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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14

People

Martin Van Buren age 54
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
William IV age 71
King - United Kingdom
Louis Philippe I age 63
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 11
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 51
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 44
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Sam Houston age 44
President - Republic of Texas
Charles Albert age 38
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 54
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 29
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 37
Emperor - Japan
Heonjong of Joseon age 9
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 66
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Anastasio Bustamante age 56
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 64
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Mentor Johnson age 56
Vice President - United States
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Forsyth age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 54
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 49
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 63
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham age 37
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 49
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
James Buchanan age 46
Senate - United States
Franklin Pierce age 32
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 55
Senate - United States
William R. King age 51
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 55
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 60
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 49
Senate - United States
Felix Grundy age 59
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 69
House of Representatives - United States
James K. Polk age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 43
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 37
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Corwin age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Isaac Toucey age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Hugh S. Legaré age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 88
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 8 months
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 55
House of Representatives - United States
William L. Marcy age 50
Governor of New York - United States
James Sevier Conway age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
David Campbell age 57
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph Vance age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
Newton Cannon age 56
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Schley age 50
Governor of Georgia - United States
Philemon Dickerson age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Noah Noble age 43
Governor of Indiana - United States
Thomas Veazey age 63
Governor of Maryland - United States
William H. Seward age 36
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 25
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 17
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 1
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 21
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 19
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 19
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 17
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 74
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 6
Queen - Spain
Frederick VI of Denmark age 69
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 49
King - Thailand
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 61
President - Haiti
Manuel Oribe age 44
President - Uruguay
Joaquín Prieto age 50
President - Chile
Vicente Rocafuerte age 54
President - Ecuador
Carlos Soublette age 47
President - Venezuela
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 44
President - Bolivia
William I of the Netherlands age 64
King - Netherlands
Bhimsen Thapa age 61
Prime Minister - Nepal
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 43
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ignaz von Rudhart age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Abraham Lincoln age 28
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 19
Leo Tolstoy age 8
Charles Darwin age 28
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 15
Charles Dickens age 25
Otto von Bismarck age 22
Louis Pasteur age 14
Richard Wagner age 23
Friedrich Engels age 16
Michael Faraday age 45
Dmitri Mendeleev age 3
Giuseppe Verdi age 23
Queen Victoria age 17
Andrew Jackson age 70
James Clerk Maxwell age 5
Ulysses S. Grant age 15
Florence Nightingale age 17
James A. Garfield age 5
Grover Cleveland age 1 month
Andrew Johnson age 28
Zachary Taylor age 52
John Tyler age 47
William Henry Harrison age 64
Rutherford B. Hayes age 14
Benjamin Disraeli age 32
Benjamin Harrison age 3
Gregor Mendel age 14
Ada Lovelace age 21
Chester A. Arthur age 7
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 29
Napoleon III age 29
Pius X age 1
Leo XIII age 27
Charles Babbage age 45
Alexander II of Russia age 19
Harriet Tubman age 15
Robert E. Lee age 30
Empress Dowager Cixi age 1
Giuseppe Mazzini age 31
Leopold II of Belgium age 2
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 26
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 83
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 172
Frederick Douglass age 19
Wilhelm I age 40
Susan B. Anthony age 17
José de San Martín age 59
Jefferson Davis age 28
Benito Juárez age 31
Adolphe Thiers age 40
Porfirio Díaz age 6
Victor Emmanuel II age 17
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 21
Patrice de MacMahon age 28
Frederick III, German Emperor age 5
Abdulaziz age 7
Abdülmecid I age 14
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 68
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 36
Joseph Bonaparte age 69
William Tecumseh Sherman age 17
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 7
Charles XV age 11
Maximilian I of Mexico age 4
Christian IX of Denmark age 19
Oscar II of Sweden age 8
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 43
Lajos Kossuth age 34
Oscar I age 37
John A. Macdonald age 22
Stonewall Jackson age 13
Jules Grévy age 29
Deodoro da Fonseca age 9
Auguste Beernaert age 7
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 5
Hannibal Hamlin age 27
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 53
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 8 months
Mongkut age 32
Christian VIII age 50
Frederick VII of Denmark age 28
George M. Dallas age 44
Levi P. Morton age 13
Leo von Caprivi age 6
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 26
Robert FitzRoy age 31