King of the Zulu - Zulu Kingdom
Peter Georg Bang age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 53
Prime Minister - Greece
Pierre de Decker age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
Justinus van der Brugghen age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles-Mathias Simons age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 37
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainivoninahitriniony age 32
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Bam Bahadur Kunwar age 38
Prime Minister - Nepal
Thomas Gore Browne age 49
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 38
Abraham Lincoln age 47
Leo Tolstoy age 28
Charles Darwin age 47
Vincent van Gogh age 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 34
Friedrich Nietzsche age 11
Thomas Edison age 9
Sigmund Freud age 4 months
Charles Dickens age 44
Otto von Bismarck age 41
Nikola Tesla age 2 months
Louis Pasteur age 33
Richard Wagner age 43
Friedrich Engels age 35
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 16
Michael Faraday age 65
Dmitri Mendeleev age 22
Giuseppe Verdi age 43
James Clerk Maxwell age 25
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
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 Harrison age 23
Gregor Mendel age 34
Chester A. Arthur age 26
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 49
Pius X age 21
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
Henry Dunant age 28
Harriet Tubman age 34
Abdul Hamid II age 14
Robert E. Lee age 49
Georges Clemenceau age 14
Empress Dowager Cixi age 20
Alexander III of Russia age 11
Giuseppe Mazzini age 51
Lord Kelvin age 32
Samuel Morse age 65
Philippe Pétain age 5 months
Klemens von Metternich age 83
Leopold II of Belgium age 21