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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 58
Daoguang Emperor age 58
Queen Victoria age 21
Roger B. Taney age 63
Richard Mentor Johnson age 60
John Forsyth age 60
James Buchanan age 49
Franklin Pierce age 36
John Quincy Adams age 73
Millard Fillmore age 40
James K. Polk age 45
Chester A. Arthur age 11
Levi P. Morton age 16
Grover Cleveland age 3
Zachary Taylor age 56
Abraham Lincoln age 31
Illinois House of Representatives
William M. Evarts age 22
Christian IX of Denmark age 22
Alexander II of Russia age 22
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 23
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 23
Braxton Bragg age 23
P. G. T. Beauregard age 22
Richard S. Ewell age 23
Morrison Waite age 24
Elihu B. Washburne age 24
George H. Thomas age 24
Nathaniel P. Banks age 24
George Meade age 24
William J. Hardee age 25
Otto von Bismarck age 25
Joseph Hooker age 26
John C. Pemberton age 26
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 27
David Dixon Porter age 27
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 18
Clara Barton age 18
Gustavus Woodson Smith age 19
Richard Herron Anderson age 19
Daniel Harvey Hill age 19
Heungseon Daewongun age 19
John C. Breckinridge age 19
James Longstreet age 19
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 19
Pierre Nord Alexis age 20
Horatio Gouverneur Wright age 20
William Tecumseh Sherman age 20
Theodoros Deligiannis age 20
Daniel Sickles age 21
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 21
Thomas A. Hendricks age 21
William S. Rosecrans age 21
William A. Wheeler age 21
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 22
Irvin McDowell age 22
Nathaniel Lyon age 22
Charles Canning age 28
David Farragut age 39
William H. Seward age 39
Franklin Buchanan age 40
Edwin V. Sumner age 43
John M. Clayton age 44
Edward Everett age 46
Sam Houston age 47
Abel P. Upshur age 50
John Tyler age 50
William L. Marcy age 54
Winfield Scott age 54
Louis McLane age 54
William R. King age 54
Jeongye Daewongun age 55
Lewis Cass age 58
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 83
Thomas Gage age 122
John Alexander McClernand age 28
Henry Wilson age 28
Thomas Armstrong Morris age 29
Zeng Guofan age 29
Benjamin McCulloch age 29
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 29
John Lawrence age 29
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 30
Leo XIII age 30
Jeremiah S. Black age 30
Charles Ellet Jr. age 30
Sterling Price age 31
Hannibal Hamlin age 31
Andrew Johnson age 31
Hamilton Fish age 32
Jefferson Davis age 32
Salmon P. Chase age 32
Joseph E. Johnston age 33
Robert E. Lee age 33
Charles Henry Davis age 33
Robert Anderson age 35
Fitzhugh Lee age 5
Adlai Stevenson I age 5
Manuel Quintana age 5
Richard Olney age 5
William Lamb age 5
Tomás Estrada Palma age 5
Ramón Barros Luco age 5
Pius X age 5
Tirésias Simon Sam age 5
Josef Zemp age 6
Stephen D. Lee age 7
Benjamin Harrison age 7
Segismundo Moret age 7
Fredrik von Otter age 7
Géza Fejérváry age 7
Dimitrie Sturdza age 7
Melville Fuller age 7
J. E. B. Stuart age 7
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 8
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 8
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 8
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 8
Garretson W. Gibson age 8
Walter Q. Gresham age 8
Victorino de la Plaza age 1 month
Sisowath of Cambodia age 3 months
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 6 months
Manuel de Arriaga age 6 months
Titu Maiorescu age 10 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 11 months
Terencio Sierra age 1
Ivan Goremykin age 1
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 1
Carol I of Romania age 1
Nicolaas Pierson age 1
Stefanos Skouloudis age 2
John Hay age 2
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 2
Abraham Kuyper age 3
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 3
Robert Gould Shaw age 3
Petre P. Carp age 3
Walter Hauser age 3
Pablo Arosemena age 4
Joseph Chamberlain age 4
John W. Foster age 4
Lerotholi age 4
Empress Dowager Cixi age 5
James A. Garfield age 9
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 14
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 14
A. P. Hill age 15
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 15
Quincy Adams Gillmore age 15
George Pickett age 15
Franz Sigel age 16
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 16
Ambrose Burnside age 16
William H. C. Whiting age 16
Thomas James Churchill age 16
Winfield Scott Hancock age 16
Stonewall Jackson age 16
John Strachey age 17
John Sherman age 17
Schuyler Colfax age 17
William Buel Franklin age 17
Franklin Gardner age 17
William Booth Taliaferro age 17
George Alexander Porterfield age 18
Mansfield Lovell age 18
George Sykes age 18
Rutherford B. Hayes age 18
Ulysses S. Grant age 18
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 9
John Schofield age 9
Xianfeng Emperor age 9
Cheoljong of Joseon age 9
John Bell Hood age 9
Philip Henry Sheridan age 9
Adolf Deucher age 9
Oliver O. Howard age 10
Porfirio Díaz age 10
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 10
James G. Blaine age 10
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 10
José López Domínguez age 11
Oscar II of Sweden age 11
James B. McPherson age 12
Thomas F. Bayard age 12
Alfred Howe Terry age 13
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 13
Henry W. Slocum age 13
José Manuel Marroquín age 13
Johannes Steen age 13
Heonjong of Joseon age 13
George B. McClellan age 14
William Mahone age 14
William Denison age 36