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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09
Haitian Revolution 1791-08-21 - 1804-01-01

People

George Washington age 59
President - United States
Catherine the Great age 62
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI age 37
King - France
George III age 53
King - Great Britain
Selim III age 29
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor age 44
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 80
Emperor - Imperial China
Frederick William II of Prussia age 47
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Lotf Ali Khan age 22
Shah - Iran
Jeongjo of Joseon age 39
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 65
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
William Pitt the Younger age 32
Prime Minister - Great Britain
John Jay age 46
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Adams age 56
Vice President - United States
Thomas Jefferson age 48
Secretary Of State - United States
Alexander Hamilton age 36
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Edmund Randolph age 38
Attorney General - United States
Henry Knox age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Monroe age 33
Senate - United States
James Madison age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 43
King - Spain
Gustav III age 45
Monarch - Sweden
Napoleon age 22
Ludwig van Beethoven age 21
Jane Austen age 15
Michael Faraday age 2 months
Simón Bolívar age 8
John Quincy Adams age 24
Andrew Jackson age 24
James Watt age 55
Martin Van Buren age 9
James Buchanan age 7 months
Zachary Taylor age 7
John Tyler age 1
William Henry Harrison age 18
Marie Antoinette age 36
Maximilien Robespierre age 33
Edward Jenner age 42
Alexander I of Russia age 13
Horatio Nelson age 33
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 22
Shaka age 4
William IV age 26
Klemens von Metternich age 18
Paul I of Russia age 37
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 37
George IV age 29
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 126
Georges Danton age 32
Louis XVIII age 36
José de San Martín age 13
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 23
Charles X of France age 34
Louis Philippe I age 18
Leopold I of Belgium age 11 months
Mahmud II age 6
Charles XIV John age 28
Robert Peel age 3
Ferdinand VII age 7
Aaron Burr age 35
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 28
Joachim Murat age 24
John C. Calhoun age 9
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 22
Mikhail Kutuzov age 46
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 7
Joseph Bonaparte age 23
George Canning age 21
Toussaint Louverture age 48
Mustafa IV age 12
Samuel Adams age 69
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 38
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 33
Michel Ney age 22
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 19
Elbridge Gerry age 47
George Clinton age 52
Daniel D. Tompkins age 17
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 7
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 48
William Wilberforce age 32
William R. King age 5
Agustín de Iturbide age 8
Charles XIII age 43
Richard Mentor Johnson age 11
Spencer Perceval age 29
Davy Crockett age 5
John Marshall age 36
Pyotr Bagration age 26
Gustav IV Adolf age 13
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 27
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 29
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 12
Daniel Webster age 9
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 21
Tecumseh age 23
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 21
Henry Addington age 34
Guadalupe Victoria age 5
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 20
Vicente Guerrero age 9
John Hancock age 54
Daoguang Emperor age 9
Henry Clay age 14
Frederick North, Lord North age 59
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 53
Jiaqing Emperor age 31
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 54
Benedict Arnold age 50
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 32
Charles Felix age 26
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 9
Winfield Scott age 5
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 20
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 62
John Paul Jones age 44
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 22
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 27
John Rutledge age 52
John Burgoyne age 69
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 39
Albert Gallatin age 30
Roger B. Taney age 14
Timothy Pickering age 46
Lewis Cass age 9
Oliver Ellsworth age 46
William L. Marcy age 4
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 61
William H. Crawford age 19
Thomas Gage age 73
Edward Livingston age 27
Horatio Gates age 64
Levin August von Bennigsen age 46
Louis McLane age 5
Robert Smith age 34
John Forsyth age 11
Henry Clinton age 61
Banastre Tarleton age 37
Abel P. Upshur age 1
Samuel Dexter age 30
Anthony Wayne age 46
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 31
James McHenry age 38
Levi Woodbury age 1
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 67
Richard Rush age 11
Thomas Ewing age 1
Daniel Morgan age 55
William Wirt age 19
John Breckinridge age 31
Henry Dearborn age 40
James Barbour age 16
George W. Campbell age 22
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 42
William Bradford age 36
John J. Crittenden age 4
John Armstrong Jr. age 33
John Canfield Spencer age 3
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 19
John Eaton (politician) age 1
Federico Gravina age 35
Pavel Chichagov age 24
Felix Grundy age 14
William J. Duane age 11
William Pinkney age 27
William Eustis age 38
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 12
Cuthbert Collingwood age 43
George M. Bibb age 15
Henry Laurens age 67
Alexander J. Dallas age 32
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 33
John M. Berrien age 10
Samuel D. Ingham age 12
Walter Forward age 5
John Nelson age 6 months
Tekle Giyorgis I age 40
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 9
Peter Buell Porter age 18
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 11
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 10
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 25
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 10
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 35
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 9
Gigar age 46
Charles Philip Yorke age 27
John Graham age 17
Henry Goulburn age 7
José Venancio López age 11 months
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 11
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 1
John Charles Herries age 13
Prince Euneon age 37
Edward Pakenham age 13
James Alexander Hamilton age 3
Richard Ryder age 25
William Sturges Bourne age 22
Jeongye Daewongun age 6