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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 56
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 30
King - France
Frederick the Great age 73
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George III age 46
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 44
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 60
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 73
Emperor - Imperial China
Emperor Kōkaku age 13
Emperor - Japan
Victor Amadeus III age 58
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 32
King - Joseon
William Pitt the Younger age 25
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 59
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 34
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 36
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 3
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 45
Governor of New York - United States
William Paca age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
John Adams age 49
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 2
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 51
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 54
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 50
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 59
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 69
King - Spain
Gustav III age 39
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 15
George Washington age 53
Ludwig van Beethoven age 14
Thomas Jefferson age 42
Adam Smith age 62
Benjamin Franklin age 79
Jane Austen age 9
James Madison age 34
Simón Bolívar age 1
John Quincy Adams age 17
Andrew Jackson age 18
James Watt age 49
James Monroe age 27
Zachary Taylor age 5 months
William Henry Harrison age 12
Marie Antoinette age 29
Maximilien Robespierre age 27
Edward Jenner age 36
Alexander I of Russia age 7
Horatio Nelson age 26
Alexander Hamilton age 30
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 17
William IV age 19
Klemens von Metternich age 12
Paul I of Russia age 30
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 31
George IV age 22
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 120
Georges Danton age 25
Louis XVIII age 29
José de San Martín age 7
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 17
Charles X of France age 27
Louis Philippe I age 11
Charles XIV John age 22
Ferdinand VII age 7 months
Aaron Burr age 29
Selim III age 23
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 21
Joachim Murat age 18
Marquis de Lafayette age 27
George Stephenson age 3
John C. Calhoun age 3
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 16
Mikhail Kutuzov age 39
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 38
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 6 months
Joseph Bonaparte age 17
George Canning age 15
Toussaint Louverture age 42
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 17
Mustafa IV age 5
Samuel Adams age 62
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 37
Charles IV of Spain age 36
William I of the Netherlands age 12
Frederick William III of Prussia age 14
Lazare Carnot age 32
Louis XVII age 1 month
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 32
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 26
Bernardo O'Higgins age 6
Michel Ney age 16
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 12
Elbridge Gerry age 40
Daniel D. Tompkins age 10
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 1
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 42
William Wilberforce age 25
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 55
John Jay age 39
Agustín de Iturbide age 1
Charles XIII age 36
Ioannis Kapodistrias age 9
Richard Mentor Johnson age 4
Frederick William II of Prussia age 40
Frederick VI of Denmark age 17
Pyotr Bagration age 19
Gustav IV Adolf age 6
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 23
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 34
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 6
Jean Lannes age 16
Daniel Webster age 3
Tecumseh age 17
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 15
André Masséna age 27
Jérôme Bonaparte age 6 months
Marie Thérèse of France age 6
Francisco de Miranda age 35
Maria Carolina of Austria age 32
Charles Cornwallis age 46
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 13
Vicente Guerrero age 2
Józef Poniatowski age 22
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 9
John Hancock age 48
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 31
Eugène de Beauharnais age 3
Daoguang Emperor age 2
Henry Clay age 8
Frederick North, Lord North age 53
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 47
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 16
Jiaqing Emperor age 24
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 48
Auguste de Marmont age 10
Benedict Arnold age 44
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 25
Charles Felix age 20
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia age 6
Rama II age 17
Charles Emmanuel IV age 34
Edward, Duke of Kent age 17
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 2
Victor Emmanuel I age 25
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 22
Francis I of the Two Sicilies age 7
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 3
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 19
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 25
Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) age 6
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 19
Benjamin Rush age 39
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily age 12
Bernardino Rivadavia age 4
William I of Württemberg age 3
Frederick I of Württemberg age 30
William V, Prince of Orange age 37
Maria Luisa of Spain age 39
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 23
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 32
Nicolas Oudinot age 18
Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 16
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 17
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 43
Anthony, King of Saxony age 29
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 18
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 14
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 20
Charles François Dumouriez age 46
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 21
Edmund Randolph age 31
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 24
Pierre Augereau age 27
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 49
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 21
John Dickinson age 53
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 55
John Paul Jones age 37
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 15