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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
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 42
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
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 37
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
Benjamin Disraeli age 55
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 61
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Nathan Clifford age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 72
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 51
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 51
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 58
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 50
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 48
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 61
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 72
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 53
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 49
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 46
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 58
Senate - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Schuyler Colfax age 37
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 66
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Corwin age 65
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 16
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sam Houston age 67
Governor of Texas - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Martin Van Buren age 77
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 40
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 24
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 42
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 42
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 12
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 40
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 29
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 34
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 55
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 51
Monarch - Denmark
Carlos Antonio López age 69
President - Paraguay
Stephen Allen Benson age 43
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 50
President - Chile
Santiago Derqui age 50
President - Argentina
Bernardo Berro age 57
President - Uruguay
Manuel Felipe de Tovar age 57
President - Venezuela
José Santos Guardiola age 43
President - Honduras
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez age 54
President - Colombia
José María Linares age 51
President - Bolivia
Fabre Geffrard age 53
President - Haiti
Gerardo Barrios age 46
President - El Salvador
Charles Canning age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 43
King - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Carl Christian Hall age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Athanasios Miaoulis age 45
Prime Minister - Greece
Floris Adriaan van Hall age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles-Mathias Simons age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 41
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainivoninahitriniony age 36
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thomas Gore Browne age 52
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 42
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 2
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 38
Claude Monet age 19
Florence Nightingale age 39
James A. Garfield age 28
William Howard Taft age 2
Grover Cleveland age 23
John Tyler age 70
William McKinley age 17
Millard Fillmore age 60
Rutherford B. Hayes age 37
Franklin Pierce 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 4
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
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