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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
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

Giosuè Ritucci age 46
Kootjie Snyman age 2
Mitrofan Nadein age 9 months
John Reese Kenly age 22
William W. Mackall age 23
John Ancrum Winslow age 28
Nikolai Lukash age 43
Sugui Park age 40
Sunmok Budaebuin age 22
Ludwig von Wildenbruch age 37
Mariano Garrigó age 30
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 38
Thomas Edward Taylor age 29
Robert Nisbet-Hamilton age 36
Ahmadu Atiku age 33
Mu'azu age 24
Abdur Rahman Atiku age 12
George Alexander Porterfield age 17
Jesse Elliott age 58
Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto age 49
Ebenezer Farrand age 37
John Taylor Wood age 10
Princess Deokon age 18
Gwiin Park age 13
Sugui Bang age 7 months
José María Caminero age 58
Thomas Fletcher age 23
Henry Atkinson age 58
Arthur Brooke age 68
Daniel Pring age 60
James Givins age 81
Charles Canning age 27
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 14
Bostancıbaşı Hafız İsmail Pasha
Keçiboynuzu İbrahim Hilmi Pasha
Çelebi Mustafa Pasha
Çarhacı Ali Pasha
Burdurlu Derviş Mehmed Pasha
Ispartalı Seyyid Ali Pasha
İzmirli Salih Pasha
Turnacızade Ali Pasha
Alfred H. Colquitt age 16
Allen D. Candler age 5
Charles J. Jenkins age 35
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby age 14
George A. Jenks age 4
George W. Towns age 39
Henry Dickerson McDaniel age 3
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon age 9
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford age 15
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle age 29
Herschel V. Johnson age 27
Holmes Conrad age 6 months
James Johnson age 29
James Milton Smith age 16
James S. Boynton age 7
John Goode age 11
Orlow W. Chapman age 9
Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos age 16
Rufus Bullock age 6
Samuel F. Phillips age 16
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea age 29
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet age 30
Thomas H. Ruger age 7
William J. Northen age 5
Alejandro M. Sinibaldi age 15
Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz age 16
Bam Bahadur Kunwar age 22
Bruno Carranza age 17
Pushkar Shah age 56
Fateh Jung Shah age 35
Jesús Jiménez Zamora age 17
José Bernardo Escobar age 42
José María Castro Madriz age 21
José María Montealegre age 25
Jung Bahadur Rana age 23
Justo Rufino Barrios age 5
Krishna Bahadur Kunwar Rana age 17
Mariano Paredes (Guatemalan politician) age 40
Mathabar Singh Thapa age 42
Miguel García Granados age 30
Rana Jang Pande age 51
Ranga Nath Poudyal age 67
Ranodip Singh Kunwar age 15
Shirley Waldemar Baker age 4
Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez age 8
Vicente Herrera Zeledón age 19
Spotted Elk age 14
James W. Forsyth age 5
Ivan Paskevich age 58
Charles George Gordon age 7
Baji Rao II age 65
Garnet Wolseley age 7
Konstantin von Kaufmann age 22
Ibrahim Pasha age 51
John Ross age 49
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius age 20
Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg age 22
Thomas François Burgers age 6
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff age 32
Johannes Brand age 16
Sitting Bull
Máximo Gómez age 3
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes age 21
Valeriano Weyler age 1
Stephen A. Douglas age 27
John Brown age 40
Pope Pius IX age 48
Alexander Gorchakov age 42
Afzal-ud-Daula age 12
Kharak Singh age 39
Chand Kaur age 38
Sher Singh age 32
Duleep Singh age 1
Thomas Cochrane age 64