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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02

People

Christian IX of Denmark age 29
Oscar II of Sweden age 18
Alexandra of Denmark age 2
Lajos Kossuth age 44
Amadeo I of Spain age 2
John Wilkes Booth age 9
John A. Macdonald age 32
Stonewall Jackson age 23
Armand Fallières age 5
Jules Grévy age 39
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 9
Deodoro da Fonseca age 19
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 41
George Armstrong Custer age 7
Auguste Beernaert age 17
Elihu Root age 2
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 15
Hannibal Hamlin age 37
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 4
Carol I of Romania age 8
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 63
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 10
Félix Faure age 6
Paul Kruger age 21
Mongkut age 42
Émile Loubet age 8
Menelik II age 2
William III of the Netherlands age 30
Richard Mentor Johnson age 66
Frederick VII of Denmark age 38
Abdur Rahman Khan age 7
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 9
Victoria, Princess Royal age 6
Garret Hobart age 3
Levi P. Morton age 23
Leo von Caprivi age 16
Pavel Nakhimov age 45
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 49
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 36
Robert FitzRoy age 42
Schuyler Colfax age 24
Thomas A. Hendricks age 27
Saigō Takamori age 19
Adlai Stevenson I age 11
Clara Barton age 25
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 68
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 1 month
Peter I of Serbia age 2
Maria II of Portugal age 28
Isma'il Pasha age 16
Jérôme Bonaparte age 62
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 35
Marie Thérèse of France age 68
Xianfeng Emperor age 15
Georg von Hertling age 3
Giovanni Giolitti age 4
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 5
Lew Wallace age 20
Yamagata Aritomo age 9
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 28
Demetrios Vikelas age 12
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 52
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 4
Joseph Chamberlain age 10
Ismail Kemal age 3
Francesco Crispi age 28
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 2
Bartolomé Mitre age 26
George B. McClellan age 20
Henry Clay age 70
Wilfrid Laurier age 5
Nikola Pašić age 1
David Farragut age 46
Matsukata Masayoshi age 12
Floriano Peixoto age 8
Jules Ferry age 15
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 78
Francisco Solano López age 20
Charlotte of Belgium age 7
Allan Octavian Hume age 18
Philip Henry Sheridan age 16
Auguste de Marmont age 72
Lucretia Mott age 54
Gyula Andrássy age 24
Leland Stanford age 23
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 9
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 6
Prudente de Morais age 5
Alexander Mackenzie age 25
Kate Sheppard age 3 months
Hong Xiuquan age 33
Li Hongzhang age 24
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 22
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 1
George Meade age 31
George Reid age 2
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 29
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 64
Bettino Ricasoli age 38
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 44
Lin Tse-hsu age 61
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 65
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 37
John Abbott age 26
Dadabhai Naoroji age 21
Julio Argentino Roca age 3
Abraham Kuyper age 9
Agostino Depretis age 34
Sidney Sonnino age 3 months
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 11
Matthew C. Perry age 53
Georg V of Hanover age 28
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 44
Marie Henriette of Austria age 10
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 2
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 49
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 38
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 19
Urbano Rattazzi age 39
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 42
Campos Sales age 6
Mikhail Skobelev age 3
Paolo Boselli age 9
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 35
William I of Württemberg age 65
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 50
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 13
John Hay age 8
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 20
Tewodros II age 29
Louis-Jules Trochu age 32
Albert I of Saxony age 19
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 19
Sophie of Württemberg age 29
Nicolas Oudinot age 80
Leopold II of Tuscany age 49
Adelaide of Austria age 25
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 42
Teófilo Braga age 4
James Longstreet age 26
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 25
José Antonio Páez age 57
Georg I of Saxony age 14
Louis IV of Hesse age 9
Justo José de Urquiza age 45
John Sparrow David Thompson age 1
Lajos Batthyány age 40
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 29
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 21
P. G. T. Beauregard age 29
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 37
Emilio Castelar age 14
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 61
Charles I of Württemberg age 24
Louise of the Netherlands age 18
José Manuel Balmaceda age 6
Juan José Flores age 46
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 28
Richard Cobden age 43
Midhat Pasha age 24
Tomás Estrada Palma age 11
Luigi Carlo Farini age 34
Robert Todd Lincoln age 3
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 24
Francesc Pi i Margall age 23
Nicolás Avellaneda age 9
Ambrose Burnside age 23
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 8
Luigi Luzzatti age 6
Yohannes IV age 9
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 80
Karl Nesselrode age 66
Tokugawa Iemochi age 11 months
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 45
Maria Anna of Savoy age 43
Charles Tupper age 26
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 56
Fructuoso Rivera age 62
Ōyama Iwao age 4
Cheoljong of Joseon age 15
J. E. B. Stuart age 14
Marco Minghetti age 28
Giuseppe Saracco age 25
Alessandro Fortis age 4
François Achille Bazaine age 36
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 14
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 16
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 40
Princess Louise of Prussia age 8
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 20
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry age 48
Mackenzie Bowell age 23
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 2
Salmon P. Chase age 39
Titu Maiorescu age 7
Erik Gustaf Boström age 5
Giovanni Lanza age 37
Edwin Stanton age 32
Osman Nuri Pasha age 15
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 19