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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Napoleonic Wars 1803-05-18 - 1815-11-20
Peninsular War 1808-05-02 - 1814-04-17
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29

People

Napoleon age 39
Emperor of the French - France
Thomas Jefferson age 65
President - United States
Alexander I of Russia age 30
Emperor - Russian Empire
George III age 70
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 40
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Mustafa IV age 29
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 36
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 47
Emperor - Imperial China
Tekle Giyorgis I age 57
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sunjo of Joseon age 18
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 38
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Victor Emmanuel I age 49
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 53
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George Clinton age 69
Vice President - United States
James Madison age 57
Secretary Of State - United States
Spencer Perceval age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin age 47
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Henry Dearborn age 57
Secretary of War - United States
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 36
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Harrison age 35
Governor Of Indiana - United States
Daniel D. Tompkins age 34
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph Bonaparte age 40
King - Spain
Gustav IV Adolf age 29
King - Sweden
Ludwig van Beethoven age 37
Jane Austen age 32
John Adams age 72
Michael Faraday age 17
Simón Bolívar age 25
John Quincy Adams age 41
Andrew Jackson age 41
James Watt age 72
James Monroe age 50
Martin Van Buren age 25
James Buchanan age 17
Zachary Taylor age 23
James K. Polk age 12
John Tyler age 18
Millard Fillmore age 8
Franklin Pierce age 3
Benjamin Disraeli age 3
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 1
Napoleon III age 5 months
Charles Babbage age 16
Edward Jenner age 59
Nicholas I of Russia age 12
Robert E. Lee age 1
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 39
Shaka age 21
Giuseppe Mazzini age 3
William IV age 43
Klemens von Metternich age 35
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 54
George IV age 46
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 143
Wilhelm I age 11
Louis XVIII age 52
José de San Martín age 30
Jefferson Davis age 4 months
Benito Juárez age 2
Adolphe Thiers age 11
Charles X of France age 51
Pedro I of Brazil age 9
Louis Philippe I age 35
Leopold I of Belgium age 17
Mahmud II age 23
Charles XIV John age 45
Patrice de MacMahon age 3 months
Robert Peel age 20
Ferdinand VII age 23
Aaron Burr age 52
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 45
Joachim Murat age 41
John C. Calhoun age 26
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 39
Mikhail Kutuzov age 63
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 7
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 23
George Canning age 38
Ferdinand I of Austria age 15
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 14
Charles IV of Spain age 59
Oscar I age 9
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 16
Antonio José de Sucre age 13
William H. Seward age 7
Jules Grévy age 1
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 55
Michel Ney age 39
Elbridge Gerry age 64
Sam Houston age 15
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 24
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 65
William Wilberforce age 49
John Jay age 62
William R. King age 22
Agustín de Iturbide age 25
Charles XIII age 60
Richard Mentor Johnson age 27
Davy Crockett age 22
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 9
George M. Dallas age 16
Pyotr Bagration age 43
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 44
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 46
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 29
Daniel Webster age 26
Tecumseh age 40
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 38
Henry Addington age 51
Charles Albert age 10
Guadalupe Victoria age 22
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 37
Vicente Guerrero age 26
Daoguang Emperor age 26
Henry Clay age 31
David Farragut age 7
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 9 months
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 48
Charles Felix age 43
Emperor Ninkō age 8
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 25
Urbano Rattazzi age 3 months
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 3
Winfield Scott age 22
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 37
Edmund Randolph age 55
Joseph E. Johnston age 1
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 79
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 39
Edward Everett age 14
Salmon P. Chase age 8 months
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 56
Roger B. Taney age 31
Timothy Pickering age 63
Lewis Cass age 25
William L. Marcy age 21
Hamilton Fish age 1 month
William H. Crawford age 36
Thomas Gage age 90
Edward Livingston age 44
Albert Sidney Johnston age 5
Levin August von Bennigsen age 63
Louis McLane age 22
Robert Smith age 50
John Forsyth age 27
Banastre Tarleton age 54
Abel P. Upshur age 18
John M. Clayton age 12
Robert Anderson age 3
Samuel Dexter age 47
John Adams Dix age 10
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 48
James McHenry age 54
Levi Woodbury age 18
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 84
Richard Rush age 28
Thomas Ewing age 18
Simon Cameron age 9
Caleb Cushing age 8
William Wirt age 35
James Barbour age 33
John B. Floyd age 2
George W. Campbell age 39
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 59
Thomas Corwin age 14
John J. Crittenden age 21
John Armstrong Jr. age 49
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 12
John Canfield Spencer age 20
John Eaton (politician) age 18
Pavel Chichagov age 41
Felix Grundy age 31
William J. Duane age 28
William Pinkney age 44
William P. Fessenden age 1
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville age 66
William Eustis age 55
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 29
Cuthbert Collingwood age 60
Edward Bates age 15
George M. Bibb age 31
Alexander J. Dallas age 49
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 50
John M. Berrien age 27
Samuel D. Ingham age 29
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 5
Walter Forward age 22
Charles Magill Conrad age 3
Joseph Holt age 1
James Guthrie age 15
John Nelson age 17
Nathan Clifford age 5
Henry D. Gilpin age 7
William Denison age 4
Yohannes III age 11
William M. Meredith age 9
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 26
Isaac Toucey age 15