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Events

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 Monroe age 62
President - United States
Alexander I of Russia age 42
Emperor - Russian Empire
George IV age 58
King - United Kingdom
Louis XVIII age 64
King - France
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 52
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Mahmud II age 35
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 47
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 59
Emperor - Imperial China
Emperor Ninkō age 20
Emperor - Japan
Sunjo of Joseon age 30
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 50
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Victor Emmanuel I age 61
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Daniel D. Tompkins age 46
Vice President - United States
John Quincy Adams age 53
Secretary of State - United States
John C. Calhoun age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Addington age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William H. Crawford age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wirt age 47
Attorney General - United States
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 37
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 32
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
William R. King age 34
Senate - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 39
Senate - United States
James Barbour age 45
Senate - United States
John Eaton (politician) age 30
Senate - United States
William Pinkney age 56
Senate - United States
John Chandler age 58
Senate - United States
John Tyler age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Canning age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wilberforce age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Louis McLane age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 69
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 9
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 32
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 4
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 67
House of Representatives - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sturges Bourne age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel Smith age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Adams age 84
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 37
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 19
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 8
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 1
New York State Senate - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 4
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 2
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 2
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 9 months
New York State Senate - United States
William Floyd age 85
New York State Senate - United States
Simón Bolívar age 37
President - Colombia
Charles XIV John age 57
King - Sweden
Ferdinand VII age 35
King - Spain
Frederick VI of Denmark age 52
Monarch - Denmark
Rama II age 52
King - Thailand
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 44
President - Haiti
William I of the Netherlands age 47
King - Netherlands
Bhimsen Thapa age 45
Prime Minister - Nepal
Karl Marx age 2
Abraham Lincoln age 11
Napoleon age 51
Charles Darwin age 11
Ludwig van Beethoven age 49
Charles Dickens age 8
Thomas Jefferson age 77
Otto von Bismarck age 5
Richard Wagner age 7
Michael Faraday age 28
Giuseppe Verdi age 6
James Madison age 69
Queen Victoria age 1
Andrew Jackson age 53
Florence Nightingale age 2 months
Andrew Johnson age 11
James Buchanan age 29
Zachary Taylor age 35
James K. Polk age 24
Millard Fillmore age 20
William Henry Harrison age 47
Franklin Pierce age 15
Benjamin Disraeli age 15
Ada Lovelace age 4
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 13
Napoleon III age 12
Leo XIII age 10
Charles Babbage age 28
Edward Jenner age 71
Alexander II of Russia age 2
Nicholas I of Russia age 24
Robert E. Lee age 13
William Ewart Gladstone age 10
Shaka age 33
Giuseppe Mazzini age 15
William IV age 55
Klemens von Metternich age 47
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 10
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 66
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 155
Frederick Douglass age 2
Wilhelm I age 23
Susan B. Anthony age 5 months
José de San Martín age 42
Jefferson Davis age 12
Benito Juárez age 14
Adolphe Thiers age 23
Charles X of France age 62
Pedro I of Brazil age 21
Louis Philippe I age 46
Victor Emmanuel II age 4 months
Leopold I of Belgium age 29
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 4
Patrice de MacMahon age 12
Aaron Burr age 64
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 51
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 19
Joseph Bonaparte age 52
William Tecumseh Sherman age 6 months
Ferdinand I of Austria age 27
Christian IX of Denmark age 2
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 26
Lajos Kossuth age 17
Oscar I age 21
John A. Macdonald age 5
Antonio José de Sucre age 25
Jules Grévy age 12
Sam Houston age 27
Hannibal Hamlin age 10
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 36
Mongkut age 15
John Jay age 74
Agustín de Iturbide age 36
Christian VIII age 33
Frederick VII of Denmark age 11
Davy Crockett age 34
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 21
George M. Dallas age 28
Gustav IV Adolf age 41
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 9
Robert FitzRoy age 15
Thomas A. Hendricks age 11 months
Daniel Webster age 38
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 50
Charles Albert age 21
Guadalupe Victoria age 33
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 1
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 48
Vicente Guerrero age 38
Francesco Crispi age 1
Daoguang Emperor age 37
Henry Clay age 43
David Farragut age 19
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 12
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 60
Charles Felix age 55
Rama III age 32
Hong Xiuquan age 6
George Meade age 4
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 3
Bettino Ricasoli age 11
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 54
Agostino Depretis age 7
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 22
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 11
Urbano Rattazzi age 12