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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Musket Wars 1807 - 1842
Argentine Civil Wars 1814 - 1880
Seminole Wars 1816 - 1858
Texas–Indian wars 1820 - 1882
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Canut revolts 1831 - 1848
Carlist Wars 1833 - 1876
Ragamuffin War 1835-09-20 - 1845-03-01
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
Kenesary's Rebellion 1837 - 1847
Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841) 1839 - 1841
First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-03 - 1842-10
Uruguayan Civil War 1839-03-10 - 1851-10-08
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Prince Albert age 21
Charles XV age 14
Murad V age 0 months
Maximilian I of Mexico age 8
Christian IX of Denmark age 22
Oscar II of Sweden age 11
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 46
Lajos Kossuth age 38
John Wilkes Booth age 2
Oscar I age 41
John A. Macdonald age 25
Stonewall Jackson age 16
Louis Bonaparte age 62
Jules Grévy age 33
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 3
Bernardo O'Higgins age 62
Deodoro da Fonseca age 13
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 34
George Armstrong Custer age 9 months
Auguste Beernaert age 11
Sam Houston age 47
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 9
Hannibal Hamlin age 31
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 4
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 8 months
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 2
George M. Dallas age 48
Levi P. Morton age 16
Leo von Caprivi age 9
Pavel Nakhimov age 38
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 42
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 29
Robert FitzRoy age 35
Schuyler Colfax age 17
Thomas A. Hendricks age 21
Saigō Takamori age 12
Adlai Stevenson I age 4
Clara Barton age 18
Maria II of Portugal age 21
Emperor Kōmei age 9
Isma'il Pasha age 9
Jérôme Bonaparte age 55
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 28
Marie Thérèse of France age 61
Xianfeng Emperor age 9
Guadalupe Victoria age 54
Lew Wallace age 13
Yamagata Aritomo age 2
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 21
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 69
Demetrios Vikelas age 5
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 45
Joseph Chamberlain age 4
Francesco Crispi age 21
Emperor Kōkaku age 69
Bartolomé Mitre age 19
George B. McClellan age 13
David Farragut age 39
Matsukata Masayoshi age 5
Floriano Peixoto age 1
Jules Ferry age 8
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 71
Francisco Solano López age 14
Charlotte of Belgium age 3 months
Allan Octavian Hume age 11
Philip Henry Sheridan age 9
Auguste de Marmont age 66
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 16
Kalākaua age 3
George Meade age 24
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 23
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 57
Bettino Ricasoli age 31
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 37
Lin Tse-hsu age 55
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 58
John Abbott age 19
Dadabhai Naoroji age 15
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 21
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 37
Marie Henriette of Austria age 4
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 42
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 31
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 12
John of Saxony age 38
Urbano Rattazzi age 32
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 35
Bernardino Rivadavia age 60
Paolo Boselli age 2
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 29
William I of Württemberg age 59
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 7
Winfield Scott age 54
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 13
Sophie of Württemberg age 22
Nicolas Oudinot age 73
Adelaide of Austria age 18
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 35
James Longstreet age 19
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 19
Georg I of Saxony age 8
Louis IV of Hesse age 3
Justo José de Urquiza age 38
Lajos Batthyány age 33
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 23
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 15
P. G. T. Beauregard age 22
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 31
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 73
Emilio Castelar age 8
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 12
José Manuel Balmaceda age 2 months
Carlos Antonio López age 49
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 22
Richard Cobden age 36
Midhat Pasha age 17
Tomás Estrada Palma age 5
Luigi Carlo Farini age 27
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 17
Francesc Pi i Margall age 16
Nicolás Avellaneda age 2
Francisco Morazán age 48
Ambrose Burnside age 16
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 1
Yohannes IV age 3
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 73
Karl Nesselrode age 59
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 38
Maria Anna of Savoy age 37
Charles Tupper age 19
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 49
Émile Combes age 5
Cheoljong of Joseon age 9
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 10
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 33
Princess Louise of Prussia age 1
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 14
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry age 41
Mackenzie Bowell age 16
Salmon P. Chase age 32
Titu Maiorescu age 7 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 53
Charles II of Parma age 40
James Brooke age 37
Zeng Guofan age 28
Heungseon Daewongun age 19
Braxton Bragg age 23
Benedetto Cairoli age 15
Henry Halleck age 25
Manuel González age 7
Valentín Gómez Farías age 59
Enomoto Takeaki age 3
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 53
Archduke John of Austria age 58
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 47
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 21