Opium Wars 1839–1860

Belligerents: France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Qing Dynasty Governor

Who lived through the Opium Wars

Well-known people alive during 1839–1860:

Karl Marx (1818–1883) — German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) — president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) — French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) — German philosopher (1844-1900)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) — Russian novelist (1821–1881)
Mark Twain (1835–1910) — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) — English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) — Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) — American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) — German composer (1813–1883)
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) — Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) — German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) — German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) — Russian composer (1840–1893)
Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) — French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) — Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
Jules Verne (1828–1905) — French writer (1828–1905)
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) — Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) — Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) — British scientist (1791–1867)

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