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Events

Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Martin Van Buren age 57
Queen Victoria age 20
Daoguang Emperor age 57
Roger B. Taney age 62
Richard Mentor Johnson age 59
John Forsyth age 59
James Buchanan age 48
Franklin Pierce age 35
Millard Fillmore age 40
John Quincy Adams age 72
James K. Polk age 44
Chester A. Arthur age 10
Grover Cleveland age 2
Levi P. Morton age 15
Zachary Taylor age 55
Abraham Lincoln age 30
Illinois House of Representatives
Otto von Bismarck age 24
Jefferson Davis age 31
Robert E. Lee age 32
Ulysses S. Grant age 17
George B. McClellan age 13
George Meade age 24
Andrew Johnson age 31
Winfield Scott age 53
Rutherford B. Hayes age 17
James A. Garfield age 8
Benjamin Harrison age 6
John Schofield age 8
Nathaniel Lyon age 21
John Tyler age 49
William Henry Harrison age 66
Andrew Jackson age 72
John Bell Hood age 8
Xianfeng Emperor age 8
Zeng Guofan age 28
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 9
Joseph Chamberlain age 3
Empress Dowager Cixi age 4
Thomas Gage age 121
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 2
John C. Calhoun age 57
William R. King age 53
John C. Breckinridge age 18
Hannibal Hamlin age 30
Schuyler Colfax age 16
Henry Wilson age 27
William A. Wheeler age 20
Thomas A. Hendricks age 20
Adlai Stevenson I age 4
Salmon P. Chase age 31
Morrison Waite age 23
Melville Fuller age 6
Robert Smith age 82
Henry Clay age 62
Louis McLane age 53
Daniel Webster age 57
Abel P. Upshur age 49
John M. Clayton age 43
Edward Everett age 45
William L. Marcy age 53
Lewis Cass age 57
Jeremiah S. Black age 29
William H. Seward age 38
Elihu B. Washburne age 23
Hamilton Fish age 31
William M. Evarts age 21
James G. Blaine age 9
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 22
Thomas F. Bayard age 11
John W. Foster age 3
Walter Q. Gresham age 7
Richard Olney age 4
John Sherman age 16
John Hay age 1
Sam Houston age 46
Abdur Rahman Khan born 1840-01-01
Manuel Quintana age 4
Ramón Barros Luco age 4
José Manuel Marroquín age 12
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 26
Tomás Estrada Palma age 4
Theodoros Deligiannis age 19
Stefanos Skouloudis age 1
Tirésias Simon Sam age 4
Pierre Nord Alexis age 19
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 7
Terencio Sierra age 1 month
Géza Fejérváry age 6
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 6 months
Christian IX of Denmark age 21
Abraham Kuyper age 2
Nicolaas Pierson age 10 months
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 2
Lerotholi age 4
Garretson W. Gibson age 7
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 22
Porfirio Díaz age 9
Johannes Steen age 12
Oscar II of Sweden age 10
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 19
Petre P. Carp age 2
Dimitrie Sturdza age 6
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 7
Ivan Goremykin age 1 month
Fredrik von Otter age 6
Adolf Deucher age 8
Josef Zemp age 5
Walter Hauser age 2
Pablo Arosemena age 3
Pius X age 4
Leo XIII age 29
Carol I of Romania age 8 months
José López Domínguez age 10
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 7
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 14
Segismundo Moret age 6
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 15
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 7
Alexander II of Russia age 21
William Tecumseh Sherman age 19
Stonewall Jackson age 15
Clara Barton age 18
Jeongye Daewongun age 54
Heonjong of Joseon age 12
Heungseon Daewongun age 18
Cheoljong of Joseon age 8
Charles Canning age 27
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 28
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 29
William Denison age 35
John Lawrence age 28
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 17
John Strachey age 16
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 20
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 13
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 8
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 12
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 13
P. G. T. Beauregard age 21
Robert Anderson age 34
Irvin McDowell age 21
Joseph E. Johnston age 32
James Longstreet age 18
Richard S. Ewell age 22
A. P. Hill age 14
J. E. B. Stuart age 6
George Pickett age 14
Winfield Scott Hancock age 15
Daniel Sickles age 20
Henry W. Slocum age 12
Oliver O. Howard age 9
George Sykes age 17
Ambrose Burnside age 15
Joseph Hooker age 25
Edwin V. Sumner age 42
William Buel Franklin age 16
John C. Pemberton age 25
James B. McPherson age 11
Thomas Armstrong Morris age 28
George Alexander Porterfield age 17
Franz Sigel age 15
Benjamin McCulloch age 28
Sterling Price age 30
David Farragut age 38
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 21
Mansfield Lovell age 17
Gustavus Woodson Smith age 18
Daniel Harvey Hill age 18
Charles Henry Davis age 32
Charles Ellet Jr. age 30
William S. Rosecrans age 20
Braxton Bragg age 22
John Alexander McClernand age 27
David Dixon Porter age 26
Thomas James Churchill age 15
Nathaniel P. Banks age 23
Franklin Gardner age 16
Quincy Adams Gillmore age 14
William Booth Taliaferro age 17
Robert Gould Shaw age 2
George H. Thomas age 23
William Mahone age 13
Franklin Buchanan age 39
William J. Hardee age 24
Stephen D. Lee age 6
Alfred Howe Terry age 12
William Lamb age 4
William H. C. Whiting age 15
Philip Henry Sheridan age 8
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 9
Fitzhugh Lee age 4
Horatio Gouverneur Wright age 19
Richard Herron Anderson age 18