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Explore August 20, 1839

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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

Tewodros II age 21
James Longstreet age 18
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 18
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 14
P. G. T. Beauregard age 21
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 29
Tomás Estrada Palma age 4
Luigi Carlo Farini age 26
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 16
Ambrose Burnside age 15
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 4 months
Yohannes IV age 2
J. E. B. Stuart age 6
Marco Minghetti age 20
Giuseppe Saracco age 17
Alexander H. Stephens age 27
François Achille Bazaine age 28
Salmon P. Chase age 31
Giovanni Lanza age 29
Edwin Stanton age 24
Zeng Guofan age 27
Heungseon Daewongun age 18
Braxton Bragg age 22
Benedetto Cairoli age 14
Henry Halleck age 24
Manuel González age 6
Lewis Cass age 56
Joseph Hooker age 24
Sanjō Sanetomi age 2
Luigi Pelloux age 5 months
Rafael Carrera age 23
William L. Marcy age 52
Hamilton Fish age 31
Nubar Pasha age 14
Thomas Gage age 121
Manuel Quintana age 3
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 7
Winfield Scott Hancock age 15
Albert Sidney Johnston age 36
Louis McLane age 53
William M. Evarts age 21
Thomas F. Bayard age 10
John W. Foster age 3
Walter Q. Gresham age 7
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 28
Robert Smith age 81
Elihu B. Washburne age 22
Irvin McDowell age 20
Abel P. Upshur age 49
John M. Clayton age 43
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 22
Fredrik von Otter age 6
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 6
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 11
Richard S. Ewell age 22
Robert Gould Shaw age 1
Jeremiah S. Black age 29
Dimitrie Sturdza age 6
Robert Anderson age 34
George Pickett age 14
Sterling Price age 29
John Adams Dix age 41
Nathaniel Lyon age 21
John Bell Hood age 8
Melville Fuller age 6
Ramón Barros Luco age 4
Theodoros Deligiannis age 19
Segismundo Moret age 6
Morrison Waite age 22
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 6
Richard Rush age 59
Thomas Ewing age 49
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 1
Petre P. Carp age 2
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 6
José López Domínguez age 9
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 15
Simon Cameron age 40
John Schofield age 7
Stefanos Skouloudis age 9 months
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 2 months
Nicolaas Pierson age 6 months
Walter Hauser age 2
James Barbour age 64
John B. Floyd age 33
Alphonso Taft age 28
William Windom age 12
José Manuel Marroquín age 12
Josef Zemp age 4
John C. Pemberton age 25
Franz Sigel age 14
Daniel Harvey Hill age 18
David Dixon Porter age 26
Fitzhugh Lee age 3
John Armstrong Jr. age 80
Hugh McCulloch age 30
Pierre Nord Alexis age 19
Géza Fejérváry age 6
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 18
Adolf Deucher age 8
Pablo Arosemena age 2
John Eaton (politician) age 49
Pavel Chichagov age 72
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford age 12
George Henry Williams age 16
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 13
William J. Duane age 59
William P. Fessenden age 32
Lot M. Morrill age 26
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 25
Garretson W. Gibson age 7
Johannes Steen age 12
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 28
John Lawrence age 28
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 17
Alexander Ramsey age 23
Russell A. Alger age 3
Edward Bates age 45
George M. Bibb age 62
Charles Foster age 11
John G. Carlisle age 4
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 13
William Mahone age 12
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 9
William W. Belknap age 9
Botho zu Eulenburg age 8
Benjamin Bristow age 7
John M. Berrien age 58
Samuel D. Ingham age 59
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 36
Walter Forward age 53
James B. McPherson age 10
Charles Magill Conrad age 34
Joseph Holt age 32
Redfield Proctor age 8
Augustus H. Garland age 7
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 8
James Guthrie age 46
John Nelson age 48
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 24
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 20
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 24
Henry D. Gilpin age 38
William Denison age 35
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 19
Gustavus Woodson Smith age 17
William Crowninshield Endicott age 12
Lyman J. Gage age 3
Yohannes III age 42
William Harcourt age 11
William M. Meredith age 40
Riyad Pasha age 5
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 57
Isaac Toucey age 46
James Speed age 27
John Y. Mason age 40
Tirésias Simon Sam age 4
John Strachey age 16
Peter Buell Porter age 66
George W. Crawford age 40
George W. McCrary age 3
George Cornewall Lewis age 33
Franklin MacVeagh age 1
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 24
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 42
Charles Devens age 19
Edwards Pierrepont age 22
Hugh S. Legaré age 42
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 1
William Adams Richardson age 17
Reverdy Johnson age 43
Mariano Rivera Paz age 34
Hugh Childers age 12
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 7
George Sykes age 16
Benjamin McCulloch age 27
Thomas James Churchill age 15
Quincy Adams Gillmore age 14
Stephen D. Lee age 5
Benjamin H. Brewster age 22
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 58
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 73
Henry Stanbery age 36
Lerotholi age 3
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 23
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 16
Robert Lowe age 27
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 57
Wayne MacVeagh age 6
James Madison Porter age 46
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 32
Raghib Pasha age 20
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 9 months
Mansfield Lovell age 16
Charles Henry Davis age 32
George Ward Hunt age 14
José Venancio López age 48
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 59
Franklin Gardner age 16
William H. C. Whiting age 15