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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 30
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
Xianfeng Emperor age 18
Emperor - Imperial China
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 73
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
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 45
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 51
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Levi Woodbury age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 51
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 71
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 62
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Jefferson Davis age 41
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 48
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 57
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 40
Senate - United States
William R. King age 64
Senate - United States
Daniel Webster age 68
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 73
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 42
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 67
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 55
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 54
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 68
Senate - United States
Andrew Johnson age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 29
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 56
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 39
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 62
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 45
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 37
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Hamilton Fish age 41
Governor of New York - United States
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 42
Governor of California - United States
John B. Floyd age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
George N. Briggs age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 40
Governor of Texas - United States
John Selden Roane age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Trousdale age 59
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Seabury Ford age 48
Governor of Ohio - United States
Daniel Haines age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 67
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 38
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 30
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 14
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 34
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 32
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 31
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 2
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 30
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 19
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 50
King - Sweden
Frederick VII of Denmark age 41
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 62
King - Thailand
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 41
President - Liberia
Carlos Antonio López age 59
President - Paraguay
Manuel Bulnes age 50
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 57
President - Uruguay
Juan Lindo age 59
President - Honduras
José Tadeo Monagas age 65
President - Venezuela
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 36
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 42
President - Bolivia
Doroteo Vasconcelos age 47
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 33
King - Netherlands
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 49
Prime Minister - Belgium
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 64
Prime Minister - Denmark
Antonios Kriezis age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Jean-Jacques Willmar age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
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 35
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 3
Ulysses S. Grant age 27
Claude Monet age 9
Florence Nightingale age 29
James A. Garfield age 18
Grover Cleveland age 13
James Buchanan age 58
John Tyler age 60
William McKinley age 7
Rutherford B. Hayes age 27
Franklin Pierce 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
Georges Clemenceau age 8
Empress Dowager Cixi age 14
Alexander III of Russia age 5
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 53
Susan B. Anthony age 30
Arthur Balfour age 1
José de San Martín age 72
Benito Juárez age 44
Adolphe Thiers age 53
Louis Philippe I age 76
Porfirio Díaz age 19
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 34
Patrice de MacMahon age 41
Frederick III, German Emperor age 18
Umberto I of Italy age 6
Abdulaziz age 20
Mehmed V age 5
Itō Hirobumi age 8
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 49
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 32
Oscar II of Sweden age 21
Alexandra of Denmark age 5
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 56
Lajos Kossuth age 47
Amadeo I of Spain age 4
John A. Macdonald age 35
Stonewall Jackson age 26
Armand Fallières age 8
Jules Grévy age 42
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 12