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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

John Quincy Adams age 59
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 30
Emperor - Russian Empire
George IV age 64
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 58
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Charles X of France age 69
King - France
Pedro I of Brazil age 28
Emperor - Brazil
Mahmud II age 41
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 54
Shah - Iran
Guadalupe Victoria age 40
President - Mexico
Daoguang Emperor age 44
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Felix age 61
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 26
Emperor - Japan
Gigar age 81
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sunjo of Joseon age 36
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 56
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich age 53
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Marshall age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 44
Vice President - United States
Robert Peel age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Clay age 49
Secretary of State - United States
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Richard Rush age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wirt age 54
Attorney General - United States
James Barbour age 51
Secretary of War - United States
Martin Van Buren age 44
Senate - United States
William Henry Harrison age 53
Senate - United States
James Buchanan age 35
House of Representatives - United States
James K. Polk age 31
House of Representatives - United States
John Tyler age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
Charles XIV John age 63
King - Sweden
Ferdinand VII age 42
King - Spain
Karl Marx age 8
Abraham Lincoln age 17
Charles Darwin age 17
Ludwig van Beethoven age 56
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 5
Charles Dickens age 14
Otto von Bismarck age 11
Louis Pasteur age 3
Richard Wagner age 13
Friedrich Engels age 6
Michael Faraday age 35
Giuseppe Verdi age 13
James Madison age 75
Queen Victoria age 7
Simón Bolívar age 43
Andrew Jackson age 59
Ulysses S. Grant age 4
James Monroe age 68
Florence Nightingale age 6
Andrew Johnson age 17
Zachary Taylor age 42
Millard Fillmore age 26
Rutherford B. Hayes age 4
Franklin Pierce age 22
Benjamin Disraeli age 21
Gregor Mendel age 4
Ada Lovelace age 10
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 19
Napoleon III age 18
Leo XIII age 16
Charles Babbage age 34
Alexander II of Russia age 8
Harriet Tubman age 4
Robert E. Lee age 19
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 57
William Ewart Gladstone age 16
Shaka age 39
Giuseppe Mazzini age 21
William IV age 61
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 16
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 72
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 161
Frederick Douglass age 8
Wilhelm I age 29
Susan B. Anthony age 6
José de San Martín age 48
Jefferson Davis age 18
Benito Juárez age 20
Adolphe Thiers age 29
Louis Philippe I age 53
Victor Emmanuel II age 6
Pedro II of Brazil age 1
Leopold I of Belgium age 35
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 11
Patrice de MacMahon age 18
Aaron Burr age 70
Abdülmecid I age 3
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 57
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 26
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 42
Joseph Bonaparte age 58
William Tecumseh Sherman age 6
George Canning age 56
Charles XV age 7 months
Ferdinand I of Austria age 33
Christian IX of Denmark age 8
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 32
Oscar I age 27
Stonewall Jackson age 2
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 34
Antonio José de Sucre age 31
William H. Seward age 25
Jules Grévy age 19
Sam Houston age 33
Hannibal Hamlin age 17
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 42
William Wilberforce age 67
John Jay age 81
William R. King age 40
Richard Mentor Johnson age 46
John C. Breckinridge age 5
Henry Wilson age 14
Davy Crockett age 40
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 27
George M. Dallas age 34
Levi P. Morton age 2
William A. Wheeler age 7
Gustav IV Adolf age 48
Schuyler Colfax age 3
Thomas A. Hendricks age 7
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 62
Clara Barton age 4
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 47
Daniel Webster age 44
Henry Addington age 69
Charles Albert age 28
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 7
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 55
Vicente Guerrero age 44
Francesco Crispi age 8
George B. McClellan age 0 months
David Farragut age 25
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 18
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 67
Hong Xiuquan age 12
George Meade age 10
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 9
Bettino Ricasoli age 17
Agostino Depretis age 13
Urbano Rattazzi age 18
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 22
Winfield Scott age 40
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 1 month
Tewodros II age 8
James Longstreet age 5
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 5
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 1
P. G. T. Beauregard age 8
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 17
Joseph E. Johnston age 19
Luigi Carlo Farini age 14
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 3
Ambrose Burnside age 2
Edward Everett age 32
John Sherman age 3
Marco Minghetti age 8
Giuseppe Saracco age 5
Alexander H. Stephens age 14
François Achille Bazaine age 15
Salmon P. Chase age 18
Giovanni Lanza age 16
Edwin Stanton age 11
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 74
Albert Gallatin age 65
Zeng Guofan age 15
Roger B. Taney age 49
Heungseon Daewongun age 5
Braxton Bragg age 9
Benedetto Cairoli age 1
Henry Halleck age 11
Timothy Pickering age 81
Lewis Cass age 44
Joseph Hooker age 12
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 8
Rafael Carrera age 11
William L. Marcy age 40
Hamilton Fish age 18
William H. Crawford age 54
Nubar Pasha age 1
Thomas Gage age 108
Edward Livingston age 62
Winfield Scott Hancock age 2
Albert Sidney Johnston age 23
Louis McLane age 40
William M. Evarts age 8
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 15
Robert Smith age 69
John Forsyth age 46
Elihu B. Washburne age 10
Irvin McDowell age 8
Banastre Tarleton age 72
Abel P. Upshur age 36
John M. Clayton age 30
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 9
Richard S. Ewell age 9
Jeremiah S. Black age 16
Robert Anderson age 21
George Pickett age 1