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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Argentine Civil Wars 1814 - 1880
Texas–Indian wars 1820 - 1882
Carlist Wars 1833 - 1876
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Apache Wars 1849 - 1924
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 67
President - United States
Napoleon III age 50
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 27
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Benito Juárez age 52
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 38
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 32
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 67
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 35
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 62
King - Kingdom of Prussia
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
Cheoljong of Joseon age 26
King - Joseon
Rafael Carrera age 42
President - Guatemala
Félix María Zuloaga age 45
President - Mexico
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 81
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 37
Vice President - United States
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 43
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
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
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby age 31
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 73
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
J. W. Henley age 65
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Andrew Johnson age 49
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 49
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 57
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 65
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 48
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 46
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 47
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 59
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 70
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 62
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 51
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 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Schuyler Colfax age 35
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 64
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 35
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 58
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 4 months
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 45
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
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
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 59
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
George Ward Hunt age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Salmon P. Chase age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry A. Wise age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Weller age 46
Governor of California - United States
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 59
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 37
Governor of Georgia - 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
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
George S. Boutwell age 40
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 38
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 40
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 10
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Isabella II age 27
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 58
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 53
King - Thailand
William III of the Netherlands age 41
King - Netherlands
Frederick VII of Denmark age 49
Monarch - Denmark
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 46
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 48
King of the Two Sicilies - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Georg V of Hanover age 38
King of Hanover - Kingdom of Hanover
John of Saxony age 56
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Leopold II of Tuscany age 60
Grand Duke of Tuscany - Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Justo José de Urquiza age 56
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 67
President - Paraguay
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 31
Grand Duke of Baden - Grand Duchy of Baden
Tokugawa Iesada age 34
Shōgun - Tokugawa shogunate
Louis III of Hesse age 51
Grand Duke of Hesse - Grand Duchy of Hesse
Robert I of Parma age 9
Duke of Parma - Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
Francis V of Modena age 38
Duke of Modena - Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Stephen Allen Benson age 41
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 48
President - Chile
Kamehameha IV age 24
Monarch of Hawaii - Kingdom of Hawaii
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 55
Elector of Hesse - Electorate of Hesse
Majid bin Said age 24
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Peter II of Oldenburg age 30
Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Oldenburg
José Santos Guardiola age 41
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 44
President - Costa Rica
Julián Castro age 48
President - Venezuela
José María Linares age 49
President - Bolivia
Francisco Robles age 48
President - Ecuador
Glele age 44
King of Dahomey - Kingdom of Dahomey
Muteesa I of Buganda age 21
Kabaka - Kingdom of Buganda
Miguel Santín del Castillo age 28
President - El Salvador
Mwezi IV of Burundi age 18
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Kwaku Dua I age 61
Asantehene - Asante Empire
Ali Babba bin Bello age 50
Sultan of Sokoto - Sokoto Caliphate
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius age 38
State President - South African Republic
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff age 50
State President - Orange Free State
Pope Pius IX age 66
Pope - Papal States
Afzal-ud-Daula age 30
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Mpande age 60
King of the Zulu - Zulu Kingdom
Charles Rogier age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Carl Christian Hall age 46
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jan Jacob Rochussen age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Athanasios Miaoulis age 43
Prime Minister - Greece
Charles-Mathias Simons age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 39
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainivoninahitriniony age 34
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Jung Bahadur Rana age 40
Prime Minister - Nepal
Thomas Gore Browne age 50
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 40
Abraham Lincoln age 49
Leo Tolstoy age 29
Charles Darwin age 49
Vincent van Gogh age 5
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 36
Friedrich Nietzsche age 13
Thomas Edison age 11
Sigmund Freud age 1
Charles Dickens age 46
Otto von Bismarck age 43
Nikola Tesla age 1
Louis Pasteur age 35
Richard Wagner age 44
Friedrich Engels age 37
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 18
Woodrow Wilson age 1
Max Planck age 0 months
Michael Faraday age 66
Dmitri Mendeleev age 24
Giuseppe Verdi age 44
James Clerk Maxwell age 26
Alexander Graham Bell age 11
Ulysses S. Grant age 36
Claude Monet age 17
Florence Nightingale age 38
James A. Garfield age 26
William Howard Taft age 7 months
Grover Cleveland age 21
John Tyler age 68
William McKinley age 15
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 11 months
Pius X age 22
Leo XIII age 48
Charles Babbage age 66
Benedict XV age 3
Carl Benz age 13
Paul von Hindenburg age 10
Edward VII age 16
Henry Dunant age 30
Harriet Tubman age 36
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 1
Abdul Hamid II age 15