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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

Albert Sidney Johnston age 40

Anastasio Bustamante age 63

Estanislao Figueras age 23

Katsu Kaishū age 20

FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 55

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 26

Hermann von Eichhorn born 1848-02-13

Zinovy Rozhestvensky born 1848-11-11

Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 21

Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 67

Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 60

Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia born 1850-01-14

Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia born 1860-07-25

Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg born 1852-11-16

Archduke Rainer of Austria (1783–1853) age 60

Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria born 1849-07-02

Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal born 1855-08-24

José María Iglesias age 20

Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 18

Arvid Posse age 23

Carl Johan Thyselius age 32

Cyrus West Field age 23

Said Halim Pasha born 1864-02-19

Edward Douglass White born 1845-11-03

Louis McLane age 57

William M. Evarts age 25

Thomas F. Bayard age 14

John W. Foster age 7

Walter Q. Gresham age 11

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 age 3

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

A. P. Hill age 17

Leonard Wood born 1860-10-09

Prince Gong age 10

George Dewey age 5

Maximilian von Prittwitz born 1848-11-27

Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia age 45

Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia age 18

Damat Ferid Pasha born 1853-01-01

Nikola Zhekov born 1865-01-06

Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 1

Prince Charles of Prussia age 42

Marie of Prussia age 17

George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 17

Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily age 64

Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies age 27

Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria age 25

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 12

Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg age 45

Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies born 1849-08-02

Princess Louise of Belgium born 1858-02-18

Prince Henry of Battenberg born 1858-10-05

Rafael Núñez age 17

Joaquín Prieto age 57

Ramón Freire age 55

Spyridon Trikoupis age 55

John Ballance age 4

Michael Mayr born 1864-04-10

José Miguel Gómez born 1858-07-06

Pavlos Kountouriotis born 1854-01-01

Irvin McDowell age 24

Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 2

Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 54

Nicolás Salmerón age 5

Francisco Serrano age 32

Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 10

Archduke Eugen of Austria born 1863-05-21

Taytu Betul born 1851-01-01

Nelson A. Miles age 4

Jubal Early age 26

Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 62

Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 36

Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia born 1860-06-13

Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia born 1864-01-22

Bezmiâlem Sultan age 36

Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 40

Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 40

Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) age 33

Princess Margaretha of Saxony age 3

John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll born 1845-08-06

John Sutter age 40

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 26

Robert Bacon born 1860-07-05

Philander C. Knox born 1853-05-06

Hannes Hafstein born 1861-12-04

Vladimir Kokovtsov born 1853-04-30

Boris Stürmer born 1848-07-27

Fredrik von Otter age 10

Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 11

Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas born 1859-11-05

Sisowath of Cambodia age 3

Richard S. Ewell age 26

Robert Gould Shaw age 5

Charles Joseph Bonaparte born 1851-06-09

José María Bocanegra age 56

Zuo Zongtang age 30

Hans Hartwig von Beseler born 1850-04-27

John Pope age 21

Iosif Gurko age 15

Max von Gallwitz born 1852-05-02

Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) age 35

Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg age 25

Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 5

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) born 1863-08-23

Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865–1927) born 1865-01-25

Pertevniyal Sultan age 31

Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 41

William II, Elector of Hesse age 66

Frederick I of Anhalt age 12

Archduchess Clementina of Austria age 45

Princess Elisabeth of Savoy age 43

Archduchess Sophie of Austria born 1855-03-05

Miguel Ángel Juárez born 1844-09-29

Étienne Constantin de Gerlache age 57

Todor Burmov age 9

Domingo Santa María age 18

Aníbal Pinto age 18

Kálmán Tisza age 12

Gabriel Antonio Pereira age 49

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 17

Vasil Radoslavov born 1854-07-27

Pedro Montt born 1849-06-29

Germán Riesco born 1854-05-28

Juan Luis Sanfuentes born 1858-12-27

Jón Magnússon born 1859-01-16

Niels Neergaard born 1854-06-27

João do Canto e Castro born 1862-05-19

Dimitrie Sturdza age 10

Gerhard Louis De Geer born 1854-11-27

Christian Lundeberg age 1

Gustave Ador born 1845-12-23

José Pardo y Barreda born 1864-02-24

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading born 1860-10-10

Robert Anderson age 38

George Pickett age 18

William Gibbs McAdoo born 1863-10-31

Koos de la Rey born 1847-10-22

Charles Cousin-Montauban age 47

Kodama Gentarō born 1852-03-16

Piet Joubert age 9

Christiaan de Wet born 1854-10-07

Ian Hamilton born 1853-01-16

Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 25

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia age 17

Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 28

Princess Anna of Prussia age 7

Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 6

Leopold IV of Anhalt age 49

Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este age 62

Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria born 1860-09-05

Mirabeau B. Lamar age 45

Joseph Lebeau age 49

Francisco Antonio Pinto age 58

Tage Reedtz-Thott age 4

Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 14

Joaquín Crespo age 2

Gillis Bildt age 22

John Bright age 31

Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 20

Arsenio Martínez Campos age 11

Nathaniel Lyon age 25

John Bell Hood age 12

Melville Fuller age 10

Jules Renkin born 1862-12-03

Ramón Barros Luco age 8

Theodoros Deligiannis age 23

Manuel Estrada Cabrera born 1859-11-21

Sándor Wekerle born 1848-11-14

Klaus Berntsen born 1844-06-12

Richard Seddon born 1845-06-22

Otto Blehr born 1847-02-17

Manuel Teixeira Gomes born 1860-05-27

Alexandru Marghiloman born 1854-01-27

Johan Ramstedt born 1852-11-07

Emilio Aceval born 1853-10-16

Serapio Calderón age 0 months

Guillermo Billinghurst born 1851-07-27

Francisco Silvela born 1843-12-15

Segismundo Moret age 10

Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas born 1860-09-05

Raimundo Fernández Villaverde born 1848-01-20

Oliver O. Howard age 12

George H. Thomas age 27

Edward Carson born 1854-02-09

Melchor Múzquiz age 55

Pedro Vélez age 56

Aimable Pélissier age 48

Simon Bolivar Buckner age 20

Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 19

Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia age 16

Catherine Dolgorukova born 1847-11-14

Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia born 1850-02-14

Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia born 1854-02-16

Şevkefza Sultan age 22

Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 70

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