✦ History

Explore May 9, 1828

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

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 60
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 31
Emperor - Russian Empire
George IV age 65
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 60
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Charles X of France age 70
King - France
Pedro I of Brazil age 29
Emperor - Brazil
Mahmud II age 42
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 55
Shah - Iran
Guadalupe Victoria age 41
President - Mexico
Daoguang Emperor age 45
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Felix age 63
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 28
Emperor - Japan
Gigar age 83
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sunjo of Joseon age 37
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 57
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Klemens von Metternich age 55
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
John Marshall age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 46
Vice President - United States
Robert Peel age 40
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Clay age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Rush age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Wirt age 55
Attorney General - United States
James Barbour age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Goulburn age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg age 49
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 40
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Martin Van Buren age 45
Senate - United States
John Tyler age 38
Senate - United States
William Henry Harrison age 55
Senate - United States
William R. King age 42
Senate - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 47
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 46
Senate - United States
Louis McLane age 41
Senate - United States
Levi Woodbury age 38
Senate - United States
John Eaton (politician) age 37
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 46
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 75
Senate - United States
John Chandler age 66
Senate - United States
James Buchanan age 37
House of Representatives - United States
James K. Polk age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Davy Crockett age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 82
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Livingston age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 77
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 17
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 40
House of Representatives - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 32
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Bates age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel D. Ingham age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sturges Bourne age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 7 months
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 41
House of Representatives - United States
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Sam Houston age 35
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John Forsyth age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Levi Lincoln Jr. age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Joseph Kent age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Branch Giles age 65
Governor of Virginia - United States
Allen Trimble age 44
Governor of Ohio - United States
Isaac Halstead Williamson age 60
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Nathaniel Pitcher age 50
Governor of New York - United States
James B. Ray age 34
Governor of Indiana - United States
William H. Seward age 27
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 16
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 8
New York State Senate - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 12
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 10
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 10
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 8
New York State Senate - United States
Simón Bolívar age 44
President - Colombia
Charles XIV John age 65
King - Sweden
Ferdinand VII age 43
King - Spain
Frederick VI of Denmark age 60
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 40
King - Thailand
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 52
President - Haiti
José María Pérez de Urdininea age 43
President - Bolivia
William I of the Netherlands age 55
King - Netherlands
Bhimsen Thapa age 52
Prime Minister - Nepal
Karl Marx age 10
Abraham Lincoln age 19
Charles Darwin age 19
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 6
Charles Dickens age 16
Otto von Bismarck age 13
Louis Pasteur age 5
Richard Wagner age 14
Friedrich Engels age 7
Michael Faraday age 36
Giuseppe Verdi age 14
James Madison age 77
Queen Victoria age 8
Andrew Jackson age 61
Ulysses S. Grant age 6
James Monroe age 70
Florence Nightingale age 7
Andrew Johnson age 19
Zachary Taylor age 43
Millard Fillmore age 28
Rutherford B. Hayes age 5
Franklin Pierce age 23
Benjamin Disraeli age 23
Gregor Mendel age 5
Ada Lovelace age 12
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 20
Napoleon III age 20
Leo XIII age 18
Charles Babbage age 36
Alexander II of Russia age 10
Harriet Tubman age 6
Robert E. Lee age 21
William Ewart Gladstone age 18
Shaka age 40
Giuseppe Mazzini age 22
William IV age 62
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 17
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 74
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 163
Frederick Douglass age 10
Wilhelm I age 31
Susan B. Anthony age 8
José de San Martín age 50
Jefferson Davis age 19
Benito Juárez age 22
Adolphe Thiers age 31
Louis Philippe I age 54
Victor Emmanuel II age 8
Pedro II of Brazil age 2
Leopold I of Belgium age 37
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 12
Patrice de MacMahon age 19
Aaron Burr age 72
Abdülmecid I age 5
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 59
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 27
Joseph Bonaparte age 60
William Tecumseh Sherman age 8
Charles XV age 2
Ferdinand I of Austria age 35
Christian IX of Denmark age 10
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 34
Lajos Kossuth age 25
Oscar I age 28
John A. Macdonald age 13
Stonewall Jackson age 4
Antonio José de Sucre age 33
Jules Grévy age 20
Deodoro da Fonseca age 9 months
Hannibal Hamlin age 18
William Wilberforce age 68
Mongkut age 23
John Jay age 82
Christian VIII age 41
Frederick VII of Denmark age 19
George M. Dallas age 35
Levi P. Morton age 3
Gustav IV Adolf age 49
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 17
Robert FitzRoy age 22