Explore 1840-12-12

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Events

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

People

Daoguang Emperor age 58
Martin Van Buren age 58
Queen Victoria age 21
Franklin Pierce age 36
James Buchanan age 49
John Quincy Adams age 73
Millard Fillmore age 40
James K. Polk age 45
Grover Cleveland age 3
Zachary Taylor age 56
Chester A. Arthur age 11
Levi P. Morton age 16
Abraham Lincoln age 31
Illinois House of Representatives
John Tyler age 50
Winfield Scott age 54
William Henry Harrison age 67
Andrew Jackson age 73
Robert E. Lee age 33
Jefferson Davis age 32
Andrew Johnson age 31
Thomas Gage age 122
Zeng Guofan age 29
Otto von Bismarck age 25
George Meade age 24
Nathaniel Lyon age 22
Ulysses S. Grant age 18
Rutherford B. Hayes age 18
George B. McClellan age 14
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 10
John Bell Hood age 9
Xianfeng Emperor age 9
John Schofield age 9
James A. Garfield age 9
Benjamin Harrison age 7
Empress Dowager Cixi age 5
Joseph Chamberlain age 4
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 3