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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

People

Catherine the Great age 58
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 33
King - France
George III age 49
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 46
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 62
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 75
Emperor - Imperial China
Frederick William II of Prussia age 42
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 34
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 61
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 15
Emperor - Japan
William Pitt the Younger age 28
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 36
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 38
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 4 months
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 39
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 5
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 48
Governor of New York - United States
John Hancock age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund Randolph age 34
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Adams age 51
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 4
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 53
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 56
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 61
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 54
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 71
King - Spain
Gustav III age 41
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 18
George Washington age 55
Ludwig van Beethoven age 16
Thomas Jefferson age 44
Adam Smith age 64
Benjamin Franklin age 81
Jane Austen age 11
James Madison age 36
Simón Bolívar age 4
John Quincy Adams age 20
Andrew Jackson age 20
James Watt age 51
James Monroe age 29
Zachary Taylor age 2
William Henry Harrison age 14
Marie Antoinette age 31
Maximilien Robespierre age 29
Edward Jenner age 38
Alexander I of Russia age 9
Horatio Nelson age 28
Alexander Hamilton age 32
Shaka age 1 month
William IV age 22
Klemens von Metternich age 14
Paul I of Russia age 32
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 33
George IV age 25
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 122
Georges Danton age 27
Louis XVIII age 31
José de San Martín age 9
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 19
Charles X of France age 29
Louis Philippe I age 13
Mahmud II age 2
Charles XIV John age 24
Ferdinand VII age 2
Aaron Burr age 31
Selim III age 25
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 24
Joachim Murat age 20
John C. Calhoun age 5
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 18
Mikhail Kutuzov age 41
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 40
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 2
Joseph Bonaparte age 19
George Canning age 17
Toussaint Louverture age 44
Mustafa IV age 7
Samuel Adams age 64
Charles IV of Spain age 38
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 34
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 28
Michel Ney age 18
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 14
Elbridge Gerry age 43
Daniel D. Tompkins age 13
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 3
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 44
William Wilberforce age 28
John Jay age 41
Agustín de Iturbide age 3
Charles XIII age 38
Christian VIII age 11 months
Richard Mentor Johnson age 6
Davy Crockett age 1
Frederick VI of Denmark age 19
Pyotr Bagration age 22
Gustav IV Adolf age 8
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 25
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 8
Daniel Webster age 5
Tecumseh age 19
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 17
Guadalupe Victoria age 10 months
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 15
Vicente Guerrero age 5
Daoguang Emperor age 4
Henry Clay age 10
Frederick North, Lord North age 55
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 49
Jiaqing Emperor age 26
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 50
Benedict Arnold age 46
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 27
Charles Felix age 22
Rama II age 19
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 4
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 21
Bernardino Rivadavia age 7
Winfield Scott age 1
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 16
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 58
John Paul Jones age 40
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 18
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 23
Fructuoso Rivera age 2
John Rutledge age 47
Henry Knox age 37
John Burgoyne age 65
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 35
Vicente López y Planes age 2
Roger B. Taney age 10
Lewis Cass age 4
Alexandre Pétion age 17
Ioannis Kolettis age 14
Oliver Ellsworth age 42
William L. Marcy age 8 months
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 56
William H. Crawford age 15
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 11
Thomas Gage age 69
Edward Livingston age 23
Horatio Gates age 60
Levin August von Bennigsen age 42
Lotf Ali Khan age 18
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 1
Henry Lee III age 31
Louis McLane age 1
Joaquín Prieto age 12 months
Robert Smith age 29
John Forsyth age 6
Henry Clinton age 57
Bhimsen Thapa age 12
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 1
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 7
Anthony Wayne age 42
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 27
Francisco Antonio Pinto age 2
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 3
William Paterson age 41
William Huskisson age 17
DeWitt Clinton age 18
James McHenry age 33
Faustin Soulouque age 5
Georgios Kountouriotis age 5
Vicente Rocafuerte age 4
Carlos Anaya age 9
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 62
Richard Rush age 6
Josef Ludwig von Armansperg age 6 months
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 8
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland age 2
William Wirt age 14
John Breckinridge age 26
James Barbour age 12
William Bradford age 31