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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03

People

Karl August von Hardenberg age 28
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 5
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 41
Richard Henry Lee age 47
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern age 63
Gouverneur Morris age 27
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1743) age 35
Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este age 24
Alexandre Pétion age 8
Ioannis Kolettis age 6
Oliver Ellsworth age 33
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 48
William H. Crawford age 7
Jean-Andoche Junot age 7
Robert Morris age 45
Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 65
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg age 51
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony age 12
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 3
Thomas Gage age 61
Edward Livingston age 14
Horatio Gates age 51
Levin August von Bennigsen age 34
Lotf Ali Khan age 10
Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 3
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 23
Black Hawk age 12
James Wilson age 36
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia age 63
Princess Carolina of Parma age 8
Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily age 2 months
Robert Smith age 21
Henry Clinton age 48
Zebulon Pike age 2 months
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 34
Mikhail Miloradovich age 7
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) age 53
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 10
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 24
Ercole Consalvi age 21
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 53
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 34
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 19
Barthélémy Catherine Joubert age 9
Murad Bey age 29
Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz age 24
Dominique Vandamme age 8
Edward Rutledge age 29
Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel age 58
William Paterson age 33
William Huskisson age 9
DeWitt Clinton age 10
Comte de Grasse age 56
James McHenry age 25
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay age 38
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney age 60
Ralph Abercromby age 44
Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 9 months
Prince Josias of Coburg age 41
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 2
Carlos Anaya age 1
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 54
Bernardo de Gálvez age 32
Jezzar Pasha age 57
Ibrahim Bey age 44
Friedrich von Gentz age 14
Alexander Tormasov age 26
Stephen Hopkins age 72
Samuel Huntington age 47
Thomas McKean age 45
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
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 3 months
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha age 24
Charles Lee age 47
William Wirt age 6
John Breckinridge age 18
József Alvinczi age 44
Michael von Melas age 49
Arthur St. Clair age 42
John Sullivan age 39
James Wilkinson age 22
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 57
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 40
George Wythe age 53
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia age 32
Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel age 53
John Armstrong Jr. age 20
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 26
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 7
Israel Putnam age 61
Jean Reynier age 8
Jacques François Dugommier age 40
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent age 44
Caesar Rodney age 50
George Walton age 38
Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland age 28
Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg age 17
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 16
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha age 66
Koca Yusuf Pasha age 49
Federico Gravina age 22
Pavel Chichagov age 11
Felix Grundy age 1
William Pinkney age 15
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 36
Oliver Wolcott age 52
Francis Lewis age 66
John Witherspoon age 56
Carter Braxton age 42
Daniel Carroll age 48
Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758–1822) age 20
Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley age 28
Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria age 6
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 0 months
Cuthbert Collingwood age 30
George M. Bibb age 2
Pierre Antoine Dupont age 13
William Prescott age 53
Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde age 22
Benjamin Lincoln age 46
Jacques-François Menou age 28
Jacques Lauriston age 11
Isaac Shelby age 28
William Paca age 38
Thomas Nelson Jr. age 40
Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 41
Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach age 43
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 34
Henry Laurens age 55
Alexander J. Dallas age 19
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 20
Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten age 9
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer age 31
Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken age 26
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy age 9
William Whipple age 49
Richard Stockton age 48
Abraham Clark age 53
William Hooper age 36
Lyman Hall age 54
Princess Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 33
Princess Anna Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 40
Princess Louise of Prussia (1770–1836) age 8
Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth age 46
Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau age 8
Princess Maria Antonia of Parma age 4
Francisco Ramón Vicuña age 3
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 12
Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha age 10
Pierre-Augustin Hulin age 20
Yakov Kulnev age 15
Carl Philipp von Wrede age 11
Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf age 16
Matthew Thornton age 65
James Smith age 59
Joseph Hewes age 49
Duke Ferdinand Frederick Augustus of Württemberg age 15
Julie von Voss age 12
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1770) age 8
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg age 4 months