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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 40
Queen - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 68
President - United States
Napoleon III age 51
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 41
Emperor - Russian Empire
Benito Juárez age 53
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 39
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 33
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 68
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 36
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 28
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 28
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 28
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 41
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 44
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 62
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 29
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 28
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 64
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 75
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 82
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 38
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 73
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 77
Secretary Of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 49
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 44
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 60
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Andrew Johnson age 50
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 51
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 51
Governor Of Ohio - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 43
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Isabella II age 29
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 33
King - Sweden
Charles Canning age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Karl Marx age 41
Abraham Lincoln age 50
Leo Tolstoy age 31
Charles Darwin age 50
Vincent van Gogh age 6
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 37
Friedrich Nietzsche age 15
Thomas Edison age 12
Sigmund Freud age 3
Charles Dickens age 47
Otto von Bismarck age 44
Nikola Tesla age 3
Louis Pasteur age 36
Richard Wagner age 46
Friedrich Engels age 38
Theodore Roosevelt age 11 months
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 19
Woodrow Wilson age 2
Max Planck age 1
Michael Faraday age 68
Dmitri Mendeleev age 25
Giuseppe Verdi age 46
James Clerk Maxwell age 28
Alexander Graham Bell age 12
Ulysses S. Grant age 37
Claude Monet age 18
Florence Nightingale age 39
James A. Garfield age 27
William Howard Taft age 2
Grover Cleveland age 22
Martin Van Buren age 76
John Tyler age 69
William McKinley age 16
Millard Fillmore age 59
Rutherford B. Hayes age 37
Franklin Pierce age 54
Benjamin Disraeli age 54
Benjamin Harrison age 26
Gregor Mendel age 37
Chester A. Arthur age 30
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 52
Wilhelm II age 8 months
Pius XI age 2
Pius X age 24
Leo XIII age 49
Charles Babbage age 67
Benedict XV age 4
Carl Benz age 14
Paul von Hindenburg age 12
Edward VII age 17
Harriet Tubman age 37
Abdul Hamid II age 17
Robert E. Lee age 52
Georges Clemenceau age 18
Empress Dowager Cixi age 23
Alexander III of Russia age 14
Giuseppe Mazzini age 54
Philippe Pétain age 3
Leopold II of Belgium age 24
Cecil Rhodes age 6
Emperor Meiji age 6
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 49
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 194
Frederick Douglass age 41
Wilhelm I age 62
Susan B. Anthony age 39
Arthur Balfour age 11
Adolphe Thiers age 62
Emmeline Pankhurst age 1
Ferdinand Foch age 8
Porfirio Díaz age 29
H. H. Asquith age 7
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 43
Patrice de MacMahon age 51
Frederick III, German Emperor age 28
Umberto I of Italy age 15
Abdulaziz age 29
Mehmed V age 14
Itō Hirobumi age 18
Chulalongkorn age 6
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 59
Gustaf V of Sweden age 1
William Tecumseh Sherman age 39
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 29
Andrew Bonar Law age 1
Murad V age 19
Maximilian I of Mexico age 27
Ferdinand I of Austria age 66
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 2
Christian IX of Denmark age 41
Alfonso XII age 1
Oscar II of Sweden age 30
Alexandra of Denmark age 14
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 65
Alexandre Millerand age 8 months
Amadeo I of Spain age 14
George Curzon age 9 months
Yuan Shikai age 1 month
Joseph Joffre age 7
Paul Doumer age 2
Stonewall Jackson age 35
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 67
Armand Fallières age 17
William H. Seward age 58
Jules Grévy age 52
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 22
Deodoro da Fonseca age 32
Elihu Root age 14
Sam Houston age 66
Edmund Barton age 10
Bernhard von Bülow age 10
Thomas R. Marshall age 5
Hannibal Hamlin age 50
Frank B. Kellogg age 2
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 16
Carol I of Romania age 20
Alfred Deakin age 3
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 75
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 23
Félix Faure age 18
Sergei Witte age 10
Émile Loubet age 20
Menelik II age 15
Henry Wilson age 47
Jean Casimir-Perier age 11
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 9
Charles W. Fairbanks age 7
Paul Deschanel age 4
Abdur Rahman Khan age 19
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 21
George M. Dallas age 67
Garret Hobart age 15
Levi P. Morton age 35
William A. Wheeler age 40
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 11
Leo von Caprivi age 28
Schuyler Colfax age 36
Thomas A. Hendricks age 40
Christian Michelsen age 2
Katsura Tarō age 11
Saigō Takamori age 31
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 9
Clara Barton age 37
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 12
Peter I of Serbia age 15
James S. Sherman age 3
Georg Michaelis age 2
Georg von Hertling age 16
Constantin Fehrenbach age 7
Giovanni Giolitti age 16
Yamagata Aritomo age 21
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 40
Demetrios Vikelas age 24
Joseph Chamberlain age 23
Ismail Kemal age 15
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 7
Terauchi Masatake age 7
Hara Takashi age 3
Francesco Crispi age 41
George B. McClellan age 32
Tongzhi Emperor age 3
Wilfrid Laurier age 17
Nikola Pašić age 13
David Farragut age 58