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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
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868

People

Queen Victoria age 31
Queen - United Kingdom
Millard Fillmore age 51
President - United States
Napoleon III age 42
President - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 54
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 31
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 25
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 60
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 27
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 19
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 19
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 19
Emperor - Imperial China
Yohannes III age 54
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 20
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 19
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 55
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Mariano Arista age 48
President - Mexico
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Daniel Webster age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 64
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Thomas Corwin age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 63
Attorney General - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 54
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 46
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 52
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Levi Woodbury age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 52
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 48
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 63
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Jefferson Davis age 42
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 49
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 58
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 41
Senate - United States
William R. King age 65
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 74
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 43
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 68
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 55
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 69
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 55
Senate - United States
Andrew Johnson age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 30
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 57
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 40
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 7
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 38
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 14
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 33
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John B. Floyd age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
John McDougal age 33
Governor of California - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
Reuben Wood age 59
Governor of Ohio - United States
John Selden Roane age 34
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Washington Hunt age 39
Governor of New York - United States
William Trousdale age 60
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Enoch Louis Lowe age 30
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 40
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Franklin Fort age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin Van Buren age 68
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 31
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 15
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 32
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 3
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 31
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 20
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 51
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 46
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 42
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 63
King - Thailand
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 42
President - Liberia
Carlos Antonio López age 60
President - Paraguay
Manuel Bulnes age 51
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 58
President - Uruguay
José Gregorio Monagas age 56
President - Venezuela
Juan Lindo age 60
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 37
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 43
President - Bolivia
José Félix Quirós age 40
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 34
King - Netherlands
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 65
Prime Minister - Denmark
Antonios Kriezis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Jean-Jacques Willmar age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Karl Marx age 32
Abraham Lincoln age 42
Leo Tolstoy age 22
Charles Darwin age 42
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 29
Friedrich Nietzsche age 6
Thomas Edison age 4
Charles Dickens age 39
Otto von Bismarck age 36
Louis Pasteur age 28
Richard Wagner age 37
Friedrich Engels age 30
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 10
Michael Faraday age 59
Dmitri Mendeleev age 17
Giuseppe Verdi age 37
James Clerk Maxwell age 19
Alexander Graham Bell age 4
Ulysses S. Grant age 28
Claude Monet age 10
Florence Nightingale age 30
James A. Garfield age 19
Grover Cleveland age 14
James Buchanan age 59
John Tyler age 61
William McKinley age 8
Rutherford B. Hayes age 28
Franklin Pierce age 46
Benjamin Harrison age 17
Gregor Mendel age 28
Ada Lovelace age 35
Chester A. Arthur age 21
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 43
Pius X age 15
Leo XIII age 41
Charles Babbage age 59
Carl Benz age 6
Paul von Hindenburg age 3
Edward VII age 9
Alexander II of Russia age 32
Harriet Tubman age 29
Abdul Hamid II age 8
Robert E. Lee age 44
Georges Clemenceau age 9
Empress Dowager Cixi age 15
Alexander III of Russia age 6
Giuseppe Mazzini age 45
Klemens von Metternich age 77
Leopold II of Belgium age 15
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 40
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 186
Frederick Douglass age 33
Wilhelm I age 54
Susan B. Anthony age 31
Arthur Balfour age 2
Benito Juárez age 45
Adolphe Thiers age 53
Porfirio Díaz age 20
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 35
Patrice de MacMahon age 42
Frederick III, German Emperor age 19
Umberto I of Italy age 7
Abdulaziz age 21
Mehmed V age 6
Itō Hirobumi age 9
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 50
William Tecumseh Sherman age 31
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 21
Charles XV age 24
Murad V age 10
Maximilian I of Mexico age 18
Ferdinand I of Austria age 57
Christian IX of Denmark age 33
Oscar II of Sweden age 22
Alexandra of Denmark age 6
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 57
Lajos Kossuth age 48
Amadeo I of Spain age 5
John A. Macdonald age 36
Stonewall Jackson age 27
Armand Fallières age 9
Jules Grévy age 43
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 13
Deodoro da Fonseca age 23
Auguste Beernaert age 21
Elihu Root age 6
Edmund Barton age 2
Bernhard von Bülow age 1
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 7