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Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Sanjō Sanetomi age 3
Luigi Pelloux age 1
Rafael Carrera age 24
William L. Marcy age 53
Hamilton Fish age 32
Manuel de Arriaga age 3 months
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 10 months
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 29
Robert Smith age 82
Elihu B. Washburne age 23
Irvin McDowell age 21
Abel P. Upshur age 50
John M. Clayton age 44
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 23
Richard Olney age 4
Fredrik von Otter age 7
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 8
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 35
George Pickett age 15
Sterling Price age 30
John Adams Dix age 42
Nathaniel Lyon age 22
John Bell Hood age 9
Melville Fuller age 7
Ramón Barros Luco age 5
Theodoros Deligiannis age 20
Segismundo Moret age 7
Nathaniel P. Banks age 24
Morrison Waite age 23
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 7
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 11 months
Richard Rush age 60
Thomas Ewing age 50
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 2
Petre P. Carp age 3
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 7
José López Domínguez age 10
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 16
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 1
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 30
Thomas Corwin age 46
William Windom age 13
John J. Crittenden age 53
José Manuel Marroquín age 13
Josef Zemp age 6
John C. Pemberton age 26
Franz Sigel age 15
Daniel Harvey Hill age 19
David Dixon Porter age 27
Fitzhugh Lee age 4
John Armstrong Jr. age 81
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 44
John Canfield Spencer age 52
Howell Cobb age 25
Hugh McCulloch age 31
Pierre Nord Alexis age 20
Géza Fejérváry age 7
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 19
Adolf Deucher age 9
Pablo Arosemena age 3
John Eaton (politician) age 50
Pavel Chichagov age 73
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford age 13
Felix Grundy age 63
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 13
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 29
John Lawrence age 29
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 18
Alexander Ramsey age 25
Russell A. Alger age 4
Edward Bates age 47
George M. Bibb age 63
Charles Foster age 12
John G. Carlisle age 6
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 9
Charles J. Folger age 22
Benjamin Bristow age 8
John M. Berrien age 59
Samuel D. Ingham age 61
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 37
Walter Forward age 54
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 2 months
James B. McPherson age 11
Charles Magill Conrad age 35
Joseph Holt age 33
Redfield Proctor age 9
Augustus H. Garland age 8
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 9
James Guthrie age 47
John Nelson age 49
Nathan Clifford age 37
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 4
William Harcourt age 12
William M. Meredith age 41
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 17
John Alexander McClernand age 28
Peter Buell Porter age 67
George W. Crawford age 41
George W. McCrary age 5
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 60
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 2
William Adams Richardson age 18
Reverdy Johnson age 44
Hugh Childers age 13
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 8
Terencio Sierra age 9 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 42
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 59
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
William H. H. Miller born 1840-09-06
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 34
Raghib Pasha age 21
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 1
Mansfield Lovell age 17
Charles Henry Davis age 33
George Ward Hunt age 15
Henry Goulburn age 56
José Venancio López age 49
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 60
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 50
Franklin Gardner age 17
William H. C. Whiting age 16
John Charles Herries age 62
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 14
James Alexander Hamilton age 52
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 39