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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 41
Empress - Russian Empire
George III age 31
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 29
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 58
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 75
King - Joseon
Mustafa III age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick the Great age 58
King - Kingdom of Prussia
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 9
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 21
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 22
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 8
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 9 months
George Washington age 38
Thomas Jefferson age 27
Adam Smith age 47
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 12
Louis XVI age 15
Edward Jenner age 21
Horatio Nelson age 11
Alexander Hamilton age 15
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
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 1 month
Toussaint Louverture age 27
Samuel Adams age 47
Charles IV of Spain age 21
Gustav III age 24
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 17
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
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
Tecumseh age 2
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 0 months
John Hancock age 33
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 40
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 32
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
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 4
Edmund Randolph age 16
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 40
John Paul Jones age 22
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 11 months
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 6
Nathanael Greene age 27
John Rutledge age 30
Henry Knox age 19
John Burgoyne age 48
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 17
Alexandre Pétion age 1 month
Oliver Ellsworth age 25
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 39
Thomas Gage age 52
Edward Livingston age 5
Horatio Gates age 42
Levin August von Bennigsen age 25
Lotf Ali Khan age 1
Henry Lee III age 14
Robert Smith age 12
Henry Clinton age 40
Anthony Wayne age 25
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 10
William Paterson age 24
William Huskisson age 2 months
DeWitt Clinton age 1
James McHenry age 16
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 45
Bernardo de Gálvez age 23
Peyton Randolph age 48
John Breckinridge age 9
William Bradford age 14
John Armstrong Jr. age 11
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 8
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 54
Federico Gravina age 13
Pavel Chichagov age 2
William Pinkney age 6
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 28
Cuthbert Collingwood age 21
Caleb Strong age 25
Henry Laurens age 46
Alexander J. Dallas age 10
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 11
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 3
Mahlon Dickerson age 1 month
James Jackson age 12
Tekle Giyorgis I age 19
Domingo Matheu age 4
Christopher Gore age 11
Edward Tiffin age 3
Wilson Cary Nicholas age 9
John Tayler age 27
John Sevier age 24
Return J. Meigs Jr. age 5
Increase Sumner age 23
John Francis Mercer age 11
Aaron Ogden age 13
John Milledge age 13
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 4
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave age 15
John Henry age 19
James Sullivan age 26
William Branch Giles age 7
Morgan Lewis age 15
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire age 10
James Pleasants age 6 months
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. age 1
José Miguel Pey age 7
Moses Gill age 36
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby age 7
John Lambert age 24
John Tyler Sr. age 23
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby age 17
John Brooks age 18
Robert Wright age 17
Samuel Huntington (Ohio politician) age 4
George William Smith age 8
Gigar age 25
Robert Brooke age 9
John Page age 27
Isaac Halstead Williamson age 2
Thomas Henderson age 26
Charles Goldsborough age 4
Josiah Tattnall (politician) age 8
Willie Blount age 2
Charles Philip Yorke age 6
Joseph C. Yates age 1
Matthew Talbot age 8
Thomas Sim Lee age 24
James Wood age 29
Joseph Bloomfield age 16
Richard Howell age 15
George Mathews age 30
David Brydie Mitchell age 3