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

People

Queen Victoria age 37
Queen - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 65
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 37
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 31
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 66
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 39
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 41
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 60
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 45
President - Mexico
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 72
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 80
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 36
Vice President - United States
Winfield Scott age 70
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 74
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 47
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 41
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 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 52
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 57
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
James Alexander Hamilton age 68
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Jefferson Davis age 48
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 55
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 64
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 47
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 45
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 58
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 69
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 61
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 50
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 46
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 43
Senate - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Schuyler Colfax age 33
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 50
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 38
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 40
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 13
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 41
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 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 74
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 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Salmon P. Chase age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Martin Van Buren age 74
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 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 38
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 9
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 37
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 26
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 57
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 52
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 48
Monarch - Denmark
Justo José de Urquiza age 55
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 66
President - Paraguay
Stephen Allen Benson age 40
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 47
President - Chile
José Tadeo Monagas age 72
President - Venezuela
José Santos Guardiola age 40
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 43
President - Costa Rica
Jorge Córdova age 34
President - Bolivia
Francisco Robles age 46
President - Ecuador
Rafael Campo age 43
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 40
King - Netherlands
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ age 44
Prime Minister - Denmark
Pierre de Decker age 45
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 33
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thomas Gore Browne age 49
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 38
Abraham Lincoln age 48
Leo Tolstoy age 28
Charles Darwin age 48
Vincent van Gogh age 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 35
Friedrich Nietzsche age 12
Thomas Edison age 10
Sigmund Freud age 10 months
Charles Dickens age 45
Otto von Bismarck age 41
Nikola Tesla age 8 months
Louis Pasteur age 34
Richard Wagner age 43
Friedrich Engels age 36
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 16
Woodrow Wilson age 2 months
Michael Faraday age 65
Dmitri Mendeleev age 23
Giuseppe Verdi age 43
James Clerk Maxwell age 25
Alexander Graham Bell age 10
Ulysses S. Grant age 34
Claude Monet age 16
Florence Nightingale age 36
James A. Garfield age 25
Grover Cleveland age 19
Andrew Johnson age 48
John Tyler age 66
William McKinley age 14
Millard Fillmore age 57
Rutherford B. Hayes age 34
Franklin Pierce age 52
Benjamin Harrison age 23
Gregor Mendel age 34
Chester A. Arthur age 27
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 49
Pius X age 21
Leo XIII age 47
Charles Babbage age 65
Benedict XV age 2
Carl Benz age 12
Paul von Hindenburg age 9
Edward VII age 15
Harriet Tubman age 35
Abdul Hamid II age 14
Robert E. Lee age 50
Georges Clemenceau age 15
Empress Dowager Cixi age 21
Alexander III of Russia age 12
Giuseppe Mazzini age 51
Philippe Pétain age 10 months
Klemens von Metternich age 83
Leopold II of Belgium age 21
Cecil Rhodes age 3
Emperor Meiji age 4
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 46
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 192
Frederick Douglass age 39
Wilhelm I age 60
Susan B. Anthony age 37
Arthur Balfour age 8
Benito Juárez age 51
Adolphe Thiers age 59
Ferdinand Foch age 5
Porfirio Díaz age 26
H. H. Asquith age 4
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 41
Patrice de MacMahon age 48
Frederick III, German Emperor age 25
Umberto I of Italy age 12
Abdulaziz age 27
Mehmed V age 12
Itō Hirobumi age 15
Chulalongkorn age 3
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 56
William Tecumseh Sherman age 37
Charles XV age 30
Murad V age 16
Maximilian I of Mexico age 24
Ferdinand I of Austria age 63
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 3 months
Christian IX of Denmark age 38
Oscar II of Sweden age 28
Alexandra of Denmark age 12
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 63
Lajos Kossuth age 54
Amadeo I of Spain age 11
Joseph Joffre age 5
John A. Macdonald age 42
Stonewall Jackson age 33
Armand Fallières age 15