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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
Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31

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 57
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 24
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 54
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
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 40
Shah - Iran
Rafael Carrera age 32
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 51
Emperor - Ethiopia
Heonjong of Joseon age 20
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 52
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 58
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 61
Secretary of War - United States
Nathan Clifford age 44
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 47
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)
Levi Woodbury age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 49
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 68
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 59
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Jefferson Davis age 39
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 65
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 54
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 66
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 65
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 51
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 49
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 48
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 53
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 60
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 51
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 66
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 51
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John Quincy Adams age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 61
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 27
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 53
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 87
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 48
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 79
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 37
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 4
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 35
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 11
House of Representatives - United States
George N. Briggs age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
William Smith age 52
Governor of Virginia - United States
Neill S. Brown age 37
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Thomas S. Drew age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Bebb age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
James Whitcomb age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Daniel Haines age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John Young age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Martin Van Buren age 65
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 28
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 12
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 32
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 29
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 7 months
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 28
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 17
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 48
King - Sweden
Frederick VII of Denmark age 39
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 59
King - Thailand
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 38
President - Liberia
Carlos Antonio López age 57
President - Paraguay
Manuel Bulnes age 48
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 55
President - Uruguay
Faustin Soulouque age 65
President - Haiti
Juan Lindo age 57
President - Honduras
José Tadeo Monagas age 63
President - Venezuela
José Miguel de Velasco age 52
President - Bolivia
William II of the Netherlands age 55
King - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Kitsos Tzavelas age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 57
Prime Minister - Portugal
Karl Marx age 29
Leo Tolstoy age 19
Charles Darwin age 38
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 26
Friedrich Nietzsche age 3
Thomas Edison age 11 months
Charles Dickens age 35
Otto von Bismarck age 32
Louis Pasteur age 25
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 11 months
Ulysses S. Grant age 25
Claude Monet age 7
Florence Nightingale age 27
James A. Garfield age 16
Grover Cleveland age 10
Zachary Taylor age 63
John Tyler age 57
William McKinley age 4
Millard Fillmore age 48
Rutherford B. Hayes age 25
Franklin Pierce age 43
Benjamin Harrison age 14
Gregor Mendel age 25
Ada Lovelace age 32
Chester A. Arthur age 18
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 40
Napoleon III age 39
Pius X age 12
Leo XIII age 37
Charles Babbage age 56
Carl Benz age 3
Paul von Hindenburg age 3 months
Edward VII age 6
Alexander II of Russia age 29
Harriet Tubman age 25
Abdul Hamid II age 5
Robert E. Lee age 41
Georges Clemenceau age 6
Empress Dowager Cixi age 12
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 183
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
Frederick III, German Emperor age 16
Umberto I of Italy age 3
Abdulaziz age 17
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 78
Mehmed V age 3
Itō Hirobumi age 6
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 47
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 44
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 19
Alexandra of Denmark age 3
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 53
Lajos Kossuth age 45
Amadeo I of Spain age 2
John A. Macdonald age 33
Stonewall Jackson age 24