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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
Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) 1853-05-08 - 1855-05-31
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) 1854-10-17 - 1855-09-11

People

Miguel Ángel Juárez age 10
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 69
Todor Burmov age 21
Domingo Santa María age 29
Aníbal Pinto age 29
Kálmán Tisza age 24
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 40
Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 60
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 28
Miguel Miramón age 23
Jeremiah S. Black age 45
Vasil Radoslavov age 6 months
Pedro Montt age 5
Germán Riesco age 8 months
Niels Neergaard age 7 months
Dimitrie Sturdza age 21
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 2 months
Christian Lundeberg age 12
Gustave Ador age 9
Robert Anderson age 49
George Pickett age 30
Sterling Price age 45
John Adams Dix age 56
Koos de la Rey age 7
Charles Cousin-Montauban age 58
Kodama Gentarō age 2
Piet Joubert age 21
Christiaan de Wet age 4 months
Ian Hamilton age 2
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 36
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 39
Princess Anna of Prussia age 18
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 17
Leopold IV of Anhalt age 60
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 56
Santiago Derqui age 45
Joseph Lebeau age 61
Francisco Antonio Pinto age 69
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 60
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 15
Barbu Catargiu age 47
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 39
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 26
Joaquín Crespo age 13
Gillis Bildt age 34
John Bright age 43
Mehmed Fuad Pasha age 41
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 31
Nathaniel Lyon age 36
John Bell Hood age 23
Melville Fuller age 22
Ramón Barros Luco age 19
Theodoros Deligiannis age 35
Sándor Wekerle age 6
Klaus Berntsen age 10
Richard Seddon age 9
Otto Blehr age 8
Alexandru Marghiloman age 1
Johan Ramstedt age 2
Emilio Aceval age 1
Serapio Calderón age 11
Guillermo Billinghurst age 3
Francisco Silvela age 11
Segismundo Moret age 21
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 7
Oliver O. Howard age 24
George H. Thomas age 38
Edward Carson age 1
Ignacio Comonfort age 42
Aimable Pélissier age 60
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 31
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 30
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia age 27
Catherine Dolgorukova age 7
Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia age 5
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia age 1
Şevkefza Sultan age 34
Louis Faidherbe age 36
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 17
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine age 45
Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen age 3
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 21
Walthère Frère-Orban age 42
Faustin Soulouque age 72
Georgios Kountouriotis age 73
George Grey age 42
Alfred Francis Russell age 37
Lascăr Catargiu age 31
Rainilaiarivony age 27
Johan Sverdrup age 38
Carlos Anaya age 77
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 44
Bernardino Caballero age 15
José Gregorio Monagas age 60
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 21
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 47
Morrison Waite age 38
Heinrich Lammasch age 1
Petko Karavelov age 11
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 4
Dimitrios Rallis age 11
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 5
Wollert Konow age 9
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 22
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 5
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 9
William S. Rosecrans age 35
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 15
Richard Rush age 74
Thomas Ewing age 65
José Mariano Salas age 57
Oreste Baratieri age 13
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 11
Josias von Heeringen age 4
Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz age 58
Charles Warren age 15
Rahime Perestu Sultan age 29
August Karl von Goeben age 38
Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria age 59
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1831–1855) age 23
Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony age 58
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1845–1927) age 9
Archduchess Mathilda of Austria age 6
Princess Hildegard of Bavaria age 29
Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies (born 1822) age 32
Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 8
Duke Philipp of Württemberg age 16
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein age 24
Mariano Melgarejo age 34
Miguel Antonio Caro age 12
Jorge Montt age 9
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu age 29
Thrasyvoulos Zaimis age 32
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 76
Epameinondas Deligeorgis age 26
Ditlev Gothard Monrad age 43
Ulises Heureaux age 9
Carl Christian Hall age 43
Christen Andreas Fonnesbech age 37
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 39
James Spriggs Payne age 35
Edward James Roye age 40
Bernardo Berro age 51
Manuel Pardo age 20
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 18
José Rufino Echenique age 46
Manuel Felipe de Tovar age 52
Joseph B. Foraker age 8
José Manuel Pando age 5
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos age 3
Georgios Theotokis age 11
Stefanos Dragoumis age 13
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 9
Theo Heemskerk age 2
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 17
Abraham Berge age 3
Petre P. Carp age 17
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 22
José López Domínguez age 25
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 30
Simon Cameron age 55
Rafael Reyes age 5
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 54
Sengge Rinchen age 44
François Certain de Canrobert age 45
Pierre Bosquet age 44
Karl von Einem age 2
Max von Hausen age 8
Oku Yasukata age 8
Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov age 62
Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 51
Prince Henry of the Netherlands (1820–1879) age 34
Hilarión Daza age 15
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873) age 43
Princess Marie of the Netherlands age 13
Prince Albert of Prussia (1837–1906) age 17
Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine age 11
Archduke Louis of Austria age 70
Archduke Stephen of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 37
Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta age 13
Princess Maria Immacolata of the Two Sicilies age 10
Princess Januária of Brazil age 32
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb age 49
Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella age 64
Konstantin Stoilov age 1
Dragan Tsankov age 26
Antonio Flores Jijón age 21
Jan Heemskerk age 36
Gerrit Schimmelpenninck age 61
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 52
Jan Jacob Rochussen age 57
Juan Lindo age 64
Benizelos Roufos age 60
Luis Cordero Crespo age 21
Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ age 42
Anthony W. Gardner age 35
James Skivring Smith age 29
Alfred Domett age 43
Emil Stang age 20
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 28