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Events

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
Franklin Pierce age 48
President - United States
Napoleon III age 45
Emperor of the French - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 56
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 33
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 27
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 62
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 37
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 56
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 57
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Manuel María Lombardini age 50
President - Mexico
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William R. King age 67
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jefferson Davis age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 68
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 66
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Caleb Cushing age 53
Attorney General - United States
James Guthrie age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 60
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 48
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 54
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 65
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
William H. Seward age 51
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 60
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 43
Senate - United States
Edward Everett age 59
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 45
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 70
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 44
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 56
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 57
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 60
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 42
Senate - United States
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 33
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 46
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 36
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 65
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
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
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Horatio Seymour age 42
Governor of New York - United States
John Bigler age 48
Governor of California - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
John H. Clifford age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Reuben Wood age 61
Governor of Ohio - United States
William B. Campbell age 46
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Joseph Johnson age 67
Governor of Virginia - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Enoch Louis Lowe age 32
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 43
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Franklin Fort age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin Van Buren age 70
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 33
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 17
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 37
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 35
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 5
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 33
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 22
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 53
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 48
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 44
Monarch - Denmark
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 44
President - Liberia
Carlos Antonio López age 62
President - Paraguay
Manuel Montt age 43
President - Chile
José Gregorio Monagas age 58
President - Venezuela
José Rufino Echenique age 44
President - Peru
José María Obando age 57
President - Colombia
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 39
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 45
President - Bolivia
Juan Francisco Giró age 61
President - Uruguay
José Trinidad Cabañas age 47
President - Honduras
Francisco Dueñas age 42
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 36
King - Netherlands
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Antonios Kriezis age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Henri de Brouckère age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 62
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jean-Jacques Willmar age 61
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 29
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Karl Marx age 34
Abraham Lincoln age 44
Leo Tolstoy age 24
Charles Darwin age 44
Vincent van Gogh age 0 months
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 31
Friedrich Nietzsche age 8
Thomas Edison age 6
Charles Dickens age 41
Otto von Bismarck age 38
Louis Pasteur age 30
Richard Wagner age 39
Friedrich Engels age 32
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 12
Michael Faraday age 61
Dmitri Mendeleev age 19
Giuseppe Verdi age 39
James Clerk Maxwell age 21
Alexander Graham Bell age 6
Ulysses S. Grant age 30
Claude Monet age 12
Florence Nightingale age 32
James A. Garfield age 21
Grover Cleveland age 16
Andrew Johnson age 44
James Buchanan age 62
John Tyler age 63
William McKinley age 10
Millard Fillmore age 53
Rutherford B. Hayes age 30
Benjamin Harrison age 19
Gregor Mendel age 30
Chester A. Arthur age 23
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 45
Pius X age 17
Leo XIII age 43
Charles Babbage age 61
Carl Benz age 8
Paul von Hindenburg age 5
Edward VII age 11
Alexander II of Russia age 34
Harriet Tubman age 31
Abdul Hamid II age 10
Robert E. Lee age 46
Georges Clemenceau age 11
Empress Dowager Cixi age 17
Alexander III of Russia age 8
Giuseppe Mazzini age 47
Klemens von Metternich age 79
Leopold II of Belgium age 18
Emperor Meiji age 5 months
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 42
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 188
Frederick Douglass age 35
Wilhelm I age 56
Susan B. Anthony age 33
Arthur Balfour age 4
Benito Juárez age 47
Adolphe Thiers age 56
Ferdinand Foch age 1
Porfirio Díaz age 22
H. H. Asquith age 7 months
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 37
Patrice de MacMahon age 44
Frederick III, German Emperor age 21
Umberto I of Italy age 9
Abdulaziz age 23
Mehmed V age 8
Itō Hirobumi age 11
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 52
William Tecumseh Sherman age 33
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 23
Charles XV age 26
Murad V age 12
Maximilian I of Mexico age 20
Ferdinand I of Austria age 60
Christian IX of Denmark age 35
Oscar II of Sweden age 24
Alexandra of Denmark age 8
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 59
Lajos Kossuth age 50
Amadeo I of Spain age 7
Joseph Joffre age 1