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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
Battle of Anqing 1860-04-01 - 1861-09-05

People

Queen Victoria age 40
Queen - United Kingdom
James Buchanan age 69
President - United States
Napoleon III age 52
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 41
Emperor - Russian Empire
Benito Juárez age 54
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 40
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 34
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 69
Monarch - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 36
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 28
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 28
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 28
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 42
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 44
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 63
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 29
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 28
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 64
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 75
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 83
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 39
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 73
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Lewis Cass age 77
Secretary Of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 50
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 44
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 61
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Andrew Johnson age 51
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 51
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 67
Governor of Texas - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 44
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Isabella II age 29
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 33
Monarch - Sweden
Charles Canning age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Karl Marx age 41
Abraham Lincoln age 51
Leo Tolstoy age 31
Charles Darwin age 51
Vincent van Gogh age 7
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 38
Friedrich Nietzsche age 15
Thomas Edison age 13
Sigmund Freud age 3
Charles Dickens age 48
Otto von Bismarck age 45
Nikola Tesla age 3
Louis Pasteur age 37
Richard Wagner age 46
Friedrich Engels age 39
Theodore Roosevelt age 1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 19
Woodrow Wilson age 3
Max Planck age 1
Michael Faraday age 68
Dmitri Mendeleev age 26
Giuseppe Verdi age 46
James Clerk Maxwell age 28
Alexander Graham Bell age 13
Ulysses S. Grant age 37
Claude Monet age 19
Florence Nightingale age 39
James A. Garfield age 28
William Howard Taft age 2
Grover Cleveland age 23
Martin Van Buren age 77
John Tyler age 70
William McKinley age 17
Millard Fillmore age 60
Rutherford B. Hayes age 37
Franklin Pierce age 55
Benjamin Disraeli age 55
Benjamin Harrison age 26
Gregor Mendel age 37
Chester A. Arthur age 30
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 52
Wilhelm II age 1
Pius XI age 2
Pius X age 24
Leo XIII age 50
Charles Babbage age 68
Benedict XV age 5
Carl Benz age 15
Paul von Hindenburg age 12
Edward VII age 18
Harriet Tubman age 38
Abdul Hamid II age 17
Robert E. Lee age 53
Georges Clemenceau age 18
Empress Dowager Cixi age 24
Alexander III of Russia age 15
Giuseppe Mazzini age 54
Philippe Pétain age 3
Leopold II of Belgium age 25
Cecil Rhodes age 6
Emperor Meiji age 7
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 49
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 195
Frederick Douglass age 42
Wilhelm I age 63
Susan B. Anthony age 40
Arthur Balfour age 11
Adolphe Thiers age 63
Emmeline Pankhurst age 1
Ferdinand Foch age 8
Porfirio Díaz age 29
H. H. Asquith age 7
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 44
Patrice de MacMahon age 51
Frederick III, German Emperor age 28
Umberto I of Italy age 16
Abdulaziz age 30
Mehmed V age 15
Itō Hirobumi age 18
Chulalongkorn age 6
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 59
Gustaf V of Sweden age 1
William Tecumseh Sherman age 40
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 30
Andrew Bonar Law age 1
Murad V age 19
Maximilian I of Mexico age 27
Ferdinand I of Austria age 67
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 3
Christian IX of Denmark age 42
Alfonso XII age 2
Oscar II of Sweden age 31
Alexandra of Denmark age 15
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 66
Alexandre Millerand age 1
Amadeo I of Spain age 14
George Curzon age 1
Yuan Shikai age 6 months
Joseph Joffre age 8
Paul Doumer age 3
Stonewall Jackson age 36
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 67
Armand Fallières age 18
William H. Seward age 58
Jules Grévy age 52
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 22
Deodoro da Fonseca age 32
Elihu Root age 15
Edmund Barton age 11
Bernhard von Bülow age 10
Charles Curtis age 2 months
Thomas R. Marshall age 6
Hannibal Hamlin age 50
Frank B. Kellogg age 3
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 16
Carol I of Romania age 20
Alfred Deakin age 3
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 76
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 23
Félix Faure age 19
Sergei Witte age 10
Émile Loubet age 21
Menelik II age 15
Henry Wilson age 48
Jean Casimir-Perier age 12
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 9
Charles W. Fairbanks age 7
Paul Deschanel age 5
Abdur Rahman Khan age 20
Douglas Hyde age 2 months
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 22
George M. Dallas age 67
Garret Hobart age 15
Levi P. Morton age 35
William A. Wheeler age 40
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 11
Leo von Caprivi age 29
Schuyler Colfax age 37
Thomas A. Hendricks age 40
William Jennings Bryan age 0 months
Christian Michelsen age 3
Katsura Tarō age 12
Saigō Takamori age 32
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 9
Clara Barton age 38
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 12
Peter I of Serbia age 15
James S. Sherman age 4
Georg Michaelis age 2
Georg von Hertling age 16
Constantin Fehrenbach age 8
Giovanni Giolitti age 17
Yamagata Aritomo age 21
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 41
Demetrios Vikelas age 25
Joseph Chamberlain age 23
Ismail Kemal age 16
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 7
Terauchi Masatake age 8
Hara Takashi age 4
Francesco Crispi age 41
George B. McClellan age 33
Tongzhi Emperor age 3
Wilfrid Laurier age 18