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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
Battle of Anqing 1860-04-01 - 1861-09-05
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895

People

Queen Victoria age 41
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
Wilhelm I age 63
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Benito Juárez age 54
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 40
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 35
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 70
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 37
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 29
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 29
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 29
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 43
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 45
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 30
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 29
King - Joseon
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 76
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 83
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Breckinridge age 40
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Winfield Scott age 74
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Edwin Stanton age 46
Attorney General - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 56
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 61
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Nathan Clifford age 57
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 52
Senate - United States
Jefferson Davis age 52
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 59
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 51
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 48
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 61
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 73
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 54
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 50
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 47
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 59
Senate - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 68
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 37
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Corwin age 66
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 3
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 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 17
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 35
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 33
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Sam Houston age 67
Governor of Texas - United States
Martin Van Buren age 78
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 41
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 25
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 44
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 13
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 41
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 30
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 34
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 56
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 52
Monarch - Denmark
Carlos Antonio López age 70
President - Paraguay
Gabriel García Moreno age 39
President - Ecuador
Stephen Allen Benson age 44
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 51
President - Chile
Santiago Derqui age 51
President - Argentina
Bernardo Berro age 57
President - Uruguay
Manuel Felipe de Tovar age 58
President - Venezuela
José Santos Guardiola age 44
President - Honduras
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez age 55
President - Colombia
José María Linares age 52
President - Bolivia
Fabre Geffrard age 54
President - Haiti
Gerardo Barrios age 47
President - El Salvador
José María Peralta age 53
President - El Salvador
Charles Canning age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 43
King - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Carl Christian Hall age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Athanasios Miaoulis age 46
Prime Minister - Greece
Floris Adriaan van Hall age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Edward Stafford age 41
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Victor de Tornaco age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 37
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thomas Gore Browne age 53
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 42
Abraham Lincoln age 51
Leo Tolstoy age 32
Charles Darwin age 51
Vincent van Gogh age 7
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 39
Friedrich Nietzsche age 16
Thomas Edison age 13
Sigmund Freud age 4
Charles Dickens age 48
Otto von Bismarck age 45
Nikola Tesla age 4
Louis Pasteur age 38
Richard Wagner age 47
Friedrich Engels age 40
Theodore Roosevelt age 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 20
Woodrow Wilson age 4
Max Planck age 2
Michael Faraday age 69
Dmitri Mendeleev age 26
Giuseppe Verdi age 47
James Clerk Maxwell age 29
Alexander Graham Bell age 13
Ulysses S. Grant age 38
Claude Monet age 20
Florence Nightingale age 40
James A. Garfield age 29
William Howard Taft age 3
Grover Cleveland age 23
John Tyler age 70
William McKinley age 17
Millard Fillmore age 61
Rutherford B. Hayes age 38
Franklin Pierce age 56
Benjamin Harrison age 27
Gregor Mendel age 38
Chester A. Arthur age 31
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 53
Wilhelm II age 1
Pius XI age 3
Pius X age 25
Leo XIII age 50
Charles Babbage age 69
Benedict XV age 6
Carl Benz age 16
Paul von Hindenburg age 13
Edward VII age 19
Harriet Tubman age 38
Abdul Hamid II age 18
Robert E. Lee age 54
Georges Clemenceau age 19
Empress Dowager Cixi age 25
Alexander III of Russia age 15
Giuseppe Mazzini age 55
Philippe Pétain age 4
Leopold II of Belgium age 25
Cecil Rhodes age 7
Emperor Meiji age 8
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 50
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 196
Frederick Douglass age 42
Susan B. Anthony age 40
Arthur Balfour age 12
Adolphe Thiers age 63
Emmeline Pankhurst age 2
Ferdinand Foch age 9
Porfirio Díaz age 30
H. H. Asquith age 8
Raymond Poincaré age 4 months
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 45
Patrice de MacMahon age 52
Frederick III, German Emperor age 29
Umberto I of Italy age 16
Abdulaziz age 30
Mehmed V age 16
Itō Hirobumi age 19
Chulalongkorn age 7
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 60
Gustaf V of Sweden age 2
William Tecumseh Sherman age 40
Andrew Bonar Law age 2
Murad V age 20
Maximilian I of Mexico age 28
Ferdinand I of Austria age 67
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 4