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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24

People

Ferdinand I of Austria age 66
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 2
Christian IX of Denmark age 41
Alfonso XII age 1
Oscar II of Sweden age 30
Alexandra of Denmark age 14
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 65
Lajos Kossuth age 56
Alexandre Millerand age 5 months
Amadeo I of Spain age 14
George Curzon age 6 months
Joseph Joffre age 7
John A. Macdonald age 44
Paul Doumer age 2
Stonewall Jackson age 35
Armand Fallières age 17
Jules Grévy age 51
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 21
Deodoro da Fonseca age 31
Auguste Beernaert age 29
Elihu Root age 14
Sam Houston age 66
Edmund Barton age 10
Bernhard von Bülow age 10
Thomas R. Marshall age 5
Frank B. Kellogg age 2
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 16
Carol I of Romania age 20
Alfred Deakin age 2
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 75
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 22
Félix Faure age 18
Sergei Witte age 10
Émile Loubet age 20
Menelik II age 14
Jean Casimir-Perier age 11
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 9
Charles W. Fairbanks age 7
Paul Deschanel age 4
Abdur Rahman Khan age 19
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 21
George M. Dallas age 67
Garret Hobart age 15
Levi P. Morton age 35
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 11
Leo von Caprivi age 28
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 48
Robert FitzRoy age 54
Thomas A. Hendricks age 39
Christian Michelsen age 2
Katsura Tarō age 11
Saigō Takamori age 31
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 9
Clara Barton age 37
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 12
Peter I of Serbia age 15
James S. Sherman age 3
Georg Michaelis age 1
Georg von Hertling age 15
Constantin Fehrenbach age 7
Giovanni Giolitti age 16
Yamagata Aritomo age 21
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 40
Demetrios Vikelas age 24
Joseph Chamberlain age 23
Ismail Kemal age 15
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 6
Terauchi Masatake age 7
Hara Takashi age 3
Francesco Crispi age 40
Bartolomé Mitre age 38
George B. McClellan age 32
Tongzhi Emperor age 3
Wilfrid Laurier age 17
Nikola Pašić age 13
David Farragut age 58
Matsukata Masayoshi age 24
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 4
Floriano Peixoto age 20
Victoriano Huerta age 8
Gyula Andrássy age 36
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 21
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 18
Prudente de Morais age 17
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 6
Alexander Mackenzie age 37
Robert Nivelle age 2
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 6
Hong Xiuquan age 45
George Meade age 43
George Reid age 14
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 42
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 10
Saionji Kinmochi age 9
Bettino Ricasoli age 50
Antonio Salandra age 5
Rodrigues Alves age 11
Afonso Pena age 11
John Abbott age 38
Julio Argentino Roca age 16
Abraham Kuyper age 21
Agostino Depretis age 46
Sidney Sonnino age 12
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 61
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 50
Michael Hainisch age 11 months
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 7
Pedro Lascuráin age 3
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 6
Urbano Rattazzi age 51
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 54
Campos Sales age 18
Saitō Makoto age 8 months
Paolo Boselli age 21
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 5
John Hay age 20
Robert Borden age 5
Saad Zaghloul age 2
Takahashi Korekiyo age 4
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 32
Tewfik Pasha age 6
Teófilo Braga age 16
Juan Vicente Gómez age 1
James Longstreet age 38
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 38
John Sparrow David Thompson age 13
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 41
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 34
P. G. T. Beauregard age 41
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 49
Hermes da Fonseca age 4
José Manuel Balmaceda age 19
Juan José Flores age 59
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 41
Roque Sáenz Peña age 8
Tomás Estrada Palma age 24
Alexandros Zaimis age 3
Alexandru Averescu age 3 months
Kiyoura Keigo age 9
Luigi Carlo Farini age 46
Robert Todd Lincoln age 15
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 36
Andrew Mellon age 4
Nicolás Avellaneda age 21
Bernardino Machado age 8
Ambrose Burnside age 35
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 20
Luigi Luzzatti age 18
Yohannes IV age 22
Charles Tupper age 38
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 68
Ōyama Iwao age 16
Joseph Gallieni age 10
Eduardo Dato age 2
J. E. B. Stuart age 26
Marco Minghetti age 40
Giuseppe Saracco age 37
Alessandro Fortis age 16
Alexander H. Stephens age 47
François Achille Bazaine age 48
Charles Dupuy age 7
Mackenzie Bowell age 35
Titu Maiorescu age 19
Erik Gustaf Boström age 17
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 3
Giovanni Lanza age 49
Tommaso Tittoni age 3
Edwin Stanton age 44
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 0 months
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 69
Konstantinos Kanaris age 69
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 23
Zeng Guofan age 47
Heungseon Daewongun age 38
Alexander von Kluck age 13
Braxton Bragg age 42
Benedetto Cairoli age 34
Henry Halleck age 44
Manuel González age 26
Stefan Stambolov age 5
Carlos Pellegrini age 12
Carl Swartz age 1
Joseph Hooker age 44
Sanjō Sanetomi age 22
Luigi Pelloux age 20
José Evaristo Uriburu age 27
Gabriel García Moreno age 37
Hamilton Fish age 50
Eloy Alfaro age 17
Manuel de Arriaga age 19
Hsu Shih-chang age 3
Feng Guozhang age 6 months
Eduardo López de Romaña age 12
José Canalejas age 4
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 14
Nubar Pasha age 34
Luis Sáenz Peña age 37
Charilaos Trikoupis age 27
Robert Themptander age 15
Thomas Gage age 141