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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Greek War of Independence 1821-02-21 - 1829-09-12
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
Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825-09-27
Decembrist revolt 1825-12-26
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
July Revolution 1830-07-27 - 1830-07-29
Belgian Revolution 1830-08-25 - 1831-07-21
Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27
Reform Act 1832 1832-06-07
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
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
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Battle of Appomattox Court House 1865-04-09
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865-04-14

People

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 32
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 34
Secretary of State - United States
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 21
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William S. Derrick age 20
Secretary of State - United States
William Hunter age 17
Secretary of State - United States
William Sturges Bourne age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Jacob L. Martin age 12
Secretary of State - United States
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 10
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
William Huskisson age 52
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland age 38
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 7
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 22
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg age 44
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 20
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 9
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton age 48
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby age 24
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland age 7
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 23
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Williams-Wynn age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham age 23
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 23
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Arbuthnot age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey age 39
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles Bathurst age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 21
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Robert Nisbet-Hamilton age 19
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Wilson age 10
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 3
Senate - United States
John Sherman born 1823-05-10
Senate - United States
Hamilton Fish age 14
Senate - United States
Caesar Augustus Rodney age 51
Senate - United States
George Henry Williams born 1823-03-26
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 9
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 7
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 11
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 9
Senate - United States
Samuel Smith age 70
Senate - United States
John Chandler age 60
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 21
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 27
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield born 1831-11-19
House of Representatives - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 2 months
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury born 1830-02-03
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wilberforce age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Davy Crockett age 36
House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax born 1823-03-23
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Addington age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine born 1830-01-31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 4
House of Representatives - United States
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Elihu B. Washburne age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby born 1841-01-15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon born 1827-10-24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sterling Price age 13
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 71
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 53
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom born 1827-05-10
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 10 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Eustis age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook born 1826-01-22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna born 1843-08-10
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen born 1831-08-10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody born 1853-12-23
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn born 1837-10-23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers born 1827-06-25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross born 1823-05-30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt born 1825-07-30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Ryder age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum born 1827-09-24
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 35
House of Representatives - United States
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler born 1836-09-10
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leland Stanford born 1824-03-09
Governor of California - United States
DeWitt Clinton age 53
Governor of New York - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 6
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 15
Governor of California - United States
Horatio Seymour age 12
Governor of New York - United States
Milton Latham born 1827-05-23
Governor of California - United States
Henry A. Wise age 16
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Weller age 10
Governor of California - United States
Frederick Low born 1828-06-30
Governor of California - United States
J. Neely Johnson born 1825-08-02
Governor of California - United States
John Bigler age 17
Governor of California - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 11
Governor of New York - United States
Oliver P. Morton born 1823-08-04
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew age 4
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John G. Downey born 1827-06-24
Governor of California - United States
Parson Brownlow age 17
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Francis Lubbock age 7
Governor of Texas - United States
Edward Clark age 7
Governor of Texas - United States
George N. Briggs age 26
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
J. Pinckney Henderson age 14
Governor of Texas - United States
William Dennison Jr. age 7
Governor of Ohio - United States
Littleton Waller Tazewell age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Floyd age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
John McDougal age 5
Governor of California - United States
Levi Lincoln Jr. age 40
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 24
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 1
Governor of Georgia - United States
Marcus Morton age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 27
Governor of Texas - United States
Jeremiah Morrow age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
Samuel L. Southard age 35
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Wilson Shannon age 21
Governor of Ohio - United States
Reuben Fenton age 3
Governor of New York - United States
Robert Lucas age 41
Governor of Ohio - United States
Silas Wright age 27
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph Kent age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
James C. Jones age 13
Governor of Tennessee - United States
George Troup age 42
Governor of Georgia - United States
Peter Hansborough Bell age 13
Governor of Texas - United States
William Branch Giles age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
David Tod age 17
Governor of Ohio - United States
James Sevier Conway age 24
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Pennington age 26
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Emory Washburn age 22
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry Gardner age 3
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harris Flanagin age 5
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry S. Lane age 11
Governor of Indiana - United States
John H. Clifford age 13
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
James Pleasants age 53
Governor of Virginia - United States
Andrew Jackson Hamilton age 7
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas Walker Gilmer age 20
Governor of Virginia - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 11
Governor of Texas - United States
Hardin Richard Runnels age 2
Governor of Texas - United States
William Smith age 27
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Davis age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Carroll age 34
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Thomas Pratt age 18
Governor of Maryland - United States
James W. Henderson age 5
Governor of Texas - United States
Reuben Wood age 31
Governor of Ohio - United States
Neill S. Brown age 12
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William B. Campbell age 15
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Archibald Yell age 25
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Selden Roane age 5
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry Rector age 6
Governor of Arkansas - United States
David Campbell age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph Johnson age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
John A. King age 35
Governor of New York - United States
Washington Hunt age 11
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph Vance age 36
Governor of Ohio - United States
Thomas S. Drew age 20
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Brooks age 70
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Isaac Murphy age 23
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Letcher age 9
Governor of Virginia - United States
Augustus Bradford age 16
Governor of Maryland - United States
Francis Thomas age 23
Governor of Maryland - United States
Enos T. Throop age 38
Governor of New York - United States
James McDowell age 27
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pendleton Murrah born 1826-01-01
Governor of Texas - United States
Joel Parker age 6
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Duncan McArthur age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allen Trimble age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
John M. Patton age 25
Governor of Virginia - United States
Garret D. Wall age 39
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Newton Cannon age 41
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Trousdale age 32
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 10
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Wyndham Robertson age 19
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 12
Governor of Maryland - United States
Rodman M. Price age 6
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Enoch Louis Lowe age 2
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas W. Bartley age 10
Governor of Ohio - United States
Isaac Halstead Williamson age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Charles Anderson age 8
Governor of Ohio - United States
Mordecai Bartley age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
Seabury Ford age 21
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Bebb age 20
Governor of Ohio - United States
Nathaniel Pitcher age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Myron H. Clark age 16
Governor of New York - United States
James Whitcomb age 27
Governor of Indiana - United States