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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
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 32
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 67
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 40
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 42
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 61
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 62
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 73
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 80
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 36
Vice President - United States
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 57
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Winfield Scott age 71
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 75
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 48
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
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 53
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 58
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Matthew Talbot Baines age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 69
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 49
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 49
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 56
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 64
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 48
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 45
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 58
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 70
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 61
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 51
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 47
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 44
Senate - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Schuyler Colfax age 34
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 63
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 41
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 14
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Salmon P. Chase age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry A. Wise age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
J. Neely Johnson age 32
Governor of California - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 36
Governor of Georgia - United States
Henry Gardner age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Hardin Richard Runnels age 37
Governor of Texas - United States
John A. King age 70
Governor of New York - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
William A. Newell age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ashbel P. Willard age 37
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 75
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 38
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 22
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 39
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 10
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 38
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 27
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 58
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 53
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 49
Monarch - Denmark
Justo José de Urquiza age 56
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 67
President - Paraguay
Stephen Allen Benson age 41
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 48
President - Chile
José Tadeo Monagas age 73
President - Venezuela
José Santos Guardiola age 41
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 43
President - Costa Rica
José María Linares age 49
President - Bolivia
Francisco Robles age 47
President - Ecuador
Rafael Campo age 44
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 40
King - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Carl Christian Hall age 45
Prime Minister - Denmark
Athanasios Miaoulis age 43
Prime Minister - Greece
Justinus van der Brugghen age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles-Mathias Simons age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 38
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainivoninahitriniony age 34
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thomas Gore Browne age 50
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 39
Abraham Lincoln age 48
Leo Tolstoy age 29
Charles Darwin age 48
Vincent van Gogh age 4
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 36
Friedrich Nietzsche age 13
Thomas Edison age 10
Sigmund Freud age 1
Charles Dickens age 45
Otto von Bismarck age 42
Nikola Tesla age 1
Louis Pasteur age 35
Richard Wagner age 44
Friedrich Engels age 37
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 17
Woodrow Wilson age 1
Michael Faraday age 66
Dmitri Mendeleev age 23
Giuseppe Verdi age 44
James Clerk Maxwell age 26
Alexander Graham Bell age 10
Ulysses S. Grant age 35
Claude Monet age 17
Florence Nightingale age 37
James A. Garfield age 26
William Howard Taft age 3 months
Grover Cleveland age 20
John Tyler age 67
William McKinley age 14
Millard Fillmore age 58
Rutherford B. Hayes age 35
Franklin Pierce age 53
Benjamin Harrison age 24
Gregor Mendel age 35
Chester A. Arthur age 28
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 50
Pius XI age 7 months
Pius X age 22
Leo XIII age 47
Charles Babbage age 66
Benedict XV age 3
Carl Benz age 13
Paul von Hindenburg age 10
Edward VII age 16
Harriet Tubman age 35
Abdul Hamid II age 15
Robert E. Lee age 50
Georges Clemenceau age 16
Empress Dowager Cixi age 22
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 5
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 47
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 193
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 6
Porfirio Díaz age 27
H. H. Asquith age 5
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 42
Patrice de MacMahon age 49
Frederick III, German Emperor age 26
Umberto I of Italy age 13
Abdulaziz age 27
Mehmed V age 13
Itō Hirobumi age 16
Chulalongkorn age 4
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 57
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 54