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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

Andrew Jackson age 62
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 33
Emperor - Russian Empire
George IV age 67
King - United Kingdom
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 61
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Charles X of France age 71
King - France
Pedro I of Brazil age 30
Emperor - Brazil
Mahmud II age 44
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 57
Shah - Iran
Vicente Guerrero age 47
President - Mexico
Daoguang Emperor age 46
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Felix age 64
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Ninkō age 29
Emperor - Japan
Gigar age 84
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sunjo of Joseon age 39
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 59
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Klemens von Metternich age 56
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
John Marshall age 73
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 47
Vice President - United States
Martin Van Buren age 46
Secretary Of State - United States
Robert Peel age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Eaton (politician) age 39
Secretary of War - United States
John M. Berrien age 48
Attorney General - United States
Samuel D. Ingham age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Henry Goulburn age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Tyler age 39
Senate - United States
James Buchanan age 38
House of Representatives - United States
James K. Polk age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Davy Crockett age 43
House of Representatives - United States
John Forsyth age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States
Charles XIV John age 66
King - Sweden
Ferdinand VII age 44
King - Spain
Karl Marx age 11
Abraham Lincoln age 20
Leo Tolstoy age 11 months
Charles Darwin age 20
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 7
Charles Dickens age 17
Otto von Bismarck age 14
Louis Pasteur age 6
Richard Wagner age 16
Friedrich Engels age 8
Michael Faraday age 37
Giuseppe Verdi age 15
James Madison age 78
Queen Victoria age 10
Simón Bolívar age 46
John Quincy Adams age 62
Ulysses S. Grant age 7
James Monroe age 71
Florence Nightingale age 9
Andrew Johnson age 20
Zachary Taylor age 44
Millard Fillmore age 29
William Henry Harrison age 56
Rutherford B. Hayes age 6
Franklin Pierce age 24
Benjamin Disraeli age 24
Gregor Mendel age 7
Ada Lovelace age 13
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 22
Napoleon III age 21
Leo XIII age 19
Charles Babbage age 37
Alexander II of Russia age 11
Harriet Tubman age 7
Robert E. Lee age 22
William Ewart Gladstone age 19
Giuseppe Mazzini age 24
William IV age 64
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 19
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 75
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 164
Frederick Douglass age 11
Wilhelm I age 32
Susan B. Anthony age 9
José de San Martín age 51
Jefferson Davis age 21
Benito Juárez age 23
Adolphe Thiers age 32
Louis Philippe I age 55
Victor Emmanuel II age 9
Pedro II of Brazil age 3
Leopold I of Belgium age 38
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 13
Patrice de MacMahon age 21
Aaron Burr age 73
Abdülmecid I age 6
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 60
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 28
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 44
Joseph Bonaparte age 61
William Tecumseh Sherman age 9
Charles XV age 3
Ferdinand I of Austria age 36
Christian IX of Denmark age 11
Oscar II of Sweden age 7 months
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 35
Oscar I age 30
Stonewall Jackson age 5
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 37
Antonio José de Sucre age 34
William H. Seward age 28
Jules Grévy age 22
Deodoro da Fonseca age 2
Sam Houston age 36
Hannibal Hamlin age 20
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 45
William Wilberforce age 70
William R. King age 43
Richard Mentor Johnson age 48
John C. Breckinridge age 8
Henry Wilson age 17
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 30
George M. Dallas age 37
Levi P. Morton age 5
William A. Wheeler age 10
Gustav IV Adolf age 50
Schuyler Colfax age 6
Thomas A. Hendricks age 9
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 65
Saigō Takamori age 1
Clara Barton age 7
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 50
Daniel Webster age 47
Henry Addington age 72
Charles Albert age 30
Guadalupe Victoria age 42
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 10
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 58
Francesco Crispi age 10
George B. McClellan age 2
Henry Clay age 52
David Farragut age 28
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 21
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 69
Hong Xiuquan age 15
George Meade age 13
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 12
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 46
Bettino Ricasoli age 20
Agostino Depretis age 16
Urbano Rattazzi age 21
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 24
Winfield Scott age 43
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 2
Tewodros II age 11
James Longstreet age 8
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 8
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 4
P. G. T. Beauregard age 11
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 19
Joseph E. Johnston age 22
Luigi Carlo Farini age 16
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 6
Ambrose Burnside age 5
Edward Everett age 35
John Sherman age 6
Marco Minghetti age 10
Giuseppe Saracco age 7
Alexander H. Stephens age 17
François Achille Bazaine age 18
Salmon P. Chase age 21
Giovanni Lanza age 19
Edwin Stanton age 14
Albert Gallatin age 68
Zeng Guofan age 17
Roger B. Taney age 52
Heungseon Daewongun age 8
Braxton Bragg age 12
Benedetto Cairoli age 4
Henry Halleck age 14
Lewis Cass age 46
Joseph Hooker age 14
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 10
Rafael Carrera age 13
William L. Marcy age 42
Hamilton Fish age 21
William H. Crawford age 57
Nubar Pasha age 4
Thomas Gage age 111
Edward Livingston age 65
Winfield Scott Hancock age 5
Albert Sidney Johnston age 26
Louis McLane age 43
William M. Evarts age 11
Thomas F. Bayard age 9 months
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 18
Robert Smith age 71
Elihu B. Washburne age 12
Irvin McDowell age 10
Banastre Tarleton age 75
Abel P. Upshur age 39
John M. Clayton age 33
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 12
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 1
Richard S. Ewell age 12
Jeremiah S. Black age 19
Robert Anderson age 24
George Pickett age 4