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- Benjamin Franklin
- 1
- Statesman, scientist, inventor & author
- 1706
- 1790
- JeanJacques Rousseau
- 3
- French philosopher & social theorist
- 1712
- 1778
- Samuel Adams
- 1
- Boston Revolutionary
- 1722
- 1803
- Josef Haydn
- 9
- composer
- 1732
- 1809
- George Washington
- 1
- General & 1st President
- 1732
- 1799
- Paul Revere
- 1
- Minuteman messenger
- 1735
- 1818
- John Adams
- 1
- 2nd President
- 1735
- 1826
- Thomas Paine
- 2
- Patriot & political writer
- 1737
- 1809
- George III
- 2
- King of England, 1760-1820
- 1738
- 1820
- Charles Cornwallis
- 2
- General & statesman
- 1738
- 1805
- Benedict Arnold
- 1
- Hero of Saratoga, 1777
- 1741
- 1801
- Thomas Jefferson
- 1
- Author of Declaration of Independence
- 1743
- 1826
- Mikhail Kutusov
- 8
- Field Marshal, Russian general
- 1745
- 1813
- Johann Goethe
- 9
- German poet
- 1749
- 1832
- James Madison
- 1
- President
- 1751
- 1836
- Charles Talleyrand
- 3
- Diplomat thru several regimes & coups d'etat
- 1754
- 1838
- Louis XVI
- 3
- King of France; guillotined
- 1754
- 1793
- Nathan Hale
- 1
- Patriot, hanged as a spy by the British
- 1755
- 1776
- Aaron Burr
- 1
- Vice President & rebel
- 1756
- 1836
- Wolfgang A. Mozart
- 9
- composer
- 1756
- 1791
- Alexander Hamilton
- 1
- Sec'y of Treasury & Federalist
- 1757
- 1806
- Lafayette
- 3
- Marquis, general & politician in 2 revolutions
- 1757
- 1834
- James Monroe
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- 1758
- 1831
- Horatio Nelson
- 2
- Admiral, victor of the Nile & Trafalgar
- 1758
- 1805
- Robespierre
- 3
- French revolutionist; guillotined
- 1758
- 1794
- William Pitt
- 2
- The Younger, Prime Minister 1783-1801
- 1759
- 1806
- Danton
- 3
- Leader of the French Revolution
- 1759
- 1794
- Andrew Jackson
- 1
- General & 7th President
- 1767
- 1845
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- 3
- General & emperor
- 1769
- 1821
- Arthur Wellesley
- 2
- Duke of Wellington, victor of Waterloo
- 1769
- 1852
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- 9
- composer
- 1770
- 1827
- Meriwether Lewis
- 1
- Explorer partner of William Clark
- 1774
- 1809
- Alexander I
- 8
- Czar of Russia
- 1777
- 1825
- Henry Clay
- 4
- Statesman & orator
- 1777
- 1852
- Karl von Clausewitz
- 8
- Prussian writer on strategy of total war
- 1780
- 1831
- Daniel Webster
- 4
- Orator & statesman
- 1782
- 1852
- John C. Calhoun
- 4
- Statesman
- 1782
- 1850
- Robert E. Lee
- 4
- Confederate General, Army of No. Virginia
- 1807
- 1870
- Abraham Lincoln
- 4
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- 1809
- 1865
- Charles Darwin
- 8
- Scientist
- 1809
- 1882
- Franz Liszt
- 9
- Composer, father in law of Wagner
- 1811
- 1886
- Richard Wagner
- 9
- Composer & revolutionary
- 1813
- 1883
- Karl Marx
- 8
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- 1818
- 1883
- Walt Whitman
- 4
- Poet
- 1819
- 1892
- Wm Tecumseh Sherman
- 4
- Grant's partner in the West
- 1820
- 1891
- Ulysses S. Grant
- 4
- Commander of the Union armies
- 1822
- 1885
- Thomas J. Jackson
- 4
- 'Stonewall'
- 1824
- 1863
- J.E.B. Stuart
- 4
- Confederate Cavalry General - Lee's right arm
- 1833
- 1864
- Stamp Act
- 1
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- 1765
- Lexington
- 1
- Shot heard 'round the world
- 1775
- 4th of July
- 1
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- Decline & Fall
- 9
- Gibbon publishes D&F of the Roman Empire
- 1776
- Saratoga
- 1
- Turning point of the Revolution
- 1777
- Kant's Critique
- 9
- Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
- 1781
- Yorktown
- 1
- Cornwallis surrenders to Washington
- 1781
- Treaty of Paris
- 2
- Britain recognizes American Independence
- 1783
- Figaro
- 9
- Mozart composes "Marriage of Figaro"
- 1786
- Bastille
- 3
- Storming of the Bastille
- 1789
- Republic
- 3
- French Republic declared
- 1792
- Cotton gin invented
- 4
- Eli Whitney's gin makes slavery economical
- 1793
- The Terror
- 3
- The Revolution attacks its own
- 1794
- Louisiana Purchase
- 1
- Almost doubles the size of the US
- 1803
- Emperor Napoleon
- 3
- Napoleon crowns himself
- 1804
- Trafalgar
- 2
- Nelson destroys Napoleon's navy
- 1805
- Waterloo
- 2
- Climatic battle of the Napoleonic wars
- 1815
- New Orleans
- 1
- 8th Jan, fought after peace was signned
- 1815
- Greek Independence
- 6
- Greeks win independence from Turkey
- 1821
- Revolution
- 6
- Spreads to France, Germany, Italy, & Poland
- 1830
- Opium War
- 3
- Britain annexes Hong Kong
- 1842
- Texas
- 1
- Annexed by US
- 1845
- Mexican War begins
- 1
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- 1846
- Revolution
- 6
- Revolutions sweep Europe
- 1848
- Communist Manifesto
- 6
- Issued by Marx & Engels
- 1848
- Crimean War
- 2
- to 1856
- 1854
- Bessemer steel
- 8
- Bessemer process permits mass production
- 1856
- Sepoy revolt
- 2
- India passes from E. India Co to British Empire
- 1857
- Origin of Species
- 8
- Darwin publishes his book
- 1859
- 1st Bull Run
- 4
- First major battle of the war
- 1861
- Serfs freed
- 8
- Emancipation of the Russian serfs
- 1861
- Germs
- 8
- Pasteur forms the germ theory of disease
- 1861
- Gettysburg
- 4
- High tide of the Confederacy
- 1863
- Appomattox
- 4
- Lee surrenders, effectively ending the war
- 1865
- Alaska
- 1
- Bought from Russia
- 1867
- Kapital
- 6
- Marx publishes first volume of Das Kapital
- 1867
- 1
- Americans
- Americans before the Civil War era
- 3
- 2
- British
- British
- 6
- 3
- French
- French
- 5
- 4
- Civil War
- Americans of Civil War note
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- Other
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- Artists
- Artists, composers and authors
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- American
- American Revolution
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- British
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- French
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- Civil War
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- Other events
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- Revolution
- Other revolutions and related events
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- Cultural
- Paintings, operas and milestone books
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