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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Frederick the Great age 48
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George II age 76
King - Great Britain
Elizabeth of Russia age 50
Empress - Russian Empire
Mustafa III age 43
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor age 51
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 48
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 65
King - Joseon
William Pitt the Younger age 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Timothy Pickering age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Morgan age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 11
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Cochrane age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 26
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 29
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 25
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 34
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 27
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 44
King - Spain
Adolf Frederick of Sweden age 50
King - Sweden
George Washington age 28
Thomas Jefferson age 17
Adam Smith age 37
Benjamin Franklin age 54
John Adams age 24
James Madison age 9
James Watt age 24
James Monroe age 2
Catherine the Great age 31
Marie Antoinette age 4
Maximilien Robespierre age 2
Louis XVI age 5
Edward Jenner age 11
George III age 22
Maria Theresa age 43
Horatio Nelson age 1
Alexander Hamilton age 5
Paul I of Russia age 5
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 6
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 95
Georges Danton age 9 months
Louis XVIII age 4
Peter III of Russia age 32
Charles X of France age 2
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 19
Aaron Burr age 4
Marquis de Lafayette age 2
Mikhail Kutuzov age 14
Abdul Hamid I age 35
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 13
Ivan VI of Russia age 20
Toussaint Louverture age 17
Samuel Adams age 37
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 12
Charles IV of Spain age 11
Gustav III age 14
Lazare Carnot age 7
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 7
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 1
Elbridge Gerry age 16
George Clinton age 21
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 17
William Wilberforce age 12 months
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 30
John Jay age 14
Charles XIII age 11
Frederick William II of Prussia age 15
John Marshall age 4
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 9
André Masséna age 2
Francisco de Miranda age 10
Maria Carolina of Austria age 8
Charles Cornwallis age 21
John Hancock age 23
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 6
Frederick North, Lord North age 28
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 30
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 22
Victor Amadeus III age 34
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 23
Benedict Arnold age 19
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 9 months
Charles Emmanuel IV age 9
Victor Emmanuel I age 1
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 9 months
Benjamin Rush age 14
Frederick I of Württemberg age 5
William V, Prince of Orange age 12
Maria Luisa of Spain age 14
Jeongjo of Joseon age 7
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 7
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 18
Anthony, King of Saxony age 4
Charles François Dumouriez age 21
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 40
Edmund Randolph age 7
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 1 month
Pierre Augereau age 2
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 24
John Dickinson age 28
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 31
John Paul Jones age 13
Maria Josepha of Bavaria age 21
Nathanael Greene age 18
Roger Sherman age 39
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738) age 21
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 14
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 3
Princess Isabella of Parma age 18
Ferdinand I of Parma age 9
John Rutledge age 20
Henry Knox age 10
John Burgoyne age 38
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 7
Comte de Rochambeau age 35
Natalia Alexeievna (Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt) age 5
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 20
Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg age 28
Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1751–1767) age 9
Casimir Pulaski age 15
Karl August von Hardenberg age 10
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 22
Richard Henry Lee age 28
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern age 44
Gouverneur Morris age 8
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1743) age 17
Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este age 6
Oliver Ellsworth age 15
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 29
Robert Morris age 26
Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 47
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg age 32
Archduchess Johanna Gabriele of Austria age 10
Axel von Fersen the Younger age 4
Thomas Gage age 42
Horatio Gates age 33
Levin August von Bennigsen age 15
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange age 9
Duke Louis of Württemberg age 3
Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt age 8
Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa age 10
Henry Lee III age 4
James Wilson age 17
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia age 44
Robert Smith age 2
Henry Clinton age 30
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 15
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) age 34
Crown Prince Sado age 25
Roger Ducos age 13
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 5
Ercole Consalvi age 3
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 34
Josiah Bartlett age 30
Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia age 41
Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 36
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia age 30
Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 23
Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (born 1745) age 15
Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen age 22
Anthony Wayne age 15
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 7 months
Murad Bey age 10
Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz age 5
Edward Rutledge age 10
Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel age 40
William Paterson age 14
Comte de Grasse age 37
James McHenry age 6
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay age 20
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney age 41
Ralph Abercromby age 25
Prince Josias of Coburg age 22
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg age 10 months
George Read age 26
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 35
Bernardo de Gálvez age 14
Jezzar Pasha age 38
Ibrahim Bey age 25
Alexander Tormasov age 7
Stephen Hopkins age 53
Samuel Huntington age 29
Thomas McKean age 26
Benjamin Harrison V age 34
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha age 5
Peyton Randolph age 38
Charles Lee age 28
József Alvinczi age 25
Michael von Melas age 31
Arthur St. Clair age 23
John Sullivan age 20
James Wilkinson age 3