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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
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 29
Queen - United Kingdom
James K. Polk age 53
President - United States
Napoleon III age 40
President - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 52
Emperor - Russian Empire
Pedro II of Brazil age 23
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 58
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 25
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 17
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 17
Emperor - Japan
Charles Albert age 50
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 66
Emperor - Imperial China
Yohannes III age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 18
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Heonjong of Joseon age 21
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 53
King - Kingdom of Prussia
José Joaquín de Herrera age 56
President - Mexico
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
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 62
Secretary of War - United States
Isaac Toucey age 56
Attorney General - United States
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 52
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 48
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 59
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
James Alexander Hamilton age 60
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
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 67
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 66
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 40
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 28
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 42
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 88
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 49
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 61
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
Joseph McKenna age 5
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
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 66
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
Henry W. Slocum age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Hamilton Fish age 40
Governor of New York - United States
John B. Floyd age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
George N. Briggs age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
Neill S. Brown age 38
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Seabury Ford age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Daniel Haines age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard C. Byrd age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Paris C. Dunning age 42
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 66
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 13
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 33
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 31
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 30
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 1
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 29
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 18
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 49
King - Sweden
Frederick VII of Denmark age 40
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 60
King - Thailand
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 39
President - Liberia
Carlos Antonio López age 58
President - Paraguay
Manuel Bulnes age 49
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 56
President - Uruguay
Faustin Soulouque age 66
President - Haiti
Juan Lindo age 58
President - Honduras
José Tadeo Monagas age 64
President - Venezuela
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 40
President - Bolivia
Doroteo Vasconcelos age 46
President - El Salvador
William II of the Netherlands age 56
King - Netherlands
Lajos Kossuth age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Konstantinos Kanaris age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Charles Rogier age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jacob de Kempenaer age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jean-Jacques Willmar age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Karl Marx age 30
Leo Tolstoy age 20
Charles Darwin age 39
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 27
Friedrich Nietzsche age 4
Thomas Edison age 1
Charles Dickens age 36
Otto von Bismarck age 33
Louis Pasteur age 26
Richard Wagner age 35
Friedrich Engels age 28
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 8
Michael Faraday age 57
Dmitri Mendeleev age 14
Giuseppe Verdi age 35
James Clerk Maxwell age 17
Alexander Graham Bell age 1
Ulysses S. Grant age 26
Claude Monet age 8
Florence Nightingale age 28
James A. Garfield age 17
Grover Cleveland age 11
Zachary Taylor age 64
John Tyler age 58
William McKinley age 5
Millard Fillmore age 49
Rutherford B. Hayes age 26
Franklin Pierce age 44
Benjamin Harrison age 15
Gregor Mendel age 26
Ada Lovelace age 33
Chester A. Arthur age 19
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 41
Pius X age 13
Leo XIII age 38
Charles Babbage age 57
Carl Benz age 4
Paul von Hindenburg age 1
Edward VII age 7
Alexander II of Russia age 30
Harriet Tubman age 26
Abdul Hamid II age 6
Robert E. Lee age 42
Georges Clemenceau age 7
Empress Dowager Cixi age 13
Alexander III of Russia age 3
Giuseppe Mazzini age 43
Klemens von Metternich age 75
Leopold II of Belgium age 13
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 38
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 184
Frederick Douglass age 30
Wilhelm I age 51
Susan B. Anthony age 28
Arthur Balfour age 6 months
José de San Martín age 70
Benito Juárez age 42
Adolphe Thiers age 51
Louis Philippe I age 75
Porfirio Díaz age 18
Victor Emmanuel II age 28
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 33
Patrice de MacMahon age 40
Frederick III, German Emperor age 17
Umberto I of Italy age 4
Abdulaziz age 18
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 79
Mehmed V age 4
Itō Hirobumi age 7
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 48
William Tecumseh Sherman age 28
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 18
Charles XV age 22
Murad V age 8
Maximilian I of Mexico age 16
Ferdinand I of Austria age 55
Christian IX of Denmark age 30
Oscar II of Sweden age 20
Alexandra of Denmark age 4
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 54