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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

Charles XV age 22
Murad V age 8
Maximilian I of Mexico age 16
Ferdinand I of Austria age 55
George I of Greece age 3
Christian IX of Denmark age 30
Oscar II of Sweden age 20
Alexandra of Denmark age 4
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 55
Amadeo I of Spain age 3
John Wilkes Booth age 10
John A. Macdonald age 34
Stonewall Jackson age 25
Armand Fallières age 7
Jules Grévy age 41
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 11
Deodoro da Fonseca age 21
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 43
George Armstrong Custer age 9
Auguste Beernaert age 19
Elihu Root age 4
Edmund Barton age 1 month
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 5
Carol I of Romania age 9
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 65
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 12
Félix Faure age 8
Paul Kruger age 23
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 1
Mongkut age 44
Émile Loubet age 10
Menelik II age 4
Richard Mentor Johnson age 68
Jean Casimir-Perier age 1
Abdur Rahman Khan age 9
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 11
George M. Dallas age 56
Victoria, Princess Royal age 8
Garret Hobart age 4
Levi P. Morton age 24
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 9 months
Leo von Caprivi age 18
Pavel Nakhimov age 46
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 50
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 38
Robert FitzRoy age 43
Schuyler Colfax age 26
Thomas A. Hendricks age 29
Katsura Tarō age 1
Saigō Takamori age 21
Tōgō Heihachirō age 1
Adlai Stevenson I age 13
Clara Barton age 27
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 1
Peter I of Serbia age 4
Maria II of Portugal age 29
Isma'il Pasha age 18
Jérôme Bonaparte age 64
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 37
Marie Thérèse of France age 70
Xianfeng Emperor age 17
Georg von Hertling age 5
Giovanni Giolitti age 6
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 7
Lew Wallace age 21
Yamagata Aritomo age 10
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 29
Demetrios Vikelas age 14
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 54
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 5
Joseph Chamberlain age 12
Ismail Kemal age 5
Francesco Crispi age 30
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 4
Bartolomé Mitre age 27
George B. McClellan age 22
Wilfrid Laurier age 7
Nikola Pašić age 3
David Farragut age 47
Matsukata Masayoshi age 14
Floriano Peixoto age 9
Jules Ferry age 16
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 80
Francisco Solano López age 22
Charlotte of Belgium age 8
Allan Octavian Hume age 19
Philip Henry Sheridan age 18
Auguste de Marmont age 74
Lucretia Mott age 56
Gyula Andrássy age 26
Leland Stanford age 25
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 11
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 8
Prudente de Morais age 7
Otto, King of Bavaria age 10 months
Alexander Mackenzie age 27
Kate Sheppard age 2
Hong Xiuquan age 35
Li Hongzhang age 26
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 24
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 2
George Meade age 33
George Reid age 4
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 31
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 4 months
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 66
Bettino Ricasoli age 40
Rodrigues Alves age 8 months
Afonso Pena age 1
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 46
Lin Tse-hsu age 63
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 66
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 39
John Abbott age 28
Dadabhai Naoroji age 23
Julio Argentino Roca age 5
Abraham Kuyper age 11
Agostino Depretis age 36
Sidney Sonnino age 2
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 13
Matthew C. Perry age 54
Georg V of Hanover age 29
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 46
Marie Henriette of Austria age 12
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 4
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 51
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 21
Urbano Rattazzi age 40
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 44
Campos Sales age 8
Mikhail Skobelev age 5
Paolo Boselli age 10
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 37
William I of Württemberg age 67
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 51
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 15
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 12 months
John Hay age 10
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 22
Tewodros II age 31
Louis-Jules Trochu age 34
Albert I of Saxony age 20
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 21
Sophie of Württemberg age 30
Leopold II of Tuscany age 51
Adelaide of Austria age 26
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 44
Teófilo Braga age 6
James Longstreet age 28
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 27
Alexei Kuropatkin age 11 months
José Antonio Páez age 58
Georg I of Saxony age 16
Louis IV of Hesse age 11
Justo José de Urquiza age 47
John Sparrow David Thompson age 3
Lajos Batthyány age 42
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 31
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 23
P. G. T. Beauregard age 30
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 39
Emilio Castelar age 16
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 63
Charles I of Württemberg age 26
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 26
Tomás Estrada Palma age 13
Luigi Carlo Farini age 36
Robert Todd Lincoln age 5
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 25
Francesc Pi i Margall age 24
Nicolás Avellaneda age 11
Ambrose Burnside age 24
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 9
Luigi Luzzatti age 8
Yohannes IV age 11
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 82
Karl Nesselrode age 68
Tokugawa Iemochi age 2
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 47
Maria Anna of Savoy age 45
Maria Pia of Savoy age 1
Charles Tupper age 27
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 58
Fructuoso Rivera age 64
Ōyama Iwao age 6
Cheoljong of Joseon age 17
J. E. B. Stuart age 16
Marco Minghetti age 30
Giuseppe Saracco age 27
Alessandro Fortis age 6
François Achille Bazaine age 38
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 16
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 18
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 42
Princess Louise of Prussia age 10