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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24

People

Queen Victoria age 37
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce age 52
President - United States
Napoleon III age 48
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 38
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 36
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 31
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 66
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 33
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 25
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 25
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 25
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 39
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 41
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 60
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 26
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 25
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 61
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Ignacio Comonfort age 44
President - Mexico
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 72
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 80
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Jefferson Davis age 48
Secretary of War - United States
Winfield Scott age 70
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 70
Secretary Of State - United States
Caleb Cushing age 57
Attorney General - United States
James Guthrie age 64
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 58
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 57
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Salmon P. Chase age 49
Governor Of Ohio - United States
Isabella II age 26
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 57
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 38
Abraham Lincoln age 48
Leo Tolstoy age 28
Charles Darwin age 48
Vincent van Gogh age 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 35
Friedrich Nietzsche age 12
Thomas Edison age 10
Sigmund Freud age 9 months
Charles Dickens age 45
Otto von Bismarck age 41
Nikola Tesla age 7 months
Louis Pasteur age 34
Richard Wagner age 43
Friedrich Engels age 36
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 16
Woodrow Wilson age 2 months
Michael Faraday age 65
Dmitri Mendeleev age 23
Giuseppe Verdi age 43
James Clerk Maxwell age 25
Alexander Graham Bell age 10
Ulysses S. Grant age 34
Claude Monet age 16
Florence Nightingale age 36
James A. Garfield age 25
Grover Cleveland age 19
Martin Van Buren age 74
Andrew Johnson age 48
James Buchanan age 65
John Tyler age 66
William McKinley age 14
Millard Fillmore age 57
Rutherford B. Hayes age 34
Benjamin Disraeli age 52
Benjamin Harrison age 23
Gregor Mendel age 34
Chester A. Arthur age 27
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 49
Pius X age 21
Leo XIII age 47
Charles Babbage age 65
Benedict XV age 2
Carl Benz age 12
Paul von Hindenburg age 9
Edward VII age 15
Harriet Tubman age 35
Abdul Hamid II age 14
Robert E. Lee age 50
Georges Clemenceau age 15
Empress Dowager Cixi age 21
William Ewart Gladstone age 47
Alexander III of Russia age 11
Giuseppe Mazzini age 51
Philippe Pétain age 10 months
Klemens von Metternich age 83
Leopold II of Belgium age 21
Cecil Rhodes age 3
Emperor Meiji age 4
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 46
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 192
Frederick Douglass age 39
Wilhelm I age 59
Susan B. Anthony age 37
Arthur Balfour age 8
Benito Juárez age 50
Adolphe Thiers age 59
Ferdinand Foch age 5
Porfirio Díaz age 26
H. H. Asquith age 4
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 41
Patrice de MacMahon age 48
Frederick III, German Emperor age 25
Umberto I of Italy age 12
Abdulaziz age 27
Mehmed V age 12
Itō Hirobumi age 15
Chulalongkorn age 3
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 56
William Tecumseh Sherman age 37
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 27
Charles XV age 30
Murad V age 16
Maximilian I of Mexico age 24
Ferdinand I of Austria age 63
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 3 months
Christian IX of Denmark age 38
Oscar II of Sweden age 28
Alexandra of Denmark age 12
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 63
Amadeo I of Spain age 11
Joseph Joffre age 5
Stonewall Jackson age 33
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 64
Armand Fallières age 15
William H. Seward age 55
Jules Grévy age 49
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 19
Deodoro da Fonseca age 29
Elihu Root age 12
Sam Houston age 64
Edmund Barton age 8
Bernhard von Bülow age 7
Thomas R. Marshall age 2
Hannibal Hamlin age 47
Frank B. Kellogg age 2 months
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 13
Carol I of Romania age 17
Alfred Deakin age 6 months
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 73
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 20
Félix Faure age 16
Sergei Witte age 7
Émile Loubet age 18
Menelik II age 12
John C. Breckinridge age 36
Henry Wilson age 45
Jean Casimir-Perier age 9
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 6
Charles W. Fairbanks age 4
Paul Deschanel age 2
Abdur Rahman Khan age 17
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 18
George M. Dallas age 64
Garret Hobart age 12
Levi P. Morton age 32
William A. Wheeler age 37
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 8
Leo von Caprivi age 26
Schuyler Colfax age 33
Thomas A. Hendricks age 37
Katsura Tarō age 9
Saigō Takamori age 29
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 6
Clara Barton age 35
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 9
Peter I of Serbia age 12
James S. Sherman age 1
Georg von Hertling age 13
Constantin Fehrenbach age 5
Giovanni Giolitti age 14
Yamagata Aritomo age 18
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 37
Demetrios Vikelas age 22
Joseph Chamberlain age 20
Ismail Kemal age 13
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 4
Terauchi Masatake age 5
Hara Takashi age 11 months
Francesco Crispi age 38
George B. McClellan age 30
Tongzhi Emperor age 10 months
Wilfrid Laurier age 15
Nikola Pašić age 11
David Farragut age 55
Matsukata Masayoshi age 22
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 1
Floriano Peixoto age 17
Victoriano Huerta age 6
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 19
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 16
Prudente de Morais age 15
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 3
Robert Nivelle age 4 months
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 4
Hong Xiuquan age 43
George Meade age 41
George Reid age 12