Explore 1840-08-27

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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
Daoguang Emperor age 57
Queen Victoria age 21
Roger B. Taney age 63
Richard Mentor Johnson age 59
John Forsyth age 59
Franklin Pierce age 35
James Buchanan age 49
Millard Fillmore age 40
John Quincy Adams age 73
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
Edward Everett age 46
John M. Clayton age 44
Sam Houston age 47
William H. Seward age 39
Robert E. Lee age 33
Salmon P. Chase age 32
Jefferson Davis age 32
Hamilton Fish age 32
Andrew Johnson age 31
Hannibal Hamlin age 31
Abel P. Upshur age 50
John Tyler age 50
William L. Marcy age 53
Winfield Scott age 54
Louis McLane age 54
William R. King age 54
Lewis Cass age 57
John C. Calhoun age 58
Daniel Webster age 58
Henry Clay age 63
William Henry Harrison age 67
Andrew Jackson age 73
Robert Smith age 82
George B. McClellan age 13
Thomas F. Bayard age 11
James G. Blaine age 10
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 10
John Bell Hood age 9
Xianfeng Emperor age 9
John Schofield age 8
James A. Garfield age 8
Walter Q. Gresham age 8
Melville Fuller age 7
Benjamin Harrison age 7
Richard Olney age 4
Adlai Stevenson I age 4
Empress Dowager Cixi age 4
John W. Foster age 4
Joseph Chamberlain age 4
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 2
John Hay age 1
Thomas Gage age 122
Jeremiah S. Black age 30
Zeng Guofan age 28
Henry Wilson age 28
Otto von Bismarck age 25
George Meade age 24
Elihu B. Washburne age 23
Morrison Waite age 23
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 23
William M. Evarts age 22
Nathaniel Lyon age 22
William A. Wheeler age 21
Thomas A. Hendricks age 20
John C. Breckinridge age 19
Ulysses S. Grant age 18
Rutherford B. Hayes age 17
Schuyler Colfax age 17
John Sherman age 17