Curated category
1818 births
- Don Carlos BuellDon Carlos Buell arrived at the Battle of Shiloh on the second day of April 1862 convinced that he had saved the Union cause.
- James Prescott JouleJames Prescott Joule was born on the 24th of December 1818, the son of a wealthy brewer, in Salford. The unit of energy that powers every calculation in…
- Karl MarxOn the 14th of March 1883, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, Friedrich Engels left Karl Marx alone in his armchair for scarcely two minutes.
- Irvin McDowellIrvin McDowell's name is permanently attached to one of the most humiliating afternoons in American military history. On a summer day in 1861, the Union Army…
- Alexander II of RussiaAlexander II of Russia was born on the 29th of April 1818, and by the time he died he had freed more than 23 million people from bondage, sold an entire…
- Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev had a brain that weighed 2,012 grams, one of the largest ever recorded. The man who carried it was tall and broad-shouldered, yet timid…
- Benjamin ButlerBenjamin Franklin Butler was born on the 5th of November 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire. He grew up as the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and…
- Jacob BurckhardtJacob Burckhardt once turned down the most prestigious history chair in Germany, the very seat held by his own teacher, Leopold von Ranke, at the University…
- P. G. T. BeauregardP. G. T. Beauregard ordered the first shots of the American Civil War fired from Fort Johnson in the early hours of the 12th of April 1861.
- Nathaniel LyonNathaniel Lyon was born on the 14th of July 1818, to Amasa and Kezia Lyon. His father worked as a sawmill operator while also farming the land they owned.