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Events

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
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30

People

Murad V age 15
Maximilian I of Mexico age 23
Ferdinand I of Austria age 62
George I of Greece age 9
Christian IX of Denmark age 37
Oscar II of Sweden age 26
Alexandra of Denmark age 11
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 61
Lajos Kossuth age 53
Amadeo I of Spain age 10
John Wilkes Booth age 17
Joseph Joffre age 3
John A. Macdonald age 40
Stonewall Jackson age 31
Armand Fallières age 14
Jules Grévy age 48
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 18
Deodoro da Fonseca age 28
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 50
George Armstrong Custer age 16
Auguste Beernaert age 26
Elihu Root age 10
Edmund Barton age 6
Bernhard von Bülow age 6
Aleksey Brusilov age 2
Thomas R. Marshall age 1
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 12
Carol I of Romania age 16
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 71
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 19
Félix Faure age 14
Paul Kruger age 30
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 8
Sergei Witte age 6
Émile Loubet age 16
Menelik II age 11
Jean Casimir-Perier age 8
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 5
Charles W. Fairbanks age 3
Paul Deschanel age 10 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 15
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 17
George M. Dallas age 63
Edward Smith age 5
Victoria, Princess Royal age 15
Garret Hobart age 11
Levi P. Morton age 31
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 7
Leo von Caprivi age 24
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 57
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 44
Robert FitzRoy age 50
Thomas A. Hendricks age 36
Katsura Tarō age 7
Saigō Takamori age 27
Tōgō Heihachirō age 7
Adlai Stevenson I age 20
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 5
Clara Barton age 33
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 8
Peter I of Serbia age 11
James S. Sherman age 1 month
Isma'il Pasha age 24
August von Mackensen age 6
Jérôme Bonaparte age 71
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 44
Georg von Hertling age 12
Constantin Fehrenbach age 3
Giovanni Giolitti age 13
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 14
Lew Wallace age 28
Yamagata Aritomo age 17
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 36
Demetrios Vikelas age 20
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 60
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 12
Joseph Chamberlain age 19
Ismail Kemal age 11
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 3
Terauchi Masatake age 3
Francesco Crispi age 37
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 10
Bartolomé Mitre age 34
George B. McClellan age 29
Wilfrid Laurier age 14
Nikola Pašić age 9
David Farragut age 54
Matsukata Masayoshi age 20
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 6 months
Floriano Peixoto age 16
Jules Ferry age 23
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 4
Francisco Solano López age 29
Charlotte of Belgium age 15
Allan Octavian Hume age 26
Victoriano Huerta age 4
Philip Henry Sheridan age 24
Lucretia Mott age 62
Gyula Andrássy age 32
Leland Stanford age 31
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 18
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 15
Prudente de Morais age 14
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 2
Otto, King of Bavaria age 7
Alexander Mackenzie age 33
Kate Sheppard age 8
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 3
Hong Xiuquan age 41
Li Hongzhang age 32
Luigi Cadorna age 5
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 31
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 9
George Meade age 39
George Reid age 10
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 38
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 7
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 73
Saionji Kinmochi age 6
Bettino Ricasoli age 46
Antonio Salandra age 2
Rodrigues Alves age 7
Afonso Pena age 8
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 53
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 73
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 45
John Abbott age 34
Dadabhai Naoroji age 30
Julio Argentino Roca age 12
Abraham Kuyper age 18
Agostino Depretis age 42
Sidney Sonnino age 8
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 19
Matthew C. Perry age 61
Georg V of Hanover age 36
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 53
Marie Henriette of Austria age 19
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 11
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 57
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 3
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 3
Urbano Rattazzi age 47
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 51
Campos Sales age 14
Mikhail Skobelev age 12
Paolo Boselli age 17
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 2
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 44
William I of Württemberg age 74
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 5
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 22
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 7
John Hay age 17
Robert Borden age 1
Takahashi Korekiyo age 1
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 29
Tewfik Pasha age 3
Louis-Jules Trochu age 40
Albert I of Saxony age 27
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 28
Sophie of Württemberg age 37
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia age 2
Leopold II of Tuscany age 58
Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 50
Teófilo Braga age 12
James Longstreet age 34
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 34
Alexei Kuropatkin age 7
José Antonio Páez age 65
Georg I of Saxony age 23
Louis IV of Hesse age 18
John Sparrow David Thompson age 10
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 38
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 30
P. G. T. Beauregard age 37
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 46
Hermes da Fonseca age 7 months
Emilio Castelar age 23
Paul von Rennenkampf age 1
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 69
Charles I of Württemberg age 32
Louise of the Netherlands age 27
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany age 2
José Manuel Balmaceda age 15
Juan José Flores age 55
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 37
Richard Cobden age 51
Midhat Pasha age 33
Roque Sáenz Peña age 4
Tomás Estrada Palma age 20
Alexandros Zaimis age 0 months
Kiyoura Keigo age 5
Luigi Carlo Farini age 43
Robert Todd Lincoln age 12
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 32
Andrew Mellon age 8 months
Francesc Pi i Margall age 31
Otto Liman von Sanders age 9 months
Prince Louis of Battenberg age 1
Nicolás Avellaneda age 18