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Events

Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09-01 - 1852-12-31
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 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Great Exhibition 1851-05-01 - 1851-10-15

People

Queen Victoria age 31
Queen - United Kingdom
Millard Fillmore age 51
President - United States
Napoleon III age 43
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 28
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
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 52
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Jefferson Davis age 42
Senate - United States
John B. Floyd age 44
Governor Of Virginia - United States
Isabella II age 20
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 51
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 33
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 11
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 29
Claude Monet age 10
Florence Nightingale age 31
James A. Garfield age 19
Grover Cleveland age 14
Martin Van Buren age 68
Andrew Johnson age 42
James Buchanan age 60
John Tyler age 61
William McKinley age 8
Rutherford B. Hayes age 28
Franklin Pierce age 46
Benjamin Disraeli 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 33
Harriet Tubman age 29
Abdul Hamid II age 8
Robert E. Lee age 44
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 82
Georges Clemenceau age 9
Empress Dowager Cixi age 15
William Ewart Gladstone age 41
Alexander III of Russia age 6
Giuseppe Mazzini age 45
Klemens von Metternich age 78
Leopold II of Belgium age 16
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 54
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
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 66
William Tecumseh Sherman age 31
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 21
Charles XV age 25
Murad V age 10
Maximilian I of Mexico age 18
Ferdinand I of Austria age 58
Christian IX of Denmark age 33
Oscar II of Sweden age 22
Alexandra of Denmark age 6
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 57
Amadeo I of Spain age 5
Stonewall Jackson age 27
Armand Fallières age 9
William H. Seward age 50
Jules Grévy age 43
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 13
Deodoro da Fonseca age 23
Elihu Root age 6
Sam Houston age 58
Edmund Barton age 2
Bernhard von Bülow age 2
Hannibal Hamlin age 41
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 7
Carol I of Romania age 12
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 67
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 14
Félix Faure age 10
William R. King age 65
Sergei Witte age 1
Émile Loubet age 12
Menelik II age 6
John C. Breckinridge age 30
Henry Wilson age 39
Jean Casimir-Perier age 3
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 10 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 11
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 13
George M. Dallas age 58
Garret Hobart age 6
Levi P. Morton age 26
William A. Wheeler age 31
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 2
Leo von Caprivi age 20
Schuyler Colfax age 28
Thomas A. Hendricks age 31
Katsura Tarō age 3
Saigō Takamori age 23
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 9 months
Clara Barton age 29
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 4
Peter I of Serbia age 6
Georg von Hertling age 7
Giovanni Giolitti age 8
Yamagata Aritomo age 12
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 32
Demetrios Vikelas age 16
Joseph Chamberlain age 14
Ismail Kemal age 7
Francesco Crispi age 32
George B. McClellan age 24
Henry Clay age 74
Wilfrid Laurier age 9
Nikola Pašić age 5
David Farragut age 49
Matsukata Masayoshi age 16
Floriano Peixoto age 12
Victoriano Huerta age 4 months
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 13
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 10
Prudente de Morais age 9
Hong Xiuquan age 37
George Meade age 35
George Reid age 6
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 33
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 2
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 68
Saionji Kinmochi age 1
Bettino Ricasoli age 42
Rodrigues Alves age 2
Afonso Pena age 3
Julio Argentino Roca age 7
Abraham Kuyper age 13
Agostino Depretis age 38
Sidney Sonnino age 4
Urbano Rattazzi age 42
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 46
Campos Sales age 10
James G. Blaine age 21
Paolo Boselli age 12
John Hay age 12
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 24
Tewodros II age 33
Teófilo Braga age 8
James Longstreet age 30
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 29
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 25
P. G. T. Beauregard age 32
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 41