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Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

People

Queen Victoria age 24
Queen - United Kingdom
John Tyler age 53
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 47
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 70
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 18
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 53
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 20
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 50
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Sam Houston age 50
President - Republic of Texas
Charles Albert age 45
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 61
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 36
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 43
Emperor - Japan
Yohannes III age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Heonjong of Joseon age 16
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 48
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Valentín Canalizo age 50
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 70
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Winfield Scott age 57
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Abel P. Upshur age 53
Secretary of State - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Nelson age 52
Attorney General - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 51
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Goulburn age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 63
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 51
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 55
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
James Buchanan age 52
Senate - United States
William R. King age 57
Senate - United States
Levi Woodbury age 54
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 56
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 62
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hannibal Hamlin age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 86
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 49
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 82
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Hamilton Fish age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 43
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 4 months
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George W. Crawford age 45
Governor of Georgia - United States
Martin Van Buren age 61
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 42
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 31
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 24
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 8
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 27
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 25
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 25
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 24
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 80
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 13
Queen - Spain
Christian VIII age 57
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 55
King - Thailand
Juan José Flores age 43
President - Ecuador
Manuel Bulnes age 44
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 51
President - Uruguay
José Ballivián age 38
President - Bolivia
Carlos Soublette age 54
President - Venezuela
Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco age 37
President - Peru
Francisco Ferrera age 49
President - Honduras
Pedro Alcántara Herrán age 43
President - Colombia
William II of the Netherlands age 51
King - Netherlands
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb age 38
Prime Minister - Belgium
Andreas Metaxas age 58
Prime Minister - Greece
Robert FitzRoy age 38
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 25
Abraham Lincoln age 34
Leo Tolstoy age 15
Charles Darwin age 34
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 22
Charles Dickens age 31
Otto von Bismarck age 28
Louis Pasteur age 21
Richard Wagner age 30
Friedrich Engels age 23
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 3
Michael Faraday age 52
Dmitri Mendeleev age 9
Giuseppe Verdi age 30
Andrew Jackson age 76
James Clerk Maxwell age 12
Ulysses S. Grant age 21
Claude Monet age 3
Florence Nightingale age 23
James A. Garfield age 12
Grover Cleveland age 6
Zachary Taylor age 59
James K. Polk age 48
William McKinley age 11 months
Millard Fillmore age 44
Rutherford B. Hayes age 21
Franklin Pierce age 39
Benjamin Harrison age 10
Gregor Mendel age 21
Ada Lovelace age 28
Chester A. Arthur age 14
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 36
Napoleon III age 35
Pius X age 8
Leo XIII age 33
Charles Babbage age 52
Edward VII age 2
Alexander II of Russia age 25
Harriet Tubman age 21
Abdul Hamid II age 1
Robert E. Lee age 36
Georges Clemenceau age 2
Empress Dowager Cixi age 8
Giuseppe Mazzini age 38
Leopold II of Belgium age 8
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 33
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 179
Frederick Douglass age 25
Wilhelm I age 46
Susan B. Anthony age 23
José de San Martín age 65
Jefferson Davis age 35
Benito Juárez age 37
Adolphe Thiers age 46
Porfirio Díaz age 13
Victor Emmanuel II age 23
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 28
Patrice de MacMahon age 35
Frederick III, German Emperor age 12
Abdulaziz age 13
John C. Calhoun age 61
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 74
Itō Hirobumi age 2
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 43
Joseph Bonaparte age 76
William Tecumseh Sherman age 23
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 13
Charles XV age 17
Murad V age 3
Maximilian I of Mexico age 11
Christian IX of Denmark age 25
Oscar II of Sweden age 14
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 49
Lajos Kossuth age 41
Oscar I age 44
John A. Macdonald age 29
Stonewall Jackson age 19
Armand Fallières age 2
Jules Grévy age 36
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 6
Deodoro da Fonseca age 16
Auguste Beernaert age 14
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 12
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 7 months
Carol I of Romania age 4
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 59
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 7
Félix Faure age 2
Mongkut age 39
Émile Loubet age 5
Richard Mentor Johnson age 63
Frederick VII of Denmark age 35
Abdur Rahman Khan age 4
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 5
George M. Dallas age 51
Levi P. Morton age 19
Leo von Caprivi age 12
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 32
Schuyler Colfax age 20
Thomas A. Hendricks age 24