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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 1789-08-26

People

George Washington age 57
President - United States
Catherine the Great age 60
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 35
King - France
George III age 51
King - Great Britain
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor age 48
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Selim III age 27
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 77
Emperor - Imperial China
Frederick William II of Prussia age 44
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Emperor Kōkaku age 17
Emperor - Japan
Victor Amadeus III age 63
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 36
King - Joseon
Lotf Ali Khan age 20
Shah - Iran
William Pitt the Younger age 30
Prime Minister - Great Britain
John Adams age 53
Vice President - United States
Cenaze Hasan Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 29
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 51
Senate - United States
Richard Henry Lee age 57
Senate - United States
Oliver Ellsworth age 44
Senate - United States
Robert Morris age 55
Senate - United States
George Read age 55
Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 55
Senate - United States
James Madison age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Elbridge Gerry age 45
House of Representatives - United States
William R. King age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Sherman age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 38
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 40
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 1
House of Representatives - United States
George Clymer age 50
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 1
House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Carroll age 59
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 7
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 50
Governor of New York - United States
John Hancock age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Martin Van Buren age 6
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 58
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Lewis Morris age 63
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 56
New York State Senate - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 40
King - Spain
Gustav III age 43
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 20
Ludwig van Beethoven age 18
Thomas Jefferson age 46
Adam Smith age 66
Benjamin Franklin age 83
Jane Austen age 13
Simón Bolívar age 6
John Quincy Adams age 22
Andrew Jackson age 22
James Watt age 53
James Monroe age 31
Zachary Taylor age 4
William Henry Harrison age 16
Marie Antoinette age 33
Maximilien Robespierre age 31
Edward Jenner age 40
Alexander I of Russia age 11
Horatio Nelson age 30
Alexander Hamilton age 34
Shaka age 2
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 22
William IV age 24
Klemens von Metternich age 16
Paul I of Russia age 34
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 35
George IV age 27
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 124
Georges Danton age 29
Louis XVIII age 33
José de San Martín age 11
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 21
Charles X of France age 31
Louis Philippe I age 15
Mahmud II age 4
Charles XIV John age 26
Robert Peel age 1
Ferdinand VII age 4
Aaron Burr age 33
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 26
Joachim Murat age 22
Marquis de Lafayette age 31
George Stephenson age 8
John C. Calhoun age 7
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 20
Mikhail Kutuzov age 43
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 42
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 4
Joseph Bonaparte age 21
George Canning age 19
Toussaint Louverture age 46
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 22
Mustafa IV age 9
Samuel Adams age 66
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 41
William I of the Netherlands age 17
Frederick William III of Prussia age 19
Lazare Carnot age 36
Louis XVII age 4
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 36
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 30
Bernardo O'Higgins age 11
Michel Ney age 20
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 16
Daniel D. Tompkins age 15
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 5
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 46
William Wilberforce age 30
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 59
John Jay age 43
Agustín de Iturbide age 5
Charles XIII age 40
Ioannis Kapodistrias age 13
Christian VIII age 2
Richard Mentor Johnson age 8
Davy Crockett age 3
Frederick VI of Denmark age 21
Pyotr Bagration age 24
Gustav IV Adolf age 10
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 27
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 38
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 10
Jean Lannes age 20
Daniel Webster age 7
Tecumseh age 21
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 19
André Masséna age 31
Jérôme Bonaparte age 4
Marie Thérèse of France age 10
Guadalupe Victoria age 2
Francisco de Miranda age 39
Maria Carolina of Austria age 37
Charles Cornwallis age 50
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 17
Vicente Guerrero age 7
Józef Poniatowski age 26
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 13
Luis Alejandro Berthier age 35
Eugène de Beauharnais age 7
Daoguang Emperor age 6
Henry Clay age 12
Frederick North, Lord North age 57
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 51
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 20
Jiaqing Emperor age 28
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 52
Auguste de Marmont age 15
Benedict Arnold age 48
Charles Felix age 24
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia age 10
Rama III age 1
Rama II age 21
Charles Emmanuel IV age 38
Edward, Duke of Kent age 21
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 6
Victor Emmanuel I age 30
Lin Tse-hsu age 3
Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 26
Francis I of the Two Sicilies age 12
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 7
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 23
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 29
Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) age 10
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 23
Benjamin Rush age 43
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily age 17
Bernardino Rivadavia age 9
William I of Württemberg age 7
Frederick I of Württemberg age 34
William V, Prince of Orange age 41
Maria Luisa of Spain age 43
Winfield Scott age 3
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 27
Jean Baptiste Kléber age 36
Nicolas Oudinot age 22