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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

People

Queen Victoria age 40
Queen - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 68
President - United States
Napoleon III age 51
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 41
Emperor - Russian Empire
Benito Juárez age 53
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 39
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 33
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 68
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 36
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 41
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 43
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 62
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 63
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 82
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 38
Vice President - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 56
Secretary of State for the Colonies - 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 49
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 74
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 71
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 50
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 50
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 58
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 49
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 47
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 60
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 71
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 52
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 48
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 45
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 57
Senate - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Schuyler Colfax age 36
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 65
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Corwin age 64
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 15
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 46
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 53
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 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 56
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 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Salmon P. Chase age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry A. Wise age 52
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Weller age 47
Governor of California - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 48
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 60
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 38
Governor of Georgia - United States
Hardin Richard Runnels age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 47
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William A. Newell age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ashbel P. Willard age 38
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 76
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 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 41
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 11
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 39
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 28
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 59
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 54
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 50
Monarch - Denmark
Justo José de Urquiza age 57
President - Argentina
Carlos Antonio López age 68
President - Paraguay
Stephen Allen Benson age 43
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 49
President - Chile
José Santos Guardiola age 42
President - Honduras
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 45
President - Costa Rica
Julián Castro age 49
President - Venezuela
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez age 53
President - Colombia
José María Linares age 50
President - Bolivia
Fabre Geffrard age 52
President - Haiti
Francisco Robles age 49
President - Ecuador
Gerardo Barrios age 45
President - El Salvador
Charles Canning age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 42
King - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Carl Christian Hall age 47
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jan Jacob Rochussen age 61
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Athanasios Miaoulis age 44
Prime Minister - Greece
Charles-Mathias Simons age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 40
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainivoninahitriniony age 35
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Constantin A. Kretzulescu age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Thomas Gore Browne age 51
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 41
Abraham Lincoln age 50
Leo Tolstoy age 30
Charles Darwin age 50
Vincent van Gogh age 6
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 37
Friedrich Nietzsche age 14
Thomas Edison age 12
Sigmund Freud age 3
Charles Dickens age 47
Otto von Bismarck age 44
Nikola Tesla age 2
Louis Pasteur age 36
Richard Wagner age 46
Friedrich Engels age 38
Theodore Roosevelt age 6 months
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 19
Woodrow Wilson age 2
Max Planck age 1
Michael Faraday age 67
Dmitri Mendeleev age 25
Giuseppe Verdi age 45
James Clerk Maxwell age 27
Alexander Graham Bell age 12
Ulysses S. Grant age 37
Claude Monet age 18
Florence Nightingale age 39
James A. Garfield age 27
William Howard Taft age 1
Grover Cleveland age 22
John Tyler age 69
William McKinley age 16
Millard Fillmore age 59
Rutherford B. Hayes age 36
Franklin Pierce age 54
Benjamin Harrison age 25
Gregor Mendel age 36
Chester A. Arthur age 29
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 51
Wilhelm II age 3 months
Pius XI age 1
Pius X age 23
Leo XIII age 49
Charles Babbage age 67
Benedict XV age 4
Carl Benz age 14
Paul von Hindenburg age 11
Edward VII age 17
Harriet Tubman age 37
Abdul Hamid II age 16
Robert E. Lee age 52
Georges Clemenceau age 17
Empress Dowager Cixi age 23
Alexander III of Russia age 14
Giuseppe Mazzini age 53
Philippe Pétain age 3
Klemens von Metternich age 86
Leopold II of Belgium age 24
Cecil Rhodes age 5
Emperor Meiji age 6
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 48
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 194
Frederick Douglass age 41
Wilhelm I age 62
Susan B. Anthony age 39
Arthur Balfour age 10
Adolphe Thiers age 62
Emmeline Pankhurst age 10 months
Ferdinand Foch age 7
Porfirio Díaz age 28
H. H. Asquith age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 43