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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02
Battle of San Pasqual 1846-12-06 - 1846-12-07

People

Queen Victoria age 27
Queen - United Kingdom
James K. Polk age 51
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 50
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 73
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 21
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 56
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 23
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 53
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Emperor Kōmei age 15
Emperor - Japan
Charles Albert age 48
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 64
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 38
Shah - Iran
Yohannes III age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Heonjong of Joseon age 19
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 51
King - Kingdom of Prussia
José Mariano Salas age 49
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 73
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George M. Dallas age 54
Vice President - United States
James Buchanan age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 60
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 60
Secretary of War - United States
Nathan Clifford age 43
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 47
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Levi Woodbury age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 46
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 67
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 58
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John C. Calhoun age 64
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 53
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 64
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 64
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 50
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 48
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 47
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 52
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 59
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 65
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 50
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 79
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hannibal Hamlin age 37
House of Representatives - United States
William R. King age 60
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 25
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 52
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 85
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 46
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 36
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 3
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George N. Briggs age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
J. Pinckney Henderson age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
George W. Crawford age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Silas Wright age 51
Governor of New York - United States
William Smith age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Pratt age 42
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas S. Drew age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Mordecai Bartley age 63
Governor of Ohio - United States
James Whitcomb age 51
Governor of Indiana - United States
Charles C. Stratton age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin Van Buren age 64
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 45
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 34
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 27
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 11
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 28
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 28
New York State Senate - United States
Daniel Sickles age 27
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 16
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 47
King - Sweden
Christian VIII age 60
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 58
King - Thailand
Carlos Antonio López age 56
President - Paraguay
Manuel Bulnes age 46
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 54
President - Uruguay
José Ballivián age 41
President - Bolivia
Carlos Soublette age 57
President - Venezuela
Coronado Chávez age 39
President - Honduras
William II of the Netherlands age 54
King - Netherlands
Ioannis Kolettis age 73
Prime Minister - Greece
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 56
Prime Minister - Portugal
Karl Marx age 28
Abraham Lincoln age 37
Leo Tolstoy age 18
Charles Darwin age 37
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 25
Friedrich Nietzsche age 2
Charles Dickens age 34
Otto von Bismarck age 31
Louis Pasteur age 23
Richard Wagner age 33
Friedrich Engels age 26
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 6
Michael Faraday age 55
Dmitri Mendeleev age 12
Giuseppe Verdi age 33
James Clerk Maxwell age 15
Ulysses S. Grant age 24
Claude Monet age 6
Florence Nightingale age 26
James A. Garfield age 15
Grover Cleveland age 9
Zachary Taylor age 62
John Tyler age 56
William McKinley age 3
Millard Fillmore age 46
Rutherford B. Hayes age 24
Franklin Pierce age 42
Benjamin Harrison age 13
Gregor Mendel age 24
Ada Lovelace age 31
Chester A. Arthur age 17
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 39
Napoleon III age 38
Pius X age 11
Leo XIII age 36
Charles Babbage age 54
Carl Benz age 2
Edward VII age 5
Alexander II of Russia age 28
Harriet Tubman age 24
Abdul Hamid II age 4
Robert E. Lee age 39
Georges Clemenceau age 5
Empress Dowager Cixi age 11
William Ewart Gladstone age 36
Alexander III of Russia age 1
Giuseppe Mazzini age 41
Leopold II of Belgium age 11
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 36
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 181
Frederick Douglass age 28
Wilhelm I age 49
Susan B. Anthony age 26
José de San Martín age 68
Jefferson Davis age 38
Benito Juárez age 40
Adolphe Thiers age 49
Porfirio Díaz age 16
Victor Emmanuel II age 26
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 31
Patrice de MacMahon age 38
Frederick III, German Emperor age 15
Umberto I of Italy age 2
Abdulaziz age 16
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 77
Mehmed V age 2
Itō Hirobumi age 5
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 46
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 43
William Tecumseh Sherman age 26
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 16
Charles XV age 20
Murad V age 6
Maximilian I of Mexico age 14
Christian IX of Denmark age 28
Oscar II of Sweden age 17
Alexandra of Denmark age 2
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 52
Lajos Kossuth age 44
Amadeo I of Spain age 1
John A. Macdonald age 31
Stonewall Jackson age 22
Armand Fallières age 5
Jules Grévy age 39
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 9
Deodoro da Fonseca age 19
Auguste Beernaert age 17