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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09-01 - 1852-12-31
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02
Siege of Veracruz 1847-03-09 - 1847-03-29

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 - Austrian Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 53
President - Mexico
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 39
Shah - Iran
Rafael Carrera age 31
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Heonjong of Joseon age 19
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 51
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Klemens von Metternich age 73
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 70
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 46
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 48
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Abraham Lincoln age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Quincy Adams age 79
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Crawford age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States
Isabella II age 16
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 47
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 28
Leo Tolstoy age 18
Charles Darwin age 38
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 25
Friedrich Nietzsche age 2
Thomas Edison age 1 month
Charles Dickens age 35
Otto von Bismarck age 32
Louis Pasteur age 24
Richard Wagner age 33
Friedrich Engels age 26
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 6
Michael Faraday age 55
Dmitri Mendeleev age 13
Giuseppe Verdi age 33
James Clerk Maxwell age 15
Alexander Graham Bell age 0 months
Ulysses S. Grant age 24
Claude Monet age 6
Florence Nightingale age 26
James A. Garfield age 15
Grover Cleveland age 10
Martin Van Buren age 64
Andrew Johnson age 38
Zachary Taylor age 62
John Tyler age 57
William McKinley age 4
Millard Fillmore age 47
Rutherford B. Hayes age 24
Franklin Pierce age 42
Benjamin Disraeli 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 37
Charles Babbage age 55
Carl Benz age 2
Edward VII age 5
Alexander II of Russia age 28
Harriet Tubman age 25
Abdul Hamid II age 4
Robert E. Lee age 40
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 77
Georges Clemenceau age 5
Empress Dowager Cixi age 11
William Ewart Gladstone age 37
Alexander III of Russia age 2
Giuseppe Mazzini age 41
Leopold II of Belgium age 11
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 36
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 182
Frederick Douglass age 29
Wilhelm I age 50
Susan B. Anthony age 27
José de San Martín age 69
Jefferson Davis age 38
Benito Juárez age 41
Adolphe Thiers age 49
Porfirio Díaz age 16
Victor Emmanuel II age 27
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 31
Patrice de MacMahon age 38
Robert Peel age 59
Frederick III, German Emperor age 15
Umberto I of Italy age 3
Abdulaziz age 17
John C. Calhoun age 65
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 78
Mehmed V age 2
Itō Hirobumi age 5
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 46
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 62
William Tecumseh Sherman age 27
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 17
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 18
Alexandra of Denmark age 2
Amadeo I of Spain age 1
Stonewall Jackson age 23
Armand Fallières age 5
William H. Seward age 45
Jules Grévy age 39
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 9
Deodoro da Fonseca age 19
Elihu Root age 2
Sam Houston age 54
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 15
Hannibal Hamlin age 37
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 3
Carol I of Romania age 7
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 63
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 10
Félix Faure age 6
William R. King age 61
Émile Loubet age 8
Menelik II age 2
Richard Mentor Johnson age 66
John C. Breckinridge age 26
Henry Wilson age 35
Abdur Rahman Khan age 7
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 9
Garret Hobart age 2
Levi P. Morton age 22
William A. Wheeler age 27
Leo von Caprivi age 16
Schuyler Colfax age 24
Thomas A. Hendricks age 27
Saigō Takamori age 19
Clara Barton age 25
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 68
Peter I of Serbia age 2
Daniel Webster age 65
Xianfeng Emperor age 15
Georg von Hertling age 3
Giovanni Giolitti age 4
Yamagata Aritomo age 8
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 28
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 75
Demetrios Vikelas age 12
Joseph Chamberlain age 10
Ismail Kemal age 3
Francesco Crispi age 28
George B. McClellan age 20
Henry Clay age 70
Wilfrid Laurier age 5
Nikola Pašić age 1
David Farragut age 45
Matsukata Masayoshi age 12
Floriano Peixoto age 7
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 9
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 6
Prudente de Morais age 5
Hong Xiuquan age 33
George Meade age 31
George Reid age 2
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 29
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 64
Bettino Ricasoli age 38
Julio Argentino Roca age 3
Abraham Kuyper age 9
Agostino Depretis age 34
Sidney Sonnino age 0 months
Urbano Rattazzi age 38
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 42
Campos Sales age 6
James G. Blaine age 17
Paolo Boselli age 8
John Hay age 8
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 20
Tewodros II age 29
Teófilo Braga age 4
James Longstreet age 26
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 25
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 21
P. G. T. Beauregard age 28
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 37
Tomás Estrada Palma age 11
Joseph E. Johnston age 40
Luigi Carlo Farini age 34
Robert Todd Lincoln age 3