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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 33
Queen - United Kingdom
Millard Fillmore age 52
President - United States
Napoleon III age 44
President - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 56
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 32
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 26
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 61
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 29
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 21
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 21
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 21
Emperor - Imperial China
Rafael Carrera age 36
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 55
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 22
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 21
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 56
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Mariano Arista age 50
President - Mexico
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Benjamin Disraeli age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Daniel Webster age 70
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 66
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Thomas Corwin age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 65
Attorney General - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 60
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Robert Nisbet-Hamilton age 48
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 64
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
William H. Seward age 51
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 59
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 43
Senate - United States
William R. King age 66
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 44
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 69
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 44
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 56
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 59
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 41
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 57
Senate - United States
Andrew Johnson age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 31
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 58
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 33
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 9
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 15
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Bigler age 47
Governor of California - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Reuben Wood age 60
Governor of Ohio - United States
William B. Campbell age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John Selden Roane age 35
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Joseph Johnson age 66
Governor of Virginia - United States
Washington Hunt age 41
Governor of New York - United States
Enoch Louis Lowe age 32
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 42
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Franklin Fort age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin Van Buren age 69
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 40
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 33
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 16
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 34
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 5
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 32
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 21
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 53
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 47
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 43
Monarch - Denmark
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 43
President - Liberia
Carlos Antonio López age 61
President - Paraguay
Manuel Montt age 42
President - Chile
José Gregorio Monagas age 57
President - Venezuela
José Rufino Echenique age 43
President - Peru
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 38
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 44
President - Bolivia
Juan Francisco Giró age 61
President - Uruguay
José Trinidad Cabañas age 47
President - Honduras
Francisco Dueñas age 41
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 35
King - Netherlands
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Antonios Kriezis age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 61
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jean-Jacques Willmar age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 28
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Karl Marx age 34
Abraham Lincoln age 43
Leo Tolstoy age 23
Charles Darwin age 43
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 30
Friedrich Nietzsche age 7
Thomas Edison age 5
Charles Dickens age 40
Otto von Bismarck age 37
Louis Pasteur age 29
Richard Wagner age 39
Friedrich Engels age 31
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 12
Michael Faraday age 60
Dmitri Mendeleev age 18
Giuseppe Verdi age 38
James Clerk Maxwell age 21
Alexander Graham Bell age 5
Ulysses S. Grant age 30
Claude Monet age 11
Florence Nightingale age 32
James A. Garfield age 20
Grover Cleveland age 15
James Buchanan age 61
John Tyler age 62
William McKinley age 9
Rutherford B. Hayes age 29
Franklin Pierce age 47
Benjamin Harrison age 19
Gregor Mendel age 30
Ada Lovelace age 36
Chester A. Arthur age 22
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 45
Pius X age 17
Leo XIII age 42
Charles Babbage age 60
Carl Benz age 7
Paul von Hindenburg age 4
Edward VII age 10
Alexander II of Russia age 34
Harriet Tubman age 30
Abdul Hamid II age 9
Robert E. Lee age 45
Georges Clemenceau age 10
Empress Dowager Cixi age 16
Alexander III of Russia age 7
Giuseppe Mazzini age 47
Klemens von Metternich age 79
Leopold II of Belgium age 17
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 42
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 187
Frederick Douglass age 34
Wilhelm I age 55
Susan B. Anthony age 32
Arthur Balfour age 4
Jefferson Davis age 44
Benito Juárez age 46
Adolphe Thiers age 55
Ferdinand Foch age 10 months
Porfirio Díaz age 21
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 36
Patrice de MacMahon age 44
Frederick III, German Emperor age 20
Umberto I of Italy age 8
Abdulaziz age 22
Mehmed V age 7
Itō Hirobumi age 10
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 51
William Tecumseh Sherman age 32
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 22
Charles XV age 26
Murad V age 11
Maximilian I of Mexico age 20
Ferdinand I of Austria age 59
Christian IX of Denmark age 34
Oscar II of Sweden age 23
Alexandra of Denmark age 7
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 58
Lajos Kossuth age 49
Amadeo I of Spain age 7
Joseph Joffre age 7 months
John A. Macdonald age 37
Stonewall Jackson age 28
Armand Fallières age 10
Jules Grévy age 45
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 15