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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 31
Emperor - Russian Empire
George III age 70
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 40
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Mahmud II age 23
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 36
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 48
Emperor - Imperial China
Tekle Giyorgis I age 58
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
Emperor Kōkaku age 37
Emperor - Japan
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 46
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 37
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Chase age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 20
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Timothy Pickering age 63
Senate - United States
William H. Crawford age 36
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 56
Senate - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Canning age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wilberforce age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 8
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 59
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 21
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 21
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 55
House of Representatives - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Philip Yorke age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sturges Bourne age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 60
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 26
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Harrison age 35
Governor of Indiana - United States
Daniel D. Tompkins age 34
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams age 73
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 26
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 7
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 77
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 74
New York State Senate - United States
Joseph Bonaparte age 41
King - Spain
Frederick VI of Denmark age 40
Monarch - Denmark
Gustav IV Adolf age 30
King - Sweden
Alexandre Pétion age 38
President - Haiti
Bhimsen Thapa age 33
Prime Minister - Nepal
Ludwig van Beethoven age 38
Jane Austen age 33
Michael Faraday age 17
Simón Bolívar age 25
John Quincy Adams age 41
Andrew Jackson age 41
James Watt age 73
James Monroe age 50
Andrew Johnson age 0 months
James Buchanan age 17
Zachary Taylor age 24
James K. Polk age 13
John Tyler age 18
Millard Fillmore age 8
Franklin Pierce age 4
Benjamin Disraeli age 4
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 1
Napoleon III age 8 months
Charles Babbage age 17
Edward Jenner age 59
Nicholas I of Russia age 12
Robert E. Lee age 1
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 144
Wilhelm I age 11
Louis XVIII age 53
José de San Martín age 30
Jefferson Davis age 7 months
Benito Juárez age 2
Adolphe Thiers age 11
Charles X of France age 51
Pedro I of Brazil age 10
Louis Philippe I age 35
Leopold I of Belgium age 18
Charles XIV John age 45
Patrice de MacMahon age 6 months
Robert Peel age 20
Ferdinand VII age 24
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 8
Ferdinand I of Austria age 15
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 14
Charles IV of Spain age 60
Lajos Kossuth age 6
Oscar I age 9
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 16
Antonio José de Sucre age 13
Jules Grévy age 1
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 55
Michel Ney age 40
Elbridge Gerry age 64
Sam Houston age 15
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 24
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 66
Mongkut age 4
John Jay age 63
Agustín de Iturbide age 25
Charles XIII age 60
Christian VIII age 22
Richard Mentor Johnson age 28
Frederick VII of Denmark age 3 months
Davy Crockett age 22
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 9
George M. Dallas age 16
Pyotr Bagration age 43
Robert FitzRoy age 3
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 47
Daniel Webster age 26
Tecumseh age 40
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 38
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 1
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 49
Charles Felix age 43
Emperor Ninkō age 8
Rama III age 20
Rama II age 40
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 43
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 10
Urbano Rattazzi age 6 months
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 4
Bernardino Rivadavia age 28
Winfield Scott age 22
Justo José de Urquiza age 7
Francisco de Paula Santander age 16
Lajos Batthyány age 1
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 37
Juan José Flores age 8
Carlos Antonio López age 18
Edmund Randolph age 55
Francisco Morazán age 16
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 79
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 17
Fructuoso Rivera age 24
Salmon P. Chase age 11 months
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 56
Vicente López y Planes age 23
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 18
Konstantinos Kanaris age 19
Roger B. Taney age 31
Lewis Cass age 26
Ioannis Kolettis age 36
William L. Marcy age 22
Hamilton Fish age 5 months
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 32
Thomas Gage age 90