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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29

Mexican War of Independence 1810-09-16 - 1821-09-27

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

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

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

Belgian Revolution 1830-08-25 - 1831-07-21

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

Reform Act 1832 1832-06-07

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

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

Battle of Plum Point Bend 1862-05-10 - 1862-05-10

Battle of Drewry's Bluff 1862-05-15 - 1862-05-15

Battle of Front Royal 1862-05-23 - 1862-05-23

First Battle of Winchester 1862-05-25 - 1862-05-25

Battle of Seven Pines 1862-05-31 - 1862-06-01

Battle of Memphis 1862-06-06

Battle of Port Republic 1862-06-09 - 1862-06-09

Seven Days Battles 1862-06-25 - 1862-07-01

Battle of Cedar Mountain 1862-08-09 - 1862-08-09

Second Battle of Bull Run 1862-08-28 - 1862-08-30

Battle of Antietam 1862-09-17

Battle of Cixi 1862-09-20 - 1862-09-21

Battle of Perryville 1862-10-08 - 1862-10-08

Battle of Fredericksburg 1862-12-11 - 1862-12-15

Battle of Chickasaw Bayou 1862-12-26 - 1862-12-29

Battle of Stones River 1862-12-31 - 1863-01-02

Emancipation Proclamation 1863-01-01

First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10

Battle of Arkansas Post 1863-01-09 - 1863-01-11

First Battle of Charleston Harbor 1863-04-07 - 1863-04-07

Battle of Chancellorsville 1863-04-30 - 1863-05-06

Battle of Champion Hill 1863-05-16 - 1863-05-16

People

Andrés de Santa Cruz age 23

President - Peru

William III of the Netherlands born 1817-02-19

King - Netherlands

William II of the Netherlands age 23

King - Netherlands

William I of the Netherlands age 43

King - Netherlands

Francisco Solano López born 1826-07-24

President - Paraguay

Lajos Kossuth age 13

Prime Minister - Hungary

Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 18

Prime Minister - Netherlands

Lajos Batthyány age 8

Prime Minister - Hungary

Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 24

Prime Minister - Greece

Konstantinos Kanaris age 26

Prime Minister - Greece

Ioannis Kolettis age 43

Prime Minister - Greece

Charles Rogier age 15

Prime Minister - Belgium

Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 30

Prime Minister - Denmark

Spyridon Trikoupis age 27

Prime Minister - Greece

Bhimsen Thapa age 40

Prime Minister - Nepal

Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 30

Prime Minister - Belgium

Joseph Lebeau age 22

Prime Minister - Belgium

Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 21

Prime Minister - Denmark

Barbu Catargiu age 8

Prime Minister - Romania

Georgios Kountouriotis age 34

Prime Minister - Greece

Peter Georg Bang age 18

Prime Minister - Denmark

Josef Ludwig von Armansperg age 28

Prime Minister - Greece

Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 37

Prime Minister - Denmark

Carl Christian Hall age 3

Prime Minister - Denmark

Jean-Baptiste Nothomb age 10

Prime Minister - Belgium

Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella age 25

Prime Minister - Belgium

Gerrit Schimmelpenninck age 21

Prime Minister - Netherlands

Dimitrios Voulgaris age 13

Prime Minister - Greece

Jan Jacob Rochussen age 18

Prime Minister - Netherlands

Benizelos Roufos age 21

Prime Minister - Greece

Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ age 3

Prime Minister - Denmark

Alfred Domett age 4

Prime Minister - New Zealand

Pierre de Decker age 3

Prime Minister - Belgium

Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 21

Prime Minister - Belgium

Félix de Muelenaere age 22

Prime Minister - Belgium

Sylvain Van de Weyer age 14

Prime Minister - Belgium

Ignaz von Rudhart age 25

Prime Minister - Greece

Andreas Metaxas age 30

Prime Minister - Greece

Antonios Kriezis age 20

Prime Minister - Greece

Kitsos Tzavelas age 15

Prime Minister - Greece

Henry Sewell age 8

Prime Minister - New Zealand

William Fox age 3

Prime Minister - New Zealand

Henri de Brouckère age 14

Prime Minister - Belgium

Athanasios Miaoulis age 1

Prime Minister - Greece

Aristeidis Moraitinis age 10

Prime Minister - Greece

Bertalan Szemere age 3

Prime Minister - Hungary

Andreas Zaimis age 25

Prime Minister - Greece

Nicolae Kretzulescu age 3

Prime Minister - Romania

Zinovios Valvis age 16

Prime Minister - Greece

Jacob de Kempenaer age 22

Prime Minister - Netherlands

Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt born 1816-06-29

Prime Minister - Netherlands

Diomidis Kyriakos age 5

Prime Minister - Greece

Carl Edvard Rotwitt age 3

Prime Minister - Denmark

Floris Adriaan van Hall age 24

Prime Minister - Netherlands

Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine age 29

Prime Minister - Luxembourg

Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela age 34

Prime Minister - Portugal

Justinus van der Brugghen age 11

Prime Minister - Netherlands

Schelto van Heemstra age 8

Prime Minister - Netherlands

João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 25

Prime Minister - Portugal

Jean-Jacques Willmar age 23

Prime Minister - Luxembourg

Charles-Mathias Simons age 13

Prime Minister - Luxembourg

Edward Stafford born 1819-04-23

Prime Minister - New Zealand

Victor de Tornaco age 10

Prime Minister - Luxembourg

Rainivoninahitriniony born 1824-01-01

Prime Minister - Madagascar

Apostol Arsache age 27

Prime Minister - Romania

Ádám Récsey age 40

Prime Minister - Hungary

Constantin A. Kretzulescu age 6

Prime Minister - Romania

Robert FitzRoy age 10

Governor-General - New Zealand

William Hobson age 22

Governor-General - New Zealand

Thomas Gore Browne age 8

Governor-General - New Zealand

Empress Dowager Cixi born 1835-11-29

Regent - Imperial China

Empress Dowager Ci'an born 1837-08-12

Regent - Imperial China

Karl Marx born 1818-05-05

Napoleon age 46

Leo Tolstoy born 1828-09-09

Charles Darwin age 6

Ludwig van Beethoven age 45

Vincent van Gogh born 1853-03-30

Fyodor Dostoevsky born 1821-11-11

Friedrich Nietzsche born 1844-10-15

Thomas Edison born 1847-02-11

Sigmund Freud born 1856-05-06

Charles Dickens age 3

Rabindranath Tagore born 1861-05-07

Thomas Jefferson age 72

Nikola Tesla born 1856-07-10

Louis Pasteur born 1822-12-27

Richard Wagner age 2

Jane Austen age 40

Friedrich Engels born 1820-11-28

Theodore Roosevelt born 1858-10-27

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky born 1840-05-07

Woodrow Wilson born 1856-12-28

Max Planck born 1858-04-23

Michael Faraday age 24

Dmitri Mendeleev born 1834-02-08

Giuseppe Verdi age 2

James Clerk Maxwell born 1831-06-13

Alexander Graham Bell born 1847-03-03

Ulysses S. Grant born 1822-04-27

James Watt age 80

Claude Monet born 1840-11-14

Florence Nightingale born 1820-05-12

William Howard Taft born 1857-09-15

Grover Cleveland born 1837-03-18

William McKinley born 1843-01-29

Rutherford B. Hayes born 1822-10-04

Benjamin Harrison born 1833-08-20

Gregor Mendel born 1822-07-20

Ada Lovelace age 1 month

Chester A. Arthur born 1829-10-05

Giuseppe Garibaldi age 8

Wilhelm II born 1859-01-27

Pius XI born 1857-05-31

Pius X born 1835-06-02

Leo XIII age 5

Pierre de Coubertin born 1863-01-01

Charles Babbage age 24

Edward Jenner age 66

Benedict XV born 1854-11-21

Carl Benz born 1844-11-25

David Lloyd George born 1863-01-17

Paul von Hindenburg born 1847-10-02

Edward VII born 1841-11-09

Harriet Tubman born 1822-03-01

Abdul Hamid II born 1842-09-21

Robert E. Lee age 9

Georges Clemenceau born 1841-09-28

Shaka age 28

Alexander III of Russia born 1845-03-10

Giuseppe Mazzini age 10

Philippe Pétain born 1856-04-24

Leopold II of Belgium born 1835-04-09

Cecil Rhodes born 1853-07-05

Emperor Meiji born 1852-11-03

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 61

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 151

Frederick Douglass born 1818-02-14

Susan B. Anthony born 1820-02-15

Arthur Balfour born 1848-07-25

Adolphe Thiers age 18

Emmeline Pankhurst born 1858-07-15

Mehmed VI born 1861-01-14

Ferdinand Foch born 1851-10-02

Porfirio Díaz born 1830-09-15

H. H. Asquith born 1852-09-12

Raymond Poincaré born 1860-08-20

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 2 months

Patrice de MacMahon age 7

Aaron Burr age 59

Frederick III, German Emperor born 1831-10-18

Umberto I of Italy born 1844-03-14

Aristide Briand born 1862-03-28

Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 46

Mehmed V born 1844-11-02

Itō Hirobumi born 1841-10-16

Chulalongkorn born 1853-09-20

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 15

Joseph Bonaparte age 48

Gustaf V of Sweden born 1858-06-16

William Tecumseh Sherman born 1820-02-08

Pyotr Stolypin born 1862-04-14

Andrew Bonar Law born 1858-09-16

Murad V born 1840-09-21

Maximilian I of Mexico born 1832-07-06

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg born 1856-11-29

Christian IX of Denmark born 1818-04-08

Hjalmar Branting born 1860-11-23

Alfonso XII born 1857-11-28

Oscar II of Sweden born 1829-01-21

Alexandra of Denmark born 1844-12-01

Charles IV of Spain age 67

Alexandre Millerand born 1859-02-10

Amadeo I of Spain born 1845-05-30

George Curzon born 1859-01-11

Yuan Shikai born 1859-09-16

Joseph Joffre born 1852-01-12

John A. Macdonald age 1

Paul Doumer born 1857-03-22

Stonewall Jackson born 1824-01-21

Armand Fallières born 1841-11-06

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Jules Grévy age 8

Sadi Carnot (statesman) born 1837-08-11

Deodoro da Fonseca born 1827-08-05

Auguste Beernaert born 1829-07-26

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

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 born 1836-09-07

Félix Faure born 1841-01-30

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 73

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