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

People

Catherine the Great age 51
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 26
King - France
Frederick the Great age 69
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George III age 42
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 39
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 55
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 69
Emperor - Imperial China
Emperor Kōkaku age 9
Emperor - Japan
Victor Amadeus III age 54
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 28
King - Joseon
Tekle Giyorgis I age 30
Emperor - Ethiopia
Frederick North, Lord North age 48
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Benjamin Lincoln age 48
Secretary of War - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 29
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 31
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 6 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Jefferson age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Clinton age 41
Governor of New York - United States
John Hancock age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Adams age 45
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler age 47
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 49
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 54
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 47
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 65
King - Spain
Gustav III age 34
King - Sweden
George Washington age 48
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon age 11
Ludwig van Beethoven age 10
Adam Smith age 57
Benjamin Franklin age 75
Jane Austen age 5
James Madison age 29
John Quincy Adams age 13
Andrew Jackson age 13
James Watt age 45
James Monroe age 22
William Henry Harrison age 7
Marie Antoinette age 25
Maximilien Robespierre age 22
Edward Jenner age 31
Alexander I of Russia age 3
Horatio Nelson age 22
Alexander Hamilton age 26
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 13
William IV age 15
Klemens von Metternich age 7
Paul I of Russia age 26
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 26
George IV age 18
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 116
Georges Danton age 21
Louis XVIII age 25
José de San Martín age 2
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 12
Charles X of France age 23
Louis Philippe I age 7
Charles XIV John age 17
Aaron Burr age 24
Selim III age 19
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 17
Joachim Murat age 13
Marquis de Lafayette age 23
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 11
Mikhail Kutuzov age 35
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 33
Joseph Bonaparte age 13
George Canning age 10
Toussaint Louverture age 37
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 13
Mustafa IV age 1
Samuel Adams age 58
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 32
Charles IV of Spain age 32
William I of the Netherlands age 8
Frederick William III of Prussia age 10
Lazare Carnot age 27
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 27
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 22
Bernardo O'Higgins age 2
Michel Ney age 12
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 8
Elbridge Gerry age 36
Daniel D. Tompkins age 6
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 38
William Wilberforce age 21
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 51
John Jay age 35
Charles XIII age 32
Ioannis Kapodistrias age 4
Richard Mentor Johnson age 2 months
Frederick William II of Prussia age 36
Frederick VI of Denmark age 12
John Marshall age 25
Pyotr Bagration age 15
Gustav IV Adolf age 2
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 19
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 30
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 1
Jean Lannes age 11
Tecumseh age 12
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 10
André Masséna age 22
Marie Thérèse of France age 2
Francisco de Miranda age 30
Maria Carolina of Austria age 28
Charles Cornwallis age 42
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 9
Józef Poniatowski age 17
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 4
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 27
Henry Clay age 3
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 50
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 42
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 11
Jiaqing Emperor age 20
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 43
Auguste de Marmont age 6
Benedict Arnold age 40
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 21
Charles Felix age 15
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia age 1
Rama II age 12
Charles Emmanuel IV age 29
Edward, Duke of Kent age 13
Victor Emmanuel I age 21
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 17
Francis I of the Two Sicilies age 3
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 15
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 21
Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) age 1
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 15
Benjamin Rush age 35
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily age 8
Bernardino Rivadavia age 7 months
Frederick I of Württemberg age 26
William V, Prince of Orange age 32
Maria Luisa of Spain age 35
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 18
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 27
Nicolas Oudinot age 13
Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 11
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 12
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 38
Anthony, King of Saxony age 25
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 14
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 9
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 16
Charles François Dumouriez age 41
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 17
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 60
Edmund Randolph age 27
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 20
Pierre Augereau age 23
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 45
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 16
John Dickinson age 49
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 51
John Paul Jones age 33
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 11
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 17
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 13
Louis Desaix age 12
Karl Nesselrode age 0 months
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands age 6
Nathanael Greene age 38
Roger Sherman age 59
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1738) age 42
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma age 34
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria age 24
Ferdinand I of Parma age 30
John Rutledge age 41
Henry Knox age 30
John Burgoyne age 58
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 28
Roger B. Taney age 3
Comte de Rochambeau age 55
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau age 20