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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
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) 1854-10-17 - 1855-09-11

People

Queen Victoria age 36
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 50
President - United States
Napoleon III age 47
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 37
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 35
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 29
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 64
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 32
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 24
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 24
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 24
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 37
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 39
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 58
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 25
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 24
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 59
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Martín Carrera age 48
President - Mexico
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Jefferson Davis age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Winfield Scott age 69
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
George Cornewall Lewis age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 56
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Isabella II age 24
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 56
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 37
Abraham Lincoln age 46
Leo Tolstoy age 26
Charles Darwin age 46
Vincent van Gogh age 2
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 33
Friedrich Nietzsche age 10
Thomas Edison age 8
Charles Dickens age 43
Otto von Bismarck age 40
Louis Pasteur age 32
Richard Wagner age 42
Friedrich Engels age 34
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 15
Michael Faraday age 63
Dmitri Mendeleev age 21
Giuseppe Verdi age 41
James Clerk Maxwell age 24
Alexander Graham Bell age 8
Ulysses S. Grant age 33
Claude Monet age 14
Florence Nightingale age 35
James A. Garfield age 23
Grover Cleveland age 18
Martin Van Buren age 72
Andrew Johnson age 46
James Buchanan age 64
John Tyler age 65
William McKinley age 12
Millard Fillmore age 55
Rutherford B. Hayes age 32
Benjamin Disraeli age 50
Benjamin Harrison age 22
Gregor Mendel age 33
Chester A. Arthur age 25
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 48
Pius X age 20
Leo XIII age 45
Charles Babbage age 63
Benedict XV age 9 months
Carl Benz age 10
Paul von Hindenburg age 7
Edward VII age 13
Harriet Tubman age 33
Abdul Hamid II age 12
Robert E. Lee age 48
Georges Clemenceau age 13
Empress Dowager Cixi age 19
William Ewart Gladstone age 45
Alexander III of Russia age 10
Giuseppe Mazzini age 50
Klemens von Metternich age 82
Leopold II of Belgium age 20
Cecil Rhodes age 2
Emperor Meiji age 2
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 45
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 190
Frederick Douglass age 37
Wilhelm I age 58
Susan B. Anthony age 35
Arthur Balfour age 7
Benito Juárez age 49
Adolphe Thiers age 58
Ferdinand Foch age 3
Porfirio Díaz age 24
H. H. Asquith age 2
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 39
Patrice de MacMahon age 47
Frederick III, German Emperor age 23
Umberto I of Italy age 11
Abdulaziz age 25
Mehmed V age 10
Itō Hirobumi age 13
Chulalongkorn age 1
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 54
William Tecumseh Sherman age 35
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 25
Charles XV age 29
Murad V age 14
Maximilian I of Mexico age 23
Ferdinand I of Austria age 62
Christian IX of Denmark age 37
Oscar II of Sweden age 26
Alexandra of Denmark age 10
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 61
Amadeo I of Spain age 10
Joseph Joffre age 3
Stonewall Jackson age 31
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 63
Armand Fallières age 13
William H. Seward age 54
Jules Grévy age 48
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 18
Deodoro da Fonseca age 28
Elihu Root age 10
Sam Houston age 62
Edmund Barton age 6
Bernhard von Bülow age 6
Thomas R. Marshall age 1
Hannibal Hamlin age 46
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 12
Carol I of Romania age 16
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 71
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 18
Félix Faure age 14
Sergei Witte age 6
Émile Loubet age 16
Menelik II age 11
John C. Breckinridge age 34
Henry Wilson age 43
Jean Casimir-Perier age 7
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 5
Charles W. Fairbanks age 3
Paul Deschanel age 6 months
Abdur Rahman Khan age 15
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 17
George M. Dallas age 63
Garret Hobart age 11
Levi P. Morton age 31
William A. Wheeler age 36
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 7
Leo von Caprivi age 24
Schuyler Colfax age 32
Thomas A. Hendricks age 35
Katsura Tarō age 7
Saigō Takamori age 27
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 5
Clara Barton age 33
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 8
Peter I of Serbia age 11
Georg von Hertling age 11
Constantin Fehrenbach age 3
Giovanni Giolitti age 12
Yamagata Aritomo age 17
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 36
Demetrios Vikelas age 20
Joseph Chamberlain age 19
Ismail Kemal age 11
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 2
Terauchi Masatake age 3
Francesco Crispi age 36
George B. McClellan age 28
Wilfrid Laurier age 13
Nikola Pašić age 9
David Farragut age 54
Matsukata Masayoshi age 20
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 2 months
Floriano Peixoto age 16
Victoriano Huerta age 4
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 17
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 14
Prudente de Morais age 13
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 2
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 2
Hong Xiuquan age 41
George Meade age 39
George Reid age 10
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 38
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 6
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 72
Saionji Kinmochi age 5
Bettino Ricasoli age 46
Antonio Salandra age 2
Rodrigues Alves age 7
Afonso Pena age 7
Julio Argentino Roca age 12
Abraham Kuyper age 17
Agostino Depretis age 42
Sidney Sonnino age 8
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 3