✦ History

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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29
Treaty of Waitangi 1840-02-06
Treaty of Nanking 1842-08-29
First Morse telegraph line 1844-05-24
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Texas annexation 1845-12-29
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02
Siege of Fort Texas 1846-05-03 - 1846-05-09
Battle of Palo Alto 1846-05-08 - 1846-05-08
Battle of Resaca de la Palma 1846-05-09 - 1846-05-09
Repeal of the Corn Laws 1846-06-25
Battle of Monterrey 1846-09-21 - 1846-09-24
Battle of San Pasqual 1846-12-06 - 1846-12-07
Battle of El Brazito 1846-12-25 - 1846-12-25
Battle of Río San Gabriel 1847-01-08 - 1847-01-09
Battle of Buena Vista 1847-02-22 - 1847-02-23
Battle of the Sacramento River 1847-02-28 - 1847-02-28
Siege of Veracruz 1847-03-09 - 1847-03-29
Battle of Cerro Gordo 1847-04-18 - 1847-04-18
Battle of Contreras 1847-08-19 - 1847-08-20
Battle of Churubusco 1847-08-20 - 1847-08-20
Battle of Molino del Rey 1847-09-08 - 1847-09-08
Battle of Chapultepec 1847-09-12 - 1847-09-13
Siege of Puebla (1847) 1847-09-14 - 1847-10-12
Sonderbund War 1847-11-03 - 1847-11-29
Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848-02-02
The Communist Manifesto published 1848-02-21
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Seneca Falls Convention 1848-07-19 - 1848-07-20
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Jintian Uprising 1851-01-11 - 1851-01-11
Great Exhibition 1851-05-01 - 1851-10-15
Battle of Changsha (1852) 1852-09-11 - 1852-11-30
Battle of Nanjing (1853) 1853-03-08 - 1853-03-19
Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) 1853-05-08 - 1855-05-31
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
Battle of Oltenița 1853-11-04 - 1853-11-04
Battle of Sinop 1853-11-30 - 1853-11-30
Battle of Başgedikler 1853-12-01 - 1853-12-01
Convention of Kanagawa 1854-03-31
Siege of Silistra (1854) 1854-05-15 - 1854-06-23
Battle of Kurekdere 1854-08-06 - 1854-08-06
Battle of Bomarsund 1854-08-08 - 1854-08-16
Battle of the Alma 1854-09-20 - 1854-09-20
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) 1854-10-17 - 1855-09-11
Battle of Balaclava 1854-10-25 - 1854-10-25
Battle of Inkerman 1854-11-05 - 1854-11-05
Siege of Kars (1855) 1855-06-01 - 1855-11-29
Bombardment of Sveaborg 1855-08-09 - 1855-08-10
Battle of the Chernaya 1855-08-16 - 1855-08-16
Battle of Malakoff 1855-09-08 - 1855-09-08
Battle of Kinburn (1855) 1855-10-17 - 1855-10-17
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24
Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857-03-06
Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857-05-10 - 1858-11-01
Battle of Sanhe 1858-11-07 - 1858-11-18
Publication of On the Origin of Species 1859-11-24
Battle of Anqing 1860-04-01 - 1861-09-05
Expedition of the Thousand 1860-05-05 - 1860-10-26
Battle of Palikao 1860-09-21
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Emancipation reform of 1861 1861-03-03
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy 1861-03-17
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Battle of Fort Sumter 1861-04-12 - 1861-04-13
Battle of Philippi 1861-06-03
First Battle of Bull Run 1861-07-21
Battle of Wilson's Creek 1861-08-10
Battle of Port Royal 1861-11-07 - 1861-11-07
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
Battle of Fort Henry 1862-02-06 - 1862-02-06
Battle of Fort Donelson 1862-02-11 - 1862-02-16
Battle of Island Number Ten 1862-02-28 - 1862-04-08
Battle of Hampton Roads 1862-03-08 - 1862-03-09
First Battle of Kernstown 1862-03-23 - 1862-03-23
Battle of Shiloh 1862-04-06 - 1862-04-07
Capture of New Orleans 1862-04-25
Siege of Corinth 1862-04-29 - 1862-05-30

People

Alexandre Millerand born 1859-02-10
Amadeo I of Spain born 1845-05-30
George Curzon born 1859-01-11
John Wilkes Booth born 1838-05-10
Yuan Shikai born 1859-09-16
Joseph Joffre born 1852-01-12
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria born 1861-02-26
John A. Macdonald age 21
Paul Doumer born 1857-03-22
Stonewall Jackson age 12
Armand Fallières born 1841-11-06
Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18
Jules Grévy age 29
Sadi Carnot (statesman) born 1837-08-11
Bernardo O'Higgins age 58
Deodoro da Fonseca age 9
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 31
George Armstrong Custer born 1839-12-05
Auguste Beernaert age 7
John J. Pershing born 1860-09-13
Elihu Root born 1845-02-15
Edmund Barton born 1849-01-18
Bernhard von Bülow born 1849-05-03
Aleksey Brusilov born 1853-08-03
Charles Curtis born 1860-01-25
Thomas R. Marshall born 1854-03-14
Frank B. Kellogg born 1856-12-22
Frederik VIII of Denmark born 1843-06-03
Carol I of Romania born 1839-04-20
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando born 1860-05-19
Alfred Deakin born 1856-08-03
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 3 months
Félix Faure born 1841-01-30
Paul Kruger age 11
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) born 1847-11-26
Sergei Witte born 1849-06-29
Émile Loubet born 1838-12-30
Menelik II born 1844-08-17
Georgy Lvov born 1861-11-02
Jean Casimir-Perier born 1847-11-08
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener born 1850-06-24
Charles W. Fairbanks born 1852-05-11
Paul Deschanel born 1855-02-13
Abdur Rahman Khan born 1840-01-01
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud born 1861-12-15
Douglas Hyde born 1860-01-17
Ōkuma Shigenobu born 1838-03-11
Edward Smith born 1850-01-27
Victoria, Princess Royal born 1840-11-21
Garret Hobart born 1844-06-03
Levi P. Morton age 12
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25
Leo von Caprivi age 5
Gustav IV Adolf age 58
Pavel Nakhimov age 34
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 38
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 25
William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19
Christian Michelsen born 1857-03-15
Katsura Tarō born 1848-01-04
Saigō Takamori age 8
Tōgō Heihachirō born 1848-01-27
Adlai Stevenson I age 1
Hipólito Yrigoyen born 1850-07-13
Venustiano Carranza born 1859-12-29
Clara Barton age 15
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery born 1847-05-07
Peter I of Serbia born 1844-07-11
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig born 1861-06-19
Maria II of Portugal age 17
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria born 1858-08-21
James S. Sherman born 1855-10-24
Erich von Falkenhayn born 1861-09-11
Isma'il Pasha age 6
August von Mackensen born 1849-12-06
Jérôme Bonaparte age 52
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 25
Marie Thérèse of France age 58
Georg Michaelis born 1857-09-08
Georg von Hertling born 1843-08-31
Constantin Fehrenbach born 1852-01-11
Giovanni Giolitti born 1842-10-27
Guadalupe Victoria age 50
Nicholas I of Montenegro born 1841-10-07
Lew Wallace age 9
Yamagata Aritomo born 1838-06-14
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 17
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 65
Demetrios Vikelas age 1
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 41
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom born 1843-04-25
Joseph Chamberlain age 5 months
Ismail Kemal born 1844-01-16
Gojong of the Korean Empire born 1852-09-08
Terauchi Masatake born 1852-02-05
Hara Takashi born 1856-03-15
Francesco Crispi age 18
Ludwig III of Bavaria born 1845-01-07
Emperor Kōkaku age 65
Bartolomé Mitre age 15
Wilfrid Laurier born 1841-11-20
Nikola Pašić born 1845-12-18
David Farragut age 35
Matsukata Masayoshi age 1
Inukai Tsuyoshi born 1855-06-04
Floriano Peixoto born 1839-04-30
Jules Ferry age 4
Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 67
Olga Constantinovna of Russia born 1851-09-03
Francisco Solano López age 10
Maria Christina of Austria born 1858-07-21
Charlotte of Belgium born 1840-06-07
Allan Octavian Hume age 7
Victoriano Huerta born 1850-12-22
Philip Henry Sheridan age 5
Auguste de Marmont age 62
Lucretia Mott age 44
Gyula Andrássy age 13
Charles Evans Hughes born 1862-04-11
Tokugawa Yoshinobu born 1837-10-28
Kuroda Kiyotaka born 1840-11-09
Prudente de Morais born 1841-10-04
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar born 1853-03-23
Armando Diaz born 1861-12-05
Otto, King of Bavaria born 1848-04-27
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein born 1858-10-22
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom born 1857-04-14
Alexander Mackenzie age 14
Kate Sheppard born 1847-03-10
Robert Nivelle born 1856-10-15
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf born 1852-11-11
Hong Xiuquan age 23
Li Hongzhang age 13
Luigi Cadorna born 1850-09-04
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 12
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom born 1846-05-25
George Meade age 21
George Reid born 1845-02-25
Jānis Čakste born 1859-09-14
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 19
Albert I, Prince of Monaco born 1848-11-13
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 54
Saionji Kinmochi born 1849-12-07
Antonio Salandra born 1853-08-13
Luigi Facta born 1861-09-13
Rodrigues Alves born 1848-07-07
Afonso Pena born 1847-11-30
Lin Tse-hsu age 51
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 54
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 26
John Abbott age 15
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 71
Carrie Chapman Catt born 1859-01-09
Dadabhai Naoroji age 11
Julio Argentino Roca born 1843-07-17
Abraham Kuyper born 1837-10-29
Agostino Depretis age 23
Sidney Sonnino born 1847-03-11
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia born 1856-11-18
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 11 months
Matthew C. Perry age 42
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 71
Georg V of Hanover age 17
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 34
Marie Henriette of Austria age 4 months
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha born 1844-08-06
Joseph Cook born 1860-12-07
Michael Hainisch born 1858-08-15
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg born 1852-04-22
Pedro Lascuráin born 1856-05-08
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe born 1852-11-26
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 32
Campos Sales born 1841-02-15
Mikhail Skobelev born 1843-09-29
Bernardino Rivadavia age 56
Katō Takaaki born 1860-01-03
Saitō Makoto born 1858-10-27
Paolo Boselli born 1838-06-08
Hussein Kamel of Egypt born 1853-10-21
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 25
William I of Württemberg age 55
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn born 1850-05-01
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 39
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 3
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll born 1848-03-18
John Hay born 1838-10-08
Robert Borden born 1854-06-26
Saad Zaghloul born 1857-01-01
Takahashi Korekiyo born 1854-07-27
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 10
Tewfik Pasha born 1852-11-15
Louis-Jules Trochu age 21
Albert I of Saxony age 8
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby born 1861-04-23
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 9
Sophie of Württemberg age 18
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia born 1857-05-11
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia born 1853-10-17
Nicolas Oudinot age 69
Leopold II of Tuscany age 39