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

People

Catherine the Great age 49
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 24
King - France
George III age 40
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 37
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 67
Emperor - Imperial China
Jeongjo of Joseon age 26
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 52
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Frederick the Great age 66
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick North, Lord North age 46
Prime Minister - Great Britain
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 62
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 27
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 29
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 30
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 16
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 39
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams age 43
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 47
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 43
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 52
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 45
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 62
King - Spain
Gustav III age 32
King - Sweden
Henry Laurens age 54
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
George Washington age 46
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon age 9
Ludwig van Beethoven age 7
Thomas Jefferson age 35
Adam Smith age 55
Benjamin Franklin age 72
Jane Austen age 2
James Madison age 27
John Quincy Adams age 11
Andrew Jackson age 11
James Watt age 42
James Monroe age 20
William Henry Harrison age 5
Marie Antoinette age 22
Maximilien Robespierre age 20
Edward Jenner age 29
Alexander I of Russia age 10 months
Horatio Nelson age 20
Alexander Hamilton age 23
William IV age 13
Klemens von Metternich age 5
Paul I of Russia age 24
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 24
George IV age 16
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 113
Georges Danton age 19
Louis XVIII age 22
José de San Martín age 8 months
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 10
Charles X of France age 21
Louis Philippe I age 5
Charles XIV John age 15
Aaron Burr age 22
Selim III age 16
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 15
Joachim Murat age 11
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 9
Mikhail Kutuzov age 33
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 31
Joseph Bonaparte age 10
George Canning age 8
Toussaint Louverture age 35
Samuel Adams age 56
Charles IV of Spain age 29
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 25
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 20
Michel Ney age 9
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 6
Elbridge Gerry age 34
Daniel D. Tompkins age 4
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 35
William Wilberforce age 19
John Jay age 32
Charles XIII age 30
Frederick William II of Prussia age 34
Frederick VI of Denmark age 10
John Marshall age 23
Pyotr Bagration age 13
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 16
Tecumseh age 10
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 8
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 7
John Hancock age 41
Henry Clay age 1
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 48
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 40
Jiaqing Emperor age 17
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 41
Benedict Arnold age 37
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 19
Charles Felix age 13
Rama II age 10
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 12
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 7
Edmund Randolph age 25
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 49
John Paul Jones age 31
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 9
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 14
Nathanael Greene age 36
John Rutledge age 39
Henry Knox age 28
John Burgoyne age 56
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 26
Roger B. Taney age 1
Alexandre Pétion age 8
Ioannis Kolettis age 5
Oliver Ellsworth age 33
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 48
William H. Crawford age 6
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 2
Thomas Gage age 60
Edward Livingston age 14
Horatio Gates age 51
Levin August von Bennigsen age 33
Lotf Ali Khan age 9
Henry Lee III age 22
Robert Smith age 20
Henry Clinton age 48
Bhimsen Thapa age 3
Anthony Wayne age 33
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 18
William Paterson age 32
William Huskisson age 8
DeWitt Clinton age 9
James McHenry age 24
Carlos Anaya age 11 months
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 54
Bernardo de Gálvez age 32
William Wirt age 5
John Breckinridge age 17
James Barbour age 3
William Bradford age 23
John Armstrong Jr. age 19
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 6
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 16
Federico Gravina age 22
Pavel Chichagov age 11
Felix Grundy age 1
William Pinkney age 14
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 36
Cuthbert Collingwood age 30
George M. Bibb age 1
Caleb Strong age 33
Alexander J. Dallas age 19
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 20
Francisco Ramón Vicuña age 3
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 11
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg born 1778-10-26
Mahlon Dickerson age 8
James Jackson age 21
Tekle Giyorgis I age 27
Domingo Matheu age 13
Christopher Gore age 20
Edward Tiffin age 12
Wilson Cary Nicholas age 17
John Tayler age 36
John Sevier age 33
Peter Buell Porter age 5
Ádám Récsey age 3
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 19
Aaron Ogden age 21
Jeremiah Morrow age 7
Ethan Allen Brown age 2
John Milledge age 21
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 12
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave age 23
John Henry age 28
Thomas Worthington age 5
James Sullivan age 34
William Branch Giles age 16
Morgan Lewis age 24