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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09
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French Revolutionary Wars 1792-04-20 - 1802-03-25

People

Benjamin Rush age 51
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily age 25
Bernardino Rivadavia age 17
William I of Württemberg age 16
Frederick I of Württemberg age 43
William V, Prince of Orange age 49
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 6 months
Winfield Scott age 11
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 35
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 44
Nicolas Oudinot age 30
Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 28
Leopold II of Tuscany age 2 months
José Antonio Páez age 7
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 29
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 55
Anthony, King of Saxony age 41
Francisco de Paula Santander age 5
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 31
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 26
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 33
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 11
Charles François Dumouriez age 58
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 34
Carlos Antonio López age 7
Edmund Randolph age 44
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 37
Pierre Augereau age 40
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 62
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 33
John Dickinson age 65
Francisco Morazán age 5
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 68
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 28
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 33
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 30
Louis Desaix age 29
Karl Nesselrode age 16
Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia age 14
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands age 23
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 6
Fructuoso Rivera age 13
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia age 12
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 51
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 41
Ferdinand I of Parma age 46
Archduke Rudolf of Austria age 9
John Rutledge age 58
Sunjo of Joseon age 7
Henry Knox age 47
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 45
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 5
Vicente López y Planes age 12
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 7
Konstantinos Kanaris age 7
Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 10
Roger B. Taney age 20
Comte de Rochambeau age 72
Valentín Gómez Farías age 16
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 10
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau age 37
Archduke John of Austria age 15
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 5
Catherine Pavlovna of Russia age 9
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 20
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 58
Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg age 65
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 19
Louis I of Etruria age 24
Lewis Cass age 15
Nicolás Bravo age 11
Agustín Gamarra age 12
Karl August von Hardenberg age 47
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 24
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 60
Gouverneur Morris age 45
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1743) age 54
Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este age 43
Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este age 9
Alexandre Pétion age 27
Ioannis Kolettis age 24
William L. Marcy age 10
William H. Crawford age 25
Jean-Andoche Junot age 26
Robert Morris age 63
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 9 months
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony age 30
Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria age 20
Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily age 24
Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily age 12
Francis IV of Modena age 18
Axel von Fersen the Younger age 42
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 21
Thomas Gage age 79
Edward Livingston age 33
Horatio Gates age 70
Levin August von Bennigsen age 52
Anastasio Bustamante age 17
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 9
Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 21
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 14
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange age 46
Duke Louis of Württemberg age 41
Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt age 46
Archduke Rainer of Austria (1783–1853) age 14
Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa age 47
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 12
Manuel Oribe age 5
Henry Lee III age 41
Louis McLane age 11
Juan Álvarez age 7
Black Hawk age 30
James Wilson age 55
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia age 81
Princess Carolina of Parma age 27
Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily age 18
Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg age 1 month
Joaquín Prieto age 11
Ramón Freire age 10
Spyridon Trikoupis age 9
Robert Smith age 40
John Forsyth age 17
Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 8
Zebulon Pike age 18
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 16
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 52
Mikhail Miloradovich age 26
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) age 71
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia age 30
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia age 24
Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg age 1 month
Bhimsen Thapa age 22
Ramón Castilla age 3 months
Abel P. Upshur age 7
John M. Clayton age 1
José Joaquín de Herrera age 5
Mariano Paredes age 11 months
José María Bocanegra age 10
Roger Ducos age 50
Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg age 28
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 43
Ercole Consalvi age 40
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 71
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia age 67
Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 61
Princess Augusta of Prussia age 17
William II, Elector of Hesse age 20
Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen age 59
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 11
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 17
Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 3
Charles Cousin-Montauban age 1
Barthélémy Catherine Joubert age 28
Murad Bey age 47
Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz age 42
Dominique Vandamme age 27
Edward Rutledge age 48
Leopold IV of Anhalt age 3
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este age 16
Joseph Lebeau age 3
Francisco Antonio Pinto age 12
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 2
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 13
William Paterson age 51
William Huskisson age 27
DeWitt Clinton age 28
Melchor Múzquiz age 9
Pedro Vélez age 10
Levi Woodbury age 7
Aimable Pélissier age 3
Ralph Abercromby age 63
Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 19
Prince Josias of Coburg age 59
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg age 38
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 25
George Read age 64
Princess Frederica of Prussia, Duchess of Anhalt-Dessau age 1
Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg age 12
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este age 21
Faustin Soulouque age 15
Georgios Kountouriotis age 15
Peter Georg Bang age 2 months
Vicente Rocafuerte age 14
Carlos Anaya age 20
José Gregorio Monagas age 2
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 73
Richard Rush age 17
Thomas Ewing age 7
José Mariano Salas age 7 months
Jezzar Pasha age 75
Ibrahim Bey age 62
Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz age 11 months
Friedrich von Gentz age 33
Alexander Tormasov age 45
Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria age 2
Thomas McKean age 63
Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771–1833) age 26
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) age 14
Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony age 1
Josef Ludwig von Armansperg age 10