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Explore September 20, 1843 – April 24, 1865

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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

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

Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20

Battle of Appomattox Court House 1865-04-09

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865-04-14

People

Auguste Beernaert age 14

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 age 3 months

Carol I of Romania age 4

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 age 7

Félix Faure age 2

Paul Kruger age 17

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

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg born 1865-01-28

Sergei Witte born 1849-06-29

Émile Loubet age 4

Menelik II born 1844-08-17

Richard Mentor Johnson age 62

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

Paul Deschanel born 1855-02-13

Abdur Rahman Khan age 3

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud born 1861-12-15

Douglas Hyde born 1860-01-17

Ōkuma Shigenobu age 5

Edward Smith born 1850-01-27

Victoria, Princess Royal age 2

Garret Hobart born 1844-06-03

Levi P. Morton age 19

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25

Wilhelm Marx born 1863-01-15

Leo von Caprivi age 12

Pavel Nakhimov age 41

Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 45

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 32

William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19

Christian Michelsen born 1857-03-15

Katsura Tarō born 1848-01-04

Saigō Takamori age 15

Tōgō Heihachirō born 1848-01-27

Adlai Stevenson I age 7

Hipólito Yrigoyen born 1850-07-13

Venustiano Carranza born 1859-12-29

Clara Barton age 21

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 64

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 24

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 12

August von Mackensen born 1849-12-06

Jérôme Bonaparte age 58

Maximilian II of Bavaria age 31

Marie Thérèse of France age 64

Georg Michaelis born 1857-09-08

Georg von Hertling age 0 months

Constantin Fehrenbach born 1852-01-11

Giovanni Giolitti age 10 months

Nicholas I of Montenegro age 1

Lew Wallace age 16

Yamagata Aritomo age 5

Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 24

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 72

Demetrios Vikelas age 8

Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 48

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 4 months

Joseph Chamberlain age 7

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 24

Ludwig III of Bavaria born 1845-01-07

Wilfrid Laurier age 1

Nikola Pašić born 1845-12-18

David Farragut age 42

Matsukata Masayoshi age 8

Inukai Tsuyoshi born 1855-06-04

Floriano Peixoto age 4

Jules Ferry age 11

Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 74

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 age 3

Allan Octavian Hume age 14

Victoriano Huerta born 1850-12-22

Philip Henry Sheridan age 12

Auguste de Marmont age 69

Lucretia Mott age 50

Victoria of Baden born 1862-08-07

Gyula Andrássy age 20

Charles Evans Hughes born 1862-04-11

Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 5

Kuroda Kiyotaka age 2

Prudente de Morais age 1

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 21

Kate Sheppard born 1847-03-10

Robert Nivelle born 1856-10-15

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf born 1852-11-11

Hong Xiuquan age 29

Li Hongzhang age 20

Luigi Cadorna born 1850-09-04

Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 19

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom born 1846-05-25

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine born 1863-04-05

George Meade age 27

George Reid born 1845-02-25

Jānis Čakste born 1859-09-14

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 26

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

F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 60

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 58

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 61

Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 33

John Abbott age 22

Carrie Chapman Catt born 1859-01-09

Dadabhai Naoroji age 18

Julio Argentino Roca age 2 months

Ugyen Wangchuck born 1862-06-11

Abraham Kuyper age 5

Tanaka Giichi born 1864-06-22

Agostino Depretis age 30

Sidney Sonnino born 1847-03-11

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia born 1856-11-18

Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 7

Matthew C. Perry age 49

Georg V of Hanover age 24

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 40

Marie Henriette of Austria age 7

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

Campos Sales age 2

Mikhail Skobelev born 1843-09-29

Bernardino Rivadavia age 63

Apolinario Mabini born 1864-07-22

Katō Takaaki born 1860-01-03

Saitō Makoto born 1858-10-27

Paolo Boselli age 5

Hussein Kamel of Egypt born 1853-10-21

Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 31

William I of Württemberg age 62

Reinhard Scheer born 1863-09-30

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn born 1850-05-01

Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 46

Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 10

Princess Stéphanie of Belgium born 1864-05-21

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll born 1848-03-18

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale born 1864-01-08

John Hay age 4

Robert Borden born 1854-06-26

Saad Zaghloul born 1857-01-01

Takahashi Korekiyo born 1854-07-27

Giuseppe Zanardelli age 16

Tewfik Pasha born 1852-11-15

Louis-Jules Trochu age 28

Albert I of Saxony age 15

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby born 1861-04-23

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 16

Sophie of Württemberg age 25

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia born 1857-05-11

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia born 1853-10-17

Nicolas Oudinot age 76

Leopold II of Tuscany age 45

Adelaide of Austria age 21

Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 38

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

Teófilo Braga age 6 months

Juan Vicente Gómez born 1857-07-24

James Longstreet age 22

Nathan Bedford Forrest age 22

Alexei Kuropatkin born 1848-03-29

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