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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Australian frontier wars 1794-09-01 - 1899
Argentine Civil Wars 1814 - 1880
Seminole Wars 1816 - 1858
Texas–Indian wars 1820 - 1882
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
French conquest of Algeria 1830-06-14 - 1904-01-19
Carlist Wars 1833 - 1876
Uruguayan Civil War 1839-03-10 - 1851-10-08
Opium Wars 1839-09-04 - 1860-10-24
Great Siege of Montevideo 1843-02-16 - 1851-10-08
Dominican War of Independence 1844 - 1856
New Zealand Wars 1845 - 1872
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
1846–1860 cholera pandemic 1846 - 1860
Second Carlist War 1846 - 1849
Caste War of Yucatán 1847-07-30 - 1915-01-01
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 1848 - 1849-10-04
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire 1848 - 1848-11
First Italian War of Independence 1848 - 1849
Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04
Sicilian revolution of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-05-15
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
French Revolution of 1848 1848-02-22 - 1848-12-02
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
First Schleswig War 1848-03-24 - 1851-05-08
Second Anglo-Sikh War 1848-04-18 - 1849-03-30

People

Queen Victoria age 29
Queen - United Kingdom
James K. Polk age 52
President - United States
Nicholas I of Russia age 52
Emperor - Russian Empire
Pedro II of Brazil age 22
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 57
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 25
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 55
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 52
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Emperor Kōmei age 17
Emperor - Japan
Charles Albert age 49
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 66
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 40
Shah - Iran
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 45
President - France
Heonjong of Joseon age 21
King - Joseon
José Joaquín de Herrera age 56
President - Mexico
Juan Antonio Martínez
President - Guatemala
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George M. Dallas age 56
Vice President - United States
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 48
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
James Buchanan age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 62
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 61
Secretary of War - United States
Isaac Toucey age 55
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 49
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Levi Woodbury age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 50
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jefferson Davis age 40
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 66
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 55
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 39
Senate - United States
William R. King age 62
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 66
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 65
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 52
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 50
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 49
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 54
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 52
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 67
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 52
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 39
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 79
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
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 54
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 36
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
Philip Francis Thomas age 38
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 61
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 11
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 36
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 61
House of Representatives - United States
George N. Briggs age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
William Smith age 52
Governor of Virginia - United States
Neill S. Brown age 38
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Thomas S. Drew age 46
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 46
Governor of New York - United States
George W. Towns age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Martin Van Buren age 65
New York State Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 47
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 29
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
Daniel Sickles age 28
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 30
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 1
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Isabella II age 17
Queen - Spain
Bahadur Shah Zafar age 72
Mughal Emperor - Mughal Empire
Oscar I age 49
King - Sweden
William II of the Netherlands age 55
King - Netherlands
Frederick VII of Denmark age 39
Monarch - Denmark
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 36
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Ernest Augustus of Hanover age 77
King of Hanover - Kingdom of Hanover
Rama III age 60
King - Thailand
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 38
King of the Two Sicilies - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 39
President - Liberia
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 51
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Leopold II of Tuscany age 50
Grand Duke of Tuscany - Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Carlos Antonio López age 57
President - Paraguay
Kamehameha III age 35
Monarch of Hawaii - Kingdom of Hawaii
Charles II of Parma age 48
Duke of Parma - Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
James Brooke age 45
Rajah of Sarawak - Raj of Sarawak
Tokugawa Ieyoshi age 55
Shōgun - Tokugawa shogunate
Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden age 58
Grand Duke of Baden - Grand Duchy of Baden
Louis III of Hesse age 42
Grand Duke of Hesse - Grand Duchy of Hesse
Francis V of Modena age 29
Duke of Modena - Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Manuel Bulnes age 48
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 56
President - Uruguay
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 46
Elector of Hesse - Electorate of Hesse
Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg age 65
Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Oldenburg
Faustin Soulouque age 66
President - Haiti
Juan Lindo age 58
President - Honduras
José Tadeo Monagas age 63
President - Venezuela
Ghezo
King of Dahomey - Kingdom of Dahomey
Mzilikazi age 58
King of the Ndebele - Mthwakazi
José Miguel de Velasco age 52
President - Bolivia
Doroteo Vasconcelos age 45
President - El Salvador
Kwaku Dua I age 51
Asantehene - Asante Empire
Ali Babba bin Bello age 40
Sultan of Sokoto - Sokoto Caliphate
Ssuuna II of Buganda age 28
Kabaka - Kingdom of Buganda
Pope Pius IX age 56
Pope - Papal States
Nasir-ud-Daula age 54
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Duleep Singh age 10
Maharaja - Sikh Empire
Mpande age 50
King of the Zulu - Zulu Kingdom
Lajos Batthyány age 41
Prime Minister - Hungary
Charles Rogier age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Georgios Kountouriotis age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine age 61
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 57
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jung Bahadur Rana age 31
Prime Minister - Nepal
Karl Marx age 30
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 35
Friedrich Engels age 27
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 8
Michael Faraday age 56
Dmitri Mendeleev age 14
Giuseppe Verdi age 34
James Clerk Maxwell age 17
Alexander Graham Bell age 1
Ulysses S. Grant age 26
Claude Monet age 7
Florence Nightingale age 28
James A. Garfield age 16
Grover Cleveland age 11
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 Harrison age 15
Gregor Mendel age 26
Ada Lovelace age 32
Chester A. Arthur age 18
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 41
Napoleon III age 40
Pius X age 13
Leo XIII age 38
Charles Babbage age 56
Carl Benz age 3
Paul von Hindenburg age 11 months
Edward VII age 6
Henry Dunant age 20
Alexander II of Russia age 30
Harriet Tubman age 26
Abdul Hamid II age 5
Robert E. Lee age 41
Georges Clemenceau age 6
Empress Dowager Cixi age 12
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 18
Alexander III of Russia age 3
Giuseppe Mazzini age 43
Lord Kelvin age 24
Samuel Morse age 57
Klemens von Metternich age 75
Leopold II of Belgium age 13
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 38