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American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Partitions of Poland 1772-08-05 - 1795-10-24
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03

People

Roger Sherman age 57
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738) age 40
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 32
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 22
John Rutledge age 39
Henry Knox age 28
John Burgoyne age 56
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 26
Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse age 11 months
Roger B. Taney age 1
Comte de Rochambeau age 53
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau age 18
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 1
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 39
Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg age 46
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 9 months
Louis I of Etruria age 5
Louis I of Baden age 15
Casimir Pulaski age 33
Karl August von Hardenberg age 28
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 5
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 41
Richard Henry Lee age 46
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern age 63
Gouverneur Morris age 26
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1743) age 35
Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este age 24
Alexandre Pétion age 8
Ioannis Kolettis age 5
Oliver Ellsworth age 33
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 48
William H. Crawford age 6
Jean-Andoche Junot age 7
Robert Morris age 44
Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 65
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg age 50
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony age 11
Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria age 1
Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily age 5
Axel von Fersen the Younger age 23
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 2
Tokugawa Ienari age 5
Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse age 25
William I, Elector of Hesse age 35
Thomas Gage age 60
Edward Livingston age 14
Horatio Gates age 51
Levin August von Bennigsen age 33
Lotf Ali Khan age 9
Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 2
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange age 27
Duke Louis of Württemberg age 22
Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg age 11
Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt age 27
Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa age 28
Henry Lee III age 22
Black Hawk age 11
James Wilson age 36
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia age 62
Princess Carolina of Parma age 8
Ercole III d'Este age 51
Robert Smith age 21
Henry Clinton age 48
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 33
Mikhail Miloradovich age 7
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) age 52
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia age 11
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia age 5
Bhimsen Thapa age 3
Roger Ducos age 31
Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg age 9
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 24
Ercole Consalvi age 21
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 52
Josiah Bartlett age 49
Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 55
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia age 48
Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 42
William II, Elector of Hesse age 1
Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen age 40
Anthony Wayne age 33
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 18
Barthélémy Catherine Joubert age 9
Murad Bey age 28
Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz age 23
Dominique Vandamme age 8
Edward Rutledge age 29
Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel age 58
William Paterson age 32
William Huskisson age 8
DeWitt Clinton age 9
Peter I of Oldenburg age 23
Comte de Grasse age 56
James McHenry age 25
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay age 38
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney age 59
Ralph Abercromby age 44
Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 5 months
Prince Josias of Coburg age 40
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg age 19
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 6
George Read age 45
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este age 1
Carlos Anaya age 1
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 54
Bernardo de Gálvez age 32
Jezzar Pasha age 56
Ibrahim Bey age 43
Friedrich von Gentz age 14
Alexander Tormasov age 26
Stephen Hopkins age 71
Samuel Huntington age 47
Thomas McKean age 44
Benjamin Harrison V age 52
Duchess Frederica of Württemberg age 13
Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771–1833) age 7
Prince Louis Charles of Prussia age 5
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha age 23
Charles Lee age 46
William Wirt age 6
John Breckinridge age 18
József Alvinczi age 43
Michael von Melas age 49
Arthur St. Clair age 41
John Sullivan age 38
James Wilkinson age 21
Francis Hopkinson age 41
Samuel Chase age 37
Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia age 64
Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 25
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 56
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772–1806) age 6
Antoni Radziwiłł age 3
James Barbour age 3
William Bradford age 23
Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén age 20
Géraud Duroc age 6
John Moore age 17
Isaac Brock age 9
William Ellery age 51
George Clymer age 39
George Wythe age 52
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia age 32
Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel age 52
John Armstrong Jr. age 20
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 25
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 6
Israel Putnam age 60
Jean Reynier age 7
Jacques François Dugommier age 40
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent age 43
Caesar Rodney age 50
George Walton age 37
Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland age 28
Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg age 16
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 16
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha age 65
Koca Yusuf Pasha age 48
Federico Gravina age 22
Pavel Chichagov age 11
Felix Grundy age 1
William Pinkney age 14
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 36
Oliver Wolcott age 52
Francis Lewis age 65
John Witherspoon age 55
Carter Braxton age 42
Daniel Carroll age 48
Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758–1822) age 20
Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley age 27
Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria age 6
Cuthbert Collingwood age 30
George M. Bibb age 2
Pierre Antoine Dupont age 13
William Prescott age 52
Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde age 22
Benjamin Lincoln age 45
Jacques-François Menou age 28
Jacques Lauriston age 10
Isaac Shelby age 28
William Paca age 38
Thomas Nelson Jr. age 39
Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 41
Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach age 42
Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 43
Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen age 9
Adam Albert von Neipperg age 3
Caleb Strong age 33
Alexander J. Dallas age 19
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 20
Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten age 8
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer age 30
Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken age 26
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy age 8
William Whipple age 48
Richard Stockton age 48
Abraham Clark age 52
William Hooper age 36
Lyman Hall age 54
Princess Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 33