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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

Boston Tea Party 1773-12-16

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

Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775-04-19

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

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

Storming of the Bastille 1789-07-14

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Battle of Ligny 1815-06-16

Battle of Quatre Bras 1815-06-16 - 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

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

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

Decembrist revolt 1825-12-26

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

July Revolution 1830-07-27 - 1830-07-29

Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27

Slavery Abolition Act 1833 1833-08-28

Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14

People

Maximilien Robespierre age 8

Ada Lovelace born 1815-12-10

Chester A. Arthur born 1829-10-05

Giuseppe Garibaldi born 1807-07-04

Napoleon III born 1808-04-20

Pius X born 1835-06-02

Leo XIII born 1810-03-02

Charles Babbage born 1791-12-26

Edward Jenner age 17

Alexander II of Russia born 1818-04-29

Harriet Tubman born 1822-03-01

Horatio Nelson age 8

Robert E. Lee born 1807-01-19

Empress Dowager Cixi born 1835-11-29

William Ewart Gladstone born 1809-12-29

Shaka born 1787-07-01

Giuseppe Mazzini born 1805-06-22

Leopold II of Belgium born 1835-04-09

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour born 1810-08-10

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 12

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 101

Frederick Douglass born 1818-02-14

Wilhelm I born 1797-03-22

Georges Danton age 7

Susan B. Anthony born 1820-02-15

José de San Martín born 1778-02-25

Jefferson Davis born 1808-06-03

Benito Juárez born 1806-03-21

Adolphe Thiers born 1797-04-15

Porfirio Díaz born 1830-09-15

Victor Emmanuel II born 1820-03-14

Elizabeth Cady Stanton born 1815-11-12

Patrice de MacMahon born 1808-06-13

Frederick III, German Emperor born 1831-10-18

Joséphine de Beauharnais age 3

Joachim Murat born 1767-03-25

Abdulaziz born 1830-02-08

Abdülmecid I born 1823-04-25

Muhammad Ali of Egypt born 1769-03-04

Mikhail Kutuzov age 21

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder born 1800-10-26

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston born 1784-10-20

William Tecumseh Sherman born 1820-02-08

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury born 1830-02-03

Charles XV born 1826-05-03

Toussaint Louverture age 23

Maximilian I of Mexico born 1832-07-06

Christian IX of Denmark born 1818-04-08

Oscar II of Sweden born 1829-01-21

Oscar I born 1799-07-04

Stonewall Jackson born 1824-01-21

Antonio José de Sucre born 1795-02-03

William H. Seward born 1801-05-16

Jules Grévy born 1807-08-15

Sadi Carnot (statesman) born 1837-08-11

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 13

Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 8

Michel Ney born 1769-01-10

Deodoro da Fonseca born 1827-08-05

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar born 1831-07-17

Hannibal Hamlin born 1809-08-27

Henry Campbell-Bannerman born 1836-09-07

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 24

William Wilberforce age 7

William R. King born 1786-04-07

Agustín de Iturbide born 1783-09-27

John C. Breckinridge born 1821-01-16

Henry Wilson born 1812-02-16

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby born 1799-03-29

Ōkuma Shigenobu born 1838-03-11

George M. Dallas born 1792-07-10

Levi P. Morton born 1824-05-16

William A. Wheeler born 1819-06-30

Leo von Caprivi born 1831-02-24

Pyotr Bagration age 1

Schuyler Colfax born 1823-03-23

Thomas A. Hendricks born 1819-09-07

Saigō Takamori born 1828-01-23

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 5

Clara Barton born 1821-12-25

Daniel Webster born 1782-01-18

Emperor Kōmei born 1831-07-22

Tecumseh born 1768-03-01

Louis-Nicolas Davout born 1770-05-10

Xianfeng Emperor born 1831-07-17

Yamagata Aritomo born 1838-06-14

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

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

Demetrios Vikelas born 1835-02-27

Joseph Chamberlain born 1836-07-08

Francesco Crispi born 1818-10-04

George B. McClellan born 1826-12-03

David Farragut born 1801-07-05

Matsukata Masayoshi born 1835-02-25

Tokugawa Yoshinobu born 1837-10-28

Benedict Arnold age 25

Hong Xiuquan born 1814-01-01

George Meade born 1815-12-31

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

Bettino Ricasoli born 1809-03-09

Abraham Kuyper born 1837-10-29

Agostino Depretis born 1813-01-31

Urbano Rattazzi born 1808-06-20

Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora born 1804-11-18

James G. Blaine born 1830-01-31

Paolo Boselli born 1838-06-08

Winfield Scott born 1786-06-13

Giuseppe Zanardelli born 1826-10-29

Tewodros II born 1818-01-01

James Longstreet born 1821-01-08

Nathan Bedford Forrest born 1821-07-13

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta born 1825-07-21

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

Luigi Federico Menabrea born 1809-09-04

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

Tomás Estrada Palma born 1835-07-09

Joseph E. Johnston born 1807-02-03

Luigi Carlo Farini born 1812-10-22

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada born 1823-04-24

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 37

Ambrose Burnside born 1824-05-23

John Paul Jones age 19

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh born 1769-06-18

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 3

Yohannes IV born 1837-07-11

Nathanael Greene age 24

John Sherman born 1823-05-10

J. E. B. Stuart born 1833-02-06

Marco Minghetti born 1818-11-18

Giuseppe Saracco born 1821-10-06

Alexander H. Stephens born 1812-02-11

François Achille Bazaine born 1811-02-13

Salmon P. Chase born 1808-01-13

Yeongjo of Joseon age 72

John Burgoyne age 44

Giovanni Lanza born 1810-02-15

Edwin Stanton born 1814-12-19

Karl Mack von Leiberich age 14

Zeng Guofan born 1811-11-26

Heungseon Daewongun born 1821-01-24

Braxton Bragg born 1817-03-22

Benedetto Cairoli born 1825-01-28

Henry Halleck born 1815-01-16

Manuel González born 1833-06-18

Joseph Hooker born 1814-11-13

Benjamin Franklin Butler born 1818-11-05

Sanjō Sanetomi born 1837-03-13

Rafael Carrera born 1815-10-24

Hamilton Fish born 1808-08-03

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 36

Nubar Pasha born 1825-01-01

Thomas Gage age 48

Manuel Quintana born 1835-10-19

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton born 1831-11-08

Winfield Scott Hancock born 1824-02-14

Albert Sidney Johnston born 1803-02-02

Horatio Gates age 39

Levin August von Bennigsen age 21

William M. Evarts born 1818-02-06

Thomas F. Bayard born 1828-10-29

John W. Foster born 1836-03-02

Walter Q. Gresham born 1832-03-17

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin born 1811-07-20

Elihu B. Washburne born 1816-09-23

Irvin McDowell born 1818-10-15

Henry Clinton age 36

Banastre Tarleton age 12

Abel P. Upshur born 1790-06-17

John M. Clayton born 1796-07-24

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen born 1817-08-04

Richard Olney born 1835-09-15

Fredrik von Otter born 1833-04-10

Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero born 1832-09-04

George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon born 1827-10-24

Richard S. Ewell born 1817-02-08

Robert Gould Shaw born 1837-10-10

Jeremiah S. Black born 1810-01-10

Dimitrie Sturdza born 1833-03-09

Robert Anderson born 1805-06-14

George Pickett born 1825-01-16

Sterling Price born 1809-09-20

Anthony Wayne age 22

John Adams Dix born 1798-07-24

Nathaniel Lyon born 1818-07-14

John Bell Hood born 1831-06-01

Melville Fuller born 1833-02-11

Ramón Barros Luco born 1835-06-09

Theodoros Deligiannis born 1820-01-14

Segismundo Moret born 1833-06-02

Nathaniel P. Banks born 1816-01-30

Morrison Waite born 1816-11-29

Eugenio Montero Ríos born 1832-11-13

Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 42

Bernardo de Gálvez age 20

Thomas Ewing born 1789-12-28

Mubarak Al-Sabah born 1838-01-01

Petre P. Carp born 1837-06-29

Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino born 1832-09-22

José López Domínguez born 1829-11-29

Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo born 1824-06-30

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