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American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 39
Empress - Russian Empire
Frederick the Great age 56
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George III age 29
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 27
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Mustafa III age 51
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 56
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 73
King - Joseon
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
Sidney Smith age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 20
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 58
King - Sweden
Shah Alam II age 39
Mughal Emperor - Mughal Empire
Tokugawa Ieharu age 30
Shōgun - Tokugawa shogunate
Nizam Ali Khan age 34
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
George Washington age 36
Thomas Jefferson age 25
Adam Smith age 44
Benjamin Franklin age 62
John Adams age 32
James Madison age 17
John Quincy Adams age 9 months
Andrew Jackson age 1
James Watt age 32
James Monroe age 10
Marie Antoinette age 12
Maximilien Robespierre age 10
Louis XVI age 13
Edward Jenner age 18
Maria Theresa age 51
Horatio Nelson age 9
Alexander Hamilton age 13
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 10 months
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 2 months
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
Marquis de Lafayette age 10
Mikhail Kutuzov age 22
Abdul Hamid I age 43
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 21
Joseph Bonaparte age 3 months
Toussaint Louverture age 24
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 8 months
Samuel Adams age 45
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 20
Charles IV of Spain age 19
Gustav III age 22
Lazare Carnot age 14
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 15
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 9
Elbridge Gerry age 23
George Clinton age 28
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 25
William Wilberforce age 8
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 38
John Jay age 22
Charles XIII age 19
Frederick William II of Prussia age 23
Frederick VI of Denmark age 3 months
John Marshall age 12
Pyotr Bagration age 2
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria age 11
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 6
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 17
Tecumseh age 2 months
André Masséna age 10
Francisco de Miranda age 18
Maria Carolina of Austria age 15
Charles Cornwallis age 29
Józef Poniatowski age 4
Kamehameha I age 12
John Hancock age 31
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 14
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 38
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 30
Victor Amadeus III age 41
Jiaqing Emperor age 7
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 31
Benedict Arnold age 27
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 8
Charles Felix age 3
Rama II age 2 months
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony age 17
Charles Emmanuel IV age 16
Edward, Duke of Kent age 6 months
Victor Emmanuel I age 8
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 5
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 2
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 8
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 2
Benjamin Rush age 22
Frederick I of Württemberg age 13
William V, Prince of Orange age 20
Maria Luisa of Spain age 22
Jeongjo of Joseon age 15
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 6
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 15
Nicolas Oudinot age 1
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 2 months
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 25
Anthony, King of Saxony age 12
Akbar II age 8
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 1
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 3
Charles François Dumouriez age 29
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 4
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 47
Edmund Randolph age 14
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 7
Pierre Augereau age 10
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 32
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 4
John Dickinson age 36
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 38
John Paul Jones age 20
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 4
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 1
Nathanael Greene age 25
Roger Sherman age 47
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738) age 29
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 22
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 11
Ferdinand I of Parma age 17
John Rutledge age 28
Henry Knox age 17
John Burgoyne age 46
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 15
Comte de Rochambeau age 42
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau age 7
Natalia Alexeievna (Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt) age 12
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 28
Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg age 36
Casimir Pulaski age 23
Karl August von Hardenberg age 17
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 30
Richard Henry Lee age 36
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern age 52
Gouverneur Morris age 16
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1743) age 24
Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este age 13
Oliver Ellsworth age 23
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 37
Robert Morris age 34
Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 54
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg age 40
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony age 1
Axel von Fersen the Younger age 12
Thomas Gage age 50
Edward Livingston age 3
Horatio Gates age 40
Levin August von Bennigsen age 23
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange age 16
Duke Louis of Württemberg age 11
Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg age 1
Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt age 16
Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa age 18
Henry Lee III age 12
Black Hawk age 1
James Wilson age 25
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia age 52
Robert Smith age 10
Henry Clinton age 38
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 23
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) age 42
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia age 12 months