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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Queen Victoria age 22
Queen - United Kingdom
John Tyler age 51
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 45
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 68
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 16
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 51
Monarch - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 18
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 48
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 47
President - Mexico
Charles Albert age 43
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 59
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 33
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 41
Emperor - Japan
Yohannes III age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mariano Rivera Paz age 36
President - Guatemala
Heonjong of Joseon age 14
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 46
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich age 68
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Daniel Webster age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 55
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Walter Forward age 55
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Hugh S. Legaré age 44
Attorney General - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 62
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 50
Senate - United States
Franklin Pierce age 37
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 41
House of Representatives - United States
William H. Seward age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Charles XIV John age 78
Monarch - Sweden
Isabella II age 11
Queen - Spain
Abraham Lincoln age 32
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 23
Leo Tolstoy age 13
Charles Darwin age 32
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 20
Charles Dickens age 29
Otto von Bismarck age 26
Louis Pasteur age 18
Richard Wagner age 28
Friedrich Engels age 21
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 1
Michael Faraday age 50
Dmitri Mendeleev age 7
Giuseppe Verdi age 28
Andrew Jackson age 74
James Clerk Maxwell age 10
Ulysses S. Grant age 19
Claude Monet age 1
Florence Nightingale age 21
James A. Garfield age 10
Grover Cleveland age 4
Martin Van Buren age 59
Andrew Johnson age 32
Zachary Taylor age 57
James K. Polk age 46
Rutherford B. Hayes age 19
Benjamin Disraeli age 36
Benjamin Harrison age 8
Gregor Mendel age 19
Ada Lovelace age 26
Chester A. Arthur age 12
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 34
Napoleon III age 33
Pius X age 6
Leo XIII age 31
Charles Babbage age 49
Edward VII age 0 months
Alexander II of Russia age 23
Harriet Tubman age 19
Robert E. Lee age 34
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 72
Georges Clemenceau age 2 months
Empress Dowager Cixi age 6
William Ewart Gladstone age 31
Giuseppe Mazzini age 36
Leopold II of Belgium age 6
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 31
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 33
Benito Juárez age 35
Adolphe Thiers age 44
Porfirio Díaz age 11
Victor Emmanuel II age 21
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 26
Patrice de MacMahon age 33
Frederick III, German Emperor age 10
Abdulaziz age 11
John C. Calhoun age 59
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 72
Itō Hirobumi age 1 month
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 41
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 57
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 1
Maximilian I of Mexico age 9
Christian IX of Denmark age 23
Oscar II of Sweden age 12
Oscar I age 42
Stonewall Jackson age 17
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 49
Armand Fallières age 0 months
Jules Grévy age 34
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 4
Deodoro da Fonseca age 14
Sam Houston age 48
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 10
Hannibal Hamlin age 32
Carol I of Romania age 2
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 57
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 5
Félix Faure age 10 months
William R. King age 55
Émile Loubet age 2
Richard Mentor Johnson age 61
John C. Breckinridge age 20
Henry Wilson age 29
Abdur Rahman Khan age 1
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 42
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 3
George M. Dallas age 49
Levi P. Morton age 17
William A. Wheeler age 22
Leo von Caprivi age 10
Schuyler Colfax age 18
Thomas A. Hendricks age 22
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 77
Saigō Takamori age 13
Clara Barton age 19
Emperor Kōmei age 10
Xianfeng Emperor age 10
Henry Addington age 84
Guadalupe Victoria age 55
Yamagata Aritomo age 3
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 22
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 70
Demetrios Vikelas age 6
Joseph Chamberlain age 5
Francesco Crispi age 23
George B. McClellan age 15
Henry Clay age 64
Wilfrid Laurier age 0 months
David Farragut age 40
Matsukata Masayoshi age 6
Floriano Peixoto age 2
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 4
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 1
Prudente de Morais age 2 months
Hong Xiuquan age 27
George Meade age 25
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 24
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 59
Bettino Ricasoli age 32
Abraham Kuyper age 4
Agostino Depretis age 28
Urbano Rattazzi age 33
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 37
Campos Sales age 9 months
James G. Blaine age 11
Paolo Boselli age 3
John Hay age 3
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 15
Tewodros II age 23
James Longstreet age 20
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 20
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 16
P. G. T. Beauregard age 23
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 32
Tomás Estrada Palma age 6
Joseph E. Johnston age 34
Luigi Carlo Farini age 29
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 18
Ambrose Burnside age 17
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 2
Luigi Luzzatti age 8 months
Yohannes IV age 4
Edward Everett age 47
John Sherman age 18
J. E. B. Stuart age 8
Marco Minghetti age 23
Giuseppe Saracco age 20
Alexander H. Stephens age 29
François Achille Bazaine age 30
Salmon P. Chase age 33
Titu Maiorescu age 1
Giovanni Lanza age 31
Edwin Stanton age 26
Albert Gallatin age 80