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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 41
Empress - Russian Empire
Frederick the Great age 58
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George III age 31
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 29
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Mustafa III age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 58
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 75
King - Joseon
Frederick North, Lord North age 38
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 19
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 20
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 36
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 35
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 54
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 44
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 37
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 54
King - Spain
Adolf Frederick of Sweden age 60
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 8 months
George Washington age 38
Thomas Jefferson age 27
Adam Smith age 46
Benjamin Franklin age 64
John Adams age 34
James Madison age 19
John Quincy Adams age 2
Andrew Jackson age 3
James Watt age 34
James Monroe age 12
Marie Antoinette age 14
Maximilien Robespierre age 11
Louis XVI age 15
Edward Jenner age 20
Maria Theresa age 53
Horatio Nelson age 11
Alexander Hamilton age 15
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 2
William IV age 4
Paul I of Russia age 15
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 16
George IV age 7
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 105
Georges Danton age 10
Louis XVIII age 14
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 2
Charles X of France age 12
Charles XIV John age 7
Aaron Burr age 14
Selim III age 8
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 6
Joachim Murat age 3
Marquis de Lafayette age 12
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 1
Mikhail Kutuzov age 24
Abdul Hamid I age 45
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 23
Joseph Bonaparte age 2
George Canning age 0 months
Toussaint Louverture age 26
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 2
Samuel Adams age 47
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 22
Charles IV of Spain age 21
Gustav III age 24
Lazare Carnot age 16
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 16
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 11
Michel Ney age 1
Elbridge Gerry age 25
George Clinton age 30
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 27
William Wilberforce age 10
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 40
John Jay age 24
Charles XIII age 21
Frederick William II of Prussia age 25
Frederick VI of Denmark age 2
John Marshall age 14
Pyotr Bagration age 4
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 8
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 19
Jean Lannes age 1
Tecumseh age 2
André Masséna age 11
Francisco de Miranda age 20
Maria Carolina of Austria age 17
Charles Cornwallis age 31
Józef Poniatowski age 6
John Hancock age 33
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 16
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 39
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 32
Victor Amadeus III age 43
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 1
Jiaqing Emperor age 9
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 33
Benedict Arnold age 29
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 10
Charles Felix age 5
Rama II age 2
Charles Emmanuel IV age 18
Edward, Duke of Kent age 2
Victor Emmanuel I age 10
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 7
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 4
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 10
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 4
Benjamin Rush age 24
Frederick I of Württemberg age 15
William V, Prince of Orange age 22
Maria Luisa of Spain age 24
Jeongjo of Joseon age 17
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 8
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 17
Nicolas Oudinot age 3
Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 12 months
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 2
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 27
Anthony, King of Saxony age 14
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 3
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 5
Charles François Dumouriez age 31
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 6
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 49
Edmund Randolph age 16
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 9
Pierre Augereau age 12
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 34
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 6
John Dickinson age 38
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 40
John Paul Jones age 22
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 10 months
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 6
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 3
Louis Desaix age 1
Nathanael Greene age 27
Roger Sherman age 49
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738) age 31
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 24
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 13
Ferdinand I of Parma age 19
John Rutledge age 30
Henry Knox age 19
John Burgoyne age 48
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 17
Comte de Rochambeau age 44
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau age 9
Natalia Alexeievna (Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt) age 14
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 30
Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg age 38
Casimir Pulaski age 25
Karl August von Hardenberg age 19
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 32
Richard Henry Lee age 38
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern age 54
Gouverneur Morris age 18
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1743) age 26
Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este age 15
Alexandre Pétion age 0 months
Oliver Ellsworth age 25
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 39
Robert Morris age 36
Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 56
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg age 42
Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony age 3
Axel von Fersen the Younger age 14
Thomas Gage age 52
Edward Livingston age 5
Horatio Gates age 42
Levin August von Bennigsen age 25
Lotf Ali Khan age 1
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange age 18
Duke Louis of Württemberg age 13
Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg age 3
Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt age 18
Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa age 20
Henry Lee III age 14
Black Hawk age 3
James Wilson age 27