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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

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

Charles Babbage age 43

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

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria born 1863-12-18

Henry Dunant age 7

Harriet Tubman age 13

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell born 1857-02-22

Abdul Hamid II born 1842-09-21

Robert E. Lee age 28

Georges Clemenceau born 1841-09-28

Alexander III of Russia born 1845-03-10

Giuseppe Mazzini age 30

Lord Kelvin age 10

Samuel Morse age 44

Philippe Pétain born 1856-04-24

Leopold II of Belgium age 2 months

Cecil Rhodes born 1853-07-05

Emperor Meiji born 1852-11-03

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 81

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 170

Frederick Douglass age 17

Susan B. Anthony age 15

Arthur Balfour born 1848-07-25

José de San Martín age 57

Adolphe Thiers age 38

Charles X of France age 77

Empress Elisabeth of Austria born 1837-12-24

Emmeline Pankhurst born 1858-07-15

Mehmed VI born 1861-01-14

Ferdinand Foch born 1851-10-02

Porfirio Díaz age 4

H. H. Asquith born 1852-09-12

Raymond Poincaré born 1860-08-20

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 19

Patrice de MacMahon age 27

Aaron Burr age 79

Frederick III, German Emperor age 3

Umberto I of Italy born 1844-03-14

Aristide Briand born 1862-03-28

George Stephenson age 54

Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 66

Mehmed V born 1844-11-02

Itō Hirobumi born 1841-10-16

Chulalongkorn born 1853-09-20

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 34

Ludwig II of Bavaria born 1845-08-25

Joseph Bonaparte age 67

Liliʻuokalani born 1838-09-02

Gustaf V of Sweden born 1858-06-16

William Tecumseh Sherman age 15

Pyotr Stolypin born 1862-04-14

Prince Albert age 15

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma age 43

Andrew Bonar Law born 1858-09-16

Murad V born 1840-09-21

Maximilian I of Mexico age 2

Austen Chamberlain born 1863-10-16

Eleftherios Venizelos born 1864-08-23

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg born 1856-11-29

George I of Greece born 1845-12-24

Hjalmar Branting born 1860-11-23

Alfonso XII born 1857-11-28

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès age 87

Oscar II of Sweden age 6

Alexandra of Denmark born 1844-12-01

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 20

Paul Doumer born 1857-03-22

Stonewall Jackson age 11

Armand Fallières born 1841-11-06

Gaston Doumergue born 1863-08-01

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Jules Grévy age 27

Sadi Carnot (statesman) born 1837-08-11

Bernardo O'Higgins age 56

Deodoro da Fonseca age 7

Ferdinand de Lesseps age 29

George Armstrong Custer born 1839-12-05

Auguste Beernaert age 5

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

Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood born 1864-09-14

Alfred Deakin born 1856-08-03

Henry Campbell-Bannerman born 1836-09-07

Félix Faure born 1841-01-30

Paul Kruger age 9

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) born 1847-11-26

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg born 1865-01-28

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

Arthur Henderson born 1863-09-13

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener born 1850-06-24

Charles W. Fairbanks born 1852-05-11

Davy Crockett age 48

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 11

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25

Wilhelm Marx born 1863-01-15

Leo von Caprivi age 4

Gustav IV Adolf age 56

Pavel Nakhimov age 32

Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 36

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 24

William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19

Christian Michelsen born 1857-03-15

Katsura Tarō born 1848-01-04

Saigō Takamori age 7

Tōgō Heihachirō born 1848-01-27

Adlai Stevenson I born 1835-10-23

Hipólito Yrigoyen born 1850-07-13

Venustiano Carranza born 1859-12-29

Clara Barton age 13

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 16

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria born 1858-08-21

James S. Sherman born 1855-10-24

Billy Hughes born 1862-09-25

Gabriel Narutowicz born 1865-03-17

Erich von Falkenhayn born 1861-09-11

Isma'il Pasha age 4

August von Mackensen born 1849-12-06

Jérôme Bonaparte age 50

Maximilian II of Bavaria age 23

Marie Thérèse of France age 56

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 48

Nicholas I of Montenegro born 1841-10-07

Lew Wallace age 8

Yamagata Aritomo born 1838-06-14

Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 16

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 63

Demetrios Vikelas age 3 months

Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 40

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom born 1843-04-25

Joseph Chamberlain born 1836-07-08

Ismail Kemal born 1844-01-16

Andrew Fisher born 1862-08-29

Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30

Terauchi Masatake born 1852-02-05

Hara Takashi born 1856-03-15

Francesco Crispi age 16

Ludwig III of Bavaria born 1845-01-07

Emperor Kōkaku age 63

Wilfrid Laurier born 1841-11-20

Nikola Pašić born 1845-12-18

David Farragut age 33

Matsukata Masayoshi age 3 months

Inukai Tsuyoshi born 1855-06-04

Floriano Peixoto born 1839-04-30

Jules Ferry age 3

Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 66

Olga Constantinovna of Russia born 1851-09-03

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine born 1864-11-01

Maria Christina of Austria born 1858-07-21

Charlotte of Belgium born 1840-06-07

Allan Octavian Hume age 6

Victoriano Huerta born 1850-12-22

Philip Henry Sheridan age 4

Auguste de Marmont age 60

Lucretia Mott age 42

Victoria of Baden born 1862-08-07

Gyula Andrássy age 12

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

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