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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

People

Tomás Estrada Palma age 21
Alexandros Zaimis age 9 months
Kiyoura Keigo age 6
Luigi Carlo Farini age 43
Robert Todd Lincoln age 13
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 33
Andrew Mellon age 1
Francesc Pi i Margall age 32
Otto Liman von Sanders age 1
Prince Louis of Battenberg age 2
Nicolás Avellaneda age 18
Bernardino Machado age 5
Ambrose Burnside age 32
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 17
Luigi Luzzatti age 15
Yohannes IV age 19
Karl Nesselrode age 75
Tokugawa Iemochi age 10
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 35
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 65
Ōyama Iwao age 13
Joseph Gallieni age 7
Eduardo Dato age 0 months
J. E. B. Stuart age 23
Marco Minghetti age 37
Giuseppe Saracco age 34
Alessandro Fortis age 13
Alexander H. Stephens age 44
François Achille Bazaine age 45
Charles Dupuy age 4
Nogi Maresuke age 6
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 23
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 26
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 11
Titu Maiorescu age 16
Erik Gustaf Boström age 14
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 3 months
John French age 3
Giovanni Lanza age 46
Tommaso Tittoni age 9 months
Edwin Stanton age 41
Keir Hardie age 0 months
Osman Nuri Pasha age 24
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 28
Radomir Putnik age 9
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 31
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 9
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 64
Vicente López y Planes age 71
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 66
Konstantinos Kanaris age 66
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 20
Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 68
Zeng Guofan age 44
Heungseon Daewongun age 35
Alexander von Kluck age 10
Braxton Bragg age 39
Benedetto Cairoli age 31
Henry Halleck age 41
Manuel González age 23
Valentín Gómez Farías age 75
Enomoto Takeaki age 19
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 69
Archduke John of Austria age 74
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 63
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 37
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 25
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 16
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 79
Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870) age 48
Princess Maria Annunciata of the Two Sicilies age 13
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 13
Stefan Stambolov age 2
Carlos Pellegrini age 9
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 18
Sanford B. Dole age 12
Joseph Hooker age 41
Sanjō Sanetomi age 19
Luigi Pelloux age 17
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 2
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 23
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 30
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 2 months
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 28
Alfred von Waldersee age 24
Empress Shōken age 7
Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia age 12
José Evaristo Uriburu age 24
Gabriel García Moreno age 34
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 56
Eloy Alfaro age 14
Manuel de Arriaga age 16
Hsu Shih-chang age 10 months
Eduardo López de Romaña age 9
José Canalejas age 2
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 11
Nubar Pasha age 31
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 10
Frederick Francis II age 33
Karl von Bülow age 10
Stepa Stepanović age 5 months
Frederick Francis III age 5
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 59
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands age 46
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 32
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 14
Luis Sáenz Peña age 34
Charilaos Trikoupis age 24
Robert Themptander age 12
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 44
Samuel J. Tilden age 42
Mahmud Shevket Pasha age 7 months
Thomas Gage age 138
Victorino de la Plaza age 15
Manuel Quintana age 20
Gunnar Knudsen age 7
Antonio Maura age 3
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 24
Winfield Scott Hancock age 32
Albert Sidney Johnston age 53
Estanislao Figueras age 36
Katsu Kaishū age 33
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 39
Hermann von Eichhorn age 8
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 7
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 33
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia age 6
Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg age 3
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria age 7
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 1
Charles Rogier age 56
José María Iglesias age 33
Manuel Bulnes age 56
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 71
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 31
Manuel Oribe age 64
Arvid Posse age 36
Carl Johan Thyselius age 45
Cyrus West Field age 36
Edward Douglass White age 10
Louis McLane age 70
William M. Evarts age 38
Thomas F. Bayard age 27
John W. Foster age 20
Walter Q. Gresham age 24
William R. Day age 7
Boutros Ghali age 10
Spyridon Lambros age 5
Jørgen Løvland age 8
Nicholas Golitsyn age 6
Ivan Goremykin age 16
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 45
A. P. Hill age 30
Juan Álvarez age 66
Prince Gong age 23
George Dewey age 18
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 7
Damat Ferid Pasha age 3
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 14
Prince Charles of Prussia age 55
Marie of Prussia age 30
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 30
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies age 40
Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria age 38
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 25
Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies age 7
Rafael Núñez age 30
Spyridon Trikoupis age 68
John Ballance age 17
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 2
Irvin McDowell age 37
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 15
Nicolás Salmerón age 18
Francisco Serrano age 45
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 23
Taytu Betul age 5
Nelson A. Miles age 17
Jubal Early age 39
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 74
Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 49
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 53
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 53
Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) age 46
Princess Margaretha of Saxony age 16
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 11
José Joaquín Pérez age 55
Ramón Castilla age 59
John Sutter age 53
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 39
Philander C. Knox age 3
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 3