Trail of Tears
The Cherokee are marched over a thousand kilometres west
Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the 'Five Civilized Tribes' of the southeastern US were forced west of the Mississippi. In 1838–1839 soldiers drove about 16,000 Cherokee from their homeland, even though the Supreme Court had upheld their rights. By various estimates up to four thousand died on the way from disease, hunger and cold.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 24 years earlier
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — 5 years earlier
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — 1 year later
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 7 years later
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 15 years later
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 10 years earlier
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 1 year later
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 1 year later
Africa
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 3 years earlier
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 9 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 23 years earlier
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 19 years earlier
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 7 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — 1 year later
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 15 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 13 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 29)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 29)
- Karl Marx (aged 20)
- Queen Victoria (aged 19)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 17)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 10)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 4)
- Katsushika Hokusai (aged 78)
- Andrew Jackson (aged 71)
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt (aged 69)