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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Napoleonic Wars 1803-05-18 - 1815-11-20
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Mexican War of Independence 1810-09-16 - 1821-09-27
Congress of Vienna 1814-09-18 - 1815-06-09

People

Napoleon age 45
Emperor of the French - France
James Madison age 64
President - United States
Alexander I of Russia age 37
Emperor - Russian Empire
George III age 76
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 47
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Mahmud II age 29
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 42
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 54
Emperor - Imperial China
Tekle Giyorgis I age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sunjo of Joseon age 24
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 44
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Victor Emmanuel I age 55
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 43
Emperor - Japan
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 59
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
James Monroe age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Addington age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Richard Rush age 34
Attorney General - United States
Alexander J. Dallas age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 27
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
James Barbour age 39
Senate - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Calhoun age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Canning age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wilberforce age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 69
House of Representatives - United States
John Forsyth age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 64
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 4
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 27
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 27
House of Representatives - United States
William Pinkney age 51
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 61
House of Representatives - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Peter Buell Porter age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Philip Yorke age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sturges Bourne age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 67
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel D. Tompkins age 40
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams age 79
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 32
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 13
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 3
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 80
New York State Senate - United States
Ferdinand VII age 30
King - Spain
Charles XIII age 66
King - Norway
Frederick VI of Denmark age 47
Monarch - Denmark
Rama II age 47
King - Thailand
Alexandre Pétion age 45
President - Haiti
José Miguel Pey age 52
President - Colombia
William I of the Netherlands age 42
King - Netherlands
Bhimsen Thapa age 39
Prime Minister - Nepal
Abraham Lincoln age 6
Charles Darwin age 6
Ludwig van Beethoven age 44
Charles Dickens age 3
Thomas Jefferson age 72
Otto von Bismarck age 1 month
Richard Wagner age 1
Jane Austen age 39
Michael Faraday age 23
Giuseppe Verdi age 1
Simón Bolívar age 31
John Quincy Adams age 47
Andrew Jackson age 48
James Watt age 79
Andrew Johnson age 6
James Buchanan age 24
Zachary Taylor age 30
James K. Polk age 19
John Tyler age 25
Millard Fillmore age 15
William Henry Harrison age 42
Franklin Pierce age 10
Benjamin Disraeli age 10
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 7
Napoleon III age 7
Leo XIII age 5
Charles Babbage age 23
Edward Jenner age 66
Nicholas I of Russia age 18
Robert E. Lee age 8
William Ewart Gladstone age 5
Shaka age 27
Giuseppe Mazzini age 9
William IV age 49
Klemens von Metternich age 41
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 4
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 61
George IV age 52
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 150
Wilhelm I age 18
Louis XVIII age 59
José de San Martín age 37
Jefferson Davis age 6
Benito Juárez age 9
Adolphe Thiers age 18
Charles X of France age 57
Pedro I of Brazil age 16
Louis Philippe I age 41
Leopold I of Belgium age 24
Charles XIV John age 52
Patrice de MacMahon age 6
Aaron Burr age 59
Joachim Murat age 48
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 46
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 14
Joseph Bonaparte age 47
Ferdinand I of Austria age 22
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 21
Charles IV of Spain age 66
Lajos Kossuth age 12
Oscar I age 15
John A. Macdonald age 3 months
Antonio José de Sucre age 20
Jules Grévy age 7
Michel Ney age 46
Sam Houston age 22
Hannibal Hamlin age 5
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 31
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 72
Mongkut age 10
John Jay age 69
Agustín de Iturbide age 31
Christian VIII age 28
Richard Mentor Johnson age 34
Frederick VII of Denmark age 6
Davy Crockett age 28
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 16
George M. Dallas age 22
Gustav IV Adolf age 36
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 4
Robert FitzRoy age 9
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 53
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 36
Daniel Webster age 33
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 45
Charles Albert age 16
Guadalupe Victoria age 28
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 43
Vicente Guerrero age 32
Daoguang Emperor age 32
Henry Clay age 38
David Farragut age 13
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 7
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 55
Charles Felix age 50
Emperor Ninkō age 15
Rama III age 27
Hong Xiuquan age 1
Bettino Ricasoli age 6
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 49
Agostino Depretis age 2
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 17
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 6
Urbano Rattazzi age 6
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 10
Bernardino Rivadavia age 34
Winfield Scott age 28
Justo José de Urquiza age 13
Francisco de Paula Santander age 23
Lajos Batthyány age 8
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 5
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 44
Juan José Flores age 14
Carlos Antonio López age 24
Luigi Carlo Farini age 2
Francisco Morazán age 22