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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
Siege of Silistra (1854) 1854-05-15 - 1854-06-23

People

Queen Victoria age 35
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 49
President - United States
Napoleon III age 46
Emperor of the French - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 57
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 34
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 28
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 63
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 31
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 60
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 57
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 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Ewart Gladstone age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jefferson Davis age 46
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 54
Attorney General - United States
James Guthrie age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 62
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 55
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 66
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
William H. Seward age 53
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 61
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 44
Senate - United States
Edward Everett age 60
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 46
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 58
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 47
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 61
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 43
Senate - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 34
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 47
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 31
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 66
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 10
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 5 months
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 42
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 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 55
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 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Horatio Seymour age 44
Governor of New York - United States
John Bigler age 49
Governor of California - United States
Emory Washburn age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Joseph Johnson age 68
Governor of Virginia - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Rodman M. Price age 38
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William Medill age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 71
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 42
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 38
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 36
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 45
President - Liberia
Justo José de Urquiza age 52
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 63
President - Paraguay
Manuel Montt age 44
President - Chile
Venancio Flores age 46
President - Uruguay
José Gregorio Monagas age 59
President - Venezuela
José Rufino Echenique age 45
President - Peru
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 40
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 46
President - Bolivia
José Trinidad Cabañas age 48
President - Honduras
José María Melo age 53
President - Colombia
José María San Martín age 43
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 37
King - Netherlands
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 75
Prime Minister - Denmark
Antonios Kriezis age 58
Prime Minister - Greece
Henri de Brouckère age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Floris Adriaan van Hall age 63
Prime Minister - Netherlands
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 63
Prime Minister - Portugal
Charles-Mathias Simons age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 30
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Karl Marx age 36
Abraham Lincoln age 45
Leo Tolstoy age 25
Charles Darwin age 45
Vincent van Gogh age 1
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 32
Friedrich Nietzsche age 9
Thomas Edison age 7
Charles Dickens age 42
Otto von Bismarck age 39
Louis Pasteur age 31
Richard Wagner age 41
Friedrich Engels age 33
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 14
Michael Faraday age 62
Dmitri Mendeleev age 20
Giuseppe Verdi age 40
James Clerk Maxwell age 22
Alexander Graham Bell age 7
Ulysses S. Grant age 32
Claude Monet age 13
Florence Nightingale age 34
James A. Garfield age 22
Grover Cleveland age 17
Andrew Johnson age 45
James Buchanan age 63
John Tyler age 64
William McKinley age 11
Millard Fillmore age 54
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 44
Charles Babbage age 62
Carl Benz age 9
Paul von Hindenburg age 6
Edward VII age 12
Alexander II of Russia age 36
Harriet Tubman age 32
Abdul Hamid II age 11
Robert E. Lee age 47
Georges Clemenceau age 12
Empress Dowager Cixi age 18
Alexander III of Russia age 9
Giuseppe Mazzini age 48
Klemens von Metternich age 81
Leopold II of Belgium age 19
Cecil Rhodes age 10 months
Emperor Meiji age 1
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 43
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 189
Frederick Douglass age 36
Wilhelm I age 57
Susan B. Anthony age 34
Arthur Balfour age 5
Benito Juárez age 48
Adolphe Thiers age 57
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 10
Abdulaziz age 24
Mehmed V age 9
Itō Hirobumi age 12
Chulalongkorn age 8 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 53
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 51
William Tecumseh Sherman age 34
Charles XV age 28
Murad V age 13
Maximilian I of Mexico age 21
Ferdinand I of Austria age 61
Christian IX of Denmark age 36
Oscar II of Sweden age 25
Alexandra of Denmark age 9
Lajos Kossuth age 51