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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

Bernardino Machado age 4
Ambrose Burnside age 31
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 16
Luigi Luzzatti age 14
Yohannes IV age 18
Karl Nesselrode age 75
Tokugawa Iemochi age 9
Empress Myeongseong age 4
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 54
Maria Anna of Savoy age 52
Maria Pia of Savoy age 8
Charles Tupper age 34
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 64
Ōyama Iwao age 13
Joseph Gallieni age 6
J. E. B. Stuart age 22
Marco Minghetti age 37
Giuseppe Saracco age 34
Alessandro Fortis age 13
Alexander H. Stephens age 43
François Achille Bazaine age 44
Charles Dupuy age 4
Nogi Maresuke age 5
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 23
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 25
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 49
Princess Louise of Prussia age 17
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 29
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry age 57
Mackenzie Bowell age 32
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 10
Salmon P. Chase age 47
Titu Maiorescu age 15
Erik Gustaf Boström age 13
John French age 3
Giovanni Lanza age 45
Tommaso Tittoni age 1 month
Edwin Stanton age 41
Osman Nuri Pasha age 23
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 27
Radomir Putnik age 8
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 31
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 8
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 63
Vicente López y Planes age 70
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 65
Konstantinos Kanaris age 66
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 19
Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 68
Zeng Guofan age 44
Heungseon Daewongun age 34
Alexander von Kluck age 9
Braxton Bragg age 38
Benedetto Cairoli age 30
Henry Halleck age 40
Manuel González age 22
Valentín Gómez Farías age 74
Enomoto Takeaki age 19
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 68
Archduke John of Austria age 73
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 63
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 36
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 24
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 16
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 78
Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870) age 47
Princess Maria Annunciata of the Two Sicilies age 12
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 12
Stefan Stambolov age 1
Carlos Pellegrini age 9
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 17
Sanford B. Dole age 11
Joseph Hooker age 41
Sanjō Sanetomi age 18
Luigi Pelloux age 16
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 1
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 23
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 29
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 28
Alfred von Waldersee age 23
Empress Shōken age 6
Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia age 12
José Evaristo Uriburu age 24
Gabriel García Moreno age 34
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 55
Eloy Alfaro age 13
Manuel de Arriaga age 15
Hsu Shih-chang age 1 month
Eduardo López de Romaña age 8
José Canalejas age 1
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 10
Nubar Pasha age 30
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 9
Frederick Francis II age 32
Karl von Bülow age 9
Frederick Francis III age 4
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 58
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands age 45
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 31
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 13
Luis Sáenz Peña age 33
Charilaos Trikoupis age 23
Stephen Allen Benson age 39
Robert Themptander age 11
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 43
Samuel J. Tilden age 41
Thomas Gage age 137
Victorino de la Plaza age 15
Manuel Quintana age 20
Gunnar Knudsen age 7
Antonio Maura age 2
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 24
Winfield Scott Hancock age 31
Albert Sidney Johnston age 52
Estanislao Figueras age 36
Katsu Kaishū age 32
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 38
Hermann von Eichhorn age 7
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 7
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 33
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia age 5
Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg age 3
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria age 6
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 3 months
Charles Rogier age 55
José María Iglesias age 32
Manuel Bulnes age 56
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 70
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 30
Manuel Oribe age 63
Arvid Posse age 35
Carl Johan Thyselius age 44
Cyrus West Field age 36
Edward Douglass White age 10
Louis McLane age 69
William M. Evarts age 37
Thomas F. Bayard age 27
John W. Foster age 19
Walter Q. Gresham age 23
William R. Day age 6
Boutros Ghali age 9
Spyridon Lambros age 4
Jørgen Løvland age 7
Nicholas Golitsyn age 5
Ivan Goremykin age 16
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 44
A. P. Hill age 30
Juan Álvarez age 65
Prince Gong age 22
George Dewey age 17
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 7
Damat Ferid Pasha age 2
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 13
Prince Charles of Prussia age 54
Marie of Prussia age 30
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 29
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies age 39
Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria age 37
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 24
Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies age 6
Rafael Núñez age 30
Spyridon Trikoupis age 67
John Ballance age 16
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 1
Irvin McDowell age 37
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 14
Nicolás Salmerón age 17
Francisco Serrano age 45
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 23
Taytu Betul age 4
Nelson A. Miles age 16
Jubal Early age 39
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 74
Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 48
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 52
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 52
Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) age 46
Princess Margaretha of Saxony age 15
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 10
José Joaquín Pérez age 54
Ramón Castilla age 58
John Sutter age 52
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 38
Philander C. Knox age 2
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 2
Boris Stürmer age 7
Fredrik von Otter age 22
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 23
Sisowath of Cambodia age 15
Richard S. Ewell age 38
Robert Gould Shaw age 18
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 4
José María Bocanegra age 68
Zuo Zongtang age 43
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 5
John Pope age 33
Iosif Gurko age 27
Max von Gallwitz age 3
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) age 47
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 17