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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
Zachary Taylor age 64
President - United States
Napoleon III age 41
President - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 52
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 29
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 23
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 58
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 26
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 17
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 17
Emperor - Japan
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 57
President - Mexico
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Millard Fillmore age 49
Vice President - United States
Winfield Scott age 62
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
John M. Clayton age 52
Secretary of State - United States
William M. Meredith age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George W. Crawford age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 52
Attorney General - United States
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 53
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
Benjamin Disraeli age 44
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 50
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
John Charles Herries age 70
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 61
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Jefferson Davis age 40
Senate - United States
John C. Calhoun age 67
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 47
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 56
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 39
Senate - United States
William R. King age 63
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 67
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 72
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 41
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 66
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 54
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 53
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 67
Senate - United States
Andrew Johnson age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 80
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 55
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 37
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 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 36
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 43
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 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 62
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 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Neill S. Brown age 39
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John Selden Roane age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Seabury Ford age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Daniel Haines age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Paris C. Dunning age 43
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 66
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 37
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 31
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 61
King - Thailand
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 40
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 41
President - Bolivia
Doroteo Vasconcelos age 46
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 32
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 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Karl Marx age 30
Abraham Lincoln age 40
Leo Tolstoy age 20
Charles Darwin age 40
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 27
Friedrich Nietzsche age 4
Thomas Edison age 2
Charles Dickens age 37
Otto von Bismarck age 34
Louis Pasteur age 26
Richard Wagner age 35
Friedrich Engels age 28
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 8
Michael Faraday age 57
Dmitri Mendeleev age 15
Giuseppe Verdi age 35
James Clerk Maxwell age 17
Alexander Graham Bell age 2
Ulysses S. Grant age 27
Claude Monet age 8
Florence Nightingale age 28
James A. Garfield age 17
Grover Cleveland age 12
James Buchanan age 58
James K. Polk age 53
John Tyler age 59
William McKinley age 6
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 39
Charles Babbage age 57
Carl Benz age 4
Paul von Hindenburg age 1
Edward VII age 7
Alexander II of Russia age 31
Harriet Tubman age 27
Abdul Hamid II age 6
Robert E. Lee age 42
Georges Clemenceau age 7
Empress Dowager Cixi age 13
Alexander III of Russia age 4
Giuseppe Mazzini age 43
Klemens von Metternich age 75
Leopold II of Belgium age 14
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 38
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 184
Frederick Douglass age 31
Wilhelm I age 52
Susan B. Anthony age 29
Arthur Balfour age 9 months
José de San Martín age 71
Benito Juárez age 43
Adolphe Thiers age 52
Louis Philippe I age 75
Porfirio Díaz age 18
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 33
Patrice de MacMahon age 40
Frederick III, German Emperor age 17
Umberto I of Italy age 5
Abdulaziz age 19
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 80
Mehmed V age 4
Itō Hirobumi age 7
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 48
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 45
William Tecumseh Sherman age 29
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 19
Charles XV age 22
Murad V age 8
Maximilian I of Mexico age 16
Ferdinand I of Austria age 56
Christian IX of Denmark age 31
Oscar II of Sweden age 20
Alexandra of Denmark age 4
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 55