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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
Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) 1853-05-08 - 1855-05-31
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30

People

Queen Victoria age 34
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 49
President - United States
Napoleon III age 45
Emperor of the French - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 57
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 33
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 28
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 63
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 30
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 59
President - Mexico
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 22
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 22
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 22
Emperor - Imperial China
Rafael Carrera age 38
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 56
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 23
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 22
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 58
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Ewart Gladstone age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jefferson Davis age 45
Secretary of War - United States
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 69
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 67
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Caleb Cushing age 53
Attorney General - United States
James Guthrie age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 49
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 54
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
James Alexander Hamilton age 65
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
William H. Seward age 52
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 60
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 44
Senate - United States
Edward Everett age 59
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 45
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 71
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 45
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 57
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 57
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 61
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 42
Senate - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 34
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 30
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 37
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 43
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 66
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 69
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 26
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Martin Van Buren age 71
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 34
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 18
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 6
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 34
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 23
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 54
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 49
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 45
Monarch - Denmark
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 44
President - Liberia
Carlos Antonio López age 63
President - Paraguay
Fructuoso Rivera age 69
President - Uruguay
Manuel Montt age 44
President - Chile
José Gregorio Monagas age 58
President - Venezuela
José Rufino Echenique age 45
President - Peru
José María Obando age 58
President - Colombia
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 39
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 45
President - Bolivia
José Trinidad Cabañas age 48
President - Honduras
Francisco Dueñas age 43
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 36
King - Netherlands
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 75
Prime Minister - Denmark
Antonios Kriezis age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Henri de Brouckère age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Floris Adriaan van Hall age 62
Prime Minister - Netherlands
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 63
Prime Minister - Portugal
Charles-Mathias Simons age 51
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 29
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Karl Marx age 35
Abraham Lincoln age 44
Leo Tolstoy age 25
Charles Darwin age 44
Vincent van Gogh age 8 months
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 32
Friedrich Nietzsche age 9
Thomas Edison age 6
Charles Dickens age 41
Otto von Bismarck age 38
Louis Pasteur age 30
Richard Wagner age 40
Friedrich Engels age 33
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 13
Michael Faraday age 62
Dmitri Mendeleev age 19
Giuseppe Verdi age 40
James Clerk Maxwell age 22
Alexander Graham Bell age 6
Ulysses S. Grant age 31
Claude Monet age 13
Florence Nightingale age 33
James A. Garfield age 22
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 31
Benjamin Harrison age 20
Gregor Mendel age 31
Chester A. Arthur age 24
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 46
Pius X age 18
Leo XIII age 43
Charles Babbage age 62
Carl Benz age 9
Paul von Hindenburg age 6
Edward VII age 12
Alexander II of Russia age 35
Harriet Tubman age 31
Abdul Hamid II age 11
Robert E. Lee age 46
Georges Clemenceau age 12
Empress Dowager Cixi age 18
Alexander III of Russia age 8
Giuseppe Mazzini age 48
Klemens von Metternich age 80
Leopold II of Belgium age 18
Cecil Rhodes age 5 months
Emperor Meiji age 1
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 43
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 188
Frederick Douglass age 35
Wilhelm I age 56
Susan B. Anthony age 33
Arthur Balfour age 5
Benito Juárez age 47
Adolphe Thiers age 56
Ferdinand Foch age 2
Porfirio Díaz age 23
H. H. Asquith age 1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 38
Patrice de MacMahon age 45
Frederick III, German Emperor age 22
Umberto I of Italy age 9
Abdulaziz age 23
Mehmed V age 9
Itō Hirobumi age 12
Chulalongkorn age 2 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 53
William Tecumseh Sherman age 33
Charles XV age 27
Murad V age 13
Maximilian I of Mexico age 21
Ferdinand I of Austria age 60
Christian IX of Denmark age 35
Oscar II of Sweden age 24
Alexandra of Denmark age 9
Lajos Kossuth age 51
Amadeo I of Spain age 8
Joseph Joffre age 1
John A. Macdonald age 38
Stonewall Jackson age 29
Armand Fallières age 12
Jules Grévy age 46
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 16
Deodoro da Fonseca age 26
Auguste Beernaert age 24
Elihu Root age 8
Edmund Barton age 4
Bernhard von Bülow age 4
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 10
Carol I of Romania age 14
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 17