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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31

People

Stonewall Jackson age 24
Armand Fallières age 6
Jules Grévy age 40
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 10
Deodoro da Fonseca age 20
Auguste Beernaert age 18
Elihu Root age 3
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 16
Hannibal Hamlin age 38
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 4
Carol I of Romania age 8
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 64
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 11
Félix Faure age 7
Mongkut age 43
Émile Loubet age 9
Menelik II age 3
Richard Mentor Johnson age 67
Jean Casimir-Perier age 3 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 8
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 9
Garret Hobart age 3
Levi P. Morton age 23
Leo von Caprivi age 17
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 37
Robert FitzRoy age 42
Schuyler Colfax age 24
Thomas A. Hendricks age 28
Katsura Tarō age 1 month
Saigō Takamori age 20
Clara Barton age 26
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 68
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 9 months
Peter I of Serbia age 3
Xianfeng Emperor age 16
Georg von Hertling age 4
Giovanni Giolitti age 5
Yamagata Aritomo age 9
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 28
Demetrios Vikelas age 12
Joseph Chamberlain age 11
Ismail Kemal age 4
Francesco Crispi age 29
Bartolomé Mitre age 26
George B. McClellan age 21
Henry Clay age 70
Wilfrid Laurier age 6
Nikola Pašić age 2
David Farragut age 46
Matsukata Masayoshi age 12
Floriano Peixoto age 8
Gyula Andrássy age 24
Leland Stanford age 23
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 10
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 7
Prudente de Morais age 6
Alexander Mackenzie age 26
Hong Xiuquan age 34
George Meade age 32
George Reid age 2
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 30
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 65
Bettino Ricasoli age 38
Afonso Pena age 2 months
John Abbott age 26
Julio Argentino Roca age 4
Abraham Kuyper age 10
Agostino Depretis age 35
Sidney Sonnino age 11 months
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 50
Urbano Rattazzi age 39
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 43
Campos Sales age 7
Paolo Boselli age 9
John Hay age 9
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 21
Tewodros II age 30
Teófilo Braga age 4
James Longstreet age 27
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 26
Justo José de Urquiza age 46
John Sparrow David Thompson age 2
Lajos Batthyány age 41
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 30
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 22
P. G. T. Beauregard age 29
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 38
José Manuel Balmaceda age 7
Juan José Flores age 47
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 29
Tomás Estrada Palma age 12
Luigi Carlo Farini age 35
Robert Todd Lincoln age 4
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 24
Nicolás Avellaneda age 10
Ambrose Burnside age 23
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 8
Luigi Luzzatti age 6
Yohannes IV age 10
Charles Tupper age 26
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 57
Fructuoso Rivera age 63
Ōyama Iwao age 5
J. E. B. Stuart age 15
Marco Minghetti age 29
Giuseppe Saracco age 26
Alessandro Fortis age 5
François Achille Bazaine age 37
Mackenzie Bowell age 24
Salmon P. Chase age 40
Titu Maiorescu age 8
Erik Gustaf Boström age 6
Giovanni Lanza age 38
Edwin Stanton age 33
Vicente López y Planes age 62
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 57
Konstantinos Kanaris age 58
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 12
Zeng Guofan age 36
Heungseon Daewongun age 27
Alexander von Kluck age 1
Braxton Bragg age 30
Benedetto Cairoli age 23
Henry Halleck age 33
Manuel González age 14
Carlos Pellegrini age 1
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 9
Joseph Hooker age 33
Sanjō Sanetomi age 10
Luigi Pelloux age 8
José Evaristo Uriburu age 16
Gabriel García Moreno age 26
Hamilton Fish age 39
Eloy Alfaro age 5
Manuel de Arriaga age 7
Eduardo López de Romaña age 11 months
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 3
Nubar Pasha age 23
Luis Sáenz Peña age 25
Charilaos Trikoupis age 15
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 72
Stephen Allen Benson age 31
Robert Themptander age 4
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 35
Samuel J. Tilden age 34
Thomas Gage age 130
Victorino de la Plaza age 7
Manuel Quintana age 12
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 16
Winfield Scott Hancock age 24
Albert Sidney Johnston age 45
José María Iglesias age 25
Manuel Montt age 38
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 62
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 22
Arvid Posse age 28
Carl Johan Thyselius age 36
Edward Douglass White age 2
Louis McLane age 61
William M. Evarts age 30
Thomas F. Bayard age 19
John W. Foster age 11
Walter Q. Gresham age 15
Boutros Ghali age 2
Jørgen Løvland age 0 months
Ivan Goremykin age 8
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 36
Rafael Núñez age 22
Joaquín Prieto age 61
Ramón Freire age 60
Spyridon Trikoupis age 59
John Ballance age 8
Elihu B. Washburne age 31
Irvin McDowell age 29
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 7
José Joaquín Pérez age 46
Ramón Castilla age 50
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 30
Fredrik von Otter age 14
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 15
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 20
Sisowath of Cambodia age 7
Richard S. Ewell age 31
Robert Gould Shaw age 10
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 3
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 62
Todor Burmov age 14
Domingo Santa María age 22
Aníbal Pinto age 22
Kálmán Tisza age 17
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 33
Venancio Flores age 39
Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 53
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 21
Jeremiah S. Black age 38
Dimitrie Sturdza age 14
Christian Lundeberg age 5
Gustave Ador age 2
Robert Anderson age 42
George Pickett age 23