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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 39
Queen - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 67
President - United States
Napoleon III age 50
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
Benito Juárez age 52
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 38
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 33
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 68
Monarch - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 35
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 27
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 27
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 27
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 40
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 43
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 61
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 28
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 27
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 63
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 81
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 37
Vice President - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 72
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 76
Secretary Of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 48
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 43
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 74
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Andrew Johnson age 49
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 50
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 50
Governor Of Ohio - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 42
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Isabella II age 28
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 59
Monarch - Sweden
Charles Canning age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Karl Marx age 40
Abraham Lincoln age 49
Leo Tolstoy age 30
Charles Darwin age 49
Vincent van Gogh age 5
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 37
Friedrich Nietzsche age 14
Thomas Edison age 11
Sigmund Freud age 2
Charles Dickens age 46
Otto von Bismarck age 43
Nikola Tesla age 2
Louis Pasteur age 35
Richard Wagner age 45
Friedrich Engels age 38
Theodore Roosevelt age 1 month
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 18
Woodrow Wilson age 1
Max Planck age 7 months
Michael Faraday age 67
Dmitri Mendeleev age 24
Giuseppe Verdi age 45
James Clerk Maxwell age 27
Alexander Graham Bell age 11
Ulysses S. Grant age 36
Claude Monet age 18
Florence Nightingale age 38
James A. Garfield age 27
William Howard Taft age 1
Grover Cleveland age 21
Martin Van Buren age 76
John Tyler age 68
William McKinley age 15
Millard Fillmore age 58
Rutherford B. Hayes age 36
Franklin Pierce age 54
Benjamin Harrison age 25
Gregor Mendel age 36
Chester A. Arthur age 29
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 51
Pius XI age 1
Pius X age 23
Leo XIII age 48
Charles Babbage age 67
Benedict XV age 4
Carl Benz age 14
Paul von Hindenburg age 11
Edward VII age 17
Harriet Tubman age 36
Abdul Hamid II age 16
Robert E. Lee age 51
Georges Clemenceau age 17
Empress Dowager Cixi age 23
William Ewart Gladstone age 48
Alexander III of Russia age 13
Giuseppe Mazzini age 53
Philippe Pétain age 2
Klemens von Metternich age 85
Leopold II of Belgium age 23
Cecil Rhodes age 5
Emperor Meiji age 6
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 48
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 193
Frederick Douglass age 40
Wilhelm I age 61
Susan B. Anthony age 38
Arthur Balfour age 10
Adolphe Thiers age 61
Emmeline Pankhurst age 5 months
Ferdinand Foch age 7
Porfirio Díaz age 28
H. H. Asquith age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 43
Patrice de MacMahon age 50
Frederick III, German Emperor age 27
Umberto I of Italy age 14
Abdulaziz age 28
Mehmed V age 14
Itō Hirobumi age 17
Chulalongkorn age 5
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 58
Gustaf V of Sweden age 5 months
William Tecumseh Sherman age 38
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 28
Charles XV age 32
Andrew Bonar Law age 2 months
Murad V age 18
Maximilian I of Mexico age 26
Ferdinand I of Austria age 65
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 2
Christian IX of Denmark age 40
Alfonso XII age 1
Oscar II of Sweden age 29
Alexandra of Denmark age 14
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 64
Amadeo I of Spain age 13
Joseph Joffre age 6
Paul Doumer age 1
Stonewall Jackson age 34
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 66
Armand Fallières age 17
William H. Seward age 57
Jules Grévy age 51
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 21
Deodoro da Fonseca age 31
Elihu Root age 13
Sam Houston age 65
Edmund Barton age 9
Bernhard von Bülow age 9
Thomas R. Marshall age 4
Hannibal Hamlin age 49
Frank B. Kellogg age 1
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 15
Carol I of Romania age 19
Alfred Deakin age 2
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 74
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 22
Félix Faure age 17
Sergei Witte age 9
Émile Loubet age 19
Menelik II age 14
Henry Wilson age 46
Jean Casimir-Perier age 11
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 8
Charles W. Fairbanks age 6
Paul Deschanel age 3
Abdur Rahman Khan age 18
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 20
George M. Dallas age 66
Garret Hobart age 14
Levi P. Morton age 34
William A. Wheeler age 39
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 10
Leo von Caprivi age 27
Schuyler Colfax age 35
Thomas A. Hendricks age 39
Christian Michelsen age 1
Katsura Tarō age 10
Saigō Takamori age 30
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 8
Clara Barton age 36
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 11
Peter I of Serbia age 14
James S. Sherman age 3
Georg Michaelis age 1
Georg von Hertling age 15
Constantin Fehrenbach age 6
Giovanni Giolitti age 16
Yamagata Aritomo age 20
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 39
Demetrios Vikelas age 23
Joseph Chamberlain age 22
Ismail Kemal age 14
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 6
Terauchi Masatake age 6
Hara Takashi age 2
Francesco Crispi age 40
George B. McClellan age 32
Tongzhi Emperor age 2
Wilfrid Laurier age 17
Nikola Pašić age 12
David Farragut age 57
Matsukata Masayoshi age 23
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 3