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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14

People

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 26
Robert Smith age 79
Elihu B. Washburne age 20
Irvin McDowell age 18
Abel P. Upshur age 47
John M. Clayton age 41
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 20
Richard Olney age 1
Fredrik von Otter age 4
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 4
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 9
Richard S. Ewell age 20
Jeremiah S. Black age 27
Dimitrie Sturdza age 4
Robert Anderson age 32
George Pickett age 12
Sterling Price age 27
John Adams Dix age 39
Nathaniel Lyon age 19
John Bell Hood age 6
Melville Fuller age 4
Ramón Barros Luco age 2
Theodoros Deligiannis age 17
Segismundo Moret age 4
Nathaniel P. Banks age 21
Morrison Waite age 20
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 4
Richard Rush age 57
Thomas Ewing age 47
Petre P. Carp age 1 month
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 4
José López Domínguez age 7
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 13
Simon Cameron age 38
Caleb Cushing age 37
George S. Boutwell age 19
John Schofield age 5
Walter Hauser age 3 months
James Barbour age 62
John B. Floyd age 31
Alphonso Taft age 26
George W. Campbell age 68
Philip Francis Thomas age 26
Thomas Corwin age 43
William Windom age 10
John J. Crittenden age 49
José Manuel Marroquín age 10
Josef Zemp age 2
John C. Pemberton age 23
Franz Sigel age 12
Daniel Harvey Hill age 16
David Dixon Porter age 24
Fitzhugh Lee age 1
John Armstrong Jr. age 78
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 41
John Canfield Spencer age 49
Howell Cobb age 21
Hugh McCulloch age 28
Pierre Nord Alexis age 17
Géza Fejérváry age 4
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 16
Adolf Deucher age 6
Pablo Arosemena age 11 months
John Eaton (politician) age 47
Pavel Chichagov age 70
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford age 10
Felix Grundy age 59
George Henry Williams age 14
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 11
William J. Duane age 57
William P. Fessenden age 30
Lot M. Morrill age 24
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 23
Garretson W. Gibson age 5
Johannes Steen age 10
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 26
John Lawrence age 26
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 15
Alexander Ramsey age 21
Russell A. Alger age 1
Edward Bates age 43
George M. Bibb age 60
Charles Foster age 9
John G. Carlisle age 2
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 11
William Mahone age 10
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 7
William W. Belknap age 7
Botho zu Eulenburg age 6
Charles J. Folger age 19
Benjamin Bristow age 5
John M. Berrien age 56
Samuel D. Ingham age 57
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 34
Walter Forward age 51
James B. McPherson age 8
Charles Magill Conrad age 32
Joseph Holt age 30
Redfield Proctor age 6
Augustus H. Garland age 5
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 6
James Guthrie age 44
John Nelson age 46
Nathan Clifford age 34
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 22
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 18
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 22
Henry D. Gilpin age 36
William Denison age 33
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 17
Gustavus Woodson Smith age 15
William Crowninshield Endicott age 10
Lyman J. Gage age 1
Yohannes III age 40
William Harcourt age 9
William M. Meredith age 38
Riyad Pasha age 3
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 55
Isaac Toucey age 44
James Speed age 25
John Y. Mason age 38
Tirésias Simon Sam age 2
John Strachey age 14
John Alexander McClernand age 25
Peter Buell Porter age 64
George W. Crawford age 38
George W. McCrary age 1
George Cornewall Lewis age 31
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 22
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 40
Charles Devens age 17
Edwards Pierrepont age 20
Hugh S. Legaré age 40
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 57
William Adams Richardson age 15
Reverdy Johnson age 41
Mariano Rivera Paz age 32
Hugh Childers age 10
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 5
George Sykes age 14
Benjamin McCulloch age 25
Thomas James Churchill age 13
Quincy Adams Gillmore age 12
Stephen D. Lee age 3
Benjamin H. Brewster age 20
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 39
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 56
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 45
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 71
Henry Stanbery age 34
Lerotholi age 1
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 41
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 21
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 36
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 14
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 38
Robert Lowe age 25
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 55
Wayne MacVeagh age 4
James Madison Porter age 44
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 30
Raghib Pasha age 18
Mansfield Lovell age 14
Charles Henry Davis age 30
George Ward Hunt age 12
Henry Goulburn age 53
José Venancio López age 46
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 57
Franklin Gardner age 14
William H. C. Whiting age 13
John Charles Herries age 59
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 11
James Alexander Hamilton age 49
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 36
Henry Lowry-Corry age 34
William S. Derrick age 35
William Hunter age 31
William Sturges Bourne age 67
William Lamb age 1
Jacob L. Martin age 27
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 7
Adlai Stevenson I age 1
Jeongye Daewongun age 52
Cheoljong of Joseon age 6
Charles Canning age 24
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 11
A. P. Hill age 11
Daniel Sickles age 17
Henry W. Slocum age 9
Oliver O. Howard age 6
Edwin V. Sumner age 40
William Buel Franklin age 14
Thomas Armstrong Morris age 25
George Alexander Porterfield age 14
Charles Ellet Jr. age 27
William S. Rosecrans age 17
William Booth Taliaferro age 14
George H. Thomas age 21
Franklin Buchanan age 36
William J. Hardee age 21