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

People

Catherine the Great age 50
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 25
King - France
George III age 41
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 38
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 54
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 68
Emperor - Imperial China
Tekle Giyorgis I age 29
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 27
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 53
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 8
Emperor - Japan
Frederick the Great age 67
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick North, Lord North age 47
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 28
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 30
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 31
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Jefferson age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Clinton age 40
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams age 44
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 45
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 53
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 63
King - Spain
Gustav III age 33
King - Sweden
George Washington age 47
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon age 10
Ludwig van Beethoven age 9
Adam Smith age 56
Benjamin Franklin age 73
Jane Austen age 4
James Madison age 28
John Quincy Adams age 12
Andrew Jackson age 12
James Watt age 43
James Monroe age 21
William Henry Harrison age 6
Marie Antoinette age 24
Maximilien Robespierre age 21
Edward Jenner age 30
Alexander I of Russia age 2
Horatio Nelson age 21
Alexander Hamilton age 24
William IV age 14
Klemens von Metternich age 6
Paul I of Russia age 25
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 25
George IV age 17
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 114
Georges Danton age 20
Louis XVIII age 24
José de San Martín age 1
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 11
Charles X of France age 22
Louis Philippe I age 6
Charles XIV John age 16
Aaron Burr age 23
Selim III age 18
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 16
Joachim Murat age 12
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 10
Mikhail Kutuzov age 34
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 32
Joseph Bonaparte age 11
George Canning age 9
Toussaint Louverture age 36
Mustafa IV age 3 months
Samuel Adams age 57
Charles IV of Spain age 31
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 26
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 21
Michel Ney age 10
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 7
Elbridge Gerry age 35
Daniel D. Tompkins age 5
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 37
William Wilberforce age 20
John Jay age 34
Charles XIII age 31
Frederick William II of Prussia age 35
Frederick VI of Denmark age 11
John Marshall age 24
Pyotr Bagration age 14
Gustav IV Adolf age 1
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 18
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 9 months
Tecumseh age 11
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 9
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 8
John Hancock age 42
Henry Clay age 2
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 49
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 41
Jiaqing Emperor age 19
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 42
Benedict Arnold age 38
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 20
Charles Felix age 14
Rama II age 11
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 13
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 8
Edmund Randolph age 26
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 50
John Paul Jones age 32
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 10
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 15
Nathanael Greene age 37
John Rutledge age 40
Henry Knox age 29
John Burgoyne age 57
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 27
Roger B. Taney age 2
Alexandre Pétion age 9
Ioannis Kolettis age 6
Oliver Ellsworth age 34
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 49
William H. Crawford age 7
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 3
Thomas Gage age 61
Edward Livingston age 15
Horatio Gates age 52
Levin August von Bennigsen age 34
Lotf Ali Khan age 10
Henry Lee III age 23
Robert Smith age 22
Henry Clinton age 49
Bhimsen Thapa age 4
Anthony Wayne age 35
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 19
William Paterson age 34
William Huskisson age 9
DeWitt Clinton age 10
James McHenry age 26
Carlos Anaya age 2
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 55
Bernardo de Gálvez age 33
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 1
William Wirt age 7
John Breckinridge age 19
James Barbour age 4
William Bradford age 24
John Armstrong Jr. age 21
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 7
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst age 17
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 63
Federico Gravina age 23
Pavel Chichagov age 12
Felix Grundy age 2
William Pinkney age 15
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 37
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 9 months
Cuthbert Collingwood age 31
George M. Bibb age 3
Caleb Strong age 34
Henry Laurens age 55
Alexander J. Dallas age 20
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 21
Samuel D. Ingham age 3 months
Francisco Ramón Vicuña age 4
Camilo Torres Tenorio age 13
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg age 1
Mahlon Dickerson age 9
James Jackson age 22
Domingo Matheu age 14
Christopher Gore age 21
Edward Tiffin age 13
Wilson Cary Nicholas age 18
John Tayler age 37
John Sevier age 34
Peter Buell Porter age 6
Ádám Récsey age 4
Littleton Waller Tazewell age 5
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 6
Return J. Meigs Jr. age 15
Increase Sumner age 33
John Francis Mercer age 20
Aaron Ogden age 23
Jeremiah Morrow age 8
Ethan Allen Brown age 3
John Milledge age 22