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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

Queen Victoria age 19
Queen - United Kingdom
Martin Van Buren age 55
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 42
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 65
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 12
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 47
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 45
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Sam Houston age 45
President - Republic of Texas
Charles Albert age 40
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 56
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 30
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 38
Emperor - Japan
Heonjong of Joseon age 11
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 68
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Anastasio Bustamante age 58
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 65
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Mentor Johnson age 58
Vice President - United States
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Forsyth age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Levi Woodbury age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Felix Grundy age 61
Attorney General - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 59
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 50
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 40
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 50
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
James Buchanan age 47
Senate - United States
Franklin Pierce age 33
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 56
Senate - United States
William R. King age 52
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 56
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 61
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 51
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 71
House of Representatives - United States
James K. Polk age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 38
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Corwin age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Isaac Toucey age 45
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Hugh S. Legaré age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 90
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 2
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 56
House of Representatives - United States
William L. Marcy age 51
Governor of New York - United States
William H. Seward age 37
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 26
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 19
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 3
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 22
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 20
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 20
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 18
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 75
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 8
Queen - Spain
Frederick VI of Denmark age 70
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 50
King - Thailand
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 62
President - Haiti
Manuel Oribe age 46
President - Uruguay
Joaquín Prieto age 52
President - Chile
Vicente Rocafuerte age 55
President - Ecuador
Carlos Soublette age 48
President - Venezuela
Braulio Carrillo Colina age 38
President - Costa Rica
Andrés de Santa Cruz age 45
President - Bolivia
William I of the Netherlands age 66
King - Netherlands
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
Andreas Zaimis age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Abraham Lincoln age 29
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 20
Leo Tolstoy age 10
Charles Darwin age 29
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 16
Charles Dickens age 26
Otto von Bismarck age 23
Louis Pasteur age 15
Richard Wagner age 25
Friedrich Engels age 17
Michael Faraday age 47
Dmitri Mendeleev age 4
Giuseppe Verdi age 25
Andrew Jackson age 71
James Clerk Maxwell age 7
Ulysses S. Grant age 16
Florence Nightingale age 18
James A. Garfield age 6
Grover Cleveland age 1
Andrew Johnson age 29
Zachary Taylor age 53
John Tyler age 48
William Henry Harrison age 65
Rutherford B. Hayes age 16
Benjamin Harrison age 5
Gregor Mendel age 16
Ada Lovelace age 22
Chester A. Arthur age 9
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 31
Napoleon III age 30
Pius X age 3
Leo XIII age 28
Charles Babbage age 46
Alexander II of Russia age 20
Harriet Tubman age 16
Robert E. Lee age 31
Empress Dowager Cixi age 2
Giuseppe Mazzini age 33
Leopold II of Belgium age 3
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 28
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 173
Frederick Douglass age 20
Wilhelm I age 41
Susan B. Anthony age 18
José de San Martín age 60
Jefferson Davis age 30
Benito Juárez age 32
Adolphe Thiers age 41
Porfirio Díaz age 8
Victor Emmanuel II age 18
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 22
Patrice de MacMahon age 30
Frederick III, German Emperor age 6
Abdulaziz age 8
Abdülmecid I age 15
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 69
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 37
Joseph Bonaparte age 70
William Tecumseh Sherman age 18
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 8
Charles XV age 12
Maximilian I of Mexico age 6
Christian IX of Denmark age 20
Oscar II of Sweden age 9
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 44
Lajos Kossuth age 36
Oscar I age 39
John A. Macdonald age 23
Stonewall Jackson age 14
Jules Grévy age 31
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 1
Deodoro da Fonseca age 11
Auguste Beernaert age 9
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 7
Hannibal Hamlin age 29
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 54
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 2
Mongkut age 33
Christian VIII age 52
Frederick VII of Denmark age 30
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 7 months
George M. Dallas age 46
Levi P. Morton age 14
Leo von Caprivi age 7
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 27
Robert FitzRoy age 33
Schuyler Colfax age 15
Thomas A. Hendricks age 19
Saigō Takamori age 10
Clara Barton age 16
Emperor Kōmei age 7
Xianfeng Emperor age 7
Guadalupe Victoria age 52
Yamagata Aritomo age 3 months
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 19
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 67