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Second Seminole War
1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War
1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29
People
Daoguang Emperor
age 58
Emperor
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Imperial China
Martin Van Buren
age 58
President
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United States
Queen Victoria
age 21
Queen
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United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce
age 36
Senate
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United States
James Buchanan
age 49
Senate
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United States
John Quincy Adams
age 73
House of Representatives
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United States
Millard Fillmore
age 40
House of Representatives
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United States
James K. Polk
age 45
Governor Of Tennessee
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United States
Grover Cleveland
age 3
Democratic Party (United States)
Zachary Taylor
age 56
United States Army
Chester A. Arthur
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
Levi P. Morton
age 16
Republican Party (United States)
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