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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 39
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
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
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 27
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 27
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 27
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 28
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 27
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 62
King - Kingdom of Prussia
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
Benjamin Disraeli age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 72
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 76
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 48
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 73
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 70
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 49
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 50
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 57
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 65
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 49
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 46
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 59
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 71
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 62
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 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 66
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 42
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 48
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 8 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
Joseph McKenna age 15
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 46
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 66
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 35
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 33
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
Henry W. Slocum age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 57
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 60
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 37
Governor of Georgia - United States
Hardin Richard Runnels age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
John A. King age 70
Governor of New York - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William A. Newell age 41
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 39
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 23
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 40
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 40
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 11
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 59
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 53
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 50
Monarch - Denmark
Justo José de Urquiza age 56
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 67
President - Paraguay
Stephen Allen Benson age 42
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 49
President - Chile
José Santos Guardiola age 41
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 44
President - Costa Rica
Julián Castro age 48
President - Venezuela
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez age 52
President - Colombia
José María Linares age 50
President - Bolivia
Francisco Robles age 48
President - Ecuador
Miguel Santín del Castillo age 28
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 41
King - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 58
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
Thomas Gore Browne age 51
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 40
Abraham Lincoln age 49
Leo Tolstoy age 30
Charles Darwin age 49
Vincent van Gogh age 5
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 36
Friedrich Nietzsche age 13
Thomas Edison age 11
Sigmund Freud age 2
Charles Dickens age 46
Otto von Bismarck age 43
Nikola Tesla age 2
Louis Pasteur age 35
Richard Wagner age 45
Friedrich Engels age 37
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 18
Woodrow Wilson age 1
Max Planck age 5 months
Michael Faraday age 67
Dmitri Mendeleev age 24
Giuseppe Verdi age 45
James Clerk Maxwell age 27
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 1
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 25
Gregor Mendel age 36
Chester A. Arthur age 28
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 51
Pius XI age 1
Pius X age 23
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
Harriet Tubman age 36
Abdul Hamid II age 16
Robert E. Lee age 51
Georges Clemenceau age 17
Empress Dowager Cixi age 22
Alexander III of Russia age 13
Giuseppe Mazzini age 53
Philippe Pétain age 2
Klemens von Metternich age 85
Leopold II of Belgium age 23
Cecil Rhodes age 5
Emperor Meiji age 5
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 48
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 193
Frederick Douglass age 40
Wilhelm I age 61
Susan B. Anthony age 38
Arthur Balfour age 10
Adolphe Thiers age 61
Emmeline Pankhurst age 2 months
Ferdinand Foch age 6
Porfirio Díaz age 28
H. H. Asquith age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 42
Patrice de MacMahon age 50
Frederick III, German Emperor age 26
Umberto I of Italy age 14
Abdulaziz age 28
Mehmed V age 13