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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
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy 1861-03-17

People

Abraham Lincoln age 52
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 41
Queen - United Kingdom
Napoleon III age 52
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 42
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm I age 64
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 52
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 55
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 41
King - Italy
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
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 76
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 84
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 51
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 74
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 62
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 67
Attorney General - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 56
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 62
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
John C. Breckinridge age 40
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 49
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 54
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 47
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 50
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 47
Senate - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William A. Wheeler age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 38
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 54
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
Philip Francis Thomas age 50
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 33
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 73
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 39
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 58
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 68
Governor of Texas - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Oliver P. Morton age 37
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John G. Downey age 33
Governor of California - United States
William Dennison Jr. age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 62
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 39
Governor of Georgia - United States
Henry Rector age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Letcher age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Charles Smith Olden age 62
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin Van Buren age 78
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 25
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 45
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 43
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
Fabre Geffrard age 54
President - Haiti
Gerardo Barrios age 47
President - El Salvador
Juan José Nieto Gil age 55
President - Colombia
Charles Canning age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 44
King - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Carl Christian Hall age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Athanasios Miaoulis age 46
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 44
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
Leo Tolstoy age 32
Charles Darwin age 52
Vincent van Gogh age 7
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 39
Friedrich Nietzsche age 16
Thomas Edison age 14
Sigmund Freud age 4
Charles Dickens age 49
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 27
Giuseppe Verdi age 47
James Clerk Maxwell age 29
Alexander Graham Bell age 14
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 24
James Buchanan age 69
John Tyler age 71
William McKinley age 18
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 2
Pius XI age 3
Pius X age 25
Leo XIII age 51
Charles Babbage age 69
Benedict XV age 6
Carl Benz age 16
Paul von Hindenburg age 13
Edward VII age 19
Harriet Tubman age 39
Abdul Hamid II age 18
Robert E. Lee age 54
Georges Clemenceau age 19
Empress Dowager Cixi age 25
Alexander III of Russia age 16
Giuseppe Mazzini age 55
Philippe Pétain age 4
Leopold II of Belgium age 25
Cecil Rhodes age 7
Emperor Meiji age 8
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 196
Frederick Douglass age 43
Susan B. Anthony age 41
Arthur Balfour age 12
Adolphe Thiers age 63
Emmeline Pankhurst age 2
Mehmed VI age 2 months
Ferdinand Foch age 9
Porfirio Díaz age 30
H. H. Asquith age 8
Raymond Poincaré age 6 months
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 45
Patrice de MacMahon age 52
Frederick III, German Emperor age 29
Umberto I of Italy age 17
Abdulaziz age 31
Mehmed V age 16