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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Isaac Toucey age 48
James Speed age 28
John Y. Mason age 41
Bertrand Clausel age 68
Eduard Clam-Gallas age 35
Raphael Semmes age 31
Şayeste Hanım age 2
Bezmiara Kadın age 6
Servetseza Kadın age 17
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 40
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons age 50
Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein age 43
Charles Auguste Frossard age 33
Queen Sinjeong age 31
Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846) age 59
Archduke Heinrich of Austria age 12
Anson Jones age 42
José María Melo age 40
Lysius Salomon age 25
Francisco Ferrera age 46
Francisco Menéndez age 10
Apostol Arsache age 51
Julius Vogel age 5
Kosta Protić age 9
Powell Clayton age 7
John G. Downey age 13
Parson Brownlow age 35
John C. Brown age 13
Francis Lubbock age 25
Edward Clark age 25
George N. Briggs age 44
J. Pinckney Henderson age 32
William Dennison Jr. age 25
Washington Bartlett age 16
William T. Hamilton age 20
Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha age 60
Tirésias Simon Sam age 5
John Strachey age 17
William Buel Franklin age 17
Peter Buell Porter age 67
George W. Crawford age 42
George W. McCrary age 5
George Cornewall Lewis age 34
Franklin MacVeagh age 3
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 26
Charles Devens age 20
Edwards Pierrepont age 23
Hugh S. Legaré age 43
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 3
William Adams Richardson age 19
Reverdy Johnson age 44
Hugh Childers age 13
Prince Arisugawa Taruhito age 5
George White age 5
Richard B. Garnett age 23
Wesley Merritt age 4
Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I) age 62
Saliha Sultan (daughter of Mahmud II) age 29
Verdicenan Kadın age 15
Düzdidil Hanım age 15
Zeynifelek Hanım age 16
Nesrin Hanım age 14
Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky age 46
Jakob von Hartmann age 45
Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines age 36
Prince Augustus of Prussia age 61
Duchess Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 16
Archduchess Hermine of Austria age 23
Eustorgio Salgar age 9
Santos Gutiérrez age 20
Gerardo Barrios age 27
Ádám Récsey age 65
Édouard Thilges age 23
Christian Homann Schweigaard age 2
Christian August Selmer age 24
Tomás Gutiérrez age 23
Littleton Waller Tazewell age 66
John McDougal age 22
William B. Washburn age 20
Levi Lincoln Jr. age 58
Edmund J. Davis age 13
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 42
Joseph E. Brown age 19
Henry Markham age 1 month
Marcus Morton age 56
George Tyler Wood age 45
Jeremiah Morrow age 69
Ethan Allen Brown age 64
Samuel L. Southard age 53
Ahmed Hamdi Pasha age 14
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 8
Terencio Sierra age 1
George Sykes age 18
Benjamin McCulloch age 29
Thomas James Churchill age 16
Quincy Adams Gillmore age 15
Stephen D. Lee age 7
Benjamin H. Brewster age 24
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 59
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 74
Henry Stanbery age 37
Franz von John age 25
Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière age 75
Joseph Vinoy age 40
Andrew Hull Foote age 34
Gordon Granger age 19
Wilhelm Ramming age 25
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 68
Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte age 33
Pío de Tristán age 67
Li Xiucheng age 17
Henry Rathbone age 3
Princess Marie of Württemberg (1816–1887) age 24
Hibetullah Sultan age 51
Atiye Sultan age 16
Mahitab Kadın age 10
Nükhetsezâ Hanım age 13
Navekmisal Hanım age 13
Ceylanyar Hanım age 10
Nalandil Hanım age 17
Mevhibe Kadın age 5
Reftarıdil Kadın age 2
Vasili Bebutov age 49
Adolf von Bonin age 37
Hugo von Kirchbach age 31
Abel Douay age 31
Empress Xiaojingcheng age 28
Wilhelm Radziwiłł age 43
Rosalie von Rauch age 20
Prince Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine age 2
Alexis, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld age 11
Archduke Sigismund of Austria (1826–1891) age 14
William Albert, 1st Prince of Montenuovo age 21
José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón age 3
Bartolomé Calvo age 25
Ezequiel Hurtado age 15
Santos Acosta age 12
José de Obaldía age 34
Ponciano Leiva age 19
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget age 30
Francisco Dueñas age 30
Coronado Chávez age 33
Vicente Lucio Salazar age 7
Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet age 8
Gheorghe Manu age 7
António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama age 34
Thomas Gore Browne age 33
William Meade Fishback age 9
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 61
Reuben Fenton age 21
Robert Lucas age 59
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 2
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 14
Silas Wright age 45
James C. Jones age 31
Oran Milo Roberts age 25
George Troup age 60
Elisha Baxter age 13
Peter Hansborough Bell age 30
Robert Waterman age 14
Roswell P. Flower age 5
David Tod age 35
William Irwin age 13
Morgan Lewis age 86
James Sevier Conway age 42
James Black Groome age 2
Robert Milligan McLane age 25
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 38
Mustafa Naili Pasha age 42
Kadri Pasha age 8
Lerotholi age 4
Horatio Gouverneur Wright age 20
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 24
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 17
Robert Lowe age 29
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 59
Wayne MacVeagh age 7
Lyman Trumbull age 27
Edmund P. Gaines age 63
Pavel Liprandi age 44
Dabulamanzi kaMpande age 1
Fyodor Radetsky age 20
Miguel de la Torre y Pando age 54
Elwell Stephen Otis age 2
Turner Ashby age 12
Ivan Lazarev age 20
Nie Shicheng age 4
Princess Yoshiko (consort of Kōkaku) age 61
Fatma Sultan (daughter of Abdulmejid I) age 1 month
Nergizev Hanım age 10
Dmitry Golitsyn age 69
Armand Joseph Bruat age 44
Jean-Jacques Uhrich age 38
Pierre Louis Charles de Failly age 30
Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz age 31
Alexander Imeretinsky age 2
Yicong age 9
Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1817–1849) age 23
Prince Alexander of Prussia age 20
Franz, Count of Meran age 1