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Events

Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868

People

Lajos Kossuth age 49
Amadeo I of Spain age 6
John Wilkes Booth age 13
John A. Macdonald age 36
Stonewall Jackson age 27
Armand Fallières age 10
Jules Grévy age 44
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 14
Deodoro da Fonseca age 24
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 46
George Armstrong Custer age 12
Auguste Beernaert age 22
Elihu Root age 6
Edmund Barton age 2
Bernhard von Bülow age 2
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 8
Carol I of Romania age 12
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 67
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 15
Félix Faure age 10
Paul Kruger age 26
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 4
Sergei Witte age 2
Émile Loubet age 12
Menelik II age 7
Jean Casimir-Perier age 4
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 1
Abdur Rahman Khan age 11
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 13
George M. Dallas age 59
Edward Smith age 1
Victoria, Princess Royal age 11
Garret Hobart age 7
Levi P. Morton age 27
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 3
Leo von Caprivi age 20
Pavel Nakhimov age 49
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 53
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 40
Robert FitzRoy age 46
Schuyler Colfax age 28
Thomas A. Hendricks age 32
Katsura Tarō age 3
Saigō Takamori age 23
Tōgō Heihachirō age 3
Adlai Stevenson I age 16
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 1
Clara Barton age 29
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 4
Peter I of Serbia age 7
Maria II of Portugal age 32
Isma'il Pasha age 20
August von Mackensen age 2
Jérôme Bonaparte age 67
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 40
Georg von Hertling age 8
Giovanni Giolitti age 9
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 10
Lew Wallace age 24
Yamagata Aritomo age 13
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 32
Demetrios Vikelas age 16
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 56
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 8
Joseph Chamberlain age 15
Ismail Kemal age 7
Francesco Crispi age 33
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 6
Bartolomé Mitre age 30
George B. McClellan age 25
Wilfrid Laurier age 10
Nikola Pašić age 6
David Farragut age 50
Matsukata Masayoshi age 16
Floriano Peixoto age 12
Jules Ferry age 19
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 3 months
Francisco Solano López age 25
Charlotte of Belgium age 11
Allan Octavian Hume age 22
Victoriano Huerta age 12 months
Philip Henry Sheridan age 20
Auguste de Marmont age 77
Lucretia Mott age 58
Gyula Andrássy age 28
Leland Stanford age 27
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 14
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 11
Prudente de Morais age 10
Otto, King of Bavaria age 3
Alexander Mackenzie age 29
Kate Sheppard age 4
Hong Xiuquan age 37
Li Hongzhang age 28
Luigi Cadorna age 1
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 27
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 5
George Meade age 35
George Reid age 6
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 34
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 3
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 69
Saionji Kinmochi age 2
Bettino Ricasoli age 42
Rodrigues Alves age 3
Afonso Pena age 4
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 49
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 69
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 41
John Abbott age 30
Dadabhai Naoroji age 26
Julio Argentino Roca age 8
Abraham Kuyper age 14
Agostino Depretis age 38
Sidney Sonnino age 4
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 15
Matthew C. Perry age 57
Georg V of Hanover age 32
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 49
Marie Henriette of Austria age 15
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 7
Urbano Rattazzi age 43
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 47
Campos Sales age 10
Mikhail Skobelev age 8
Paolo Boselli age 13
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 40
William I of Württemberg age 70
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 1
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 54
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 18
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 3
John Hay age 13
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 25
Tewodros II age 33
Louis-Jules Trochu age 36
Albert I of Saxony age 23
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 24
Sophie of Württemberg age 33
Leopold II of Tuscany age 54
Adelaide of Austria age 29
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 46
Teófilo Braga age 8
James Longstreet age 30
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 30
Alexei Kuropatkin age 3
José Antonio Páez age 61
Georg I of Saxony age 19
Louis IV of Hesse age 14
Justo José de Urquiza age 50
John Sparrow David Thompson age 6
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 34
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 26
P. G. T. Beauregard age 33
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 42
Emilio Castelar age 19
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 65
Charles I of Württemberg age 28
Louise of the Netherlands age 23
José Manuel Balmaceda age 11
Juan José Flores age 51
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 33
Richard Cobden age 47
Midhat Pasha age 29
Roque Sáenz Peña age 9 months
Tomás Estrada Palma age 16
Kiyoura Keigo age 1
Luigi Carlo Farini age 39
Robert Todd Lincoln age 8
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 28
Francesc Pi i Margall age 27
Nicolás Avellaneda age 14
Bernardino Machado age 8 months
Ambrose Burnside age 27
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 12
Luigi Luzzatti age 10
Yohannes IV age 14
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 84
Karl Nesselrode age 71
Tokugawa Iemochi age 5
Empress Myeongseong age 1 month
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 50
Maria Anna of Savoy age 48
Maria Pia of Savoy age 4
Charles Tupper age 30
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 60
Fructuoso Rivera age 67
Ōyama Iwao age 9
Joseph Gallieni age 2
J. E. B. Stuart age 18
Marco Minghetti age 33
Giuseppe Saracco age 30
Alessandro Fortis age 9
François Achille Bazaine age 40
Charles Dupuy age 1 month
Nogi Maresuke age 1
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 19
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 21
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 45
Princess Louise of Prussia age 13