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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Hannibal Hamlin age 30
Carol I of Romania age 1
William II of the Netherlands age 47
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 56
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 3
Paul Kruger age 14
Mongkut age 35
Émile Loubet age 1
William III of the Netherlands age 23
Frederick VII of Denmark age 31
Abdur Rahman Khan age 4 months
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 2
George M. Dallas age 47
Levi P. Morton age 16
Leo von Caprivi age 9
Pavel Nakhimov age 37
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 41
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 29
Robert FitzRoy age 34
Schuyler Colfax age 17
Thomas A. Hendricks age 20
Saigō Takamori age 12
Adlai Stevenson I age 4
Clara Barton age 18
Maria II of Portugal age 21
Emperor Kōmei age 8
Isma'il Pasha age 9
Jérôme Bonaparte age 55
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 28
Marie Thérèse of France age 61
Xianfeng Emperor age 8
Guadalupe Victoria age 53
Lew Wallace age 13
Yamagata Aritomo age 1
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 21
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 68
Demetrios Vikelas age 5
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 45
Joseph Chamberlain age 3
Francesco Crispi age 21
Emperor Kōkaku age 68
Bartolomé Mitre age 18
George B. McClellan age 13
David Farragut age 38
Matsukata Masayoshi age 5
Floriano Peixoto age 1
Jules Ferry age 8
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 71
Francisco Solano López age 13
Allan Octavian Hume age 10
Philip Henry Sheridan age 9
Auguste de Marmont age 65
Lucretia Mott age 47
Gyula Andrássy age 17
Leland Stanford age 16
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 2
Alexander Mackenzie age 18
Hong Xiuquan age 26
Li Hongzhang age 17
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 15
George Meade age 24
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 22
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 57
Bettino Ricasoli age 31
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 37
Lin Tse-hsu age 54
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 58
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 30
John Abbott age 19
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 74
Dadabhai Naoroji age 14
Abraham Kuyper age 2
Agostino Depretis age 27
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 4
Matthew C. Perry age 46
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 74
Georg V of Hanover age 20
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 37
Marie Henriette of Austria age 3
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 42
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 31
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 12
Urbano Rattazzi age 31
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 35
Bernardino Rivadavia age 60
Paolo Boselli age 1
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 28
William I of Württemberg age 58
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 43
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 6
Winfield Scott age 53
John Hay age 1
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 13
Tewodros II age 22
Louis-Jules Trochu age 25
Albert I of Saxony age 12
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 12
Sophie of Württemberg age 21
Nicolas Oudinot age 73
Leopold II of Tuscany age 42
Adelaide of Austria age 17
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 35
James Longstreet age 19
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 18
Georg I of Saxony age 7
Louis IV of Hesse age 2
Justo José de Urquiza age 38
Lajos Batthyány age 33
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 22
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 14
P. G. T. Beauregard age 21
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 30
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 73
Emilio Castelar age 7
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 75
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 54
Charles I of Württemberg age 17
Louise of the Netherlands age 11
Carlos Antonio López age 49
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 21
Richard Cobden age 35
Midhat Pasha age 17
Tomás Estrada Palma age 4
Luigi Carlo Farini age 27
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 17
Francesc Pi i Margall age 16
Nicolás Avellaneda age 2
Francisco Morazán age 47
Ambrose Burnside age 15
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 1
Yohannes IV age 2
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 73
Karl Nesselrode age 59
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 38
Maria Anna of Savoy age 36
Charles Tupper age 18
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 49
Cheoljong of Joseon age 8
J. E. B. Stuart age 7
Marco Minghetti age 21
Giuseppe Saracco age 18
Alexander H. Stephens age 28
François Achille Bazaine age 29
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 7
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 9
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 33
Princess Louise of Prussia age 1
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 13
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry age 41
Mackenzie Bowell age 16
Salmon P. Chase age 32
Titu Maiorescu age 2 months
Giovanni Lanza age 30
Edwin Stanton age 25
Osman Nuri Pasha age 8
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 12
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 15
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 48
Vicente López y Planes age 55
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 50
Konstantinos Kanaris age 50
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 4
Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 52
Zeng Guofan age 28
Heungseon Daewongun age 19
Braxton Bragg age 23
Benedetto Cairoli age 15
Henry Halleck age 25
Manuel González age 6
Valentín Gómez Farías age 59
Enomoto Takeaki age 3
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 52
Archduke John of Austria age 58
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 47
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 20
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 8
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 7 months
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 62
Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870) age 32
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 62
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 2
Lewis Cass age 57
Joseph Hooker age 25
Sanjō Sanetomi age 3
Luigi Pelloux age 1
Rafael Carrera age 24
Nicolás Bravo age 53
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 7
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 14
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 12
Alfred von Waldersee age 8
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 67
José Evaristo Uriburu age 8
Gabriel García Moreno age 18
Ioannis Kolettis age 67
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 40
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 25
William L. Marcy age 53
Hamilton Fish age 31
Nubar Pasha age 15