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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03

People

Catherine the Great age 48
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 23
King - France
George III age 39
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 36
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 52
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 66
Emperor - Imperial China
Jeongjo of Joseon age 25
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 51
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Frederick the Great age 65
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick North, Lord North age 45
Prime Minister - Great Britain
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 61
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 26
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 28
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 29
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 15
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 38
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams age 42
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 46
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 43
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 61
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 51
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 61
King - Spain
Gustav III age 31
King - Sweden
Henry Laurens age 53
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
George Washington age 45
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon age 8
Ludwig van Beethoven age 7
Thomas Jefferson age 34
Adam Smith age 54
Benjamin Franklin age 71
Jane Austen age 2
James Madison age 26
John Quincy Adams age 10
Andrew Jackson age 10
James Watt age 41
James Monroe age 19
William Henry Harrison age 4
Marie Antoinette age 22
Maximilien Robespierre age 19
Edward Jenner age 28
Horatio Nelson age 19
Alexander Hamilton age 22
William IV age 12
Klemens von Metternich age 4
Paul I of Russia age 23
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 23
George IV age 15
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 112
Georges Danton age 18
Louis XVIII age 22
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 9
Charles X of France age 20
Louis Philippe I age 4
Charles XIV John age 14
Aaron Burr age 21
Selim III age 16
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 14
Joachim Murat age 10
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 8
Mikhail Kutuzov age 32
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 30
Joseph Bonaparte age 9
George Canning age 7
Toussaint Louverture age 34
Samuel Adams age 55
Charles IV of Spain age 29
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 24
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 19
Michel Ney age 8
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 5
Elbridge Gerry age 33
Daniel D. Tompkins age 3
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 35
William Wilberforce age 18
John Jay age 32
Charles XIII age 29
Frederick William II of Prussia age 33
Frederick VI of Denmark age 9
John Marshall age 22
Pyotr Bagration age 12
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 15
Tecumseh age 9
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 7
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 6
John Hancock age 40
Henry Clay age 8 months
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 47
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 39
Jiaqing Emperor age 17
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 40
Benedict Arnold age 36
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 18
Charles Felix age 12
Rama II age 9
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 11
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 6
Edmund Randolph age 24
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 48
John Paul Jones age 30
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 8
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 13
Nathanael Greene age 35
John Rutledge age 38
Henry Knox age 27
John Burgoyne age 55
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 25
Roger B. Taney age 9 months
Alexandre Pétion age 7
Ioannis Kolettis age 4
Oliver Ellsworth age 32
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 47
William H. Crawford age 5
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 1
Thomas Gage age 59
Edward Livingston age 13
Horatio Gates age 50
Levin August von Bennigsen age 32
Lotf Ali Khan age 8
Henry Lee III age 21
Robert Smith age 20
Henry Clinton age 47
Bhimsen Thapa age 2
Anthony Wayne age 32
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 17
William Paterson age 32
William Huskisson age 7
DeWitt Clinton age 8
James McHenry age 24
Carlos Anaya age 1 month
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 53
Bernardo de Gálvez age 31
William Wirt age 5
John Breckinridge age 17
James Barbour age 2
William Bradford age 22
John Armstrong Jr. age 19
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 5
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 15
Federico Gravina age 21
Pavel Chichagov age 10
Felix Grundy age 3 months
William Pinkney age 13
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 35
Cuthbert Collingwood age 29
George M. Bibb age 1
Caleb Strong age 32
Alexander J. Dallas age 18
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 19
Francisco Ramón Vicuña age 2
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 11
Mahlon Dickerson age 7
James Jackson age 20
Tekle Giyorgis I age 26
Domingo Matheu age 12
Christopher Gore age 19
Edward Tiffin age 11
Wilson Cary Nicholas age 16
John Tayler age 35
John Sevier age 32
Peter Buell Porter age 4
Ádám Récsey age 2
Littleton Waller Tazewell age 3
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 4
Return J. Meigs Jr. age 13
Increase Sumner age 31
John Francis Mercer age 18
Aaron Ogden age 21
Jeremiah Morrow age 6
Ethan Allen Brown age 1
John Milledge age 20
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 11
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave age 22
John Henry age 27
Thomas Worthington age 4
James Sullivan age 33
William Branch Giles age 15
Morgan Lewis age 23
William H. Cabell age 5
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire age 17