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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Queen Victoria age 21
Queen - United Kingdom
John Tyler age 51
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 67
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 15
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 50
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 18
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 48
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Charles Albert age 42
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 58
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 33
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 41
Emperor - Japan
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 42
President - Republic of Texas
Yohannes III age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mariano Rivera Paz age 36
President - Guatemala
Heonjong of Joseon age 13
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 45
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Anastasio Bustamante age 60
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 68
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha age 72
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Daniel Webster age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas Ewing age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 53
Attorney General - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 45
Secretary of War - United States
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 53
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 53
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
James Buchanan age 50
Senate - United States
Franklin Pierce age 36
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 59
Senate - United States
William R. King age 55
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 64
Senate - United States
Levi Woodbury age 51
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 59
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 84
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 47
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 41
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 30
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 25
House of Representatives - United States
William P. Fessenden age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Nathan Clifford age 37
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 92
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 4
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 79
House of Representatives - United States
James K. Polk age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William H. Seward age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas Corwin age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Pennington age 45
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Archibald Yell age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Rutherfoord age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Samuel Bigger age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
William Grason age 53
Governor of Maryland - United States
Martin Van Buren age 58
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 29
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 21
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 5
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 25
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 23
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 23
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 21
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 78
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 10
Queen - Spain
Christian VIII age 54
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 53
King - Thailand
Juan José Flores age 40
President - Ecuador
Fructuoso Rivera age 56
President - Uruguay
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 65
President - Haiti
Joaquín Prieto age 54
President - Chile
José Miguel de Velasco age 45
President - Bolivia
Braulio Carrillo Colina age 41
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Ferrera age 47
President - Honduras
Pedro Alcántara Herrán age 40
President - Colombia
Agustín Gamarra age 55
President - Peru
José Antonio Páez age 50
President - Venezuela
William II of the Netherlands age 48
King - Netherlands
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb age 35
Prime Minister - Belgium
William Hobson age 47
Governor-General - New Zealand
Abraham Lincoln age 32
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 23
Leo Tolstoy age 12
Charles Darwin age 32
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 19
Charles Dickens age 29
Otto von Bismarck age 26
Louis Pasteur age 18
Richard Wagner age 28
Friedrich Engels age 20
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 1
Michael Faraday age 49
Dmitri Mendeleev age 7
Giuseppe Verdi age 27
Andrew Jackson age 74
James Clerk Maxwell age 9
Ulysses S. Grant age 19
Claude Monet age 6 months
Florence Nightingale age 21
James A. Garfield age 9
Grover Cleveland age 4
Andrew Johnson age 32
Zachary Taylor age 56
Rutherford B. Hayes age 18
Benjamin Harrison age 7
Gregor Mendel age 18
Ada Lovelace age 25
Chester A. Arthur age 11
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 33
Napoleon III age 33
Pius X age 5
Leo XIII age 31
Charles Babbage age 49
Alexander II of Russia age 23
Harriet Tubman age 19
Robert E. Lee age 34
Empress Dowager Cixi age 5
Giuseppe Mazzini age 35
Leopold II of Belgium age 6
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 30
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 176
Frederick Douglass age 23
Wilhelm I age 44
Susan B. Anthony age 21
José de San Martín age 63
Jefferson Davis age 32
Benito Juárez age 35
Adolphe Thiers age 44
Porfirio Díaz age 10
Victor Emmanuel II age 21
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 25
Patrice de MacMahon age 32
Frederick III, German Emperor age 9
Abdulaziz age 11
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 72
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 40
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 38
Joseph Bonaparte age 73
William Tecumseh Sherman age 21
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 11
Charles XV age 15
Murad V age 7 months
Maximilian I of Mexico age 8
Christian IX of Denmark age 23
Oscar II of Sweden age 12
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 47
Lajos Kossuth age 38
Oscar I age 41
John A. Macdonald age 26
Stonewall Jackson age 17
Jules Grévy age 33
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 3
Deodoro da Fonseca age 13
Auguste Beernaert age 11
Sam Houston age 48
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 9
Hannibal Hamlin age 31
Carol I of Romania age 2
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 57
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 4
Félix Faure age 3 months
Mongkut age 36
Émile Loubet age 2
Richard Mentor Johnson age 60
Frederick VII of Denmark age 32
Abdur Rahman Khan age 1
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 3
George M. Dallas age 48
Levi P. Morton age 17