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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
Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857-05-10 - 1858-11-01

People

Queen Victoria age 38
Queen - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 66
President - United States
Napoleon III age 49
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 39
Emperor - Russian Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 37
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 31
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 66
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 34
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 26
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 26
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 26
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 27
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 26
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 61
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Ignacio Comonfort age 45
President - Mexico
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 72
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 80
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 36
Vice President - United States
Winfield Scott age 71
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 74
Secretary Of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 47
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 51
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 42
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 59
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 58
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Jefferson Davis age 49
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 49
Governor Of Ohio - United States
Isabella II age 26
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 58
King - Sweden
Karl Marx age 39
Abraham Lincoln age 48
Leo Tolstoy age 28
Charles Darwin age 48
Vincent van Gogh age 4
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 35
Friedrich Nietzsche age 12
Thomas Edison age 10
Sigmund Freud age 1
Charles Dickens age 45
Otto von Bismarck age 42
Nikola Tesla age 1
Louis Pasteur age 34
Richard Wagner age 44
Friedrich Engels age 36
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 17
Woodrow Wilson age 8 months
Michael Faraday age 65
Dmitri Mendeleev age 23
Giuseppe Verdi age 43
James Clerk Maxwell age 26
Alexander Graham Bell age 10
Ulysses S. Grant age 35
Claude Monet age 16
Florence Nightingale age 37
James A. Garfield age 25
Grover Cleveland age 20
Martin Van Buren age 74
Andrew Johnson age 48
John Tyler age 67
William McKinley age 14
Millard Fillmore age 57
Rutherford B. Hayes age 34
Franklin Pierce age 52
Benjamin Disraeli age 52
Benjamin Harrison age 24
Gregor Mendel age 35
Chester A. Arthur age 27
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 50
Pius XI age 2 months
Pius X age 22
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 12
Giuseppe Mazzini age 52
Philippe Pétain age 1
Klemens von Metternich age 84
Leopold II of Belgium age 22
Cecil Rhodes age 4
Emperor Meiji age 4
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 47
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 192
Frederick Douglass age 39
Wilhelm I age 60
Susan B. Anthony age 37
Arthur Balfour age 9
Benito Juárez age 51
Adolphe Thiers age 60
Ferdinand Foch age 5
Porfirio Díaz age 26
H. H. Asquith age 4
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 41
Patrice de MacMahon age 49
Frederick III, German Emperor age 25
Umberto I of Italy age 13
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 31
Murad V age 16
Maximilian I of Mexico age 25
Ferdinand I of Austria age 64
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 9 months
Christian IX of Denmark age 39
Oscar II of Sweden age 28
Alexandra of Denmark age 12
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 63
Amadeo I of Spain age 12
Joseph Joffre age 5
Paul Doumer age 5 months
Stonewall Jackson age 33
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 65
Armand Fallières age 15
William H. Seward age 56
Jules Grévy age 50
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 20
Deodoro da Fonseca age 30
Elihu Root age 12
Sam Houston age 64
Edmund Barton age 8
Bernhard von Bülow age 8
Thomas R. Marshall age 3
Hannibal Hamlin age 48
Frank B. Kellogg age 8 months
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 14
Carol I of Romania age 18
Alfred Deakin age 1
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 73
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 20
Félix Faure age 16
Sergei Witte age 8
Émile Loubet age 18
Menelik II age 13
Henry Wilson age 45
Jean Casimir-Perier age 9
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 7
Charles W. Fairbanks age 5
Paul Deschanel age 2
Abdur Rahman Khan age 17
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 19
George M. Dallas age 65
Garret Hobart age 13
Levi P. Morton age 33
William A. Wheeler age 38
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 9
Leo von Caprivi age 26
Schuyler Colfax age 34
Thomas A. Hendricks age 38
Christian Michelsen age 5 months
Katsura Tarō age 9
Saigō Takamori age 29
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 7
Clara Barton age 35
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 10
Peter I of Serbia age 13
James S. Sherman age 1
Georg von Hertling age 14
Constantin Fehrenbach age 5
Giovanni Giolitti age 14
Yamagata Aritomo age 19
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 38
Demetrios Vikelas age 22
Joseph Chamberlain age 21
Ismail Kemal age 13
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 4
Terauchi Masatake age 5
Hara Takashi age 1
Francesco Crispi age 38
George B. McClellan age 30
Tongzhi Emperor age 1
Wilfrid Laurier age 15
Nikola Pašić age 11
David Farragut age 56
Matsukata Masayoshi age 22
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 2
Floriano Peixoto age 18
Victoriano Huerta age 6
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 19
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 16
Prudente de Morais age 15
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 4
Robert Nivelle age 10 months