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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

People

Abraham Lincoln age 53
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 43
Queen - United Kingdom
Napoleon III age 54
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm I age 65
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 54
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 56
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 42
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 31
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 31
Emperor - Japan
Tongzhi Emperor age 6
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 47
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 32
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 31
King - Joseon
Otto von Bismarck age 47
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 78
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Urbano Rattazzi age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Roger B. Taney age 85
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 53
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 61
Secretary of State - 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 69
Attorney General - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 57
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Nathan Clifford age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 74
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Henry Wilson age 50
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 39
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 56
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 49
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 51
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 49
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 43
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 39
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 68
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 52
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 47
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 19
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 50
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 82
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 53
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Leland Stanford age 38
Governor of California - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Oliver P. Morton age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Francis Lubbock age 47
Governor of Texas - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 41
Governor of Georgia - United States
David Tod age 57
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry Rector age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Letcher age 49
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
Richard Olney age 27
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 44
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 15
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 43
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 32
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 36
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 58
King - Thailand
Frederick VII of Denmark age 54
Monarch - Denmark
Bartolomé Mitre age 41
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 40
President - Ecuador
Stephen Allen Benson age 46
President - Liberia
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 51
Viceroy - British Raj
José Joaquín Pérez age 61
President - Chile
Bernardo Berro age 59
President - Uruguay
José María de Achá age 52
President - Bolivia
Fabre Geffrard age 56
President - Haiti
Gerardo Barrios age 49
President - El Salvador
Victoriano Castellanos age 67
President - Honduras
José Antonio Páez age 72
President - Venezuela
William III of the Netherlands age 45
King - Netherlands
Francisco Solano López age 36
President - Paraguay
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 64
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 62
Prime Minister - Belgium
Carl Christian Hall age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alfred Domett age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Nicolae Kretzulescu age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Victor de Tornaco age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 38
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Empress Dowager Cixi age 26
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 25
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 44
Leo Tolstoy age 34
Charles Darwin age 53
Vincent van Gogh age 9
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 40
Friedrich Nietzsche age 18
Thomas Edison age 15
Sigmund Freud age 6
Charles Dickens age 50
Rabindranath Tagore age 1
Nikola Tesla age 6
Louis Pasteur age 39
Richard Wagner age 49
Friedrich Engels age 41
Theodore Roosevelt age 3
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 22
Woodrow Wilson age 5
Max Planck age 4
Michael Faraday age 71
Dmitri Mendeleev age 28
Giuseppe Verdi age 49
James Clerk Maxwell age 31
Alexander Graham Bell age 15
Ulysses S. Grant age 40
Claude Monet age 21
Florence Nightingale age 42
James A. Garfield age 30
William Howard Taft age 5
Grover Cleveland age 25
James Buchanan age 71
William McKinley age 19
Millard Fillmore age 62
Rutherford B. Hayes age 40
Franklin Pierce age 57
Benjamin Harrison age 29
Gregor Mendel age 40
Chester A. Arthur age 33
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 55
Wilhelm II age 3
Pius XI age 5
Pius X age 27
Leo XIII age 52
Charles Babbage age 70
Benedict XV age 7
Carl Benz age 17
Paul von Hindenburg age 15
Edward VII age 20
Harriet Tubman age 40
Abdul Hamid II age 20
Robert E. Lee age 55
Georges Clemenceau age 21
Alexander III of Russia age 17
Giuseppe Mazzini age 57
Philippe Pétain age 6
Leopold II of Belgium age 27
Cecil Rhodes age 9
Emperor Meiji age 9
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 197
Frederick Douglass age 44
Susan B. Anthony age 42
Arthur Balfour age 14
Adolphe Thiers age 65
Emmeline Pankhurst age 4
Mehmed VI age 1
Ferdinand Foch age 11
Porfirio Díaz age 32
H. H. Asquith age 10
Raymond Poincaré age 2
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 46
Patrice de MacMahon age 54
Frederick III, German Emperor age 31
Umberto I of Italy age 18
Aristide Briand age 6 months
Mehmed V age 17
Itō Hirobumi age 21
Chulalongkorn age 9
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 62
Gustaf V of Sweden age 4
William Tecumseh Sherman age 42
Pyotr Stolypin age 6 months