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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Charles Sumner age 29
Frederick Francis II age 17
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 43
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands age 29
Francis IV of Modena age 60
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Sardinia age 39
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 15
Luis Sáenz Peña age 18
Charilaos Trikoupis age 7
Stephen Allen Benson age 23
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 27
Samuel J. Tilden age 26
Thomas Gage age 122
Manuel Quintana age 4
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 8
Winfield Scott Hancock age 16
Albert Sidney Johnston age 37
Estanislao Figueras age 20
Katsu Kaishū age 17
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 51
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 22
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 17
Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 64
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 57
Archduke Rainer of Austria (1783–1853) age 56
Charles Rogier age 39
José María Iglesias age 17
Manuel Montt age 30
Manuel Bulnes age 40
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 54
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 14
Manuel Oribe age 47
Arvid Posse age 20
Carl Johan Thyselius age 28
Cyrus West Field age 20
Louis McLane age 53
William M. Evarts age 22
Thomas F. Bayard age 11
John W. Foster age 4
Walter Q. Gresham age 8
Ivan Goremykin age 4 months
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 28
A. P. Hill age 14
Juan Álvarez age 50
Prince Gong age 7
George Dewey age 2
Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia age 42
Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia age 14
Prince Charles of Prussia age 38
Marie of Prussia age 14
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 14
Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily age 61
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies age 23
Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria age 21
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 9
Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg age 42
Rafael Núñez age 14
Ramón Freire age 52
Spyridon Trikoupis age 51
John Ballance age 1
Robert Smith age 82
Elihu B. Washburne age 23
Irvin McDowell age 21
Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 50
Nicolás Salmerón age 1
Francisco Serrano age 29
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 7
Nelson A. Miles age 7 months
Jubal Early age 23
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 58
Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 33
Bezmiâlem Sultan age 33
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 36
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 37
Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) age 30
José Joaquín Pérez age 38
Ramón Castilla age 42
John Sutter age 37
Abel P. Upshur age 49
John M. Clayton age 43
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 22
Fredrik von Otter age 6
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 7
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 12
Richard S. Ewell age 23
Robert Gould Shaw age 2
José Joaquín de Herrera age 48
Mariano Paredes age 43
José María Bocanegra age 52
Zuo Zongtang age 27
John Pope age 18
Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg age 71
Iosif Gurko age 11
Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 39
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) age 32
Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg age 22
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 1
Pertevniyal Sultan age 28
Princess Augusta of Prussia age 59
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 37
William II, Elector of Hesse age 62
Frederick I of Anhalt age 8
Archduchess Clementina of Austria age 42
Princess Elisabeth of Savoy age 39
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 54
Todor Burmov age 6
Domingo Santa María age 14
Aníbal Pinto age 15
Kálmán Tisza age 9
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 25
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 60
Venancio Flores age 31
Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 46
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 13
Miguel Miramón age 8
Jeremiah S. Black age 30
Dimitrie Sturdza age 7
Robert Anderson age 34
George Pickett age 15
Sterling Price age 30
John Adams Dix age 41
Charles Cousin-Montauban age 43
Piet Joubert age 6
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 21
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia age 13
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 24
Princess Anna of Prussia age 3
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 2
Leopold IV of Anhalt age 45
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este age 58
Santiago Derqui age 30
Joseph Lebeau age 46
Francisco Antonio Pinto age 54
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 45
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 1
Barbu Catargiu age 32
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 24
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 55
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 11
Gillis Bildt age 19
John Bright age 28
Mehmed Fuad Pasha age 26
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 16
Nathaniel Lyon age 21
John Bell Hood age 8
Melville Fuller age 7
Ramón Barros Luco age 4
Theodoros Deligiannis age 20
Segismundo Moret age 6
Oliver O. Howard age 9
George H. Thomas age 23
Melchor Múzquiz age 52
Pedro Vélez age 52
Ignacio Comonfort age 28
Aimable Pélissier age 45
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 17
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 15
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia age 12
Şevkefza Sultan age 19
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 67
Louis Faidherbe age 21
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 2
Princess Frederica of Prussia, Duchess of Anhalt-Dessau age 43
Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg age 54
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine age 30
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este age 63
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 7
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este age 18
Walthère Frère-Orban age 27
Faustin Soulouque age 57
Georgios Kountouriotis age 58
Peter Georg Bang age 42
Vicente Rocafuerte age 56
George Grey age 27
Alfred Francis Russell age 22
Lascăr Catargiu age 16
Rainilaiarivony age 12
Johan Sverdrup age 23
Carlos Anaya age 62
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 29
Bernardino Caballero age 10 months
José Gregorio Monagas age 45
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 6
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 32
Morrison Waite age 23
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 7
William S. Rosecrans age 20
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 5 months
Richard Rush age 59
Thomas Ewing age 50
José Mariano Salas age 42
Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud age 41
Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz age 43
Charles Warren age 1 month
Rahime Perestu Sultan age 14
August Karl von Goeben age 23
Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria age 44
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) age 56
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1831–1855) age 8
Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony age 43