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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
French campaign in Egypt and Syria 1798-07-01 - 1801-09-02
Siege of Acre (1799) 1799-03-20 - 1799-05-21

People

John Adams age 63
President - United States
George III age 60
King - Great Britain
Paul I of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 31
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Selim III age 37
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 26
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 38
Emperor - Imperial China
Jeongjo of Joseon age 46
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 28
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Charles Emmanuel IV age 47
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 27
Emperor - Japan
William Pitt the Younger age 39
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Oliver Ellsworth age 53
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas Jefferson age 56
Vice President - United States
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Timothy Pickering age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James McHenry age 45
Secretary of War - United States
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Samuel Chase age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 10
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Samuel Dexter age 37
Senate - United States
William Henry Harrison age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Morgan age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 48
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 49
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 11
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 11
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel Smith age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 50
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 16
House of Representatives - United States
John Jay age 53
Governor of New York - United States
Martin Van Buren age 16
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 65
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 68
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 64
New York State Senate - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 50
King - Spain
Gustav IV Adolf age 20
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 29
George Washington age 67
Ludwig van Beethoven age 28
Jane Austen age 23
Michael Faraday age 7
James Madison age 48
Simón Bolívar age 15
John Quincy Adams age 31
Andrew Jackson age 32
James Watt age 63
James Monroe age 40
James Buchanan age 7
Zachary Taylor age 14
James K. Polk age 3
John Tyler age 9
Charles Babbage age 7
Edward Jenner age 49
Alexander I of Russia age 21
Nicholas I of Russia age 2
Horatio Nelson age 40
Alexander Hamilton age 44
Shaka age 11
William IV age 33
Klemens von Metternich age 25
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 45
George IV age 36
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 134
Wilhelm I age 2
Louis XVIII age 43
José de San Martín age 21
Adolphe Thiers age 1
Charles X of France age 41
Pedro I of Brazil age 5 months
Louis Philippe I age 25
Leopold I of Belgium age 8
Mahmud II age 13
Charles XIV John age 36
Robert Peel age 11
Ferdinand VII age 14
Aaron Burr age 43
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 35
Joachim Murat age 32
John C. Calhoun age 17
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 30
Mikhail Kutuzov age 53
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 14
Joseph Bonaparte age 31
George Canning age 29
Toussaint Louverture age 55
Ferdinand I of Austria age 5
Mustafa IV age 19
Samuel Adams age 76
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 5
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 6
Antonio José de Sucre age 4
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 45
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 40
Michel Ney age 30
Elbridge Gerry age 54
Sam Houston age 6
George Clinton age 59
Daniel D. Tompkins age 24
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 15
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 56
William Wilberforce age 39
Agustín de Iturbide age 15
Charles XIII age 50
Christian VIII age 12
Richard Mentor Johnson age 18
Davy Crockett age 12
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 0 months
George M. Dallas age 6
Frederick VI of Denmark age 31
Pyotr Bagration age 33
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 37
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 20
Daniel Webster age 17
Tecumseh age 31
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 28
Charles Albert age 6 months
Guadalupe Victoria age 12
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 27
Vicente Guerrero age 16
Daoguang Emperor age 16
Henry Clay age 22
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 61
Benedict Arnold age 58
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 39
Charles Felix age 34
Rama III age 11
Rama II age 31
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 16
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 33
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 1
Bernardino Rivadavia age 18
Winfield Scott age 12
Francisco de Paula Santander age 7
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 27
Carlos Antonio López age 8
Edmund Randolph age 45
Francisco Morazán age 6
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 69
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 29
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 35
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 8
Fructuoso Rivera age 14
John Rutledge age 59
Henry Knox age 48
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 46
Vicente López y Planes age 13
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 8
Konstantinos Kanaris age 9
Roger B. Taney age 22
Lewis Cass age 16
Alexandre Pétion age 29
Ioannis Kolettis age 26
William L. Marcy age 12
William H. Crawford age 27
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 23
Thomas Gage age 81
Edward Livingston age 34
Horatio Gates age 71
Levin August von Bennigsen age 54
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 13
Manuel Oribe age 6
Louis McLane age 12
Joaquín Prieto age 12
Ramón Freire age 11
Spyridon Trikoupis age 10
Robert Smith age 41
John Forsyth age 18
Bhimsen Thapa age 23
Ramón Castilla age 1
Abel P. Upshur age 8
John M. Clayton age 2
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 13
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 19
Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 5
John Adams Dix age 8 months
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 7 months