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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

Luigi Pelloux age 1
Rafael Carrera age 24
William L. Marcy age 53
Hamilton Fish age 31
Nubar Pasha age 15
Thomas Gage age 122
Manuel Quintana age 4
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 8
Winfield Scott Hancock age 16
Albert Sidney Johnston age 37
Louis McLane age 54
William M. Evarts age 22
Thomas F. Bayard age 11
John W. Foster age 4
Walter Q. Gresham age 8
Ivan Goremykin age 6 months
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 28
Robert Smith age 82
Elihu B. Washburne age 23
Irvin McDowell age 21
Abel P. Upshur age 49
John M. Clayton age 43
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 22
Richard Olney age 4
Fredrik von Otter age 7
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 7
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 12
Richard S. Ewell age 23
Robert Gould Shaw age 2
Jeremiah S. Black age 30
Dimitrie Sturdza age 7
Robert Anderson age 34
George Pickett age 15
Sterling Price age 30
John Adams Dix age 41
Nathaniel Lyon age 21
John Bell Hood age 8
Melville Fuller age 7
Ramón Barros Luco age 4
Theodoros Deligiannis age 20
Segismundo Moret age 6
Nathaniel P. Banks age 24
Morrison Waite age 23
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 7
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 7 months
Richard Rush age 59
Thomas Ewing age 50
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 2
Petre P. Carp age 2
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 7
José López Domínguez age 10
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 15
Simon Cameron age 41
Caleb Cushing age 40
George S. Boutwell age 22
John Schofield age 8
Stefanos Skouloudis age 1
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 11 months
Nicolaas Pierson age 1
Walter Hauser age 3
James Barbour age 65
John B. Floyd age 34
Alphonso Taft age 29
George W. Campbell age 71
Philip Francis Thomas age 29
Thomas Corwin age 45
William Windom age 13
John J. Crittenden age 52
José Manuel Marroquín age 12
Josef Zemp age 5
John C. Pemberton age 25
Franz Sigel age 15
Daniel Harvey Hill age 18
David Dixon Porter age 26
Fitzhugh Lee age 4
John Armstrong Jr. age 81
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 44
John Canfield Spencer age 52
Howell Cobb age 24
Hugh McCulloch age 31
Pierre Nord Alexis age 19
Géza Fejérváry age 7
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 19
Adolf Deucher age 9
Pablo Arosemena age 3
John Eaton (politician) age 49
Pavel Chichagov age 72
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford age 13
Felix Grundy age 62
George Henry Williams age 17
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 14
William J. Duane age 60
William P. Fessenden age 33
Lot M. Morrill age 27
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 26
Garretson W. Gibson age 8
Johannes Steen age 12
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 29
John Lawrence age 29
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 18
Alexander Ramsey age 24
Russell A. Alger age 4
Edward Bates age 46
George M. Bibb age 63
Charles Foster age 12
John G. Carlisle age 5
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 14
William Mahone age 13
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 10
William W. Belknap age 10
Botho zu Eulenburg age 8
Charles J. Folger age 22
Benjamin Bristow age 7
John M. Berrien age 58
Samuel D. Ingham age 60
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 37
Walter Forward age 54
James B. McPherson age 11
Charles Magill Conrad age 35
Joseph Holt age 33
Redfield Proctor age 8
Augustus H. Garland age 7
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 8
James Guthrie age 47
John Nelson age 49
Nathan Clifford age 36
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 25
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 21
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 25
William Denison age 36
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 20
Gustavus Woodson Smith age 18
William Crowninshield Endicott age 13
Lyman J. Gage age 3
Yohannes III age 43
William Harcourt age 12
William M. Meredith age 40
Riyad Pasha age 6
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 58
Isaac Toucey age 47
James Speed age 28
John Y. Mason age 41
Tirésias Simon Sam age 5
John Strachey age 16
John Alexander McClernand age 28
Peter Buell Porter age 66
George W. Crawford age 41
George W. McCrary age 4
George Cornewall Lewis age 34
Franklin MacVeagh age 2
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 25
Charles Devens age 20
Edwards Pierrepont age 23
Hugh S. Legaré age 43
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 59
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 2
William Adams Richardson age 18
Reverdy Johnson age 44
Hugh Childers age 12
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 7
Terencio Sierra age 6 months
George Sykes age 17
Benjamin McCulloch age 28
Thomas James Churchill age 16
Quincy Adams Gillmore age 15
Stephen D. Lee age 6
Benjamin H. Brewster age 23
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 41
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 58
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 48
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 74
Henry Stanbery age 37
Lerotholi age 4
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 24
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 39
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 17
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 41
Robert Lowe age 28
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 58
Wayne MacVeagh age 7
James Madison Porter age 47
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 33
Raghib Pasha age 20
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 1
Mansfield Lovell age 17
Charles Henry Davis age 33
George Ward Hunt age 14
Henry Goulburn age 56
José Venancio López age 49
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 59
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 50
Franklin Gardner age 17
William H. C. Whiting age 16
John Charles Herries age 61
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 14
James Alexander Hamilton age 52
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 39
Henry Lowry-Corry age 37
William S. Derrick age 37
William Hunter age 34