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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
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
Siege of Corinth 1862-04-29 - 1862-05-30

People

Carl Johan Thyselius age 50
Cyrus West Field age 42
Edward Douglass White age 16
William M. Evarts age 44
Thomas F. Bayard age 33
John W. Foster age 26
Walter Q. Gresham age 30
William R. Day age 13
Boutros Ghali age 16
Spyridon Lambros age 11
Jørgen Løvland age 14
Nicholas Golitsyn age 12
Ivan Goremykin age 22
A. P. Hill age 36
Juan Álvarez age 72
Leonard Wood age 1
Prince Gong age 29
George Dewey age 24
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 13
Damat Ferid Pasha age 9
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 20
Prince Charles of Prussia age 60
Marie of Prussia age 36
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 36
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies age 45
Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria age 43
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 31
Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies age 12
Princess Louise of Belgium age 4
Prince Henry of Battenberg age 3
Rafael Núñez age 36
Spyridon Trikoupis age 74
John Ballance age 23
José Miguel Gómez age 3
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 8
Irvin McDowell age 43
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 21
Nicolás Salmerón age 24
Francisco Serrano age 51
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 29
Taytu Betul age 11
Nelson A. Miles age 22
Jubal Early age 45
Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 55
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia age 1
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 58
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 59
Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) age 52
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 16
Ramón Castilla age 64
John Sutter age 59
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 44
Robert Bacon age 1
Philander C. Knox age 9
Hannes Hafstein age 5 months
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 9
Boris Stürmer age 13
Fredrik von Otter age 29
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 29
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas age 2
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 34
Sisowath of Cambodia age 21
Richard S. Ewell age 45
Robert Gould Shaw age 24
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 10
José María Bocanegra age 75
Zuo Zongtang age 49
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 12
John Pope age 40
Iosif Gurko age 33
Max von Gallwitz age 10
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) age 54
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 23
Pertevniyal Sultan age 50
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 59
Frederick I of Anhalt age 31
Archduchess Clementina of Austria age 64
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 17
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 76
Todor Burmov age 28
Domingo Santa María age 36
Aníbal Pinto age 37
Kálmán Tisza age 31
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 47
Venancio Flores age 54
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 35
Miguel Miramón age 30
Jeremiah S. Black age 52
Vasil Radoslavov age 7
Pedro Montt age 12
Germán Riesco age 7
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 3
Jón Magnússon age 3
Niels Neergaard age 7
Dimitrie Sturdza age 29
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 7
Christian Lundeberg age 19
Gustave Ador age 16
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 1
Robert Anderson age 56
George Pickett age 37
Sterling Price age 52
John Adams Dix age 63
Koos de la Rey age 14
Charles Cousin-Montauban age 65
Kodama Gentarō age 10
Piet Joubert age 28
Christiaan de Wet age 7
Ian Hamilton age 9
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 43
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 46
Princess Anna of Prussia age 26
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 24
Leopold IV of Anhalt age 67
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria age 1
Santiago Derqui age 52
Joseph Lebeau age 68
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 67
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 23
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 47
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 33
Joaquín Crespo age 20
Gillis Bildt age 41
John Bright age 50
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 38
John Bell Hood age 30
Melville Fuller age 29
Ramón Barros Luco age 26
Theodoros Deligiannis age 42
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 2
Sándor Wekerle age 13
Klaus Berntsen age 17
Richard Seddon age 16
Otto Blehr age 15
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 1
Alexandru Marghiloman age 8
Johan Ramstedt age 9
Emilio Aceval age 8
Serapio Calderón age 18
Guillermo Billinghurst age 10
Francisco Silvela age 18
Segismundo Moret age 28
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas age 1
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 14
Oliver O. Howard age 31
George H. Thomas age 45
Edward Carson age 8
Ignacio Comonfort age 50
Aimable Pélissier age 67
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 39
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 38
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia age 34
Catherine Dolgorukova age 14
Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia age 12
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia age 8
Şevkefza Sultan age 41
Louis Faidherbe age 43
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine age 53
Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen age 11
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe age 2
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 29
Walthère Frère-Orban age 50
Faustin Soulouque age 79
George Grey age 50
Alfred Francis Russell age 44
Lascăr Catargiu age 38
Rainilaiarivony age 34
Johan Sverdrup age 45
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 51
Bernardino Caballero age 22
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 28
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 54
Morrison Waite age 45
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 1
Heinrich Lammasch age 8
Charles de Broqueville age 1
Petko Karavelov age 19
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 11
Dimitrios Rallis age 18
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 12
Jens Christian Christensen age 5
Wollert Konow age 16
Christopher Hornsrud age 2
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 29
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 12
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 16
Charles Hardinge age 3
William S. Rosecrans age 42
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 22
Thomas Ewing age 72
José Mariano Salas age 65
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg age 4
Oreste Baratieri age 20
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 19
Josias von Heeringen age 12
Petar Bojović age 3
Oskar von Hutier age 4
Constantin Prezan age 1
Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz age 65
Charles Warren age 22