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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
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
Battle of Fort Donelson 1862-02-11 - 1862-02-16

People

Abraham Lincoln age 53
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 42
Queen - United Kingdom
Napoleon III age 53
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 43
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm I age 64
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 53
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 55
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 41
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 36
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 71
King - Belgium
Abdulaziz age 32
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 30
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 30
Emperor - Japan
Tongzhi Emperor age 5
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 46
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 31
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 30
King - Joseon
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 77
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bettino Ricasoli age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Roger B. Taney age 84
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 52
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 60
Secretary of State - United States
George B. McClellan age 35
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edwin Stanton age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 68
Attorney General - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 57
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 62
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Nathan Clifford age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 48
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 73
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 53
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 50
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 38
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 55
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 48
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 51
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 48
Senate - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 41
House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 38
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 51
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 18
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 49
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Leland Stanford age 37
Governor of California - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Oliver P. Morton age 38
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Francis Lubbock age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 40
Governor of Georgia - United States
David Tod age 57
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry Rector age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Letcher age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Augustus Bradford age 56
Governor of Maryland - United States
Charles Smith Olden age 63
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin Van Buren age 79
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 26
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 46
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 44
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 43
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 14
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 42
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 31
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 35
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 57
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 53
Monarch - Denmark
Carlos Antonio López age 71
President - Paraguay
Gabriel García Moreno age 40
President - Ecuador
Stephen Allen Benson age 45
President - Liberia
José Joaquín Pérez age 60
President - Chile
Bernardo Berro age 58
President - Uruguay
José María de Achá age 51
President - Bolivia
Fabre Geffrard age 55
President - Haiti
Gerardo Barrios age 48
President - El Salvador
Victoriano Castellanos age 66
President - Honduras
Charles Canning age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
José Antonio Páez age 71
President - Venezuela
William III of the Netherlands age 45
King - Netherlands
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 64
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 61
Prime Minister - Belgium
Barbu Catargiu age 54
Prime Minister - Romania
Carl Christian Hall age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
William Fox age 49
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Athanasios Miaoulis age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Victor de Tornaco age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 38
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Empress Dowager Cixi age 26
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 24
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 43
Leo Tolstoy age 33
Charles Darwin age 53
Vincent van Gogh age 8
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 40
Friedrich Nietzsche age 17
Thomas Edison age 15
Sigmund Freud age 5
Charles Dickens age 50
Rabindranath Tagore age 9 months
Otto von Bismarck age 46
Nikola Tesla age 5
Louis Pasteur age 39
Richard Wagner age 48
Friedrich Engels age 41
Theodore Roosevelt age 3
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 21
Woodrow Wilson age 5
Max Planck age 3
Michael Faraday age 70
Dmitri Mendeleev age 28
Giuseppe Verdi age 48
James Clerk Maxwell age 30
Alexander Graham Bell age 14
Ulysses S. Grant age 39
Claude Monet age 21
Florence Nightingale age 41
James A. Garfield age 30
William Howard Taft age 4
Grover Cleveland age 24
James Buchanan age 70
William McKinley age 19
Millard Fillmore age 62
Rutherford B. Hayes age 39
Franklin Pierce age 57
Benjamin Harrison age 28
Gregor Mendel age 39
Chester A. Arthur age 32
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 54
Wilhelm II age 3
Pius XI age 4
Pius X age 26
Leo XIII age 51
Charles Babbage age 70
Benedict XV age 7
Carl Benz age 17
Paul von Hindenburg age 14
Edward VII age 20
Harriet Tubman age 39
Abdul Hamid II age 19
Robert E. Lee age 55
Georges Clemenceau age 20
Alexander III of Russia age 16
Giuseppe Mazzini age 56
Philippe Pétain age 5
Leopold II of Belgium age 26
Cecil Rhodes age 8
Emperor Meiji age 9
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 197
Frederick Douglass age 44
Susan B. Anthony age 42
Arthur Balfour age 13
Adolphe Thiers age 64
Emmeline Pankhurst age 3
Mehmed VI age 1
Ferdinand Foch age 10
Porfirio Díaz age 31
H. H. Asquith age 9
Raymond Poincaré age 1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 46
Patrice de MacMahon age 53
Frederick III, German Emperor age 30
Umberto I of Italy age 17
Mehmed V age 17
Itō Hirobumi age 20
Chulalongkorn age 8
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 61