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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

John Harvey age 62
Earl Van Dorn age 19
Nelson A. Miles age 9 months
Wesley Merritt age 3
Samuel Francis Du Pont age 36
Thomas W. Sherman age 27
Thomas Drayton age 30
Stephen Elliott, Jr. age 8
Josiah Tattnall age 45
John P. McCown age 24
William W. Mackall age 23
John Ancrum Winslow age 28
Raphael Semmes age 30
Qin Rigang age 19
Yang Xiuqing age 18
Wei Changhui age 17
John Adolphus Dahlgren age 30
George Crockett Strong age 7
Chen Yucheng age 3
Thomas ap Catesby Jones age 50
Stephen W. Kearny age 45
Archibald H. Gillespie age 29
Thomas Childs age 44
Joseph Lane age 38
Zeng Guoquan age 15
Frederick Townsend Ward age 8
James Richard Dacres age 51
Philip Broke age 63
Xiao Chaogui age 20
Jiang Zhongyuan age 27
Gordon Drummond age 67
Robert F. Stockton age 44
Alexander William Doniphan age 31
David Conner age 48
Matthew C. Perry age 46
William Thomas Sampson age 3 months
Winfield Scott Schley age 7 months
Pascual Cervera y Topete age 1
Redvers Buller age 5 months
Charles Warren age 3 months
Jubal Early age 23
John B. Gordon age 8
Stephen Dodson Ramseur age 2
Alexander Macomb age 58
Alfred von Waldersee age 8
Mary Surratt age 20
Henry Rathbone age 2
Lucretia Mott age 47
Karl Nesselrode age 59
Emperor Kōkaku age 68
Princess Yoshiko (consort of Kōkaku) age 61
Princess Sumiko age 11
Empress Dowager Eishō age 5
Nakayama Yoshiko age 4
Prince Yamashina Akira age 24
Elizabeth Temkina age 64
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 54
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 45
Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia age 42
Nikolai Lukash age 43
Gustaw Ehrenberg age 22
Konstantin Konstantinov age 22
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 58
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 20
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 17
Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia age 14
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 12
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 8
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 7
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 41
Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 64
Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 39
Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 37
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) age 32
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 28
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 21
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 57
Duke Peter of Oldenburg age 27
Princess Marie of Württemberg (1816–1887) age 23
Sophie of Württemberg age 21
William I of Württemberg age 58
William III of the Netherlands age 23
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands age 21
Prince Henry of the Netherlands (1820–1879) age 19
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 16
William II of the Netherlands age 47
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia age 12
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia age 14
Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia age 15
Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 33
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 15
Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg age 22
Charles I of Württemberg age 17
Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel age 19
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 9
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 1
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 8 months
Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 16
Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I) age 61
Hibetullah Sultan age 51
Hoşyar Kadın age 44
Adile Sultan (daughter of Mahmud II) age 14
Saliha Sultan (daughter of Mahmud II) age 28
Atiye Sultan age 16
Bezmiâlem Sultan age 33
Pertevniyal Sultan age 28
Şevkefza Sultan age 19
Tirimüjgan Kadın age 20
Gülcemal Kadın age 14
Şayeste Hanım age 2
Verdicenan Kadın age 14
Rahime Perestu Sultan age 14
Gülistu Kadın age 9
Düzdidil Hanım age 15
Bezmiara Kadın age 6
Mahitab Kadın age 10
Nükhetsezâ Hanım age 13
Navekmisal Hanım age 13
Zeynifelek Hanım age 16
Ceylanyar Hanım age 10
Nergizev Hanım age 10
Nalandil Hanım age 17
Nesrin Hanım age 14
Serfiraz Hanım age 3
Servetseza Kadın age 16
Dürrinev Kadın age 5
Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha age 27
Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha age 45
Ahmed Fethi Pasha age 39
Mevhibe Kadın age 4
Reftarıdil Kadın age 1
Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha age 4
David S. Stanley age 11
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 74
Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov age 3
Nicolas Oudinot age 73
Philip Osipovich Paulucci age 60
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 63
Dmitry Golitsyn age 68
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 67
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy age 70
Peter Mikhailovich Kaptzevich age 68
Jérôme Bonaparte age 55
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 67
Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 33
Peter Andreivich Dannenberg age 47
Vasili Bebutov age 49
Zakhary Chavchavadze age 14
Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani age 27
Richard Guyon age 37
György Kmety age 27
Charles Napier age 54
Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes age 49
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 39
Christopher Teesdale age 6
Gürcü Mehmed Vâsıf Pasha age 45
Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky age 45
Richard Saunders Dundas age 38
Charles-Eugène Pénaud age 39
Armand Joseph Bruat age 44
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons age 49
Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein age 43
Gustav Friedrich von Beyer age 28
Georg V of Hanover age 21
Adolf von Bonin age 36
Ludwig von Gablenz age 25
Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria age 16
August Karl von Goeben age 23
Cäsar Rüstow age 13
Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria age 44
Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel age 31
Oskar von Zoller age 30
Ferdinand von Kummer age 24
Erwin von Neipperg age 27
Hugo von Kirchbach age 31
Jakob von Hartmann age 45
Abel Douay age 31
Charles Auguste Frossard age 33
Jean-Jacques Uhrich age 38
Gustav von Alvensleben age 36
Georg I of Saxony age 7
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen age 24
Pierre Louis Charles de Failly age 30
Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau age 17
Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines age 36
Jean-Joseph Farre age 24
Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz age 30
Antoine Chanzy age 17
Louis Faidherbe age 22
Charles Denis Bourbaki age 24
Mikhail Dragomirov age 9
Nikolai Stoletov age 8
Alexander Imeretinsky age 2
Vladimir Dobrovolsky age 6
Halil Rifat Pasha age 13
Yakov Alkhazov age 14
Ahmed Hifzi Pasha age 8
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 36
Francisco Solano López age 13
Domingo Francisco Sánchez age 45