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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

People

John Adams age 62
President - United States
George III age 59
King - Great Britain
Paul I of Russia age 43
Emperor - Russian Empire
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 30
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Selim III age 36
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 25
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 37
Emperor - Imperial China
Jeongjo of Joseon age 45
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 27
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Charles Emmanuel IV age 46
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
William Pitt the Younger age 38
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Oliver Ellsworth age 52
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas Jefferson age 54
Vice President - United States
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Timothy Pickering age 52
Secretary Of State - United States
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 38
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
James McHenry age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Andrew Jackson age 31
Senate - United States
John Jay age 52
Governor of New York - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 49
King - Spain
Gustav IV Adolf age 19
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 28
George Washington age 66
Ludwig van Beethoven age 27
Jane Austen age 22
Michael Faraday age 6
James Madison age 47
Simón Bolívar age 14
John Quincy Adams age 30
James Watt age 62
James Monroe age 39
Martin Van Buren age 15
James Buchanan age 6
Zachary Taylor age 13
James K. Polk age 2
John Tyler age 7
William Henry Harrison age 25
Charles Babbage age 6
Edward Jenner age 48
Alexander I of Russia age 20
Nicholas I of Russia age 1
Horatio Nelson age 39
Alexander Hamilton age 43
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 28
Shaka age 10
William IV age 32
Klemens von Metternich age 24
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 44
George IV age 35
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 133
Wilhelm I age 11 months
Louis XVIII age 42
José de San Martín age 20
Adolphe Thiers age 11 months
Charles X of France age 40
Louis Philippe I age 24
Leopold I of Belgium age 7
Mahmud II age 12
Charles XIV John age 35
Robert Peel age 10
Ferdinand VII age 13
Aaron Burr age 42
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 34
Joachim Murat age 30
John C. Calhoun age 15
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 29
Mikhail Kutuzov age 52
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 13
Joseph Bonaparte age 30
George Canning age 27
Toussaint Louverture age 54
Ferdinand I of Austria age 4
Qianlong Emperor age 86
Mustafa IV age 18
Samuel Adams age 75
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 4
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 5
Antonio José de Sucre age 3
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 44
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 39
Michel Ney age 29
Elbridge Gerry age 53
Sam Houston age 5
George Clinton age 58
Daniel D. Tompkins age 23
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 14
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 55
William Wilberforce age 38
William R. King age 11
Agustín de Iturbide age 14
Charles XIII age 49
Richard Mentor Johnson age 17
Spencer Perceval age 35
Davy Crockett age 11
George M. Dallas age 5
John Marshall age 42
Pyotr Bagration age 32
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 34
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 36
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 19
Daniel Webster age 16
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 27
Tecumseh age 30
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 27
Henry Addington age 40
Guadalupe Victoria age 11
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 26
Vicente Guerrero age 15
Daoguang Emperor age 15
Henry Clay age 20
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 60
Benedict Arnold age 57
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 38
Charles Felix age 32
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 15
Winfield Scott age 11
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 26
Edmund Randolph age 44
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 68
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 28
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 34
Edward Everett age 3
John Rutledge age 58
Henry Knox age 47
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 45
Albert Gallatin age 37
Roger B. Taney age 21
Lewis Cass age 15
William L. Marcy age 11
William H. Crawford age 26
Thomas Gage age 80
Edward Livingston age 33
Horatio Gates age 70
Levin August von Bennigsen age 53
Louis McLane age 11
Robert Smith age 40
John Forsyth age 17
Banastre Tarleton age 43
Abel P. Upshur age 7
John M. Clayton age 1
Samuel Dexter age 36
Levi Woodbury age 8
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 73
Richard Rush age 17
Thomas Ewing age 8
Daniel Morgan age 61
William Wirt age 25
John Breckinridge age 37
Henry Dearborn age 47
James Barbour age 22
George W. Campbell age 29
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 48
Thomas Corwin age 3
John J. Crittenden age 10
John Armstrong Jr. age 39
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 2
John Canfield Spencer age 10
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 26
John Eaton (politician) age 7
Federico Gravina age 41
Pavel Chichagov age 30
Felix Grundy age 20
William J. Duane age 17
William Pinkney age 34
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 55
William Eustis age 44
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 19
Cuthbert Collingwood age 49
Edward Bates age 4
George M. Bibb age 21
Alexander J. Dallas age 38
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 39
John M. Berrien age 16
Samuel D. Ingham age 18
Walter Forward age 12
James Guthrie age 5
John Nelson age 6
Yohannes III age 1
Tekle Giyorgis I age 47
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 15
Isaac Toucey age 5
Peter Buell Porter age 24
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 10 months
Hugh S. Legaré age 1
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 17
Reverdy Johnson age 1
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 16
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 5
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 31
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 1
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 16
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 41
James Madison Porter age 5
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 15
Gigar age 53
Charles Philip Yorke age 34
John Graham age 24
Henry Goulburn age 13
José Venancio López age 7
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 17