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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09-01 - 1852-12-31
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02

People

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 24
Ambrose Burnside age 23
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 8
Luigi Luzzatti age 6
Yohannes IV age 10
Ōyama Iwao age 4
Edward Everett age 53
John Sherman age 24
J. E. B. Stuart age 14
Marco Minghetti age 28
Giuseppe Saracco age 25
Alessandro Fortis age 4
Alexander H. Stephens age 35
François Achille Bazaine age 36
Salmon P. Chase age 39
Titu Maiorescu age 7
Erik Gustaf Boström age 5
Giovanni Lanza age 37
Edwin Stanton age 32
Albert Gallatin age 86
Zeng Guofan age 35
Heungseon Daewongun age 26
Alexander von Kluck age 1
Braxton Bragg age 30
Benedetto Cairoli age 22
Henry Halleck age 32
Manuel González age 14
Lewis Cass age 64
Joseph Hooker age 32
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 28
Sanjō Sanetomi age 10
Luigi Pelloux age 8
Hamilton Fish age 39
Eloy Alfaro age 5
Manuel de Arriaga age 7
Eduardo López de Romaña age 5 months
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 2
Nubar Pasha age 22
Thomas Gage age 129
Victorino de la Plaza age 6
Manuel Quintana age 11
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 15
Winfield Scott Hancock age 23
Albert Sidney Johnston age 44
Edward Douglass White age 1
Louis McLane age 61
William M. Evarts age 29
Thomas F. Bayard age 18
John W. Foster age 11
Walter Q. Gresham age 15
Boutros Ghali age 1
Ivan Goremykin age 7
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 36
Elihu B. Washburne age 30
Irvin McDowell age 28
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 6
John M. Clayton age 51
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 30
Richard Olney age 11
Fredrik von Otter age 14
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 14
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 19
Sisowath of Cambodia age 6
Richard S. Ewell age 30
Robert Gould Shaw age 9
Jeremiah S. Black age 37
Dimitrie Sturdza age 14
Christian Lundeberg age 5
Gustave Ador age 1
Robert Anderson age 42
George Pickett age 22
Sterling Price age 37
John Adams Dix age 49
Nathaniel Lyon age 29
John Bell Hood age 16
Melville Fuller age 14
Ramón Barros Luco age 12
Theodoros Deligiannis age 27
Klaus Berntsen age 3
Richard Seddon age 2
Otto Blehr age 6 months
Serapio Calderón age 3
Francisco Silvela age 3
Segismundo Moret age 14
Nathaniel P. Banks age 31
Levi Woodbury age 57
Morrison Waite age 30
Petko Karavelov age 4
Dimitrios Rallis age 3
Wollert Konow age 2
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 14
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 2
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 7
Richard Rush age 67
Thomas Ewing age 57
Georgios Theotokis age 3
Stefanos Dragoumis age 5
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 2
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 9
Petre P. Carp age 10
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 14
José López Domínguez age 17
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 23
Simon Cameron age 48
Caleb Cushing age 47
George S. Boutwell age 29
John Schofield age 15
Turhan Përmeti age 8 months
Stefanos Skouloudis age 8
Hannibal Sehested age 4
Hugo Egmont Hørring age 5
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 8
Nicolaas Pierson age 8
Pieter Cort van der Linden age 1
Paul Eyschen age 5
Walter Hauser age 10
John B. Floyd age 41
Alphonso Taft age 36
George W. Campbell age 78
Philip Francis Thomas age 36
Thomas Corwin age 53
William Windom age 20
John J. Crittenden age 59
José Manuel Marroquín age 20
Kálmán Széll age 4
Josef Zemp age 12
John C. Pemberton age 33
Franz Sigel age 22
Daniel Harvey Hill age 26
David Dixon Porter age 34
Fitzhugh Lee age 11
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 51
John Canfield Spencer age 59
Howell Cobb age 31
Hugh McCulloch age 38
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 4
Pierre Nord Alexis age 27
Géza Fejérváry age 14
Björn Jónsson age 10 months
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 26
Adolf Deucher age 16
Pablo Arosemena age 10
Benigno Ferreira age 1
John Eaton (politician) age 57
Pavel Chichagov age 80
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford age 20
George Henry Williams age 24
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 21
William J. Duane age 67
William P. Fessenden age 40
Lot M. Morrill age 34
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 33
William D. Coleman age 5
Garretson W. Gibson age 15
Johannes Steen age 20
Vladan Đorđević age 2
Robert Comtesse age 0 months
Ludwig Forrer age 2
Juan Bautista Gaona age 2
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 36
John Lawrence age 36
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 25
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 68
Alexander Ramsey age 31
Russell A. Alger age 11
Edward Bates age 54
George M. Bibb age 70
Charles Foster age 19
John G. Carlisle age 12
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 3
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani age 6
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 21
William Mahone age 20
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 17
William W. Belknap age 17
Botho zu Eulenburg age 16
Adna Chaffee age 5
Charles J. Folger age 29
Charles S. Fairchild age 5
Benjamin Bristow age 15
John M. Berrien age 66
Lord George Hamilton age 1
Samuel D. Ingham age 67
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 44
Walter Forward age 61
Joseph McKenna age 4
Elías Fernández Albano age 2
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 7
Pedro José Escalón age 5 months
François C. Antoine Simon age 3
Victor Thorn age 3
James B. McPherson age 18
Charles Magill Conrad age 42
Joseph Holt age 40
Redfield Proctor age 16
Augustus H. Garland age 15
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 16
James Guthrie age 54
John Nelson age 56
Judson Harmon age 1