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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

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

José Joaquín de Herrera born 1792-02-23

Pedro María de Anaya born 1794-05-20

Mariano Arista born 1802-07-26

Mariano Paredes born 1797-01-07

Manuel de la Peña y Peña born 1789-03-10

Valentín Canalizo born 1794-01-14

Francisco Javier Echeverría born 1797-07-02

Juan Bautista Ceballos born 1811-05-13

Manuel María Lombardini born 1802-07-23

José Mariano Salas born 1797-05-11

Rómulo Díaz de la Vega born 1800-05-23

Ignacio Comonfort born 1812-03-12

Juan Álvarez born 1790-01-27

Martín Carrera born 1806-12-20

Estanislao Figueras born 1819-11-13

Francesc Pi i Margall born 1824-04-29

Nicolás Salmerón born 1838-04-10

Emilio Castelar born 1832-09-07

Francisco Serrano born 1810-12-17

Charles Sumner born 1811-01-06

John Wilkes Booth born 1838-05-10

Lyman Trumbull born 1813-10-12

Qishan born 1786-01-18

Sengge Rinchen born 1811-01-01

Hong Xuanjiao born 1830-01-01

Li Hongzhang born 1823-02-15

Zuo Zongtang born 1812-11-10

Zhang Lexing born 1810-01-01

Su Sanniang born 1830-01-01

Prince Gong born 1833-01-11

Henry Atkinson born 1782-01-01

Edmund P. Gaines born 1777-03-20

Black Hawk born 1767-01-01

Wabokieshiek born 1794-01-01

Duncan Lamont Clinch born 1787-04-06

Francis Langhorne Dade born 1793-01-01

Ar-pi-uck-i born 1760-01-01

Osceola born 1804-01-01

Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts born 1832-09-30

Paul Kruger born 1825-10-10

James Hope Grant born 1808-07-22

Charles Cousin-Montauban born 1796-06-24

Pierre-Augustin Hulin age 1

Stanislas-Marie Maillard born 1763-12-11

Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay age 19

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 11

Roger Ducos age 12

Prince Arisugawa Taruhito born 1835-03-13

Katsu Kaishū born 1823-03-12

Enomoto Takeaki born 1836-10-25

Yefim Chaplits born 1768-01-01

Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud born 1798-08-20

Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov born 1787-09-05

Auguste de Marmont born 1774-07-20

Jean Pierre François Bonet born 1768-08-08

FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan born 1788-09-30

Bertrand Clausel born 1772-12-12

François Certain de Canrobert born 1809-06-27

Pavel Liprandi born 1796-01-26

José María Barreiro Manjón born 1793-08-20

Lin Tse-hsu born 1785-08-30

Ahmed Muhtar Pasha born 1832-11-01

Osman Nuri Pasha born 1832-01-01

Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén age 1

Alexander Ypsilantis born 1792-12-12

Pierre Antoine Dupont born 1765-07-04

Dimitrios Ypsilantis born 1793-12-25

Pierre Bosquet born 1810-11-08

Ioannis Kapodistrias born 1776-02-10

Franz von John born 1815-11-20

Claude Dallemagne age 5

Karl Philipp Sebottendorf age 19

Josef Philipp Vukassovich age 5

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen born 1817-08-03

Albert I of Saxony born 1828-04-23

Gerhard Rosselmini age 18

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan born 1762-04-29

William Prescott age 33

Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière born 1765-10-29

Israel Putnam age 42

Allan Maclean of Torloisk age 35

George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie born 1770-10-23

Joseph Warren age 18

Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 11

George Dewey born 1837-12-26

Aimable Pélissier born 1794-11-06

Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves age 34

Don Carlos Buell born 1818-03-23

Jezzar Pasha age 38

Frederick Francis II born 1823-02-28

Barthélémy Catherine Joubert born 1769-04-14

Francis II of the Two Sicilies born 1836-01-16

Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko age 20

Charles Mawhood age 30

Antal Lipthay age 15

Giosuè Ritucci born 1794-04-08

Francesco Landi born 1792-10-13

Daniel Patterson born 1786-03-06

Pushmataha born 1764-01-01

John Marston born 1795-06-12

John Lorimer Worden born 1818-03-12

John Keane, 1st Baron Keane born 1781-02-06

Catesby ap Roger Jones born 1821-04-15

Ferdinand de Lesseps born 1805-11-19

Louis André Bon age 1

Murad Bey age 10

Ibrahim Bey age 25

August Neidhardt von Gneisenau born 1760-10-27

Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten born 1770-03-05

Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein born 1760-06-26

John Pope born 1822-03-16

Johann von Hiller age 5

André Masséna age 1

Jean Lannes born 1769-04-10

Pavel Nakhimov born 1802-07-05

Osman Pasha born 1792-01-01

Adolphus Slade born 1804-01-01

Agustín Gamarra born 1785-08-27

Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg born 1769-01-05

Armand von Nordmann age 4 months

Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde age 3

Pierre Augereau age 2

József Alvinczi age 24

Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky age 15

Giovanni Marchese di Provera age 24

Ludwig von Benedek born 1804-07-14

Francisco Javier Venegas age 5

Félix María Calleja del Rey, 1st Count of Calderón age 6

Cetshwayo kaMpande born 1826-01-01

Ntshingwayo Khoza born 1809-01-01

Dabulamanzi kaMpande born 1839-10-01

Louis Desaix born 1768-08-17

Luis Alejandro Berthier age 6

Michael von Melas age 30

Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz age 22

Anton von Zach age 12

Jules Ferry born 1832-04-05

Amédée Courbet born 1827-06-26

Sébastien Lespès born 1828-03-13

Pan Dingxin born 1828-01-01

Géraud Duroc born 1772-10-25

Nikolai Linevich born 1839-01-05

Jean Victor Marie Moreau born 1763-02-14

Archduke John of Austria born 1782-01-20

Haim Farhi born 1760-01-01

Sidney Smith born 1764-06-21

Jean Baptiste Kléber age 6

Eugène de Beauharnais born 1781-09-03

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

Gregorio García de la Cuesta age 18

Mariano Osorio born 1777-01-01

Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia born 1828-03-20

Carlo Pellion di Persano born 1806-03-11

Joseph Vinoy born 1800-08-10

Wilhelm von Tegetthoff born 1827-12-23

Sefë Kosharja born 1830-01-01

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 5

Johann de Kalb age 38

Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie age 8

Andrew Hull Foote born 1806-09-12

Gideon Johnson Pillow born 1806-06-08

Simon Bolivar Buckner born 1823-04-01

Eugen von Argentau age 16

Mathias Rukavina von Boynograd age 23

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 age 2

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

Nikolay Svyatopolk-Mirsky born 1833-07-17

Iosif Gurko born 1828-07-28

Fyodor Radetsky born 1820-07-28

Mehmed Rauf Pasha born 1832-01-01

Suleyman Husnu Pasha born 1838-01-01

Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland age 17

Wilhelm von Knyphausen age 43

Piet Cronjé born 1836-10-04

Kootjie Snyman born 1838-01-01

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

Stephen Van Rensselaer born 1764-11-01

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

Gordon Granger born 1821-11-06

Richard Lucian Page born 1807-12-20

Oskar Gripenberg born 1838-01-01

George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney age 40

Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st Baronet age 31

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville age 30

Lloyd Tilghman born 1816-01-18

Samuel Smith age 7

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