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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Mexican War of Independence 1810-09-16 - 1821-09-27

People

James Madison age 65
President - United States
Alexander I of Russia age 38
Emperor - Russian Empire
George III age 78
King - United Kingdom
Louis XVIII age 61
King - France
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 48
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Mahmud II age 31
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 44
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 56
Emperor - Imperial China
Tekle Giyorgis I age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sunjo of Joseon age 26
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 46
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Victor Emmanuel I age 57
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 45
Emperor - Japan
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
James Monroe age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Addington age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William H. Crawford age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Richard Rush age 36
Attorney General - United States
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 28
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
William Henry Harrison age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Calhoun age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Canning age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wilberforce age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 71
House of Representatives - United States
John Forsyth age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 6
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 28
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 63
House of Representatives - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Philip Yorke age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel Smith age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 68
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel D. Tompkins age 42
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams age 81
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 34
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 15
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 4
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 10 months
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ferdinand VII age 32
King - Spain
Charles XIII age 68
King - Norway
William I of the Netherlands age 44
King - Netherlands
Abraham Lincoln age 7
Napoleon age 47
Charles Darwin age 7
Ludwig van Beethoven age 46
Charles Dickens age 4
Thomas Jefferson age 73
Otto von Bismarck age 1
Richard Wagner age 3
Jane Austen age 40
Michael Faraday age 25
Giuseppe Verdi age 3
Simón Bolívar age 33
John Quincy Adams age 49
Andrew Jackson age 49
James Watt age 80
Andrew Johnson age 7
James Buchanan age 25
Zachary Taylor age 32
James K. Polk age 21
John Tyler age 26
Millard Fillmore age 16
Franklin Pierce age 12
Benjamin Disraeli age 11
Ada Lovelace age 12 months
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 9
Napoleon III age 8
Leo XIII age 6
Charles Babbage age 24
Edward Jenner age 67
Nicholas I of Russia age 20
Robert E. Lee age 9
William Ewart Gladstone age 6
Shaka age 29
Giuseppe Mazzini age 11
William IV age 51
Klemens von Metternich age 43
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 6
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 62
George IV age 54
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 151
Wilhelm I age 19
José de San Martín age 38
Jefferson Davis age 8
Benito Juárez age 10
Adolphe Thiers age 19
Charles X of France age 59
Pedro I of Brazil age 18
Louis Philippe I age 43
Leopold I of Belgium age 25
Charles XIV John age 53
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 1
Patrice de MacMahon age 8
Aaron Burr age 60
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 47
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 16
Joseph Bonaparte age 48
Ferdinand I of Austria age 23
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 22
Charles IV of Spain age 68
Oscar I age 17
Antonio José de Sucre age 21
Jules Grévy age 9
Sam Houston age 23
Hannibal Hamlin age 7
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 32
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 74
John Jay age 71
Agustín de Iturbide age 33
Richard Mentor Johnson age 36
Davy Crockett age 30
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 17
George M. Dallas age 24
Gustav IV Adolf age 38
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 54
Daniel Webster age 34
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 46
Charles Albert age 18
Guadalupe Victoria age 30
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 45
Vicente Guerrero age 34
Daoguang Emperor age 34
Henry Clay age 39
David Farragut age 15
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 8
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 57
Charles Felix age 51
Emperor Ninkō age 16
Hong Xiuquan age 2
George Meade age 11 months
Bettino Ricasoli age 7
Agostino Depretis age 3
Urbano Rattazzi age 8
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 12
Winfield Scott age 30
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 7
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 45
Luigi Carlo Farini age 4
Alexander H. Stephens age 4
François Achille Bazaine age 5
Salmon P. Chase age 8
Giovanni Lanza age 6
Edwin Stanton age 1
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 64
Zeng Guofan age 5
Roger B. Taney age 39
Henry Halleck age 1
Lewis Cass age 34
Joseph Hooker age 2
Rafael Carrera age 1
William L. Marcy age 29
Hamilton Fish age 8
Thomas Gage age 98
Edward Livingston age 52
Albert Sidney Johnston age 13
Levin August von Bennigsen age 71
Louis McLane age 30
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 5
Robert Smith age 59
Elihu B. Washburne age 2 months
Abel P. Upshur age 26
John M. Clayton age 20
Jeremiah S. Black age 6
Robert Anderson age 11
Sterling Price age 7
John Adams Dix age 18
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 56
Levi Woodbury age 26