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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09

People

George Washington age 58
President - United States
Catherine the Great age 61
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 35
King - France
George III age 51
King - Great Britain
Selim III age 28
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 78
Emperor - Imperial China
Frederick William II of Prussia age 45
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Lotf Ali Khan age 21
Shah - Iran
Jeongjo of Joseon age 37
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 63
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 18
Emperor - Japan
William Pitt the Younger age 30
Prime Minister - Great Britain
John Jay age 44
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Adams age 54
Vice President - United States
Çelebizade Şerif Hasan Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Thomas Jefferson age 47
Secretary of State - United States
Alexander Hamilton age 35
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 30
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edmund Randolph age 36
Attorney General - United States
Henry Knox age 39
Secretary of War - United States
John Rutledge age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Wilson age 47
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 2
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Oliver Ellsworth age 45
Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 56
Senate - United States
Robert Morris age 56
Senate - United States
George Read age 56
Senate - United States
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 52
Senate - United States
Richard Henry Lee age 58
Senate - United States
James Madison age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Elbridge Gerry age 45
House of Representatives - United States
William R. King age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 26
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
Albert Gallatin age 29
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 29
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 39
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 2
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 2
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Roger Sherman age 69
House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 55
House of Representatives - United States
George Clymer age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Carroll age 59
House of Representatives - United States
George Clinton age 50
Governor of New York - United States
John Hancock age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Martin Van Buren age 7
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 59
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Lewis Morris age 64
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 57
New York State Senate - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 41
King - Spain
Gustav III age 44
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 20
Ludwig van Beethoven age 19
Adam Smith age 67
Jane Austen age 14
Simón Bolívar age 6
John Quincy Adams age 22
Andrew Jackson age 23
James Watt age 54
James Monroe age 32
Zachary Taylor age 5
John Tyler age 1 month
William Henry Harrison age 17
Marie Antoinette age 34
Maximilien Robespierre age 32
Edward Jenner age 41
Alexander I of Russia age 12
Horatio Nelson age 31
Shaka age 2
William IV age 24
Klemens von Metternich age 17
Paul I of Russia age 35
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 36
George IV age 27
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 125
Georges Danton age 30
Louis XVIII age 34
José de San Martín age 12
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 22
Charles X of France age 32
Louis Philippe I age 16
Mahmud II age 4
Charles XIV John age 27
Robert Peel age 2
Ferdinand VII age 5
Aaron Burr age 34
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 26
Joachim Murat age 23
John C. Calhoun age 8
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 21
Mikhail Kutuzov age 44
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 43
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 5
Joseph Bonaparte age 22
George Canning age 20
Toussaint Louverture age 47
Mustafa IV age 10
Samuel Adams age 67
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 37
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 31
Michel Ney age 21
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 17
Daniel D. Tompkins age 15
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 6
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 47
William Wilberforce age 30
Agustín de Iturbide age 6
Charles XIII age 41
Christian VIII age 3
Richard Mentor Johnson age 9
Davy Crockett age 3
Frederick VI of Denmark age 22
Pyotr Bagration age 24
Gustav IV Adolf age 11
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 28
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 11
Daniel Webster age 8
Tecumseh age 22
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 20
Guadalupe Victoria age 3
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 18
Vicente Guerrero age 7
Daoguang Emperor age 7
Henry Clay age 13
Frederick North, Lord North age 58
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 52
Jiaqing Emperor age 29
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 53
Benedict Arnold age 49
Charles Felix age 25
Rama III age 2
Rama II age 22
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 7
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 24
Bernardino Rivadavia age 9
Winfield Scott age 3
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 19
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 60
John Paul Jones age 42
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 20
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 26
Fructuoso Rivera age 5
John Burgoyne age 68
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 37
Vicente López y Planes age 5
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 0 months
Konstantinos Kanaris age 4 months
Roger B. Taney age 13
Lewis Cass age 7
Alexandre Pétion age 20
Ioannis Kolettis age 17
William L. Marcy age 3
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 59
William H. Crawford age 18
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 14
Thomas Gage age 72
Edward Livingston age 25
Horatio Gates age 62
Levin August von Bennigsen age 45
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 4
Henry Lee III age 34
Louis McLane age 3
Joaquín Prieto age 3
Ramón Freire age 2
Spyridon Trikoupis age 2
Robert Smith age 32
John Forsyth age 9
Henry Clinton age 60
Bhimsen Thapa age 14
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 4
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 10
Anthony Wayne age 45
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 30
Francisco Antonio Pinto age 4
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 5
William Paterson age 44
William Huskisson age 20
DeWitt Clinton age 21