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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 37
Empress - Russian Empire
George III age 28
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 25
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 55
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 72
King - Joseon
Mustafa III age 49
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick the Great age 54
King - Kingdom of Prussia
William Pitt the Younger age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 17
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 18
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 33
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 31
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 50
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 40
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 33
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 50
King - Spain
Adolf Frederick of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
George Washington age 34
Thomas Jefferson age 23
Adam Smith age 43
Benjamin Franklin age 60
John Adams age 31
James Madison age 15
James Watt age 30
James Monroe age 8
Marie Antoinette age 11
Maximilien Robespierre age 8
Louis XVI age 12
Edward Jenner age 17
Horatio Nelson age 8
Alexander Hamilton age 11
William IV age 1
Paul I of Russia age 12
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 12
George IV age 4
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 101
Georges Danton age 7
Louis XVIII age 11
Charles X of France age 9
Charles XIV John age 3
Aaron Burr age 10
Selim III age 4
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 3
Mikhail Kutuzov age 21
Abdul Hamid I age 41
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 19
Toussaint Louverture age 23
Samuel Adams age 44
Charles IV of Spain age 18
Gustav III age 20
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 13
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 8
Elbridge Gerry age 22
George Clinton age 27
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 23
William Wilberforce age 7
John Jay age 21
Charles XIII age 18
Frederick William II of Prussia age 22
John Marshall age 11
Pyotr Bagration age 1
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 4
John Hancock age 29
Frederick North, Lord North age 34
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 36
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 28
Jiaqing Emperor age 6
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 29
Benedict Arnold age 25
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 7
Charles Felix age 1
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 11 months
Edmund Randolph age 13
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 37
John Paul Jones age 19
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 2
Nathanael Greene age 24
John Rutledge age 27
Henry Knox age 16
John Burgoyne age 44
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 14
Oliver Ellsworth age 21
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 36
Thomas Gage age 48
Edward Livingston age 2
Horatio Gates age 39
Levin August von Bennigsen age 21
Robert Smith age 9
Henry Clinton age 36
Anthony Wayne age 21
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 6
James McHenry age 13
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 42
Bernardo de Gálvez age 20
Peyton Randolph age 45
John Breckinridge age 6
William Bradford age 11
John Armstrong Jr. age 8
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 50
Federico Gravina age 10
William Pinkney age 2
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 24
Cuthbert Collingwood age 18
Henry Laurens age 42
Alexander J. Dallas age 7
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 8
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 0 months
Tekle Giyorgis I age 15
Domingo Matheu age 1
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 7 months
José Miguel Pey age 3
Gigar age 21
Charles Philip Yorke age 2
Prince Euneon age 12
Richard Ryder age 5 months
Prince Eunsin age 11
José Ramón de Loayza age 15
Jeongjo of Joseon age 14
Marquis de Lafayette age 9
Charles Cornwallis age 27
Charles Lee age 34
Comte de Rochambeau age 41
Comte de Grasse age 44
Leopold Philip von Heister age 59
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 1 month
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 13
Victor Amadeus III age 40
Charles Emmanuel IV age 15
Victor Emmanuel I age 7
Ar-pi-uck-i age 6
Pierre-Augustin Hulin age 8
Stanislas-Marie Maillard age 2
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay age 26
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 18
Roger Ducos age 19
Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén age 8
Pierre Antoine Dupont age 1
Claude Dallemagne age 12
Karl Philipp Sebottendorf age 26
Josef Philipp Vukassovich age 11
Gerhard Rosselmini age 24
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 4
William Prescott age 40
Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière age 1
Israel Putnam age 48
Allan Maclean of Torloisk age 41
Joseph Warren age 25
Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves age 41
Jezzar Pasha age 44
Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko age 26
Charles Mawhood age 36
Antal Lipthay age 21
Pushmataha age 2
Louis André Bon age 8
Murad Bey age 16
Ibrahim Bey age 31
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau age 6
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 6
Johann von Hiller age 12
André Masséna age 8
Armand von Nordmann age 7
Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde age 10
Pierre Augereau age 9
József Alvinczi age 31
Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky age 21
Giovanni Marchese di Provera age 30
Francisco Javier Venegas age 12
Félix María Calleja del Rey, 1st Count of Calderón age 13
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 13
Michael von Melas age 37
Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz age 28
Anton von Zach age 19
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 3
Haim Farhi age 6
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 13
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 2
Gregorio García de la Cuesta age 25
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 12
Johann de Kalb age 45
Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie age 15
Eugen von Argentau age 22
Mathias Rukavina von Boynograd age 29