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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 38
Empress - Russian Empire
George III age 29
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 27
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 56
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 73
King - Joseon
Mustafa III age 51
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick the Great age 56
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick North, Lord North age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 18
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 19
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 34
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 37
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 33
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 42
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 35
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 52
King - Spain
Adolf Frederick of Sweden age 57
King - Sweden
George Washington age 36
Thomas Jefferson age 24
Adam Smith age 44
Benjamin Franklin age 62
John Adams age 32
James Madison age 17
John Quincy Adams age 8 months
Andrew Jackson age 1
James Watt age 32
James Monroe age 9
Marie Antoinette age 12
Maximilien Robespierre age 9
Louis XVI age 13
Edward Jenner age 18
Horatio Nelson age 9
Alexander Hamilton age 13
William IV age 2
Paul I of Russia age 13
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 14
George IV age 5
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 103
Georges Danton age 8
Louis XVIII age 12
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 1 month
Charles X of France age 10
Charles XIV John age 5
Aaron Burr age 12
Selim III age 6
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 4
Joachim Murat age 1
Mikhail Kutuzov age 22
Abdul Hamid I age 43
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 20
Joseph Bonaparte age 2 months
Toussaint Louverture age 24
Samuel Adams age 45
Charles IV of Spain age 19
Gustav III age 22
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 14
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 9
Elbridge Gerry age 23
George Clinton age 28
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 25
William Wilberforce age 8
John Jay age 22
Charles XIII age 19
Frederick William II of Prussia age 23
Frederick VI of Denmark age 2 months
John Marshall age 12
Pyotr Bagration age 2
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 6
Tecumseh age 1 month
John Hancock age 31
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 37
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 29
Jiaqing Emperor age 7
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 30
Benedict Arnold age 27
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 8
Charles Felix age 3
Rama II age 1 month
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 2
Edmund Randolph age 14
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 38
John Paul Jones age 20
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 4
Nathanael Greene age 25
John Rutledge age 28
Henry Knox age 17
John Burgoyne age 46
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 15
Oliver Ellsworth age 22
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 37
Thomas Gage age 50
Edward Livingston age 3
Horatio Gates age 40
Levin August von Bennigsen age 23
Henry Lee III age 12
Robert Smith age 10
Henry Clinton age 37
Anthony Wayne age 23
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 8
William Paterson age 22
James McHenry age 14
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 43
Bernardo de Gálvez age 21
Peyton Randolph age 46
John Breckinridge age 7
William Bradford age 12
John Armstrong Jr. age 9
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 5
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 52
Federico Gravina age 11
Pavel Chichagov age 9 months
William Pinkney age 4
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 25
Cuthbert Collingwood age 19
Caleb Strong age 23
Henry Laurens age 44
Alexander J. Dallas age 8
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 9
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 1
James Jackson age 10
Tekle Giyorgis I age 17
Domingo Matheu age 2
Christopher Gore age 9
Edward Tiffin age 1
Wilson Cary Nicholas age 7
John Tayler age 25
John Sevier age 22
Return J. Meigs Jr. age 3
Increase Sumner age 21
John Francis Mercer age 8
Aaron Ogden age 11
John Milledge age 11
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 1
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave age 13
John Henry age 17
James Sullivan age 23
William Branch Giles age 5
Morgan Lewis age 13
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire age 7
José Miguel Pey age 5
Moses Gill age 34
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby age 5
John Lambert age 22
John Tyler Sr. age 21
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby age 15
John Brooks age 15
Robert Wright age 15
Samuel Huntington (Ohio politician) age 2
George William Smith age 6
Gigar age 23
Robert Brooke age 7
John Page age 24
Isaac Halstead Williamson age 6 months
Thomas Henderson age 24
Charles Goldsborough age 2
Josiah Tattnall (politician) age 6
Charles Philip Yorke age 4
Matthew Talbot age 6
Thomas Sim Lee age 22
James Wood age 27
Joseph Bloomfield age 14
Richard Howell age 13
George Mathews age 28
David Brydie Mitchell age 1
John Clark age 2
George Plater age 32
Robert Bowie age 18
John Hoskins Stone age 18
Thomas Kirker age 8
Elisha Lawrence age 22
Othniel Looker age 10
David Emanuel age 24
Prince Euneon age 13
Levin Winder age 10
William Sanford Pennington age 11
Jared Irwin age 18
Richard Ryder age 1
James Brice age 21
Benjamin Ogle age 19
Charles Carnan Ridgely age 7
Charles Arbuthnot age 1