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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 56
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 13
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 48
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 45
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 45
President - Mexico
Charles Albert age 40
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 56
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 31
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 39
Emperor - Japan
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 40
President - Republic of Texas
Heonjong of Joseon age 11
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 68
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich age 65
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 62
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 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Felix Grundy age 61
Attorney General - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 60
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 51
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 65
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 40
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham age 39
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 34
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 57
Senate - United States
William R. King age 52
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 57
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
Millard Fillmore age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 32
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 78
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 39
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 70
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 43
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Nathan Clifford age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 26
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 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 55
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 36
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
Joseph Wheeler age 2
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 77
House of Representatives - United States
William H. Seward age 37
Governor of New York - United States
Wilson Shannon age 37
Governor of Ohio - United States
James Sevier Conway age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Pennington age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
David Campbell age 59
Governor of Virginia - United States
Newton Cannon age 57
Governor of Tennessee - United States
David Wallace age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
William Grason age 51
Governor of Maryland - United States
Henry Wilson age 27
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 23
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 21
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 20
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 19
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 76
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 8
Queen - Spain
Frederick VI of Denmark age 71
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 51
King - Thailand
Juan José Flores age 38
President - Ecuador
Fructuoso Rivera age 54
President - Uruguay
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 63
President - Haiti
Joaquín Prieto age 52
President - Chile
José Miguel de Velasco age 43
President - Bolivia
Braulio Carrillo Colina age 39
President - Costa Rica
Juan Francisco de Molina age 60
President - Honduras
José Antonio Páez age 48
President - Venezuela
William I of the Netherlands age 66
King - Netherlands
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 45
Prime Minister - Belgium
Andreas Zaimis age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Abraham Lincoln age 30
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 20
Leo Tolstoy age 10
Charles Darwin age 30
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 17
Charles Dickens age 27
Otto von Bismarck age 23
Louis Pasteur age 16
Richard Wagner age 25
Friedrich Engels age 18
Michael Faraday age 47
Dmitri Mendeleev age 5
Giuseppe Verdi age 25
Andrew Jackson age 72
James Clerk Maxwell age 7
Ulysses S. Grant age 16
Florence Nightingale age 18
James A. Garfield age 7
Grover Cleveland age 2
Andrew Johnson age 30
Zachary Taylor age 54
James K. Polk age 43
John Tyler age 49
William Henry Harrison age 66
Rutherford B. Hayes age 16
Benjamin Harrison age 5
Gregor Mendel age 16
Ada Lovelace age 23
Chester A. Arthur age 9
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 31
Napoleon III age 30
Pius X age 3
Leo XIII age 29
Charles Babbage age 47
Alexander II of Russia age 20
Harriet Tubman age 17
Robert E. Lee age 32
Empress Dowager Cixi age 3
Giuseppe Mazzini age 33
Leopold II of Belgium age 3
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 28
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 174
Frederick Douglass age 21
Wilhelm I age 42
Susan B. Anthony age 19
José de San Martín age 61
Jefferson Davis age 30
Benito Juárez age 33
Adolphe Thiers age 41
Porfirio Díaz age 8
Victor Emmanuel II age 19
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 23
Patrice de MacMahon age 30
Frederick III, German Emperor age 7
Abdulaziz age 9
Abdülmecid I age 15
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 70
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 38
Joseph Bonaparte age 71
William Tecumseh Sherman age 19
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 9
Charles XV age 12
Maximilian I of Mexico age 6
Christian IX of Denmark age 20
Oscar II of Sweden age 10
Lajos Kossuth age 36
Oscar I age 39
John A. Macdonald age 24
Stonewall Jackson age 15
Jules Grévy age 31
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 1
Deodoro da Fonseca age 11
Auguste Beernaert age 9
Sam Houston age 46
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 7
Hannibal Hamlin age 29
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 55
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 2
Mongkut age 34
Émile Loubet age 2 months
Christian VIII age 52
Frederick VII of Denmark age 30
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 1
George M. Dallas age 46
Levi P. Morton age 14
Leo von Caprivi age 8
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 28
Robert FitzRoy age 33
Schuyler Colfax age 16
Thomas A. Hendricks age 19
Saigō Takamori age 11