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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

People

Erik Gustaf Boström age 6
Giovanni Lanza age 38
Edwin Stanton age 33
Osman Nuri Pasha age 16
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 19
Radomir Putnik age 1
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 23
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 10 months
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 56
Vicente López y Planes age 62
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 57
Konstantinos Kanaris age 58
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 12
Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 60
Zeng Guofan age 36
Heungseon Daewongun age 27
Alexander von Kluck age 1
Braxton Bragg age 30
Benedetto Cairoli age 23
Henry Halleck age 33
Manuel González age 14
Valentín Gómez Farías age 67
Enomoto Takeaki age 11
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 60
Archduke John of Austria age 66
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 55
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 28
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 16
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 8
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 70
Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870) age 40
Princess Maria Annunciata of the Two Sicilies age 4
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 4
Carlos Pellegrini age 1
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 9
Sanford B. Dole age 3
Joseph Hooker age 33
Sanjō Sanetomi age 10
Luigi Pelloux age 8
Nicolás Bravo age 61
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 15
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 22
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 20
Alfred von Waldersee age 15
Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia age 4
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 74
José Evaristo Uriburu age 16
Gabriel García Moreno age 26
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 32
Hamilton Fish age 39
Eloy Alfaro age 5
Manuel de Arriaga age 7
Eduardo López de Romaña age 11 months
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 3
Nubar Pasha age 23
Mariano Arista age 45
Charles Sumner age 37
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 2
Frederick Francis II age 24
Karl von Bülow age 1
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 51
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands age 37
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Sardinia age 46
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 23
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 5
Luis Sáenz Peña age 25
Charilaos Trikoupis age 15
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 72
Stephen Allen Benson age 31
Robert Themptander age 4
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 35
Samuel J. Tilden age 34
Thomas Gage age 130
Victorino de la Plaza age 7
Manuel Quintana age 12
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 16
Winfield Scott Hancock age 24
Albert Sidney Johnston age 45
Anastasio Bustamante age 67
Estanislao Figueras age 28
Katsu Kaishū age 24
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 59
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 30
Hermann von Eichhorn age 0 months
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 25
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 65
Archduke Rainer of Austria (1783–1853) age 64
José María Iglesias age 25
Manuel Montt age 38
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 62
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 22
Arvid Posse age 28
Carl Johan Thyselius age 36
Cyrus West Field age 28
Edward Douglass White age 2
Louis McLane age 61
William M. Evarts age 30
Thomas F. Bayard age 19
John W. Foster age 11
Walter Q. Gresham age 15
Boutros Ghali age 2
Jørgen Løvland age 0 months
Ivan Goremykin age 8
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 36
A. P. Hill age 22
Juan Álvarez age 58
Prince Gong age 15
George Dewey age 10
Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia age 50
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 5
Prince Charles of Prussia age 46
Marie of Prussia age 22
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 21
Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily age 69
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies age 31
Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria age 29
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 17
Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg age 50
Rafael Núñez age 22
Joaquín Prieto age 61
Ramón Freire age 60
Spyridon Trikoupis age 59
John Ballance age 8
Elihu B. Washburne age 31
Irvin McDowell age 29
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 7
Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 58
Nicolás Salmerón age 9
Francisco Serrano age 37
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 15
Nelson A. Miles age 8
Jubal Early age 31
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 66
Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 41
Bezmiâlem Sultan age 41
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 44
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 45
Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) age 38
Princess Margaretha of Saxony age 7
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 2
José Joaquín Pérez age 46
Ramón Castilla age 50
John Sutter age 45
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 30
Fredrik von Otter age 14
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 15
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 20
Sisowath of Cambodia age 7
Richard S. Ewell age 31
Robert Gould Shaw age 10
José Joaquín de Herrera age 56
Mariano Paredes age 51
José María Bocanegra age 60
Zuo Zongtang age 35
John Pope age 25
Iosif Gurko age 19
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) age 40
Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg age 30
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 9
Pertevniyal Sultan age 36
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 45
Frederick I of Anhalt age 16
Archduchess Clementina of Austria age 50
Princess Elisabeth of Savoy age 47
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 3
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 62
Todor Burmov age 14
Domingo Santa María age 22
Aníbal Pinto age 22
Kálmán Tisza age 17
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 33
Venancio Flores age 39
Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 53
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 21
Miguel Miramón age 16
Jeremiah S. Black age 38
Dimitrie Sturdza age 14
Christian Lundeberg age 5
Gustave Ador age 2
Robert Anderson age 42
George Pickett age 23
Sterling Price age 38
Koos de la Rey age 4 months
Charles Cousin-Montauban age 51
Piet Joubert age 14
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 29
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 32
Princess Anna of Prussia age 11
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 10
Leopold IV of Anhalt age 53
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este age 66
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 49
Santiago Derqui age 38
Joseph Lebeau age 54
Francisco Antonio Pinto age 62
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 53
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 8
Barbu Catargiu age 40
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 32
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 63