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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

People

Queen Victoria age 28
Queen - United Kingdom
James K. Polk age 52
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 51
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 74
King of the French - France
Pedro II of Brazil age 22
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 56
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 24
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 54
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Emperor Kōmei age 16
Emperor - Japan
Charles Albert age 49
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 65
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 39
Shah - Iran
Rafael Carrera age 32
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Heonjong of Joseon age 20
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 52
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Pedro María de Anaya age 53
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 74
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George M. Dallas age 55
Vice President - United States
James Buchanan age 56
Secretary Of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 61
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 60
Secretary of War - United States
Nathan Clifford age 44
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 48
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Jefferson Davis age 39
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Quincy Adams age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Isabella II age 17
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 48
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 29
Leo Tolstoy age 19
Charles Darwin age 38
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 26
Friedrich Nietzsche age 3
Thomas Edison age 9 months
Charles Dickens age 35
Otto von Bismarck age 32
Louis Pasteur age 24
Richard Wagner age 34
Friedrich Engels age 27
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 7
Michael Faraday age 56
Dmitri Mendeleev age 13
Giuseppe Verdi age 34
James Clerk Maxwell age 16
Alexander Graham Bell age 8 months
Ulysses S. Grant age 25
Claude Monet age 7
Florence Nightingale age 27
James A. Garfield age 16
Grover Cleveland age 10
Martin Van Buren age 65
Andrew Johnson age 38
Zachary Taylor age 63
John Tyler age 57
William McKinley age 4
Millard Fillmore age 47
Rutherford B. Hayes age 25
Franklin Pierce age 43
Benjamin Disraeli age 42
Benjamin Harrison age 14
Gregor Mendel age 25
Ada Lovelace age 31
Chester A. Arthur age 18
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 40
Napoleon III age 39
Pius X age 12
Leo XIII age 37
Charles Babbage age 55
Carl Benz age 3
Paul von Hindenburg age 1 month
Edward VII age 6
Alexander II of Russia age 29
Harriet Tubman age 25
Abdul Hamid II age 5
Robert E. Lee age 40
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 78
Georges Clemenceau age 6
Empress Dowager Cixi age 12
William Ewart Gladstone age 37
Alexander III of Russia age 2
Giuseppe Mazzini age 42
Leopold II of Belgium age 12
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 37
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
Benito Juárez age 41
Adolphe Thiers age 50
Porfirio Díaz age 17
Victor Emmanuel II age 27
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 32
Patrice de MacMahon age 39
Robert Peel age 59
Frederick III, German Emperor age 16
Umberto I of Italy age 3
Abdulaziz age 17
John C. Calhoun age 65
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 78
Mehmed V age 3
Itō Hirobumi age 6
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 47
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 63
William Tecumseh Sherman age 27
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 17
Charles XV age 21
Murad V age 7
Maximilian I of Mexico age 15
Christian IX of Denmark age 29
Oscar II of Sweden age 18
Alexandra of Denmark age 2
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 53
Amadeo I of Spain age 2
Stonewall Jackson age 23
Armand Fallières age 6
William H. Seward age 46
Jules Grévy age 40
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 10
Deodoro da Fonseca age 20
Elihu Root age 2
Sam Houston age 54
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 16
Hannibal Hamlin age 38
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 4
Carol I of Romania age 8
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 63
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 11
Félix Faure age 6
William R. King age 61
Émile Loubet age 8
Menelik II age 3
Richard Mentor Johnson age 67
John C. Breckinridge age 26
Henry Wilson age 35
Jean Casimir-Perier age 0 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 7
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 9
Garret Hobart age 3
Levi P. Morton age 23
William A. Wheeler age 28
Leo von Caprivi age 16
Schuyler Colfax age 24
Thomas A. Hendricks age 28
Saigō Takamori age 19
Clara Barton age 25
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 68
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 6 months
Peter I of Serbia age 3
Daniel Webster age 65
Xianfeng Emperor age 16
Georg von Hertling age 4
Giovanni Giolitti age 5
Yamagata Aritomo age 9
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 28
Demetrios Vikelas age 12
Joseph Chamberlain age 11
Ismail Kemal age 3
Francesco Crispi age 29
George B. McClellan age 20
Henry Clay age 70
Wilfrid Laurier age 6
Nikola Pašić age 1
David Farragut age 46
Matsukata Masayoshi age 12
Floriano Peixoto age 8
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 10
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 7
Prudente de Morais age 6
Hong Xiuquan age 33
George Meade age 31
George Reid age 2
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 30
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 65
Bettino Ricasoli age 38
Julio Argentino Roca age 4
Abraham Kuyper age 10
Agostino Depretis age 34
Sidney Sonnino age 8 months
Urbano Rattazzi age 39
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 43
Campos Sales age 6
James G. Blaine age 17
Paolo Boselli age 9
John Hay age 9
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 21
Tewodros II age 29
Teófilo Braga age 4
James Longstreet age 26
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 26
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 22
P. G. T. Beauregard age 29
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 38
Tomás Estrada Palma age 12
Joseph E. Johnston age 40