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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 36
Empress - Russian Empire
George III age 27
King - Great Britain
Qianlong Emperor age 53
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles III of Spain age 49
King - Spain
George Washington age 33
Thomas Jefferson age 22
Adam Smith age 42
Benjamin Franklin age 59
John Adams age 29
James Madison age 14
James Watt age 29
James Monroe age 7
Marie Antoinette age 9
Maximilien Robespierre age 7
Louis XVI age 10
Edward Jenner age 16
Horatio Nelson age 6
Alexander Hamilton age 10
Paul I of Russia age 10
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 11
George IV age 3
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 100
Georges Danton age 5
Louis XVIII age 9
Charles X of France age 7
William Pitt the Younger age 6
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 24
Charles XIV John age 2
Aaron Burr age 9
Selim III age 3
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 2
Mikhail Kutuzov age 19
Abdul Hamid I age 40
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 18
Toussaint Louverture age 22
Samuel Adams age 42
Charles IV of Spain age 16
Gustav III age 19
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 12
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 6
Elbridge Gerry age 21
George Clinton age 26
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 22
William Wilberforce age 5
John Jay age 19
Charles XIII age 16
Spencer Perceval age 2
Frederick William II of Prussia age 20
John Marshall age 9
Pyotr Bagration age 1 month
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 1
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 3
Henry Addington age 8
John Hancock age 28
Frederick North, Lord North age 33
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 35
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 27
Jiaqing Emperor age 4
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 28
Benedict Arnold age 24
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 5
Charles Felix age 4 months
Edmund Randolph age 12
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 36
John Paul Jones age 18
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 1
Nathanael Greene age 23
John Rutledge age 25
Yeongjo of Joseon age 70
Henry Knox age 15
John Burgoyne age 43
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 12
Albert Gallatin age 4
Timothy Pickering age 20
Oliver Ellsworth age 20
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 34
Thomas Gage age 47
Edward Livingston age 1
Horatio Gates age 38
Levin August von Bennigsen age 20
Robert Smith age 7
Henry Clinton age 35
Banastre Tarleton age 10
Samuel Dexter age 4
Anthony Wayne age 20
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 5
James McHenry age 11
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 40
Bernardo de Gálvez age 19
Peyton Randolph age 43
Daniel Morgan age 29
John Breckinridge age 4
Henry Dearborn age 14
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 16
William Bradford age 9
John Armstrong Jr. age 6
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 49
Federico Gravina age 9
William Pinkney age 1
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 23
William Eustis age 12
Cuthbert Collingwood age 16
Henry Laurens age 41
Alexander J. Dallas age 6
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 6
Tekle Giyorgis I age 14
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 9
Gigar age 20
Charles Philip Yorke age 1
Prince Euneon age 11
Prince Eunsin age 10
Jeongjo of Joseon age 12
Marquis de Lafayette age 7
Charles Cornwallis age 26
Charles Lee age 33
Comte de Rochambeau age 40
Comte de Grasse age 42
Leopold Philip von Heister age 58
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 12
Victor Amadeus III age 39
Charles Emmanuel IV age 14
Victor Emmanuel I age 6
Ar-pi-uck-i age 5
Pierre-Augustin Hulin age 6
Stanislas-Marie Maillard age 1
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay age 25
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 17
Roger Ducos age 18