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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09-01 - 1852-12-31
Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26

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
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 - 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 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
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 81
President - France
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 59
President - Mexico
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 71
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
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 49
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Jefferson Davis age 39
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 39
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 39
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 26
Friedrich Nietzsche age 3
Thomas Edison age 1
Charles Dickens age 36
Otto von Bismarck age 33
Louis Pasteur age 25
Richard Wagner age 34
Friedrich Engels age 27
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 7
Michael Faraday age 56
Dmitri Mendeleev age 14
Giuseppe Verdi age 34
James Clerk Maxwell age 16
Alexander Graham Bell age 1
Ulysses S. Grant age 25
Claude Monet age 7
Florence Nightingale age 27
James A. Garfield age 16
Grover Cleveland age 11
Martin Van Buren age 65
Andrew Johnson age 39
Zachary Taylor age 63
John Tyler age 58
William McKinley age 5
Millard Fillmore age 48
Rutherford B. Hayes age 25
Franklin Pierce age 43
Benjamin Disraeli 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 38
Charles Babbage age 56
Carl Benz age 3
Paul von Hindenburg age 6 months
Edward VII age 6
Alexander II of Russia age 29
Harriet Tubman age 26
Abdul Hamid II age 5
Robert E. Lee age 41
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 78
Georges Clemenceau age 6
Empress Dowager Cixi age 12
William Ewart Gladstone age 38
Alexander III of Russia age 3
Giuseppe Mazzini age 42
Klemens von Metternich age 74
Leopold II of Belgium age 12
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 37
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 183
Frederick Douglass age 30
Wilhelm I age 51
Susan B. Anthony age 28
José de San Martín age 70
Benito Juárez age 42
Adolphe Thiers age 50
Louis Philippe I age 74
Porfirio Díaz age 17
Victor Emmanuel II age 28
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 32
Patrice de MacMahon age 39
Robert Peel age 60
Frederick III, German Emperor age 16
Umberto I of Italy age 4
Abdulaziz age 18
John C. Calhoun age 66
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 79
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 28
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 18
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 54
Amadeo I of Spain age 2
Stonewall Jackson age 24
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 3
Sam Houston age 55
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 64
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 11
Félix Faure age 7
William R. King age 62
Émile Loubet age 9
Menelik II age 3
Richard Mentor Johnson age 67
John C. Breckinridge age 27
Henry Wilson age 36
Jean Casimir-Perier age 4 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 8
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 10
Garret Hobart age 3
Levi P. Morton age 23
William A. Wheeler age 28
Leo von Caprivi age 17
Schuyler Colfax age 25
Thomas A. Hendricks age 28
Katsura Tarō age 2 months
Saigō Takamori age 20
Clara Barton age 26
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 69
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 10 months
Peter I of Serbia age 3
Daniel Webster age 66
Xianfeng Emperor age 16
Georg von Hertling age 4
Giovanni Giolitti age 5
Yamagata Aritomo age 9
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 29
Demetrios Vikelas age 13
Joseph Chamberlain age 11
Ismail Kemal age 4
Francesco Crispi age 29
George B. McClellan age 21
Henry Clay age 71
Wilfrid Laurier age 6
Nikola Pašić age 2
David Farragut age 46
Matsukata Masayoshi age 13
Floriano Peixoto age 8
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 10
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 7
Prudente de Morais age 6
Hong Xiuquan age 34
George Meade age 32
George Reid age 3
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 30
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 65
Bettino Ricasoli age 39
Afonso Pena age 4 months
Julio Argentino Roca age 4
Abraham Kuyper age 10
Agostino Depretis age 35
Sidney Sonnino age 1
Urbano Rattazzi age 39
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 43
Campos Sales age 7
James G. Blaine age 18
Paolo Boselli age 9
John Hay age 9
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 21
Tewodros II age 30
Teófilo Braga age 5
James Longstreet age 27
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