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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
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) 1854-10-17 - 1855-09-11
Siege of Kars (1855) 1855-06-01 - 1855-11-29

People

Charles Canning age 42
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 29
John French age 2
A. P. Hill age 29
Oliver O. Howard age 24
Edwin V. Sumner age 58
William Buel Franklin age 32
Thomas Armstrong Morris age 43
George Alexander Porterfield age 32
Charles Ellet Jr. age 45
William S. Rosecrans age 35
William Booth Taliaferro age 32
George H. Thomas age 39
Franklin Buchanan age 54
William J. Hardee age 39
Alfred Howe Terry age 27
Philip Henry Sheridan age 24
Horatio Gouverneur Wright age 35
Richard Herron Anderson age 33
Prince Albert age 36
Stephen B. Elkins age 13
Isma'il Pasha age 24
Rafael Reyes age 5
Louis-Jules Trochu age 40
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 52
Valentín Gómez Farías age 74
Juan Bautista Ceballos age 44
José María Bocanegra age 68
José Justo Corro age 61
José Mariano Salas age 58
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 55
Ignacio Comonfort age 43
Juan Álvarez age 65
Estanislao Figueras age 35
Francesc Pi i Margall age 31
Nicolás Salmerón age 17
Emilio Castelar age 22
Francisco Serrano age 44
John Sweetman age 11
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 10
John Wilkes Booth age 17
Qishan age 69
Sengge Rinchen age 44
Hong Tianguifu age 5
Hong Xuanjiao age 25
Li Hongzhang age 32
Zuo Zongtang age 42
Zhang Lexing age 45
Prince Gong age 22
Takahira Kogorō age 1
Roman Rosen age 8
Ar-pi-uck-i age 95
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 1
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 22
Paul Kruger age 29
Koos de la Rey age 7
Ramón Corral age 1
Bernardo Reyes age 5
James Hope Grant age 47
Charles Cousin-Montauban age 59
Prince Komatsu Akihito age 9
Prince Arisugawa Taruhito age 20
Katsu Kaishū age 32
Enomoto Takeaki age 18
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 67
Alexei Kuropatkin age 7
Ludwig von Falkenhausen age 10
Otto von Emmich age 7
Gérard Leman age 4
Jean Pierre François Bonet age 87
François Certain de Canrobert age 46
Pavel Liprandi age 59
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 22
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 9
Felix Graf von Bothmer age 2
Osman Nuri Pasha age 23
Pierre Bosquet age 44
Franz von John age 39
Alexander von Krobatin age 5
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 38
Albert I of Saxony age 27
George Dewey age 17
Luigi Cadorna age 4
Aimable Pélissier age 60
Pietro Frugoni age 4
Don Carlos Buell age 37
Andrey Selivanov age 8
Roberto Brusati age 5
Frederick Francis II age 32
Hermann von Eichhorn age 7
Otto Liman von Sanders age 6 months
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 19
Giosuè Ritucci age 61
Francesco Landi age 62
John Marston age 60
John Lorimer Worden age 37
Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges age 1
Catesby ap Roger Jones age 34
Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont age 3 months
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 5
Paul von Rennenkampf age 1
Friedrich Sixt von Armin age 3
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 49
Taytu Betul age 4
Émile Fayolle age 3
Karl von Einem age 2
Mekonnen Welde Mikael age 3
Bruno von Mudra age 4
Oreste Baratieri age 13
Vittorio Dabormida age 12
Giuseppe Arimondi age 9
Edward Smith age 5
John Pope age 33
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 6
August von Mackensen age 5
Osman Pasha age 63
Adolphus Slade age 51
Karl von Bülow age 9
Max von Hausen age 8
Charles Lanrezac age 3
Ludwig von Benedek age 51
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 29
Ntshingwayo Khoza age 46
Dabulamanzi kaMpande age 15
Jules Ferry age 23
Amédée Courbet age 28
Sébastien Lespès age 27
Pan Dingxin age 27
Nikolay Ivanov age 4
Anton von Saltza age 11
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik age 11 months
Kuroki Tamemoto age 11
Oku Yasukata age 8
Nikolai Linevich age 16
Alexander von Kaulbars age 11
Archduke John of Austria age 73
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 27
Anatoly Stessel age 7
Carlo Pellion di Persano age 49
Joseph Vinoy age 55
Kamimura Hikonojō age 6
Kodama Gentarō age 3
Nikolai Nebogatov age 6
Nogi Maresuke age 5
Oskar Victorovich Stark age 9
Pavel Petrovich Ukhtomsky age 7
Tōgō Heihachirō age 7
Wilgelm Vitgeft age 7
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 27
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 12
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 6
Radomir Putnik age 8
Pierre Ruffey age 4
Fernand de Langle de Cary age 6
Nikolai Ruzsky age 1
Edhem Pasha age 4
Sefë Kosharja age 25
Mikhail Zasulich age 11
Nikolai Kashtalinsky age 6
Andrew Hull Foote age 48
Gideon Johnson Pillow age 49
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 32
Josias von Heeringen age 5
Augustin Dubail age 4
Édouard de Castelnau age 3
Nikolay Svyatopolk-Mirsky age 22
Iosif Gurko age 27
Fyodor Radetsky age 35
Mehmed Rauf Pasha age 23
Suleyman Husnu Pasha age 17
Max von Gallwitz age 3
Piet Cronjé age 18
Kootjie Snyman age 17
José Antonio Páez age 65
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 13
Abdullah Kölemen age 9
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 62
Gordon Granger age 33
Richard Lucian Page age 47
Oskar Gripenberg age 17
Lloyd Tilghman age 39
Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov age 62
Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen age 9
Andrew Wauchope age 9
Ignatius Stephanus Ferreira age 11
Mitrofan Nadein age 15
Alexander Fok age 11
George White age 20
Piet Joubert age 21
Christiaan de Wet age 10 months
Karl Jessen age 3
Nazim Pasha age 7
John E. Wool age 71
Hasan Tahsin Pasha age 10
Konstantinos Sapountzakis age 9
Ronglu age 19
Dong Fuxiang age 16
Elwell Stephen Otis age 17
Arthur MacArthur Jr. age 10
Thomas M. Anderson age 19