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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

George Armstrong Custer age 2
Auguste Beernaert age 13
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 11
Hannibal Hamlin age 32
Carol I of Romania age 3
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 58
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 5
Félix Faure age 1
Paul Kruger age 16
Mongkut age 37
Émile Loubet age 3
William III of the Netherlands age 25
Richard Mentor Johnson age 61
Frederick VII of Denmark age 33
Abdur Rahman Khan age 2
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 4
George M. Dallas age 50
Victoria, Princess Royal age 1
Levi P. Morton age 18
Leo von Caprivi age 11
Pavel Nakhimov age 40
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 44
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 31
Robert FitzRoy age 37
Schuyler Colfax age 19
Thomas A. Hendricks age 22
Saigō Takamori age 14
Adlai Stevenson I age 6
Clara Barton age 20
Maria II of Portugal age 23
Emperor Kōmei age 11
Isma'il Pasha age 11
Jérôme Bonaparte age 57
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 30
Marie Thérèse of France age 63
Xianfeng Emperor age 11
Guadalupe Victoria age 55
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 10 months
Lew Wallace age 15
Yamagata Aritomo age 4
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 23
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 70
Demetrios Vikelas age 7
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 47
Joseph Chamberlain age 6
Francesco Crispi age 23
Bartolomé Mitre age 21
George B. McClellan age 15
Henry Clay age 65
Wilfrid Laurier age 9 months
David Farragut age 41
Matsukata Masayoshi age 7
Floriano Peixoto age 3
Jules Ferry age 10
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 73
Francisco Solano López age 16
Charlotte of Belgium age 2
Allan Octavian Hume age 13
Philip Henry Sheridan age 11
Auguste de Marmont age 68
Lucretia Mott age 49
Gyula Andrássy age 19
Leland Stanford age 18
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 4
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 1
Prudente de Morais age 10 months
Alexander Mackenzie age 20
Hong Xiuquan age 28
Li Hongzhang age 19
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 18
George Meade age 26
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 25
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 59
Bettino Ricasoli age 33
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 39
Lin Tse-hsu age 57
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 60
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 32
John Abbott age 21
Dadabhai Naoroji age 16
Abraham Kuyper age 4
Agostino Depretis age 29
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 6
Matthew C. Perry age 48
Georg V of Hanover age 23
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 39
Marie Henriette of Austria age 5
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 44
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 33
Urbano Rattazzi age 34
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 37
Campos Sales age 1
Bernardino Rivadavia age 62
Paolo Boselli age 4
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 30
William I of Württemberg age 60
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 45
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 9
John Hay age 3
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 15
Tewodros II age 24
Louis-Jules Trochu age 27
Albert I of Saxony age 14
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 14
Sophie of Württemberg age 24
Nicolas Oudinot age 75
Leopold II of Tuscany age 44
Adelaide of Austria age 20
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 37
James Longstreet age 21
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 21
Georg I of Saxony age 10
Louis IV of Hesse age 4
Justo José de Urquiza age 40
Lajos Batthyány age 35
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 24
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 17
P. G. T. Beauregard age 24
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 32
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 75
Emilio Castelar age 9
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 56
Charles I of Württemberg age 19
Louise of the Netherlands age 14
José Manuel Balmaceda age 2
Carlos Antonio López age 51
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 24
Richard Cobden age 38
Midhat Pasha age 19
Tomás Estrada Palma age 7
Luigi Carlo Farini age 29
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 19
Francesc Pi i Margall age 18
Nicolás Avellaneda age 4
Francisco Morazán age 49
Ambrose Burnside age 18
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 3
Luigi Luzzatti age 1
Yohannes IV age 5
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 75
Karl Nesselrode age 61
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 40
Maria Anna of Savoy age 38
Charles Tupper age 21
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 51
Cheoljong of Joseon age 11
J. E. B. Stuart age 9
Marco Minghetti age 23
Giuseppe Saracco age 20
Alexander H. Stephens age 30
François Achille Bazaine age 31
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 9
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 12
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 35
Princess Louise of Prussia age 3
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 15
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry age 43
Mackenzie Bowell age 18
Salmon P. Chase age 34
Titu Maiorescu age 2
Erik Gustaf Boström age 6 months
Giovanni Lanza age 32
Edwin Stanton age 27
Osman Nuri Pasha age 10
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 14
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 17
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 50
Vicente López y Planes age 57
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 52
Konstantinos Kanaris age 52
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 6
Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 54
Zeng Guofan age 30
Heungseon Daewongun age 21
Braxton Bragg age 25
Benedetto Cairoli age 17
Henry Halleck age 27
Manuel González age 9
Valentín Gómez Farías age 61
Enomoto Takeaki age 5
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 54
Archduke John of Austria age 60
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 49
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 23
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 11
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 2
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 65
Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870) age 34
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 4
Lewis Cass age 59
Joseph Hooker age 27
Sanjō Sanetomi age 5
Luigi Pelloux age 3
Rafael Carrera age 26
Nicolás Bravo age 55
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 9
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 16
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 14
Alfred von Waldersee age 10
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 69