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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 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 61
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
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 70
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
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
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 54
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 50
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 55
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
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 45
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 43
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 47
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 72
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 46
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 58
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 59
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 48
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 62
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 44
Senate - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 35
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 60
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 38
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 67
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 11
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 1
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
George Cornewall Lewis age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 48
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 27
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 18
House of Representatives - United States
John Bigler age 50
Governor of California - United States
Henry Gardner age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
Joseph Johnson age 69
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
Myron H. Clark age 48
Governor of New York - United States
William Medill age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 72
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 35
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 19
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 37
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 36
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 7
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 35
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 24
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 55
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 50
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 46
Monarch - Denmark
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 45
President - Liberia
Justo José de Urquiza age 53
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 64
President - Paraguay
Manuel Montt age 45
President - Chile
Venancio Flores age 46
President - Uruguay
José Tadeo Monagas age 70
President - Venezuela
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 41
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 46
President - Bolivia
José Trinidad Cabañas age 49
President - Honduras
José de Obaldía age 48
President - Colombia
José María San Martín age 43
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 37
King - Netherlands
Peter Georg Bang age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Henri de Brouckère age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Floris Adriaan van Hall age 63
Prime Minister - Netherlands
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 64
Prime Minister - Portugal
Charles-Mathias Simons age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 31
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Karl Marx age 36
Abraham Lincoln age 46
Leo Tolstoy age 26
Charles Darwin age 46
Vincent van Gogh age 1
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 33
Friedrich Nietzsche age 10
Thomas Edison age 7
Charles Dickens age 43
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 21
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
Andrew Johnson age 46
James Buchanan age 63
John Tyler age 64
William McKinley age 12
Millard Fillmore age 55
Rutherford B. Hayes age 32
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 37
Wilhelm I age 57
Susan B. Anthony age 35
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 25
Mehmed V age 10
Itō Hirobumi age 13
Chulalongkorn age 1
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 54
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 51
William Tecumseh Sherman age 35
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
Lajos Kossuth age 52
Amadeo I of Spain age 9
Joseph Joffre age 3