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Events

Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26

People

Queen Victoria age 30
Queen - United Kingdom
Zachary Taylor age 65
President - United States
Napoleon III age 41
President - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 53
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 29
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 24
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 59
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 26
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 18
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 18
Emperor - Japan
Yohannes III age 53
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 19
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 18
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 54
King - Kingdom of Prussia
José Joaquín de Herrera age 58
President - Mexico
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Millard Fillmore age 50
Vice President - United States
Winfield Scott age 63
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
John M. Clayton age 53
Secretary of State - United States
William M. Meredith age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George W. Crawford age 51
Secretary of War - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 53
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 50
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Jefferson Davis age 41
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 41
Governor of New York - United States
John B. Floyd age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
Isabella II age 19
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 50
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 31
Abraham Lincoln age 41
Leo Tolstoy age 21
Charles Darwin age 41
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 28
Friedrich Nietzsche age 5
Thomas Edison age 3
Charles Dickens age 38
Otto von Bismarck age 34
Louis Pasteur age 27
Richard Wagner age 36
Friedrich Engels age 29
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 9
Michael Faraday age 58
Dmitri Mendeleev age 16
Giuseppe Verdi age 36
James Clerk Maxwell age 18
Alexander Graham Bell age 2
Ulysses S. Grant age 27
Claude Monet age 9
Florence Nightingale age 29
James A. Garfield age 18
Grover Cleveland age 12
Martin Van Buren age 67
Andrew Johnson age 41
James Buchanan age 58
John Tyler age 59
William McKinley age 7
Rutherford B. Hayes age 27
Franklin Pierce age 45
Benjamin Disraeli age 45
Benjamin Harrison age 16
Gregor Mendel age 27
Ada Lovelace age 34
Chester A. Arthur age 20
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 42
Pius X age 14
Leo XIII age 40
Charles Babbage age 58
Carl Benz age 5
Paul von Hindenburg age 2
Edward VII age 8
Alexander II of Russia age 31
Harriet Tubman age 28
Abdul Hamid II age 7
Robert E. Lee age 43
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 80
Georges Clemenceau age 8
Empress Dowager Cixi age 14
William Ewart Gladstone age 40
Alexander III of Russia age 4
Giuseppe Mazzini age 44
Klemens von Metternich age 76
Leopold II of Belgium age 14
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 39
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 185
Frederick Douglass age 32
Wilhelm I age 52
Susan B. Anthony age 30
Arthur Balfour age 1
José de San Martín age 72
Benito Juárez age 43
Adolphe Thiers age 52
Louis Philippe I age 76
Porfirio Díaz age 19
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 34
Patrice de MacMahon age 41
Robert Peel age 62
Frederick III, German Emperor age 18
Umberto I of Italy age 5
Abdulaziz age 20
John C. Calhoun age 67
Mehmed V age 5
Itō Hirobumi age 8
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 49
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 65
William Tecumseh Sherman age 30
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 20
Charles XV age 23
Murad V age 9
Maximilian I of Mexico age 17
Ferdinand I of Austria age 56
Christian IX of Denmark age 31
Oscar II of Sweden age 21
Alexandra of Denmark age 5
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 56
Amadeo I of Spain age 4
Stonewall Jackson age 26
Armand Fallières age 8
William H. Seward age 48
Jules Grévy age 42
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 12
Deodoro da Fonseca age 22
Elihu Root age 5
Sam Houston age 57
Edmund Barton age 1
Bernhard von Bülow age 10 months
Hannibal Hamlin age 40
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 6
Carol I of Romania age 10
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 66
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 13
Félix Faure age 9
William R. King age 63
Sergei Witte age 8 months
Émile Loubet age 11
Menelik II age 5
Richard Mentor Johnson age 69
John C. Breckinridge age 29
Henry Wilson age 38
Jean Casimir-Perier age 2
Abdur Rahman Khan age 10
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 11
George M. Dallas age 57
Garret Hobart age 5
Levi P. Morton age 25
William A. Wheeler age 30
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 1
Leo von Caprivi age 19
Schuyler Colfax age 26
Thomas A. Hendricks age 30
Katsura Tarō age 2
Saigō Takamori age 22
Clara Barton age 28
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 2
Peter I of Serbia age 5
Daniel Webster age 68
Xianfeng Emperor age 18
Georg von Hertling age 6
Giovanni Giolitti age 7
Yamagata Aritomo age 11
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 30
Demetrios Vikelas age 15
Joseph Chamberlain age 13
Ismail Kemal age 6
Francesco Crispi age 31
George B. McClellan age 23
Henry Clay age 72
Wilfrid Laurier age 8
Nikola Pašić age 4
David Farragut age 48
Matsukata Masayoshi age 15
Floriano Peixoto age 10
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 12
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 9
Prudente de Morais age 8
Hong Xiuquan age 36
George Meade age 34
George Reid age 5
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 32
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 1
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 67
Saionji Kinmochi age 2 months
Bettino Ricasoli age 41
Rodrigues Alves age 1
Afonso Pena age 2
Julio Argentino Roca age 6
Abraham Kuyper age 12
Agostino Depretis age 37
Sidney Sonnino age 2
Urbano Rattazzi age 41
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 45
Campos Sales age 9
James G. Blaine age 20
Paolo Boselli age 11
John Hay age 11
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 23
Tewodros II age 32
Teófilo Braga age 7