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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Greek War of Independence 1821-02-21 - 1829-09-12

People

James Monroe age 64
President - United States
Alexander I of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
George IV age 59
King - United Kingdom
Louis XVIII age 66
King - France
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 54
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Mahmud II age 36
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 49
Shah - Iran
Daoguang Emperor age 39
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Felix age 57
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 22
Emperor - Japan
Gigar age 77
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sunjo of Joseon age 31
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 51
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich age 49
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 51
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Daniel D. Tompkins age 47
Vice President - United States
John Quincy Adams age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Peel age 34
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John C. Calhoun age 40
Secretary of War - United States
William H. Crawford age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wirt age 49
Attorney General - United States
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 39
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Bathurst age 68
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 34
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Martin Van Buren age 39
Senate - United States
William R. King age 36
Senate - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 41
Senate - United States
James Barbour age 46
Senate - United States
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 50
Senate - United States
John Eaton (politician) age 31
Senate - United States
John Chandler age 60
Senate - United States
James Buchanan age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Canning age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wilberforce age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Louis McLane age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 71
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 11
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 6
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 43
House of Representatives - United States
John Nelson age 30
House of Representatives - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sturges Bourne age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel Smith age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 40
House of Representatives - United States
DeWitt Clinton age 53
Governor of New York - United States
Jonathan Jennings age 38
Governor of Indiana - United States
William Carroll age 34
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. age 53
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Brooks age 70
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Allen Trimble age 38
Governor of Ohio - United States
Isaac Halstead Williamson age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John Clark age 56
Governor of Georgia - United States
Samuel Sprigg age 39
Governor of Maryland - United States
John Adams age 86
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William H. Seward age 21
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 10
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 2
New York State Senate - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 6
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 4
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 4
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 2
New York State Senate - United States
Simón Bolívar age 38
President - Colombia
José de San Martín age 44
President - Peru
Charles XIV John age 59
King - Sweden
Ferdinand VII age 37
King - Spain
Frederick VI of Denmark age 54
Monarch - Denmark
Rama II age 54
King - Thailand
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 46
President - Haiti
William I of the Netherlands age 49
King - Netherlands
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 31
Prime Minister - Greece
Bhimsen Thapa age 46
Prime Minister - Nepal
Karl Marx age 4
Abraham Lincoln age 13
Charles Darwin age 13
Ludwig van Beethoven age 51
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 6 months
Charles Dickens age 10
Thomas Jefferson age 79
Otto von Bismarck age 7
Richard Wagner age 8
Friedrich Engels age 1
Michael Faraday age 30
Giuseppe Verdi age 8
James Madison age 71
Queen Victoria age 2
Andrew Jackson age 55
Ulysses S. Grant age 0 months
Florence Nightingale age 2
Andrew Johnson age 13
Zachary Taylor age 37
James K. Polk age 26
John Tyler age 32
Millard Fillmore age 22
William Henry Harrison age 49
Franklin Pierce age 17
Benjamin Disraeli age 17
Ada Lovelace age 6
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 14
Napoleon III age 14
Leo XIII age 12
Charles Babbage age 30
Edward Jenner age 73
Alexander II of Russia age 4
Nicholas I of Russia age 25
Harriet Tubman age 2 months
Robert E. Lee age 15
William Ewart Gladstone age 12
Shaka age 34
Giuseppe Mazzini age 16
William IV age 56
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 11
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 68
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 157
Frederick Douglass age 4
Wilhelm I age 25
Susan B. Anthony age 2
Jefferson Davis age 13
Benito Juárez age 16
Adolphe Thiers age 25
Charles X of France age 64
Pedro I of Brazil age 23
Louis Philippe I age 48
Victor Emmanuel II age 2
Leopold I of Belgium age 31
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 6
Patrice de MacMahon age 13
Aaron Burr age 66
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 53
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 21
Joseph Bonaparte age 54
William Tecumseh Sherman age 2
Ferdinand I of Austria age 29
Christian IX of Denmark age 4
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 28
Lajos Kossuth age 19
Oscar I age 22
John A. Macdonald age 7
Antonio José de Sucre age 27
Jules Grévy age 14
Sam Houston age 29
Hannibal Hamlin age 12
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 38
Mongkut age 17
John Jay age 76
Agustín de Iturbide age 38
Christian VIII age 35
Frederick VII of Denmark age 13
Davy Crockett age 35
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 23
George M. Dallas age 29
Gustav IV Adolf age 43
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 11
Robert FitzRoy age 16
Thomas A. Hendricks age 2
Clara Barton age 4 months
Daniel Webster age 40
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 52
Charles Albert age 23
Guadalupe Victoria age 35
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 3
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 50
Vicente Guerrero age 39