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Explore June 21, 1835 – April 6, 1865

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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
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
Battle of Chickamauga 1863-09-18 - 1863-09-20
Second Battle of Chattanooga 1863-11-23 - 1863-11-25
Battle of Fort Sanders 1863-11-29 - 1863-11-29
Sinking of USS Housatonic 1864-02-17 - 1864-02-17
Battle of Olustee 1864-02-20 - 1864-02-20
Red River Campaign 1864-03-10 - 1864-05-22
Third Battle of Nanjing 1864-03-14 - 1864-07-19
Battle of Mansfield 1864-04-08 - 1864-04-08
Battle of the Wilderness 1864-05-05 - 1864-05-07
Battle of Spotsylvania 1864-05-08 - 1864-05-21
Battle of Resaca 1864-05-13 - 1864-05-15
Battle of New Market 1864-05-15
Battle of Cold Harbor 1864-05-31 - 1864-06-12
Siege of Petersburg 1864-06-09 - 1865-03-25
Battle of Cherbourg (1864) 1864-06-19 - 1864-06-19
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain 1864-06-27 - 1864-06-27
Battle of Monocacy 1864-07-09 - 1864-07-09
Battle of Fort Stevens 1864-07-11 - 1864-07-12
Battle of Peachtree Creek 1864-07-20 - 1864-07-20
Battle of Atlanta 1864-07-22 - 1864-07-22
Battle of the Crater 1864-07-30
Battle of Mobile Bay 1864-08-05
First Geneva Convention 1864-08-22
Battle of Jonesborough 1864-08-31 - 1864-09-01
Third Battle of Winchester 1864-09-19 - 1864-09-19
Battle of Fisher's Hill 1864-09-21 - 1864-09-22
Battle of Cedar Creek 1864-10-19 - 1864-10-19
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01
Sherman's March to the Sea 1864-11-15 - 1864-12-21
Battle of Franklin 1864-11-30
Battle of Nashville 1864-12-15 - 1864-12-16
First Battle of Fort Fisher 1864-12-23 - 1864-12-27
Second Battle of Fort Fisher 1865-01-13 - 1865-01-15
Battle of Waynesboro (1865) 1865-03-02 - 1865-03-02
Battle of Averasborough 1865-03-16 - 1865-03-16
Battle of Bentonville 1865-03-19 - 1865-03-21
Battle of Five Forks 1865-04-01
Battle of Sailor's Creek 1865-04-06

People

James G. Blaine age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 16
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Elihu B. Washburne age 18
House of Representatives - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sterling Price age 25
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 17
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 66
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna born 1843-08-10
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody born 1853-12-23
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn born 1837-10-23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 86
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler born 1836-09-10
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leland Stanford age 11
Governor of California - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 19
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 27
Governor of California - United States
Horatio Seymour age 25
Governor of New York - United States
Milton Latham age 8
Governor of California - United States
Henry A. Wise age 28
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Weller age 23
Governor of California - United States
Frederick Low age 6
Governor of California - United States
J. Neely Johnson age 9
Governor of California - United States
John Bigler age 30
Governor of California - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 24
Governor of New York - United States
Oliver P. Morton age 11
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew age 17
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John G. Downey age 7
Governor of California - United States
Parson Brownlow age 29
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Francis Lubbock age 19
Governor of Texas - United States
Edward Clark age 20
Governor of Texas - United States
George N. Briggs age 39
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
J. Pinckney Henderson age 27
Governor of Texas - United States
William Dennison Jr. age 19
Governor of Ohio - United States
Littleton Waller Tazewell age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
John McDougal age 17
Governor of California - United States
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 36
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 14
Governor of Georgia - United States
Marcus Morton age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 40
Governor of Texas - United States
Wilson Shannon age 33
Governor of Ohio - United States
Reuben Fenton age 15
Governor of New York - United States
Robert Lucas age 54
Governor of Ohio - United States
Silas Wright age 40
Governor of New York - United States
James C. Jones age 26
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 25
Governor of Texas - United States
David Tod age 30
Governor of Ohio - United States
James Sevier Conway age 36
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Pennington age 39
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Emory Washburn age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry Gardner age 16
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harris Flanagin age 17
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry S. Lane age 24
Governor of Indiana - United States
John H. Clifford age 26
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Walker Gilmer age 33
Governor of Virginia - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 23
Governor of Texas - United States
Hardin Richard Runnels age 14
Governor of Texas - United States
William Smith age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Carroll age 47
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Thomas Pratt age 31
Governor of Maryland - United States
James W. Henderson age 17
Governor of Texas - United States
Reuben Wood age 43
Governor of Ohio - United States
Neill S. Brown age 25
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William B. Campbell age 28
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Archibald Yell age 37
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Selden Roane age 18
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry Rector age 19
Governor of Arkansas - United States
David Campbell age 55
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph Johnson age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
John A. King age 47
Governor of New York - United States
Washington Hunt age 23
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph Vance age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Thomas S. Drew age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Isaac Murphy age 35
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Letcher age 22
Governor of Virginia - United States
Augustus Bradford age 29
Governor of Maryland - United States
Francis Thomas age 36
Governor of Maryland - United States
James McDowell age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pendleton Murrah age 9
Governor of Texas - United States
Joel Parker age 18
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John M. Patton age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
Newton Cannon age 54
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Trousdale age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 23
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Wyndham Robertson age 32
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 25
Governor of Maryland - United States
Rodman M. Price age 19
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Enoch Louis Lowe age 14
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas W. Bartley age 23
Governor of Ohio - United States
Mordecai Bartley age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
Seabury Ford age 33
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Bebb age 32
Governor of Ohio - United States
Myron H. Clark age 28
Governor of New York - United States
James Whitcomb age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Brough age 23
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Schley age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States
William Medill age 33
Governor of Ohio - United States
Edward H. East age 4
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Abram A. Hammond age 21
Governor of Indiana - United States
Samuel Turell Armstrong age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William A. Newell age 17
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Daniel Haines age 34
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Philemon Dickerson age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 25
Governor of Indiana - United States
Peter D. Vroom age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William C. Bouck age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Richard C. Byrd age 30
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Samuel Adams (Arkansas politician) age 30
Governor of Arkansas - United States
David Wallace age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
Noah Noble age 41
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Young age 33
Governor of New York - United States
Ashbel P. Willard age 14
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Munford Gregory age 30
Governor of Virginia - United States
Charles C. Stratton age 39
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George Franklin Fort age 25
Governor of New Jersey - United States
James Thomas age 50
Governor of Maryland - United States
John Rutherfoord age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
Paris C. Dunning age 29
Governor of Indiana - United States
Samuel Bigger age 33
Governor of Indiana - United States
Thomas Veazey age 61
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Grason age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Charles Smith Olden age 36
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas Fletcher age 18
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard Olney born 1835-09-15
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 17
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton born 1847-06-28
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 15
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 72
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 4
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 9
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 17
King - Denmark
Oscar I age 35
King - Sweden
Mongkut age 30
King - Thailand
Christian VIII age 48
Monarch - Denmark
Frederick VII of Denmark age 26
Monarch - Denmark
Frederick VI of Denmark age 67
Monarch - Denmark
Bartolomé Mitre age 13
President - Argentina
Rama III age 47
King - Thailand
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 26
President - Liberia
Justo José de Urquiza age 33
President - Argentina
Francisco de Paula Santander age 43
President - Colombia
Juan José Flores age 34
President - Ecuador
Carlos Antonio López age 44
President - Paraguay
Francisco Morazán age 42
President - El Salvador
Fructuoso Rivera age 50
President - Uruguay
Gabriel García Moreno age 13
President - Ecuador
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 59
President - Haiti
Stephen Allen Benson age 19
President - Liberia
Manuel Montt age 25
President - Chile
Manuel Bulnes age 35
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 42
President - Uruguay
Joaquín Prieto age 48
President - Chile
José Joaquín Pérez age 34
President - Chile
Ramón Castilla age 37
President - Peru
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 55
President - Ecuador
Venancio Flores age 27
President - Uruguay
Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 41
President - Uruguay
Santiago Derqui age 26
President - Argentina
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 20
President - Liberia
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 51
President - Uruguay
Faustin Soulouque age 52
President - Haiti
Vicente Rocafuerte age 52
President - Ecuador
José Gregorio Monagas age 40
President - Venezuela
José Ballivián age 30
President - Bolivia
Mariano Melgarejo age 15
President - Bolivia
Bernardo Berro age 32
President - Uruguay
José Rufino Echenique age 26
President - Peru
Manuel Felipe de Tovar age 32
President - Venezuela
Juan Lindo age 45
President - Honduras
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 15
President - Venezuela
Carlos Soublette age 45
President - Venezuela
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera age 36
President - Colombia
Juan Francisco de Vidal age 35
President - Peru
Tomás Villalba age 29
President - Uruguay