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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
Frederick the Great age 66
King - Kingdom of Prussia
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
Victor Amadeus III age 52
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 26
King - Joseon
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 16
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
Sidney Smith age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 30
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 45
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 23
Maximilien Robespierre age 20
Edward Jenner age 29
Alexander I of Russia age 11 months
Maria Theresa age 61
Horatio Nelson age 20
Alexander Hamilton age 23
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 11
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 23
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
Marquis de Lafayette age 21
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
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 11
Samuel Adams age 56
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 30
Charles IV of Spain age 30
William I of the Netherlands age 6
Frederick William III of Prussia age 8
Lazare Carnot age 25
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 25
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 20
Bernardo O'Higgins age 3 months
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
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 49
John Jay age 32
Charles XIII age 30
Ioannis Kapodistrias age 2
Frederick William II of Prussia age 34
Frederick VI of Denmark age 10
John Marshall age 23
Pyotr Bagration age 13
Gustav IV Adolf age 0 months
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 16
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 27
Jean Lannes age 9
Tecumseh age 10
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 8
André Masséna age 20
Francisco de Miranda age 28
Maria Carolina of Austria age 26
Charles Cornwallis age 39
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 7
Józef Poniatowski age 15
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 2
John Hancock age 41
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 25
Emperor Kōkaku age 7
Henry Clay age 1
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 48
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 40
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 9
Jiaqing Emperor age 18
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 41
Auguste de Marmont age 4
Benedict Arnold age 37
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 19
Charles Felix age 13
Rama II age 10
Charles Emmanuel IV age 27
Edward, Duke of Kent age 11
Victor Emmanuel I age 19
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 15
Francis I of the Two Sicilies age 1
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 12
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 19
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 13
Benjamin Rush age 32
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily age 6
Frederick I of Württemberg age 24
William V, Prince of Orange age 30
Maria Luisa of Spain age 33
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 16
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 25
Nicolas Oudinot age 11
Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 9
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 10
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 36
Anthony, King of Saxony age 22
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 12
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 7
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 13
Charles François Dumouriez age 39
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 15
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 58
Edmund Randolph age 25
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 18
Pierre Augereau age 21
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 43
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 14
John Dickinson age 46
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 49
John Paul Jones age 31
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 9
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 14
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 11
Louis Desaix age 10
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands age 4
Nathanael Greene age 36
Roger Sherman age 57
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738) age 40
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 32
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 21
Ferdinand I of Parma age 27
John Rutledge age 39
Henry Knox age 28
John Burgoyne age 56
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 26
Roger B. Taney age 1
Comte de Rochambeau age 53
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau age 18
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 1
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 39
Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg age 46
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 8 months
Louis I of Etruria age 5
Casimir Pulaski age 33
Karl August von Hardenberg age 28
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 5