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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 22
Queen - United Kingdom
John Tyler age 52
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
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 19
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 49
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 48
President - Mexico
Sam Houston age 49
President - Republic of Texas
Charles Albert age 43
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 59
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 34
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 42
Emperor - Japan
Yohannes III age 45
Emperor - Ethiopia
José Venancio López age 51
President - Guatemala
Heonjong of Joseon age 14
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 46
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich age 69
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Daniel Webster age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 55
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 54
Secretary of War - United States
Walter Forward age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh S. Legaré age 45
Attorney General - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 49
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 54
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
James Buchanan age 51
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 60
Senate - United States
William R. King age 56
Senate - United States
Levi Woodbury age 52
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 54
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 60
Senate - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 37
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 84
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 81
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 23
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 42
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 26
House of Representatives - United States
William P. Fessenden age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Nathan Clifford age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 93
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas Corwin age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
James C. Jones age 33
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Pennington age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Archibald Yell age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Francis Thomas age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
John Munford Gregory age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
Samuel Bigger age 40
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 59
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 6
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 26
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 24
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 24
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 79
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 11
Queen - Spain
Christian VIII age 55
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 54
King - Thailand
Juan José Flores age 41
President - Ecuador
Fructuoso Rivera age 57
President - Uruguay
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 66
President - Haiti
Manuel Bulnes age 42
President - Chile
José Ballivián age 37
President - Bolivia
Francisco Ferrera age 48
President - Honduras
Pedro Alcántara Herrán age 41
President - Colombia
José Antonio Páez age 51
President - Venezuela
William II of the Netherlands age 49
King - Netherlands
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb age 36
Prime Minister - Belgium
William Hobson age 48
Governor-General - New Zealand
Abraham Lincoln age 33
Illinois House of Representatives
Karl Marx age 24
Leo Tolstoy age 13
Charles Darwin age 33
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 20
Charles Dickens age 30
Otto von Bismarck age 27
Louis Pasteur age 19
Richard Wagner age 28
Friedrich Engels age 21
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 1
Michael Faraday age 50
Dmitri Mendeleev age 8
Giuseppe Verdi age 28
Andrew Jackson age 75
James Clerk Maxwell age 10
Ulysses S. Grant age 20
Claude Monet age 1
Florence Nightingale age 21
James A. Garfield age 10
Grover Cleveland age 5
Andrew Johnson age 33
Zachary Taylor age 57
James K. Polk age 46
Rutherford B. Hayes age 19
Franklin Pierce age 37
Benjamin Harrison age 8
Gregor Mendel age 19
Ada Lovelace age 26
Chester A. Arthur age 12
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 34
Napoleon III age 34
Pius X age 6
Leo XIII age 32
Charles Babbage age 50
Edward VII age 5 months
Alexander II of Russia age 24
Harriet Tubman age 20
Robert E. Lee age 35
Georges Clemenceau age 7 months
Empress Dowager Cixi age 6
Giuseppe Mazzini age 36
Leopold II of Belgium age 7
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 31
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 177
Frederick Douglass age 24
Wilhelm I age 45
Susan B. Anthony age 22
José de San Martín age 64
Jefferson Davis age 33
Benito Juárez age 36
Adolphe Thiers age 45
Porfirio Díaz age 11
Victor Emmanuel II age 22
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 26
Patrice de MacMahon age 33
Frederick III, German Emperor age 10
Abdulaziz age 12
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 73
Itō Hirobumi age 6 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 41
Joseph Bonaparte age 74
William Tecumseh Sherman age 22
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 12
Charles XV age 16
Murad V age 1
Maximilian I of Mexico age 9
Christian IX of Denmark age 24
Oscar II of Sweden age 13
Lajos Kossuth age 39
Oscar I age 42
John A. Macdonald age 27
Stonewall Jackson age 18
Armand Fallières age 5 months
Jules Grévy age 34
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 4
Deodoro da Fonseca age 14
Auguste Beernaert age 12
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 10
Hannibal Hamlin age 32
Carol I of Romania age 3
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 58
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 5
Félix Faure age 1
Mongkut age 37
Émile Loubet age 3
Richard Mentor Johnson age 61
Frederick VII of Denmark age 33
Abdur Rahman Khan age 2
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 4
George M. Dallas age 49
Levi P. Morton age 17