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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

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

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

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-04-20 - 1802-03-25

Italian campaign of 1796–1797 1796-04-10 - 1797-10-17

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

Battle of Bladensburg 1814-08-24 - 1814-08-24

Burning of Washington 1814-08-24 - 1814-08-25

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 Wavre 1815-06-18 - 1815-06-19

Battle of Waterloo 1815-06-18

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

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

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

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

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

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

Battle of Fort Sumter 1861-04-12 - 1861-04-13

American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09

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

Siege of Vicksburg 1863-05-18 - 1863-07-04

Siege of Port Hudson 1863-05-22 - 1863-07-09

West Virginia admitted to Union 1863-06-20

Battle of Gettysburg 1863-07-01 - 1863-07-03

First Battle of Fort Wagner 1863-07-10 - 1863-07-11

Second Battle of Fort Wagner 1863-07-18

People

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

Garret Hobart born 1844-06-03

Levi P. Morton born 1824-05-16

William A. Wheeler born 1819-06-30

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25

Wilhelm Marx born 1863-01-15

Leo von Caprivi born 1831-02-24

Pyotr Bagration age 31

Schuyler Colfax born 1823-03-23

Thomas A. Hendricks born 1819-09-07

William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19

Christian Michelsen born 1857-03-15

Katsura Tarō born 1848-01-04

Saigō Takamori born 1828-01-23

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 35

Hipólito Yrigoyen born 1850-07-13

Clara Barton born 1821-12-25

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery born 1847-05-07

Peter I of Serbia born 1844-07-11

James S. Sherman born 1855-10-24

Billy Hughes born 1862-09-25

Erich von Falkenhayn born 1861-09-11

Tecumseh age 29

Louis-Nicolas Davout age 27

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

Yamagata Aritomo born 1838-06-14

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

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 25

Demetrios Vikelas born 1835-02-27

Joseph Chamberlain born 1836-07-08

Ismail Kemal born 1844-01-16

Andrew Fisher born 1862-08-29

Gojong of the Korean Empire born 1852-09-08

Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30

Terauchi Masatake born 1852-02-05

Hara Takashi born 1856-03-15

Francesco Crispi born 1818-10-04

Wilfrid Laurier born 1841-11-20

Nikola Pašić born 1845-12-18

David Farragut born 1801-07-05

Matsukata Masayoshi born 1835-02-25

Inukai Tsuyoshi born 1855-06-04

Floriano Peixoto born 1839-04-30

Victoriano Huerta born 1850-12-22

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 60

Charles Evans Hughes born 1862-04-11

Tokugawa Yoshinobu born 1837-10-28

Benedict Arnold age 56

Kuroda Kiyotaka born 1840-11-09

Prudente de Morais born 1841-10-04

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar born 1853-03-23

Robert Nivelle born 1856-10-15

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf born 1852-11-11

Hong Xiuquan born 1814-01-01

George Meade born 1815-12-31

George Reid born 1845-02-25

Jānis Čakste born 1859-09-14

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

Albert I, Prince of Monaco born 1848-11-13

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

Julio Argentino Roca born 1843-07-17

Ugyen Wangchuck born 1862-06-11

Abraham Kuyper born 1837-10-29

Agostino Depretis born 1813-01-31

Sidney Sonnino born 1847-03-11

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 born 1804-11-18

Campos Sales born 1841-02-15

James G. Blaine born 1830-01-31

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

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 born 1826-10-29

Tewfik Pasha born 1852-11-15

John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe born 1859-12-05

Teófilo Braga born 1843-02-24

Juan Vicente Gómez born 1857-07-24

James Longstreet born 1821-01-08

Nathan Bedford Forrest born 1821-07-13

István Tisza born 1861-04-22

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta born 1825-07-21

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

Katō Tomosaburō born 1861-02-22

Luigi Federico Menabrea born 1809-09-04

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 26

Hermes da Fonseca born 1855-05-12

Edmund Randolph age 43

Roque Sáenz Peña born 1851-03-19

Tomás Estrada Palma born 1835-07-09

Alexandros Zaimis born 1855-11-21

Alexandru Averescu born 1859-03-21

Joseph E. Johnston born 1807-02-03

Kiyoura Keigo born 1850-02-14

Robert Todd Lincoln born 1843-08-01

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada born 1823-04-24

Andrew Mellon born 1855-03-24

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 67

Bernardino Machado born 1851-03-28

Ambrose Burnside born 1824-05-23

Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì born 1839-04-16

Luigi Luzzatti born 1841-03-11

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 27

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 33

Yohannes IV born 1837-07-11

Ōyama Iwao born 1842-11-12

Joseph Gallieni born 1849-04-24

John Sherman born 1823-05-10

Eduardo Dato born 1856-08-12

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

Giuseppe Saracco born 1821-10-06

Alessandro Fortis born 1842-09-16

Alexander H. Stephens born 1812-02-11

Louis Botha born 1862-09-27

François Achille Bazaine born 1811-02-13

Charles Dupuy born 1851-11-05

John Rutledge age 57

Francisco León de la Barra born 1863-06-16

Titu Maiorescu born 1840-02-15

Erik Gustaf Boström born 1842-02-11

Arvid Lindman born 1862-09-19

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld born 1862-02-04

José Batlle y Ordóñez born 1856-05-21

Henry Knox age 46

Giovanni Lanza born 1810-02-15

Tommaso Tittoni born 1855-11-16

Karl Mack von Leiberich age 44

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield born 1859-07-13

Zeng Guofan born 1811-11-26

Kaarlo Castrén born 1860-02-28

Heungseon Daewongun born 1821-01-24

Alexander von Kluck born 1846-05-20

Braxton Bragg born 1817-03-22

Benedetto Cairoli born 1825-01-28

Henry Halleck born 1815-01-16

Manuel González born 1833-06-18

Manuel Gomes da Costa born 1863-01-14

Carl Swartz born 1858-06-05

Joseph Hooker born 1814-11-13

Benjamin Franklin Butler born 1818-11-05

Sanjō Sanetomi born 1837-03-13

Luigi Pelloux born 1839-03-01

Eloy Alfaro born 1842-06-25

Manuel de Arriaga born 1840-06-08

Hsu Shih-chang born 1855-10-23

Cao Kun born 1862-12-12

Feng Guozhang born 1859-01-07

Augusto Leguía born 1863-02-19

Eduardo López de Romaña born 1847-03-19

José Canalejas born 1854-07-31

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne born 1845-01-14

Nubar Pasha born 1825-01-01

Thomas Gage age 79

Essad Toptani born 1863-01-01

José Figueroa Alcorta born 1860-11-20

Victorino de la Plaza born 1840-11-02

Manuel Quintana born 1835-10-19

Gunnar Knudsen born 1848-09-19

Ernst Trygger born 1857-10-27

Karl Staaff born 1860-01-21

Cipriano Castro born 1858-10-12

Antonio Maura born 1853-05-02

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 69

Levin August von Bennigsen age 52

Edward Douglass White born 1845-11-03

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

William R. Day born 1849-04-17

Boutros Ghali born 1846-01-01

Spyridon Lambros born 1851-04-20

Jørgen Løvland born 1848-02-03

Nicholas Golitsyn born 1850-04-12

Ivan Goremykin born 1839-11-08

Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones born 1863-05-09

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