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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 45
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 19
King - France
George III age 36
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 33
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 49
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 62
Emperor - Imperial China
Yeongjo of Joseon age 79
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 48
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Frederick the Great age 62
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick North, Lord North age 42
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 23
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 25
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 26
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 12
House of Representatives - United States
John Adams age 38
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 40
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 43
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 39
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 58
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 48
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 41
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 58
King - Spain
Gustav III age 28
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 4
George Washington age 42
Ludwig van Beethoven age 3
Thomas Jefferson age 31
Adam Smith age 51
Benjamin Franklin age 68
James Madison age 23
John Quincy Adams age 7
Andrew Jackson age 7
James Watt age 38
James Monroe age 16
William Henry Harrison age 1
Marie Antoinette age 18
Maximilien Robespierre age 16
Edward Jenner age 25
Horatio Nelson age 15
Alexander Hamilton age 19
William IV age 8
Klemens von Metternich age 1
Paul I of Russia age 19
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 20
George IV age 11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 109
Georges Danton age 14
Louis XVIII age 18
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 6
Charles X of France age 16
Louis Philippe I age 10 months
Charles XIV John age 11
Aaron Burr age 18
Selim III age 12
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 11
Joachim Murat age 7
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 5
Mikhail Kutuzov age 28
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 27
Joseph Bonaparte age 6
George Canning age 4
Toussaint Louverture age 31
Samuel Adams age 51
Charles IV of Spain age 25
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 21
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 15
Michel Ney age 5
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 1
Elbridge Gerry age 30
George Clinton age 35
Daniel D. Tompkins age 1 month
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 31
William Wilberforce age 14
John Jay age 28
Charles XIII age 25
Frederick William II of Prussia age 29
Frederick VI of Denmark age 6
John Marshall age 18
Pyotr Bagration age 9
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 12
Tecumseh age 6
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 4
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 2
John Hancock age 37
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 44
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 36
Jiaqing Emperor age 13
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 37
Benedict Arnold age 33
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 14
Charles Felix age 9
Rama II age 6
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 8
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 3
Edmund Randolph age 20
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 45
John Paul Jones age 27
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 5
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 10
Nathanael Greene age 32
John Rutledge age 34
Henry Knox age 24
John Burgoyne age 52
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 21
Alexandre Pétion age 4
Ioannis Kolettis age 1
Oliver Ellsworth age 29
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 43
William H. Crawford age 2
Thomas Gage age 56
Edward Livingston age 10
Horatio Gates age 47
Levin August von Bennigsen age 29
Lotf Ali Khan age 5
Henry Lee III age 18
Robert Smith age 16
Henry Clinton age 44
Anthony Wayne age 29
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 14
William Paterson age 28
William Huskisson age 4
DeWitt Clinton age 5
James McHenry age 20
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 49
Bernardo de Gálvez age 28
Peyton Randolph age 52
William Wirt age 1
John Breckinridge age 13
William Bradford age 18
John Armstrong Jr. age 15
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 2
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 12
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 58
Federico Gravina age 17
Pavel Chichagov age 7
William Pinkney age 10
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 32
Cuthbert Collingwood age 25
Caleb Strong age 29
Henry Laurens age 50
Alexander J. Dallas age 15
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 15
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 7
Mahlon Dickerson age 4
James Jackson age 16
Tekle Giyorgis I age 23
Domingo Matheu age 9
Christopher Gore age 15
Edward Tiffin age 8
Wilson Cary Nicholas age 13
John Tayler age 32
John Sevier age 28
Peter Buell Porter age 11 months
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 8 months
Return J. Meigs Jr. age 9
Increase Sumner age 27
John Francis Mercer age 15
Aaron Ogden age 17
Jeremiah Morrow age 2
John Milledge age 17
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 8
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave age 19
John Henry age 23
Thomas Worthington age 1
James Sullivan age 30
William Branch Giles age 11
Morgan Lewis age 19
William H. Cabell age 2
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire age 14
James Pleasants age 4
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. age 5
José Miguel Pey age 11
James Patton Preston age 1 month
Moses Gill age 40
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby age 11
John Lambert age 28
John Tyler Sr. age 27
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby age 21
John Brooks age 22
Robert Wright age 21
Samuel Huntington (Ohio politician) age 8