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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

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 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

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 - 1850-01-01

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

First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

People

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 35

Bernardo de Gálvez age 13

Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi born 1839-10-05

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

Daniel Morgan age 23

Simon Cameron born 1799-03-08

Caleb Cushing born 1800-01-17

George S. Boutwell born 1818-01-28

John Schofield born 1831-09-29

Stefanos Skouloudis born 1838-11-23

Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg born 1839-06-10

Nicolaas Pierson born 1839-02-07

Walter Hauser born 1837-05-01

John B. Floyd born 1806-06-01

Alphonso Taft born 1810-11-05

Philip Francis Thomas born 1810-09-12

Thomas Corwin born 1794-07-29

William Windom born 1827-05-10

John J. Crittenden born 1787-09-10

José Manuel Marroquín born 1827-08-06

Josef Zemp born 1834-09-02

John C. Pemberton born 1814-08-10

Franz Sigel born 1824-11-18

Daniel Harvey Hill born 1821-07-12

David Dixon Porter born 1813-06-08

Fitzhugh Lee born 1835-11-19

John Bell (Tennessee politician) born 1796-02-18

John Canfield Spencer born 1788-01-08

Howell Cobb born 1815-09-07

Hugh McCulloch born 1808-12-07

Pierre Nord Alexis born 1820-08-02

Géza Fejérváry born 1833-03-15

Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani born 1821-01-01

Adolf Deucher born 1831-02-15

Pablo Arosemena born 1836-09-24

George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 43

Federico Gravina age 3

Pavel Chichagov born 1767-07-08

Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford born 1827-05-31

George Henry Williams born 1823-03-26

Mohamed Sherif Pasha born 1826-02-01

William P. Fessenden born 1806-10-16

Lot M. Morrill born 1813-05-03

Manuel Antonio Sanclemente born 1813-09-19

Garretson W. Gibson born 1832-05-20

Johannes Steen born 1827-07-22

Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala born 1810-12-06

John Lawrence born 1811-03-04

Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo born 1822-02-21

Alexander Ramsey born 1815-09-08

Russell A. Alger born 1836-02-27

Cuthbert Collingwood age 11

Edward Bates born 1793-09-04

George M. Bibb born 1776-10-30

Charles Foster born 1828-04-12

John G. Carlisle born 1834-09-05

Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook born 1826-01-22

William Mahone born 1826-12-01

Gouverneur Kemble Warren born 1830-01-08

William W. Belknap born 1829-09-22

Botho zu Eulenburg born 1831-07-31

Charles J. Folger born 1818-04-16

Benjamin Bristow born 1832-06-20

Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol born 1802-10-19

Walter Forward born 1786-01-24

James B. McPherson born 1828-11-14

Charles Magill Conrad born 1804-12-24

Joseph Holt born 1807-01-06

Redfield Proctor born 1831-06-01

Augustus H. Garland born 1832-06-11

George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen born 1831-08-10

James Guthrie born 1792-12-05

John Nelson born 1791-06-01

Nathan Clifford born 1803-08-18

Vicente Cerna y Cerna born 1815-01-22

Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh born 1818-10-27

Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare born 1815-04-16

Henry D. Gilpin born 1801-04-14

William Denison born 1804-05-03

Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier born 1819-09-15

Gustavus Woodson Smith born 1821-11-30

William Crowninshield Endicott born 1826-11-19

Lyman J. Gage born 1836-06-28

Yohannes III born 1797-01-01

William Harcourt born 1827-10-14

William M. Meredith born 1799-06-08

Riyad Pasha born 1834-01-01

Isaac Toucey born 1792-11-15

James Speed born 1812-03-11

John Y. Mason born 1799-04-18

Tirésias Simon Sam born 1835-05-15

John Strachey born 1823-06-05

John Alexander McClernand born 1812-05-30

George W. Crawford born 1798-12-22

George W. McCrary born 1835-08-29

George Cornewall Lewis born 1806-04-21

Franklin MacVeagh born 1837-11-22

Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook born 1814-10-01

Charles Devens born 1820-04-04

Edwards Pierrepont born 1817-03-04

Hugh S. Legaré born 1797-01-02

Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn born 1837-10-23

William Adams Richardson born 1821-11-02

Reverdy Johnson born 1796-05-21

Hugh Childers born 1827-06-25

Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal born 1832-06-12

Terencio Sierra born 1839-11-16

George Sykes born 1822-10-09

Benjamin McCulloch born 1811-11-11

Thomas James Churchill born 1824-03-10

Quincy Adams Gillmore born 1825-02-28

Stephen D. Lee born 1833-09-22

Benjamin H. Brewster born 1816-10-13

Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton born 1798-08-15

Henry Stanbery born 1803-02-20

Lerotholi born 1836-01-01

Ebenezer R. Hoar born 1816-02-21

Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax born 1800-12-20

R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross born 1823-05-30

Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet born 1799-05-11

Robert Lowe born 1811-12-04

Wayne MacVeagh born 1833-04-19

James Madison Porter born 1793-01-06

Spencer Horatio Walpole born 1806-09-11

Raghib Pasha born 1819-08-17

Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee born 1838-11-19

Mansfield Lovell born 1822-10-20

Charles Henry Davis born 1807-01-16

George Ward Hunt born 1825-07-30

José Venancio López born 1791-01-01

Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington born 1780-06-21

Franklin Gardner born 1823-01-29

William H. C. Whiting born 1824-03-22

Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff born 1826-01-13

Prince Euneon age 5

Edward Pakenham born 1778-03-19

T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt born 1801-04-04

Henry Lowry-Corry born 1803-03-09

William S. Derrick born 1802-07-31

Prince Eunsin age 4

William Hunter born 1805-11-08

William Lamb born 1835-09-07

Jacob L. Martin born 1810-06-01

Franz Joseph I of Austria born 1830-08-18

Adlai Stevenson I born 1835-10-23

Crown Prince Sado age 24

Jeongye Daewongun born 1785-04-21

Prince Namyeon born 1788-08-22

Crown Prince Hyomyeong born 1809-09-18

Cheoljong of Joseon born 1831-07-25

Marquis de Lafayette age 2

Charles Cornwallis age 21

Edward, Duke of Kent born 1767-11-02

Charles Canning born 1812-12-14

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin born 1826-06-21

A. P. Hill born 1825-11-09

Daniel Sickles born 1819-10-20

Henry W. Slocum born 1827-09-24

Oliver O. Howard born 1830-11-08

Edwin V. Sumner born 1797-01-30

William Buel Franklin born 1823-02-27

Thomas Armstrong Morris born 1811-12-26

George Alexander Porterfield born 1822-11-24

Charles Ellet Jr. born 1810-01-01

William S. Rosecrans born 1819-09-06

William Booth Taliaferro born 1822-12-28

George H. Thomas born 1816-07-31

Franklin Buchanan born 1800-09-13

William J. Hardee born 1815-10-12

Alfred Howe Terry born 1827-11-10

Philip Henry Sheridan born 1831-03-06

Horatio Gouverneur Wright born 1820-03-06

Richard Herron Anderson born 1821-10-07

Charles Lee age 27

Comte de Rochambeau age 34

Comte de Grasse age 37

Johann Rall

Leopold Philip von Heister age 53

Prince Albert born 1819-08-26

Bernardo O'Higgins born 1778-08-20

Frederick William IV of Prussia born 1795-10-15

Emmanuel de Grouchy born 1766-10-23

François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers age 6

Isma'il Pasha born 1830-12-31

Louis-Jules Trochu born 1815-03-12

Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure born 1767-02-27

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac born 1802-10-15

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