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Events

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

People

Queen Victoria age 21
Martin Van Buren age 57
Daoguang Emperor age 57
Roger B. Taney age 63
Richard Mentor Johnson age 59
John Forsyth age 59
James Buchanan age 49
Franklin Pierce age 35
Millard Fillmore age 40
John Quincy Adams age 72
James K. Polk age 44
Levi P. Morton age 16
Grover Cleveland age 3
Chester A. Arthur age 10
Zachary Taylor age 55
Abraham Lincoln age 31
Illinois House of Representatives
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 26
Charles Canning age 27
Otto von Bismarck age 25
George Meade age 24
Elihu B. Washburne age 23
Henry Wilson age 28
Morrison Waite age 23
Zeng Guofan age 28
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 28
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 22
John Lawrence age 29
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 22
William M. Evarts age 22
Christian IX of Denmark age 22
Alexander II of Russia age 22
Nathaniel Lyon age 21
William A. Wheeler age 20
Thomas A. Hendricks age 20
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 20
Theodoros Deligiannis age 20
William Tecumseh Sherman age 20
Pierre Nord Alexis age 19
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 19
John C. Breckinridge age 19
Heungseon Daewongun age 19
Clara Barton age 18
Thomas Gage age 122
Robert Smith age 82
Andrew Jackson age 73
William Henry Harrison age 67
Henry Clay age 63
Daniel Webster age 58
John C. Calhoun age 58
Lewis Cass age 57
Jeongye Daewongun age 55
William R. King age 54
Louis McLane age 54
Winfield Scott age 53
William L. Marcy age 53
John Tyler age 50
Abel P. Upshur age 49
Sam Houston age 47
Edward Everett age 46
John M. Clayton age 43
William H. Seward age 39
William Denison age 36
Robert E. Lee age 33
Salmon P. Chase age 32
Jefferson Davis age 31
Hamilton Fish age 31
Andrew Johnson age 31
Hannibal Hamlin age 30
Jeremiah S. Black age 30
Leo XIII age 30
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 29
Lerotholi age 4
Empress Dowager Cixi age 4
Adlai Stevenson I age 4
Manuel Quintana age 4
Richard Olney age 4
Tomás Estrada Palma age 4
Ramón Barros Luco age 4
Pius X age 4
Tirésias Simon Sam age 5
Josef Zemp age 5
Benjamin Harrison age 6
Segismundo Moret age 6
Fredrik von Otter age 7
Géza Fejérváry age 7
Dimitrie Sturdza age 7
Melville Fuller age 7
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 7
Titu Maiorescu age 3 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 4 months
Terencio Sierra age 6 months
Ivan Goremykin age 6 months
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 11 months
Carol I of Romania age 1
Nicolaas Pierson age 1
Stefanos Skouloudis age 1
John Hay age 1
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 2
Abraham Kuyper age 2
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 2
Petre P. Carp age 2
Walter Hauser age 3
Pablo Arosemena age 3
Joseph Chamberlain age 3
John W. Foster age 4
Thomas F. Bayard age 11
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 12
José Manuel Marroquín age 12
Johannes Steen age 12
Heonjong of Joseon age 12
George B. McClellan age 13
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 13
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 14
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 14
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 15
Stonewall Jackson age 16
John Strachey age 16
John Sherman age 17
Schuyler Colfax age 17
Rutherford B. Hayes age 17
Ulysses S. Grant age 18
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 18
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 7
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 7
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 7
Garretson W. Gibson age 8
Walter Q. Gresham age 8
James A. Garfield age 8
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 8
John Schofield age 8
Xianfeng Emperor age 8
Cheoljong of Joseon age 8
John Bell Hood age 8
Adolf Deucher age 9
Porfirio Díaz age 9
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 9
James G. Blaine age 10
José López Domínguez age 10
Oscar II of Sweden age 11