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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
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26

People

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 18
Prince Albert age 29
Charles XV age 22
Murad V age 7
Maximilian I of Mexico age 16
George I of Greece age 2
Christian IX of Denmark age 30
Oscar II of Sweden age 19
Alexandra of Denmark age 3
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 54
Lajos Kossuth age 45
Amadeo I of Spain age 3
John Wilkes Booth age 10
John A. Macdonald age 33
Stonewall Jackson age 24
Armand Fallières age 6
Jules Grévy age 41
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 11
Deodoro da Fonseca age 21
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 42
George Armstrong Custer age 8
Auguste Beernaert age 19
Elihu Root age 3
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 17
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 5
Carol I of Romania age 9
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 64
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 11
Félix Faure age 7
Paul Kruger age 22
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 9 months
Mongkut age 43
Émile Loubet age 9
Menelik II age 4
William III of the Netherlands age 31
Richard Mentor Johnson age 67
Jean Casimir-Perier age 9 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 8
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 10
Victoria, Princess Royal age 7
Garret Hobart age 4
Levi P. Morton age 24
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 3 months
Leo von Caprivi age 17
Pavel Nakhimov age 46
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 50
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 37
Robert FitzRoy age 43
Schuyler Colfax age 25
Thomas A. Hendricks age 28
Katsura Tarō age 7 months
Saigō Takamori age 20
Tōgō Heihachirō age 7 months
Adlai Stevenson I age 12
Clara Barton age 26
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 69
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 1
Peter I of Serbia age 4
Maria II of Portugal age 29
Isma'il Pasha age 17
Jérôme Bonaparte age 63
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 36
Marie Thérèse of France age 69
Xianfeng Emperor age 17
Georg von Hertling age 5
Giovanni Giolitti age 5
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 6
Lew Wallace age 21
Yamagata Aritomo age 10
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 29
Demetrios Vikelas age 13
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 53
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 5
Joseph Chamberlain age 12
Ismail Kemal age 4
Francesco Crispi age 29
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 3
Bartolomé Mitre age 27
George B. McClellan age 21
Henry Clay age 71
Wilfrid Laurier age 6
Nikola Pašić age 2
David Farragut age 47
Matsukata Masayoshi age 13
Floriano Peixoto age 9
Jules Ferry age 16
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 79
Francisco Solano López age 22
Charlotte of Belgium age 8
Allan Octavian Hume age 19
Philip Henry Sheridan age 17
Auguste de Marmont age 74
Lucretia Mott age 55
Gyula Andrássy age 25
Leland Stanford age 24
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 10
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 7
Prudente de Morais age 6
Otto, King of Bavaria age 4 months
Alexander Mackenzie age 26
Kate Sheppard age 1
Hong Xiuquan age 34
Li Hongzhang age 25
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 24
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 2
George Meade age 32
George Reid age 3
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 31
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 65
Bettino Ricasoli age 39
Rodrigues Alves age 1 month
Afonso Pena age 9 months
Lin Tse-hsu age 63
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 66
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 38
John Abbott age 27
Dadabhai Naoroji age 23
Julio Argentino Roca age 5
Abraham Kuyper age 10
Agostino Depretis age 35
Sidney Sonnino age 1
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 12
Matthew C. Perry age 54
Georg V of Hanover age 29
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 45
Marie Henriette of Austria age 12
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 4
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 50
Urbano Rattazzi age 40
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 43
Campos Sales age 7
Mikhail Skobelev age 4
Paolo Boselli age 10
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 36
William I of Württemberg age 66
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 51
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 15
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 5 months
John Hay age 9
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 21
Tewodros II age 30
Louis-Jules Trochu age 33
Albert I of Saxony age 20
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 20
Sophie of Württemberg age 30
Leopold II of Tuscany age 50
Adelaide of Austria age 26
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 43
Teófilo Braga age 5
James Longstreet age 27
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 27
Alexei Kuropatkin age 5 months
José Antonio Páez age 58
Georg I of Saxony age 16
Louis IV of Hesse age 10
Justo José de Urquiza age 46
John Sparrow David Thompson age 2
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 31
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 23
P. G. T. Beauregard age 30
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 39
Emilio Castelar age 15
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 62
Charles I of Württemberg age 25
Louise of the Netherlands age 20
José Manuel Balmaceda age 8
Juan José Flores age 48
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 30
Richard Cobden age 44
Midhat Pasha age 25
Tomás Estrada Palma age 13
Luigi Carlo Farini age 35
Robert Todd Lincoln age 5
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 25
Francesc Pi i Margall age 24
Nicolás Avellaneda age 10
Ambrose Burnside age 24
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 9
Luigi Luzzatti age 7
Yohannes IV age 11
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 81
Karl Nesselrode age 67
Tokugawa Iemochi age 2
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 46
Maria Anna of Savoy age 44
Maria Pia of Savoy age 10 months
Charles Tupper age 27
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 57
Fructuoso Rivera age 63
Ōyama Iwao age 5
Cheoljong of Joseon age 17
J. E. B. Stuart age 15
Marco Minghetti age 29
Giuseppe Saracco age 26
Alessandro Fortis age 5
François Achille Bazaine age 37
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 15
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 18
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 41
Princess Louise of Prussia age 9