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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 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) 1853-05-08 - 1855-05-31
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) 1854-10-17 - 1855-09-11

People

Queen Victoria age 35
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 50
President - United States
Napoleon III age 46
Emperor of the French - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 58
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 34
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 29
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 64
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 31
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 60
President - Mexico
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 23
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 23
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 23
Emperor - Imperial China
Rafael Carrera age 39
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 58
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 24
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 23
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 59
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Ewart Gladstone age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jefferson Davis age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 70
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 68
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 68
Secretary Of State - United States
Caleb Cushing age 55
Attorney General - United States
James Guthrie age 62
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 62
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 55
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Isabella II age 24
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 55
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 36
Abraham Lincoln age 45
Leo Tolstoy age 26
Charles Darwin age 45
Vincent van Gogh age 1
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 33
Friedrich Nietzsche age 10
Thomas Edison age 7
Charles Dickens age 42
Otto von Bismarck age 39
Louis Pasteur age 32
Richard Wagner age 41
Friedrich Engels age 34
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 14
Michael Faraday age 63
Dmitri Mendeleev age 20
Giuseppe Verdi age 41
James Clerk Maxwell age 23
Alexander Graham Bell age 7
Ulysses S. Grant age 32
Claude Monet age 14
Florence Nightingale age 34
James A. Garfield age 23
Grover Cleveland age 17
Martin Van Buren age 72
Andrew Johnson age 46
James Buchanan age 63
John Tyler age 64
William McKinley age 11
Millard Fillmore age 55
Rutherford B. Hayes age 32
Benjamin Disraeli age 50
Benjamin Harrison age 21
Gregor Mendel age 32
Chester A. Arthur age 25
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 47
Pius X age 19
Leo XIII age 44
Charles Babbage age 63
Benedict XV age 2 months
Carl Benz age 10
Paul von Hindenburg age 7
Edward VII age 13
Alexander II of Russia age 36
Harriet Tubman age 32
Abdul Hamid II age 12
Robert E. Lee age 48
Georges Clemenceau age 13
Empress Dowager Cixi age 19
Alexander III of Russia age 9
Giuseppe Mazzini age 49
Klemens von Metternich age 81
Leopold II of Belgium age 19
Cecil Rhodes age 1
Emperor Meiji age 2
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 44
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 190
Frederick Douglass age 36
Wilhelm I age 57
Susan B. Anthony age 34
Arthur Balfour age 6
Benito Juárez age 48
Adolphe Thiers age 57
Ferdinand Foch age 3
Porfirio Díaz age 24
H. H. Asquith age 2
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 39
Patrice de MacMahon age 46
Frederick III, German Emperor age 23
Umberto I of Italy age 10
Abdulaziz age 24
Mehmed V age 10
Itō Hirobumi age 13
Chulalongkorn age 1
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 54
William Tecumseh Sherman age 34
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 24
Charles XV age 28
Murad V age 14
Maximilian I of Mexico age 22
Ferdinand I of Austria age 61
Christian IX of Denmark age 36
Oscar II of Sweden age 26
Alexandra of Denmark age 10
Amadeo I of Spain age 9
Joseph Joffre age 3
Stonewall Jackson age 31
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 62
Armand Fallières age 13
William H. Seward age 53
Jules Grévy age 47
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 17
Deodoro da Fonseca age 27
Elihu Root age 9
Sam Houston age 61
Edmund Barton age 6
Bernhard von Bülow age 5
Thomas R. Marshall age 10 months
Hannibal Hamlin age 45
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 11
Carol I of Romania age 15
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 18
Félix Faure age 13
Sergei Witte age 5
Émile Loubet age 16
Menelik II age 10
John C. Breckinridge age 34
Henry Wilson age 42
Jean Casimir-Perier age 7
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 4
Charles W. Fairbanks age 2
Abdur Rahman Khan age 15
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 16
George M. Dallas age 62
Garret Hobart age 10
Levi P. Morton age 30
William A. Wheeler age 35
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 6
Leo von Caprivi age 23
Schuyler Colfax age 31
Thomas A. Hendricks age 35
Katsura Tarō age 7
Saigō Takamori age 27
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 4
Clara Barton age 33
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 7
Peter I of Serbia age 10
Georg von Hertling age 11
Constantin Fehrenbach age 3
Giovanni Giolitti age 12
Yamagata Aritomo age 16
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 35
Demetrios Vikelas age 19
Joseph Chamberlain age 18
Ismail Kemal age 11
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 2
Terauchi Masatake age 2
Francesco Crispi age 36
George B. McClellan age 28
Wilfrid Laurier age 13
Nikola Pašić age 9
David Farragut age 53
Matsukata Masayoshi age 19
Floriano Peixoto age 15
Victoriano Huerta age 4
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 17
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 14
Prudente de Morais age 13
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 1
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 2
Hong Xiuquan age 41
George Meade age 39
George Reid age 9
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 37
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 6
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 72
Saionji Kinmochi age 5
Bettino Ricasoli age 45
Antonio Salandra age 1
Rodrigues Alves age 6
Afonso Pena age 7
Julio Argentino Roca age 11
Abraham Kuyper age 17
Agostino Depretis age 42
Sidney Sonnino age 7
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 2
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 2
Urbano Rattazzi age 46
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 50
Campos Sales age 13