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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

Queen Victoria age 23
Queen - United Kingdom
John Tyler age 52
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 46
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 - Austrian Empire
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 56
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 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 62
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 51
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Millard Fillmore age 42
House of Representatives - United States
William H. Seward age 41
Governor of New York - United States
Charles XIV John age 79
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 11
Queen - Spain
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 29
Friedrich Engels age 21
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 2
Michael Faraday age 50
Dmitri Mendeleev age 8
Giuseppe Verdi age 28
Andrew Jackson age 75
James Clerk Maxwell age 11
Ulysses S. Grant age 20
Claude Monet age 1
Florence Nightingale age 22
James A. Garfield age 10
Grover Cleveland age 5
Martin Van Buren age 59
Andrew Johnson age 33
Zachary Taylor age 57
James K. Polk age 46
Rutherford B. Hayes age 19
Franklin Pierce age 37
Benjamin Disraeli age 37
Benjamin Harrison age 9
Gregor Mendel age 20
Ada Lovelace age 26
Chester A. Arthur age 12
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 35
Napoleon III age 34
Pius X age 7
Leo XIII age 32
Charles Babbage age 50
Edward VII age 9 months
Alexander II of Russia age 24
Harriet Tubman age 20
Robert E. Lee age 35
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 73
Georges Clemenceau age 10 months
Empress Dowager Cixi age 6
William Ewart Gladstone age 32
Giuseppe Mazzini age 37
Leopold II of Belgium age 7
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 32
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 34
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 34
Frederick III, German Emperor age 10
Abdulaziz age 12
John C. Calhoun age 60
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 73
Itō Hirobumi age 10 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 41
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 57
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 10
Christian IX of Denmark age 24
Oscar II of Sweden age 13
Oscar I age 43
Stonewall Jackson age 18
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 50
Armand Fallières age 9 months
Jules Grévy age 35
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 5
Deodoro da Fonseca age 15
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 11
Hannibal Hamlin age 33
Carol I of Romania age 3
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 58
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 5
Félix Faure age 1
William R. King age 56
Émile Loubet age 3
Richard Mentor Johnson age 61
John C. Breckinridge age 21
Henry Wilson age 30
Abdur Rahman Khan age 2
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 43
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 4
George M. Dallas age 50
Levi P. Morton age 18
William A. Wheeler age 23
Leo von Caprivi age 11
Schuyler Colfax age 19
Thomas A. Hendricks age 22
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 78
Saigō Takamori age 14
Clara Barton age 20
Emperor Kōmei age 11
Xianfeng Emperor age 11
Henry Addington age 85
Guadalupe Victoria age 55
Yamagata Aritomo age 4
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 23
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 71
Demetrios Vikelas age 7
Joseph Chamberlain age 6
Francesco Crispi age 23
George B. McClellan age 15
Henry Clay age 65
Wilfrid Laurier age 9 months
David Farragut age 41
Matsukata Masayoshi age 7
Floriano Peixoto age 3
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 4
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 1
Prudente de Morais age 10 months
Hong Xiuquan age 28
George Meade age 26
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 25
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 59
Bettino Ricasoli age 33
Abraham Kuyper age 4
Agostino Depretis age 29
Urbano Rattazzi age 34
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 37
Campos Sales age 1
James G. Blaine age 12
Paolo Boselli age 4
John Hay age 3
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 15
Tewodros II age 24
James Longstreet age 21
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 21
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 17
P. G. T. Beauregard age 24
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 32
Tomás Estrada Palma age 7
Joseph E. Johnston age 35
Luigi Carlo Farini age 29
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 19
Ambrose Burnside age 18
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 3
Luigi Luzzatti age 1
Yohannes IV age 5
Edward Everett age 48
John Sherman age 19
J. E. B. Stuart age 9
Marco Minghetti age 23
Giuseppe Saracco age 20
Alexander H. Stephens age 30
François Achille Bazaine age 31
Salmon P. Chase age 34
Titu Maiorescu age 2
Erik Gustaf Boström age 6 months
Giovanni Lanza age 32
Edwin Stanton age 27