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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 the Katzbach 1813-08-26 - 1813-08-26

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

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 North Point 1814-09-12 - 1814-09-12

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

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

Battle of Boyacá 1819-08-07 - 1819-08-07

Peterloo Massacre 1819-08-16

Capture of Valdivia 1820-02-03 - 1820-02-04

Missouri Compromise 1820-03-06

Greek War of Independence 1821-02-21 - 1829-09-12

Battle of Carabobo 1821-06-24 - 1821-06-24

Battle of Pichincha 1822-05-24 - 1822-05-24

Independence of Brazil 1822-09-07

Battle of Lake Maracaibo 1823-07-24 - 1823-07-24

Monroe Doctrine 1823-12-02

Battle of Junín 1824-08-06 - 1824-08-06

Battle of Ayacucho 1824-12-09 - 1824-12-09

Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825-09-27

Decembrist revolt 1825-12-26

People

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 16

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 105

Frederick Douglass born 1818-02-14

Wilhelm I born 1797-03-22

Georges Danton age 11

Susan B. Anthony born 1820-02-15

Jefferson Davis born 1808-06-03

Benito Juárez born 1806-03-21

Adolphe Thiers born 1797-04-15

Louis Philippe I born 1773-10-06

Victor Emmanuel II born 1820-03-14

Pedro II of Brazil born 1825-12-02

Leopold I of Belgium born 1790-12-16

Elizabeth Cady Stanton born 1815-11-12

Patrice de MacMahon born 1808-06-13

Napoleon II born 1811-03-20

Joséphine de Beauharnais age 7

Joachim Murat age 3

Marquis de Lafayette age 13

George Stephenson born 1781-06-09

Abdülmecid I born 1823-04-25

Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 1

Mikhail Kutuzov age 25

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder born 1800-10-26

Edward Bulwer-Lytton born 1803-05-25

William Tecumseh Sherman born 1820-02-08

Prince Albert born 1819-08-26

Charles XV born 1826-05-03

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma born 1791-12-12

Toussaint Louverture age 27

Ferdinand I of Austria born 1793-04-19

Frederick William IV of Prussia born 1795-10-15

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 3

Christian IX of Denmark born 1818-04-08

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 22

Antonio López de Santa Anna born 1794-02-21

Lajos Kossuth born 1802-09-19

Oscar I born 1799-07-04

John A. Macdonald born 1815-01-11

Stonewall Jackson born 1824-01-21

Lazare Carnot age 17

Louis XVII born 1785-03-27

Jules Grévy born 1807-08-15

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 17

Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 12

Bernardo O'Higgins born 1778-08-20

Michel Ney age 1

Ferdinand de Lesseps born 1805-11-19

Hannibal Hamlin born 1809-08-27

William II of the Netherlands born 1792-12-06

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen born 1784-01-28

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 27

Paul Kruger born 1825-10-10

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 41

Mongkut born 1804-10-18

Agustín de Iturbide born 1783-09-27

Ioannis Kapodistrias born 1776-02-10

William III of the Netherlands born 1817-02-19

Frederick VII of Denmark born 1808-10-06

George M. Dallas born 1792-07-10

Levi P. Morton born 1824-05-16

Pyotr Bagration age 5

Pavel Nakhimov born 1802-07-05

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

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento born 1811-02-15

Robert FitzRoy born 1805-07-05

Schuyler Colfax born 1823-03-23

Thomas A. Hendricks born 1819-09-07

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 8

Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies age 19

Clara Barton born 1821-12-25

Jean Lannes age 1

Maria II of Portugal born 1819-04-04

Tecumseh age 2

Louis-Nicolas Davout age 6 months

André Masséna age 12

Jérôme Bonaparte born 1784-11-15

Maximilian II of Bavaria born 1811-11-28

Marie Thérèse of France born 1778-12-19

Charles Albert born 1798-10-02

Francisco de Miranda age 20

Maria Carolina of Austria age 18

Maria Leopoldina of Austria born 1797-01-22

Charles Cornwallis age 31

Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst born 1819-03-31

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen born 1771-09-05

Vicente Guerrero born 1782-08-10

Anna Pavlovna of Russia born 1795-01-18

Józef Poniatowski age 7

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz born 1776-03-10

Francesco Crispi born 1818-10-04

Luis Alejandro Berthier age 17

Eugène de Beauharnais born 1781-09-03

Bartolomé Mitre born 1821-06-26

George B. McClellan born 1826-12-03

David Farragut born 1801-07-05

Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 1

Francisco Solano López born 1826-07-24

Mohammad Shah Qajar born 1808-01-05

Auguste de Marmont born 1774-07-20

Lucretia Mott born 1793-01-03

Gyula Andrássy born 1823-03-08

Leland Stanford born 1824-03-09

Benedict Arnold age 29

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

Alexander Mackenzie born 1822-01-28

Hong Xiuquan born 1814-01-01

Li Hongzhang born 1823-02-15

Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) born 1824-08-08

George Meade born 1815-12-31

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg born 1817-07-24

Edward, Duke of Kent age 3

Bettino Ricasoli born 1809-03-09

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac born 1802-10-15

Lin Tse-hsu born 1785-08-30

Alexander Ypsilantis born 1792-12-12

Jean Victor Marie Moreau age 7

Francis I of the Two Sicilies born 1777-08-19

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily born 1782-04-26

Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies born 1810-01-12

John Abbott born 1821-03-12

Dadabhai Naoroji born 1825-09-04

Agostino Depretis born 1813-01-31

Matthew C. Perry born 1794-04-10

Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 11

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

Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 5

Georg V of Hanover born 1819-05-27

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria born 1802-12-17

Johan Rudolph Thorbecke born 1798-01-14

Joseph Jenkins Roberts born 1809-03-15

Urbano Rattazzi born 1808-06-20

Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora born 1804-11-18

Benjamin Rush age 24

Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily born 1772-06-06

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

William I of Württemberg born 1781-09-27

Frederick I of Württemberg age 16

William V, Prince of Orange age 22

Maria Luisa of Spain age 25

Frederick Augustus II of Saxony born 1797-05-18

Winfield Scott born 1786-06-13

Giuseppe Zanardelli born 1826-10-29

Tewodros II born 1818-01-01

Louis-Jules Trochu born 1815-03-12

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan age 8

Jean Baptiste Kléber age 17

Sophie of Württemberg born 1818-06-17

Nicolas Oudinot age 3

Ferdinand III of Tuscany age 1

Leopold II of Tuscany born 1797-10-03

Adelaide of Austria born 1822-06-03

Princess Sophie of Bavaria born 1805-01-27

James Longstreet born 1821-01-08

Nathan Bedford Forrest born 1821-07-13

José Antonio Páez born 1790-06-13

Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 2

Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen age 28

Anthony, King of Saxony age 14

Justo José de Urquiza born 1801-10-18

Francisco de Paula Santander born 1792-04-02

Lajos Batthyány born 1807-02-10

Mihail Kogălniceanu born 1817-09-06

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta born 1825-07-21

P. G. T. Beauregard born 1818-05-28

Luigi Federico Menabrea born 1809-09-04

Emmanuel de Grouchy age 4

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg born 1771-04-18

Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno age 5

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

Charles I of Württemberg born 1823-03-06

Charles François Dumouriez age 31

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 7

Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 50

Juan José Flores born 1800-07-19

Carlos Antonio López born 1790-11-04

Louis Gerhard De Geer born 1818-07-18

Richard Cobden born 1804-06-03

Midhat Pasha born 1822-10-18

Luigi Carlo Farini born 1812-10-22

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada born 1823-04-24

Francesc Pi i Margall born 1824-04-29

Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein age 10

Pierre Augereau age 13

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 35

Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 6

John Dickinson age 38

Francisco Morazán born 1792-10-03

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 41

Ambrose Burnside born 1824-05-23

John Paul Jones age 23

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 6

Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 3

Louis Desaix age 2

Karl Nesselrode born 1780-12-14

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

Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands born 1774-11-18

Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria born 1801-11-13

Maria Anna of Savoy born 1803-09-19

Charles Tupper born 1821-07-02

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