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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
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24

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
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
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
Rafael Carrera age 41
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 59
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 26
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 25
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 61
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Ignacio Comonfort age 44
President - Mexico
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 72
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 79
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
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
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 57
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Salmon P. Chase age 48
Governor Of Ohio - United States
Isabella II age 26
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 57
King - Sweden
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 12
Thomas Edison age 9
Sigmund Freud age 5 months
Charles Dickens age 44
Otto von Bismarck age 41
Nikola Tesla age 3 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
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 34
Benjamin Disraeli age 51
Benjamin Harrison age 23
Gregor Mendel age 34
Chester A. Arthur age 27
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 9
Edward VII age 14
Harriet Tubman age 34
Abdul Hamid II age 14
Robert E. Lee age 49
Georges Clemenceau age 15
Empress Dowager Cixi age 20
William Ewart Gladstone age 46
Alexander III of Russia age 11
Giuseppe Mazzini age 51
Philippe Pétain age 5 months
Klemens von Metternich age 83
Leopold II of Belgium age 21
Cecil Rhodes age 3
Emperor Meiji age 3
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 46
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 191
Frederick Douglass age 38
Wilhelm I age 59
Susan B. Anthony age 36
Arthur Balfour age 8
Benito Juárez age 50
Adolphe Thiers age 59
Ferdinand Foch age 5
Porfirio Díaz age 26
H. H. Asquith age 4
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 40
Patrice de MacMahon age 48
Frederick III, German Emperor age 25
Umberto I of Italy age 12
Abdulaziz age 26
Mehmed V age 11
Itō Hirobumi age 15
Chulalongkorn age 3
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 56
William Tecumseh Sherman age 36
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 26
Charles XV age 30
Murad V age 16
Maximilian I of Mexico age 24
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 11
Joseph Joffre age 4
Stonewall Jackson age 32
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 64
Armand Fallières age 14
William H. Seward age 55
Jules Grévy age 49
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 19
Deodoro da Fonseca age 29
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 47
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 13
Carol I of Romania age 17
Alfred Deakin age 2 months
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 72
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 20
Félix Faure age 15
Sergei Witte age 7
Émile Loubet age 17
Menelik II age 12
John C. Breckinridge age 35
Henry Wilson age 44
Jean Casimir-Perier age 8
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 6
Charles W. Fairbanks age 4
Paul Deschanel age 1
Abdur Rahman Khan age 16
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 18
George M. Dallas age 64
Garret Hobart age 12
Levi P. Morton age 32
William A. Wheeler age 37
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 8
Leo von Caprivi age 25
Schuyler Colfax age 33
Thomas A. Hendricks age 37
Katsura Tarō age 8
Saigō Takamori age 28
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 6
Clara Barton age 34
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 9
Peter I of Serbia age 12
James S. Sherman age 12 months
Georg von Hertling age 13
Constantin Fehrenbach age 4
Giovanni Giolitti age 13
Yamagata Aritomo age 18
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 37
Demetrios Vikelas age 21
Joseph Chamberlain age 20
Ismail Kemal age 12
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 4
Terauchi Masatake age 4
Hara Takashi age 7 months
Francesco Crispi age 38
George B. McClellan age 29
Tongzhi Emperor age 5 months
Wilfrid Laurier age 14
Nikola Pašić age 10
David Farragut age 55
Matsukata Masayoshi age 21
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 1
Floriano Peixoto age 17
Victoriano Huerta age 5
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 18
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 15
Prudente de Morais age 15
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 3
Robert Nivelle age 0 months
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 3
Hong Xiuquan age 42
George Meade age 40
George Reid age 11
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 39
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 7
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 74