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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09
Haitian Revolution 1791-08-21 - 1804-01-01
French Revolutionary Wars 1792-04-20 - 1802-03-25
Italian campaign of 1796–1797 1796-04-10 - 1797-10-17
Siege of Mantua (1796–1797) 1796-07-04 - 1797-02-02

People

George Washington age 64
President - United States
George III age 58
King - Great Britain
Paul I of Russia age 42
Emperor - Russian Empire
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 28
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Selim III age 34
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick William II of Prussia age 52
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jiaqing Emperor age 36
Emperor - Imperial China
Jeongjo of Joseon age 44
King - Joseon
Charles Emmanuel IV age 45
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 25
Emperor - Japan
William Pitt the Younger age 37
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Oliver Ellsworth age 51
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Adams age 61
Vice President - United States
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Timothy Pickering age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James McHenry age 43
Secretary of War - United States
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 38
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Samuel Chase age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 8
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Aaron Burr age 40
Senate - United States
James Madison age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Jackson age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 45
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 47
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 9
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 8
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel Smith age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel Adams age 74
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Jay age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Martin Van Buren age 14
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 63
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 65
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 62
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris age 70
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane age 63
New York State Senate - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 48
King - Spain
Gustav IV Adolf age 18
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 27
Ludwig van Beethoven age 26
Thomas Jefferson age 53
Jane Austen age 20
Michael Faraday age 5
Simón Bolívar age 13
John Quincy Adams age 29
James Watt age 60
James Monroe age 38
James Buchanan age 5
Zachary Taylor age 12
James K. Polk age 1
John Tyler age 6
William Henry Harrison age 23
Charles Babbage age 4
Edward Jenner age 47
Alexander I of Russia age 18
Nicholas I of Russia age 5 months
Horatio Nelson age 38
Alexander Hamilton age 41
Shaka age 9
William IV age 31
Klemens von Metternich age 23
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 42
George IV age 34
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 131
Louis XVIII age 41
José de San Martín age 18
Charles X of France age 39
Louis Philippe I age 23
Leopold I of Belgium age 5
Mahmud II age 11
Charles XIV John age 33
Robert Peel age 8
Ferdinand VII age 12
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 33
Joachim Murat age 29
John C. Calhoun age 14
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 27
Mikhail Kutuzov age 51
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 12
Joseph Bonaparte age 28
George Canning age 26
Toussaint Louverture age 53
Ferdinand I of Austria age 3
Qianlong Emperor age 85
Mustafa IV age 17
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 2
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 4
Antonio José de Sucre age 1
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 43
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 38
Michel Ney age 27
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 24
Elbridge Gerry age 52
Sam Houston age 3
George Clinton age 57
Daniel D. Tompkins age 22
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 12
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 53
William Wilberforce age 37
Agustín de Iturbide age 13
Charles XIII age 48
Christian VIII age 10
Richard Mentor Johnson age 16
Davy Crockett age 10
George M. Dallas age 4
Frederick VI of Denmark age 28
John Marshall age 41
Pyotr Bagration age 31
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 34
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 17
Daniel Webster age 14
Tecumseh age 28
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 26
Guadalupe Victoria age 10
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 25
Vicente Guerrero age 14
Daoguang Emperor age 14
Henry Clay age 19
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 59
Benedict Arnold age 55
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 37
Charles Felix age 31
Rama III age 8
Rama II age 28
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 14
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 30
Bernardino Rivadavia age 16
Winfield Scott age 10
Francisco de Paula Santander age 4
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 25
Carlos Antonio López age 6
Edmund Randolph age 43
Francisco Morazán age 4
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 67
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 27
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 32
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 5
Fructuoso Rivera age 12
John Rutledge age 57
Henry Knox age 46
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 44
Vicente López y Planes age 11
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 6
Konstantinos Kanaris age 6
Roger B. Taney age 19
Lewis Cass age 14
Alexandre Pétion age 26
Ioannis Kolettis age 23
William L. Marcy age 9
William H. Crawford age 24
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 20
Thomas Gage age 78
Edward Livingston age 32
Horatio Gates age 69
Levin August von Bennigsen age 51
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 11
Manuel Oribe age 4
Louis McLane age 10
Joaquín Prieto age 10
Ramón Freire age 9
Spyridon Trikoupis age 8
Robert Smith age 39
John Forsyth age 16
Bhimsen Thapa age 21
Abel P. Upshur age 6
John M. Clayton age 4 months
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 10
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 16
Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 2
Anthony Wayne age 51
Joseph Lebeau age 2
Francisco Antonio Pinto age 11
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 1
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 12
Levi Woodbury age 6