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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

Boston Tea Party 1773-12-16

Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775-04-19

American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03

Siege of Boston 1775-04-19 - 1776-03-17

Capture of Fort Ticonderoga 1775-05-10 - 1775-05-10

Battle of Bunker Hill 1775-06-17

Battle of Quebec (1775) 1775-12-31 - 1775-12-31

Battle of Sullivan's Island 1776-06-28 - 1776-06-28

Declaration of Independence 1776-07-04

Battle of Long Island 1776-08-26

Battle of Valcour Island 1776-10-11 - 1776-10-13

Battle of White Plains 1776-10-28 - 1776-10-28

Battle of Fort Washington 1776-11-16 - 1776-11-16

Battle of Trenton 1776-12-26

Battle of Princeton 1777-01-03

Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) 1777-07-02 - 1777-07-06

Battle of Bennington 1777-08-16 - 1777-08-16

Battle of Brandywine 1777-09-11

Battle of Saratoga 1777-09-19 - 1777-10-17

Battle of Germantown 1777-10-04

Treaty of Alliance 1778-02-06

Battle of Monmouth 1778-06-28

Battle of Rhode Island 1778-08-29 - 1778-08-29

Battle of Stony Point 1779-07-16 - 1779-07-16

Penobscot Expedition 1779-07-24 - 1779-08-14

Siege of Savannah 1779-09-16 - 1779-10-18

Battle of Flamborough Head 1779-09-23 - 1779-09-23

Siege of Charleston 1780-03-29 - 1780-05-12

Battle of Waxhaws 1780-05-29 - 1780-05-29

Battle of Springfield 1780-06-23

Battle of Camden 1780-08-16 - 1780-08-16

Battle of Kings Mountain 1780-10-07

Battle of Cowpens 1781-01-17 - 1781-01-17

Articles of Confederation 1781-03-01

Siege of Pensacola 1781-03-09 - 1781-05-10

Battle of Guilford Courthouse 1781-03-15

Battle of the Chesapeake 1781-09-05 - 1781-09-05

Battle of Eutaw Springs 1781-09-08 - 1781-09-08

Siege of Yorktown 1781-09-28 - 1781-10-19

Battle of the Saintes 1782-04-09 - 1782-04-12

Treaty of Paris 1783-09-03

First inauguration of George Washington 1789-04-30

French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09

Storming of the Bastille 1789-07-14

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 1789-08-26

Haitian Revolution 1791-08-21 - 1804-01-01

United States Bill of Rights 1791-12-15

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-04-20 - 1802-03-25

Battle of Valmy 1792-09-20 - 1792-09-20

Battle of Jemappes 1792-11-06 - 1792-11-06

Execution of Louis XVI 1793-01-21

Battle of Neerwinden (1793) 1793-03-18 - 1793-03-18

Siege of Toulon (1793) 1793-08-29 - 1793-12-19

Reign of Terror 1793-09-05 - 1794-07-28

Battle of Hondschoote 1793-09-08 - 1793-09-08

Battle of Wattignies 1793-10-16 - 1793-10-16

Glorious First of June 1794-06-01 - 1794-06-01

Battle of Fleurus (1794) 1794-06-26 - 1794-06-26

Italian campaign of 1796–1797 1796-04-10 - 1797-10-17

Battle of Montenotte 1796-04-12 - 1796-04-12

Battle of Lodi 1796-05-10 - 1796-05-10

Smallpox vaccine 1796-05-14

Siege of Mantua (1796–1797) 1796-07-04 - 1797-02-02

Battle of Amberg 1796-08-24 - 1796-08-24

Battle of Würzburg 1796-09-03 - 1796-09-03

Battle of Biberach (1796) 1796-10-02 - 1796-10-02

Battle of Emmendingen 1796-10-19 - 1796-10-19

Battle of Arcole 1796-11-15 - 1796-11-17

Battle of Rivoli 1797-01-14 - 1797-01-15

Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) 1797-02-14 - 1797-02-14

Battle of Camperdown 1797-10-11 - 1797-10-11

French campaign in Egypt and Syria 1798-07-01 - 1801-09-02

Battle of the Pyramids 1798-07-21 - 1798-07-21

Battle of the Nile 1798-08-01 - 1798-08-03

Siege of Acre (1799) 1799-03-20 - 1799-05-21

Battle of Cassano (1799) 1799-04-27 - 1799-04-27

Battle of Trebbia (1799) 1799-06-17 - 1799-06-19

Battle of Abukir (1799) 1799-07-25 - 1799-07-25

Battle of Novi (1799) 1799-08-15 - 1799-08-15

Second Battle of Zurich 1799-09-25 - 1799-09-26

Coup of 18 Brumaire 1799-11-09 - 1799-11-10

Siege of Genoa (1800) 1800-04-20 - 1800-06-04

Battle of Marengo 1800-06-14 - 1800-06-14

Battle of Hohenlinden 1800-12-03 - 1800-12-03

Acts of Union 1800 1801-01-01

Battle of Alexandria (1801) 1801-03-21 - 1801-03-21

Battle of Copenhagen (1801) 1801-04-02 - 1801-04-02

Louisiana Purchase 1803-04-30

Napoleonic Wars 1803-05-18 - 1815-11-20

Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804-01-01

Napoleonic Code 1804-03-21

Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-05-14 - 1806-09-23

Battle of Ulm 1805-10-16 - 1805-10-19

Battle of Trafalgar 1805-10-21

Battle of Austerlitz 1805-12-02

Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire 1806-08-06

Battle of Jena–Auerstedt 1806-10-14

Battle of Eylau 1807-02-07 - 1807-02-08

Slave Trade Act 1807 1807-03-25

Battle of Friedland 1807-06-14

Peninsular War 1808-05-02 - 1814-04-17

Battle of Bailén 1808-07-16 - 1808-07-19

Battle of Vimeiro 1808-08-21 - 1808-08-21

Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29

Battle of Corunna 1809-01-16 - 1809-01-16

Battle of Eckmühl 1809-04-21 - 1809-04-22

Battle of Aspern–Essling 1809-05-21 - 1809-05-22

Battle of Wagram 1809-07-05 - 1809-07-06

Battle of Talavera 1809-07-27 - 1809-07-28

Mexican War of Independence 1810-09-16 - 1821-09-27

Battle of Bussaco 1810-09-27 - 1810-09-27

Battle of Monte de las Cruces 1810-10-30 - 1810-10-30

Battle of Calderón Bridge 1811-01-17 - 1811-01-17

Battle of Lissa (1811) 1811-03-13 - 1811-03-13

Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro 1811-05-03 - 1811-05-05

Siege of Cuautla 1812-02-19 - 1812-05-02

Siege of Badajoz (1812) 1812-03-16 - 1812-04-06

War of 1812 1812-06-18 - 1815-02-17

French invasion of Russia 1812-06-24 - 1812-12-14

Battle of Salamanca 1812-07-22 - 1812-07-22

Siege of Riga (1812) 1812-07-24 - 1812-12-18

Battle of Klyastitsy 1812-07-28 - 1812-08-01

Battle of Gorodechno 1812-08-12 - 1812-08-12

Siege of Detroit 1812-08-15 - 1812-08-16

Battle of Smolensk (1812) 1812-08-16 - 1812-08-18

First Battle of Polotsk 1812-08-17 - 1812-08-18

USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere 1812-08-19 - 1812-08-19

Battle of Borodino 1812-09-07

Battle of Tucumán 1812-09-24 - 1812-09-25

Battle of Queenston Heights 1812-10-13 - 1812-10-13

Second Battle of Polotsk 1812-10-18 - 1812-10-20

Battle of Maloyaroslavets 1812-10-24 - 1812-10-24

Battle of Krasnoi 1812-11-15 - 1812-11-18

Battle of Berezina 1812-11-26 - 1812-11-29

USS Constitution vs HMS Java 1812-12-29 - 1812-12-29

Battle of Frenchtown 1813-01-18 - 1813-01-23

Battle of Salta 1813-02-20 - 1813-02-20

Battle of York 1813-04-27 - 1813-04-27

Siege of Fort Meigs 1813-04-28 - 1813-05-09

Battle of Lützen (1813) 1813-05-02 - 1813-05-02

Battle of Bautzen (1813) 1813-05-20 - 1813-05-21

Battle of Fort George 1813-05-25 - 1813-05-27

Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor 1813-05-28 - 1813-05-29

Capture of USS Chesapeake 1813-06-01 - 1813-06-01

Battle of Stoney Creek 1813-06-06 - 1813-06-06

Battle of Vitoria 1813-06-21 - 1813-06-21

Battle of Großbeeren 1813-08-23 - 1813-08-23

Battle of Dresden 1813-08-26 - 1813-08-27

Battle of the Katzbach 1813-08-26 - 1813-08-26

Battle of Kulm 1813-08-29 - 1813-08-30

Battle of Dennewitz 1813-09-06 - 1813-09-06

Battle of Lake Erie 1813-09-10 - 1813-09-10

Battle of the Thames 1813-10-05 - 1813-10-05

Battle of Leipzig 1813-10-16 - 1813-10-19

Battle of Hanau 1813-10-30 - 1813-10-31

Battle of Crysler's Farm 1813-11-11 - 1813-11-11

Campaign in north-east France (1814) 1813-12-21 - 1814-04-06

Battle of Brienne 1814-01-29 - 1814-01-29

Battle of La Rothière 1814-02-01 - 1814-02-01

Battle of Champaubert 1814-02-10 - 1814-02-10

Battle of Montmirail 1814-02-11 - 1814-02-11

Battle of Vauchamps 1814-02-14 - 1814-02-14

Battle of Montereau 1814-02-18 - 1814-02-18

Battle of Orthez 1814-02-27 - 1814-02-27

Battle of Laon (1814) 1814-03-09 - 1814-03-10

Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube 1814-03-20 - 1814-03-21

Battle of Paris (1814) 1814-03-30 - 1814-03-31

Battle of Toulouse (1814) 1814-04-10 - 1814-04-10

Battle of Chippawa 1814-07-05 - 1814-07-05

Battle of Lundy's Lane 1814-07-25 - 1814-07-25

Siege of Fort Erie 1814-08-04 - 1814-09-21

Burning of Washington 1814-08-24 - 1814-08-25

Battle of Bladensburg 1814-08-24 - 1814-08-24

Battle of Plattsburgh 1814-09-06 - 1814-09-11

Battle of Baltimore 1814-09-12 - 1814-09-15

Battle of North Point 1814-09-12 - 1814-09-12

Congress of Vienna 1814-09-18 - 1815-06-09

Battle of Rancagua 1814-10-01 - 1814-10-02

Battle of Lake Borgne 1814-12-14 - 1814-12-14

Battle of New Orleans 1815-01-08

1815 eruption of Mount Tambora 1815-04-10

Battle of Quatre Bras 1815-06-16 - 1815-06-16

Battle of Ligny 1815-06-16

Battle of Waterloo 1815-06-18

Battle of Wavre 1815-06-18 - 1815-06-19

Siege of Cartagena (1815) 1815-08-26 - 1815-12-06

Battle of Chacabuco 1817-02-12 - 1817-02-12

Battle of Maipú 1818-04-05 - 1818-04-05

People

Armand von Nordmann born 1759-08-31

Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde born 1756-08-29

Pierre Augereau born 1757-10-21

József Alvinczi age 5

Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky born 1745-01-01

Giovanni Marchese di Provera age 4

Ludwig von Benedek born 1804-07-14

Francisco Javier Venegas born 1754-12-02

Félix María Calleja del Rey, 1st Count of Calderón born 1753-11-01

Ntshingwayo Khoza born 1809-01-01

Louis Desaix born 1768-08-17

Luis Alejandro Berthier born 1753-11-20

Michael von Melas age 11

Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz age 2

Anton von Zach born 1747-05-14

Géraud Duroc born 1772-10-25

Jean Victor Marie Moreau born 1763-02-14

Archduke John of Austria born 1782-01-20

Haim Farhi born 1760-01-01

Jean Baptiste Kléber born 1753-03-09

Eugène de Beauharnais born 1781-09-03

Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno born 1764-12-07

Gregorio García de la Cuesta born 1741-05-09

Mariano Osorio born 1777-01-01

Carlo Pellion di Persano born 1806-03-11

Joseph Vinoy born 1800-08-10

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings born 1754-12-09

Johann de Kalb age 19

Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie born 1751-04-13

Andrew Hull Foote born 1806-09-12

Gideon Johnson Pillow born 1806-06-08

Eugen von Argentau born 1743-12-30

Mathias Rukavina von Boynograd age 3

Jean-de-Dieu Soult born 1769-03-29

Armand Lebrun de La Houssaye born 1768-10-20

Julien Augustin Joseph Mermet born 1772-05-09

John Moore born 1761-11-13

Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet born 1757-12-06

John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun born 1765-08-17

Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland born 1742-08-14

Wilhelm von Knyphausen age 23

José Antonio Páez born 1790-06-13

Miguel de la Torre y Pando born 1786-12-13

Isaac Brock born 1769-10-06

Roger Hale Sheaffe born 1763-07-15

John Macdonell born 1785-04-19

William Wadsworth born 1765-01-01

Oliver Hazard Perry born 1785-08-23

Jesse Elliott born 1782-07-14

Robert Heriot Barclay born 1786-09-18

Henry Procter born 1763-01-01

Andrés de Santa Cruz born 1792-12-05

José María Córdova born 1798-09-08

Richard Lucian Page born 1807-12-20

George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney age 21

Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st Baronet age 11

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 10

Lloyd Tilghman born 1816-01-18

John Stricker born 1759-02-15

George Armistead born 1780-04-10

Arthur Brooke born 1772-01-01

Jean-Andoche Junot born 1771-09-25

Armand Philippon born 1761-08-27

Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov born 1793-01-28

John Stark age 11

Seth Warner born 1743-05-17

Friedrich Baum age 13

Heinrich von Breymann age 15

Francisco de Miranda born 1750-03-28

José de Solano y Bote age 14

John Campbell, of Strachur age 13

Lachlan McIntosh age 15

Casimir Pulaski born 1745-03-01

Robert Henley born 1783-01-05

George Prevost born 1767-05-19

George Downie born 1778-01-19

Daniel Pring born 1780-01-01

John E. Wool born 1784-02-20

Ralph Abercromby age 5

Jacques-François Menou born 1750-09-03

François Lanusse born 1772-11-03

Jean Reynier born 1771-01-14

Richard B. Garnett born 1817-11-21

Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz born 1796-12-27

Wilhelm Ramming born 1815-07-30

August von Werder born 1808-09-12

Wilhelm von Tümpling born 1809-12-30

Eduard Clam-Gallas born 1805-03-14

William Phillips age 9

Arthur St. Clair age 3

Alexander Stewart age 1

Phineas Riall born 1775-12-15

Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet born 1772-04-22

William H. Winder born 1775-01-01

Joshua Barney born 1759-07-06

Gabriel Valencia born 1799-01-01

Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte born 1807-09-30

William J. Worth born 1794-03-01

Antonio León born 1794-01-01

Luís do Rego Barreto born 1777-10-28

Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet age 19

Francis Smith age 17

Richard Prescott age 15

John Sullivan age 5 months

Christopher Greene age 3

George Collier age 2

Henry Mowat age 6

Solomon Lovell age 8

Dudley Saltonstall age 2

Joseph Finegan born 1814-11-17

Pío de Tristán born 1773-07-11

William Hull born 1753-06-24

Roundhead born 1760-01-01

James Winchester born 1752-02-26

George Madison born 1763-06-01

David Emanuel Twiggs born 1790-01-01

William S. Harney born 1800-08-22

José Prudencio Padilla born 1784-03-19

John Reese Kenly born 1818-01-11

James Givins born 1759-01-01

Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto born 1791-07-26

Zebulon Pike born 1779-01-05

Isaac Chauncey born 1779-02-20

John Vincent born 1764-01-01

John Harvey born 1778-04-23

Samuel Francis Du Pont born 1803-09-27

Thomas W. Sherman born 1813-03-26

Thomas Drayton born 1809-08-24

Josiah Tattnall born 1794-06-14

John P. McCown born 1815-08-19

William W. Mackall born 1817-01-18

John Ancrum Winslow born 1811-11-19

Raphael Semmes born 1809-09-27

Richard Pearson age 9

John Adolphus Dahlgren born 1809-11-13

Thomas ap Catesby Jones born 1790-04-24

Stephen W. Kearny born 1794-08-30

Archibald H. Gillespie born 1810-08-14

Thomas Childs born 1796-01-01

Joseph Lane born 1801-12-14

James Richard Dacres born 1788-08-22

Green Clay born 1757-08-14

William Dudley born 1766-01-01

Philip Broke born 1776-09-09

James Lawrence born 1781-10-01

Jiang Zhongyuan born 1812-08-01

Jacob Brown born 1775-05-09

Gordon Drummond born 1772-09-27

Robert F. Stockton born 1795-08-20

Alexander William Doniphan born 1808-07-09

David Conner born 1792-01-01

Matthew C. Perry born 1794-04-10

Augustine Prévost age 16

John Maitland age 8

William Moultrie age 9

William Woodford age 5

Abraham Buford born 1747-07-21

Jubal Early born 1816-11-03

Thomas Macdonough born 1783-12-21

Alexander Macomb born 1782-04-03

Lucretia Mott born 1793-01-03

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just born 1767-08-25

Karl August von Hardenberg born 1750-05-31

Wilhelm von Humboldt born 1767-06-22

Karl Nesselrode born 1780-12-14

Friedrich von Gentz born 1764-05-02

Ercole Consalvi born 1757-06-08

Princess Yoshiko (consort of Kōkaku) born 1779-03-11

Prince Yamashina Akira born 1816-02-29

Elizabeth Temkina born 1775-07-13

Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia born 1779-05-08

Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia born 1783-08-09

Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia born 1784-12-24

Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach born 1786-02-15

Catherine Pavlovna of Russia born 1788-05-21

Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia born 1792-07-11

Anna Pavlovna of Russia born 1795-01-18

Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia born 1798-02-08

Natalia Alexeievna (Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt) born 1755-06-25

Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) born 1759-10-25

Nikolai Lukash born 1796-12-11

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrovna of Russia born 1806-11-27

Gustaw Ehrenberg born 1818-02-14

Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) born 1779-01-24

Konstantin Konstantinov born 1818-04-06

Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld born 1781-09-23

Joanna Grudzińska born 1795-05-28

Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) born 1798-07-13

Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) born 1776-03-09

Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin born 1800-09-15

Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin born 1803-03-31

Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin born 1778-06-13

Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) born 1808-02-03

Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach born 1811-09-30

Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach born 1783-02-02

Duke Peter of Oldenburg born 1812-08-26

Princess Marie of Württemberg (1816–1887) born 1816-10-30

Duke George of Oldenburg born 1784-05-09

William I of Württemberg born 1781-09-27

William III of the Netherlands born 1817-02-19

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