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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

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 9
Hannibal Hamlin age 31
Carol I of Romania age 1
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 56
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 4
Paul Kruger age 15
Mongkut age 36
Émile Loubet age 1
William III of the Netherlands age 23
Frederick VII of Denmark age 32
Abdur Rahman Khan age 12 months
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 2
George M. Dallas age 48
Victoria, Princess Royal age 1 month
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 5
Clara Barton age 19
Maria II of Portugal age 21
Emperor Kōmei age 9
Isma'il Pasha age 10
Jérôme Bonaparte age 56
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 29
Marie Thérèse of France age 62
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 22
Bartolomé Mitre age 19
George B. McClellan age 14
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 6 months
Allan Octavian Hume age 11
Philip Henry Sheridan age 9
Auguste de Marmont age 66
Lucretia Mott age 48
Gyula Andrássy age 17
Leland Stanford age 16
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 3
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 1 month
Alexander Mackenzie age 18
Hong Xiuquan age 27
Li Hongzhang age 17
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 16
George Meade age 25
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 23
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 58
Bettino Ricasoli age 31
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 38
Lin Tse-hsu age 55
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 58
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 30
John Abbott age 19
Dadabhai Naoroji age 15
Abraham Kuyper age 3
Agostino Depretis age 27
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 4
Matthew C. Perry age 46
Georg V of Hanover age 21
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 38
Marie Henriette of Austria age 4
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 42
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 31
Urbano Rattazzi age 32
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 36
Bernardino Rivadavia age 60
Paolo Boselli age 2
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 29
William I of Württemberg age 59
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 43
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 7
Winfield Scott age 54
John Hay age 2
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 14
Tewodros II age 23
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
Leopold II of Tuscany age 43
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 39
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 74
Emilio Castelar age 8
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 76
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 5 months
Carlos Antonio López age 50
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 22
Richard Cobden age 36
Midhat Pasha age 18
Tomás Estrada Palma age 5
Luigi Carlo Farini age 28
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 17
Francesc Pi i Margall age 16
Nicolás Avellaneda age 3
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 60
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 39
Maria Anna of Savoy age 37
Charles Tupper age 19
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 49
Cheoljong of Joseon age 9
J. E. B. Stuart age 7
Marco Minghetti age 22
Giuseppe Saracco age 19
Alexander H. Stephens age 28
François Achille Bazaine age 29
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 8
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 10
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 34
Princess Louise of Prussia age 2
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 14
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry age 42
Mackenzie Bowell age 17
Salmon P. Chase age 32
Titu Maiorescu age 10 months
Giovanni Lanza age 30
Edwin Stanton age 26
Osman Nuri Pasha age 8
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 12
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 16
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 48
Vicente López y Planes age 55
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 50
Konstantinos Kanaris age 51
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 4
Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 53
Zeng Guofan age 29
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 4
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 53
Archduke John of Austria age 58
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 48
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 21
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 9
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 1
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 63
Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870) age 32
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 62
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 2
Lewis Cass age 58
Joseph Hooker age 26
Sanjō Sanetomi age 3
Luigi Pelloux age 1
Rafael Carrera age 25
Nicolás Bravo age 54
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 8
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 15
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 13
Alfred von Waldersee age 8
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 67
José Evaristo Uriburu age 9
Gabriel García Moreno age 19
Ioannis Kolettis age 68
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 40
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 25
William L. Marcy age 54
Hamilton Fish age 32
Manuel de Arriaga age 6 months