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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09

Haitian Revolution 1791-08-21 - 1804-01-01

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-04-20 - 1802-03-25

Execution of Louis XVI 1793-01-21

Reign of Terror 1793-09-05 - 1794-07-28

Battle of Montenotte 1796-04-12 - 1796-04-12

Battle of Lodi 1796-05-10 - 1796-05-10

Siege of Mantua (1796–1797) 1796-07-04 - 1797-02-02

Battle of Arcole 1796-11-15 - 1796-11-17

Battle of Rivoli 1797-01-14 - 1797-01-15

Battle of the Pyramids 1798-07-21 - 1798-07-21

Battle of the Nile 1798-08-01 - 1798-08-03

Siege of Acre (1799) 1799-03-20 - 1799-05-21

Battle of Abukir (1799) 1799-07-25 - 1799-07-25

Coup of 18 Brumaire 1799-11-09 - 1799-11-10

Siege of Genoa (1800) 1800-04-20 - 1800-06-04

Battle of Marengo 1800-06-14 - 1800-06-14

Battle of Hohenlinden 1800-12-03 - 1800-12-03

Battle of Alexandria (1801) 1801-03-21 - 1801-03-21

Louisiana Purchase 1803-04-30

Napoleonic Wars 1803-05-18 - 1815-11-20

Napoleonic Code 1804-03-21

Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-05-14 - 1806-09-23

Battle of Ulm 1805-10-16 - 1805-10-19

Battle of Trafalgar 1805-10-21

Battle of Austerlitz 1805-12-02

Battle of Jena–Auerstedt 1806-10-14

Battle of Eylau 1807-02-07 - 1807-02-08

Slave Trade Act 1807 1807-03-25

Battle of Friedland 1807-06-14

Peninsular War 1808-05-02 - 1814-04-17

Battle of Bailén 1808-07-16 - 1808-07-19

Battle of Vimeiro 1808-08-21 - 1808-08-21

Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29

Battle of Corunna 1809-01-16 - 1809-01-16

Battle of Eckmühl 1809-04-21 - 1809-04-22

Battle of Aspern–Essling 1809-05-21 - 1809-05-22

Battle of Wagram 1809-07-05 - 1809-07-06

Battle of Talavera 1809-07-27 - 1809-07-28

Mexican War of Independence 1810-09-16 - 1821-09-27

Battle of Bussaco 1810-09-27 - 1810-09-27

Battle of Monte de las Cruces 1810-10-30 - 1810-10-30

Battle of Calderón Bridge 1811-01-17 - 1811-01-17

Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro 1811-05-03 - 1811-05-05

Siege of Cuautla 1812-02-19 - 1812-05-02

Siege of Badajoz (1812) 1812-03-16 - 1812-04-06

War of 1812 1812-06-18 - 1815-02-17

French invasion of Russia 1812-06-24 - 1812-12-14

Battle of Salamanca 1812-07-22 - 1812-07-22

Siege of Detroit 1812-08-15 - 1812-08-16

USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere 1812-08-19 - 1812-08-19

Battle of Borodino 1812-09-07

Battle of Tucumán 1812-09-24 - 1812-09-25

Battle of Queenston Heights 1812-10-13 - 1812-10-13

Battle of Berezina 1812-11-26 - 1812-11-29

USS Constitution vs HMS Java 1812-12-29 - 1812-12-29

Battle of Frenchtown 1813-01-18 - 1813-01-23

Battle of Salta 1813-02-20 - 1813-02-20

Battle of York 1813-04-27 - 1813-04-27

Siege of Fort Meigs 1813-04-28 - 1813-05-09

Battle of Fort George 1813-05-25 - 1813-05-27

Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor 1813-05-28 - 1813-05-29

Capture of USS Chesapeake 1813-06-01 - 1813-06-01

Battle of Stoney Creek 1813-06-06 - 1813-06-06

Battle of Vitoria 1813-06-21 - 1813-06-21

Battle of Lake Erie 1813-09-10 - 1813-09-10

Battle of the Thames 1813-10-05 - 1813-10-05

Battle of Leipzig 1813-10-16 - 1813-10-19

Battle of Crysler's Farm 1813-11-11 - 1813-11-11

Battle of Orthez 1814-02-27 - 1814-02-27

Battle of Toulouse (1814) 1814-04-10 - 1814-04-10

Battle of Chippawa 1814-07-05 - 1814-07-05

Battle of Lundy's Lane 1814-07-25 - 1814-07-25

Siege of Fort Erie 1814-08-04 - 1814-09-21

Battle of Bladensburg 1814-08-24 - 1814-08-24

Burning of Washington 1814-08-24 - 1814-08-25

Battle of Plattsburgh 1814-09-06 - 1814-09-11

Battle of North Point 1814-09-12 - 1814-09-12

Battle of Baltimore 1814-09-12 - 1814-09-15

Congress of Vienna 1814-09-18 - 1815-06-09

Battle of Rancagua 1814-10-01 - 1814-10-02

Battle of Lake Borgne 1814-12-14 - 1814-12-14

Battle of New Orleans 1815-01-08

Battle of Ligny 1815-06-16

Battle of Waterloo 1815-06-18

Siege of Cartagena (1815) 1815-08-26 - 1815-12-06

Battle of Chacabuco 1817-02-12 - 1817-02-12

Battle of Maipú 1818-04-05 - 1818-04-05

Battle of Boyacá 1819-08-07 - 1819-08-07

Capture of Valdivia 1820-02-03 - 1820-02-04

Greek War of Independence 1821-02-21 - 1829-09-12

Battle of Carabobo 1821-06-24 - 1821-06-24

Battle of Pichincha 1822-05-24 - 1822-05-24

Independence of Brazil 1822-09-07

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

Decembrist revolt 1825-12-26

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01

July Revolution 1830-07-27 - 1830-07-29

Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27

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) 1845-09-01 - 1852-12-31

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

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

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 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31

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 Sinop 1853-11-30 - 1853-11-30

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

Battle of the Chernaya 1855-08-16 - 1855-08-16

Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24

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 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31

Emancipation reform of 1861 1861-03-03

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

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

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

Battle of Appomattox Court House 1865-04-09

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

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865-04-14

Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution 1865-12-06

People

Armand Fallières born 1841-11-06

Antonio José de Sucre born 1795-02-03

Gaston Doumergue born 1863-08-01

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Jules Grévy born 1807-08-15

Sadi Carnot (statesman) born 1837-08-11

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 37

Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 32

Michel Ney age 21

Deodoro da Fonseca born 1827-08-05

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

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

Ferdinand I of Romania born 1865-08-24

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando born 1860-05-19

Alfred Deakin born 1856-08-03

Henry Campbell-Bannerman born 1836-09-07

Félix Faure born 1841-01-30

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 48

William Wilberforce age 31

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

Agustín de Iturbide age 7

Henry Wilson born 1812-02-16

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 born 1840-01-01

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud born 1861-12-15

Douglas Hyde born 1860-01-17

Ōkuma Shigenobu born 1838-03-11

Garret Hobart born 1844-06-03

Levi P. Morton born 1824-05-16

William A. Wheeler born 1819-06-30

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25

Wilhelm Marx born 1863-01-15

Leo von Caprivi born 1831-02-24

Philipp Scheidemann born 1865-07-26

Pyotr Bagration age 25

Schuyler Colfax born 1823-03-23

Thomas A. Hendricks born 1819-09-07

William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19

Christian Michelsen born 1857-03-15

Katsura Tarō born 1848-01-04

Saigō Takamori born 1828-01-23

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 28

Hipólito Yrigoyen born 1850-07-13

Clara Barton born 1821-12-25

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery born 1847-05-07

Peter I of Serbia born 1844-07-11

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

Tecumseh age 22

Louis-Nicolas Davout age 20

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

Yamagata Aritomo born 1838-06-14

Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst born 1819-03-31

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 19

Demetrios Vikelas born 1835-02-27

Joseph Chamberlain born 1836-07-08

Ismail Kemal born 1844-01-16

Andrew Fisher born 1862-08-29

John Hancock age 53

Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30

Terauchi Masatake born 1852-02-05

Hara Takashi born 1856-03-15

Francesco Crispi born 1818-10-04

Wilfrid Laurier born 1841-11-20

Nikola Pašić born 1845-12-18

David Farragut born 1801-07-05

Frederick North, Lord North age 58

Matsukata Masayoshi born 1835-02-25

Inukai Tsuyoshi born 1855-06-04

Floriano Peixoto born 1839-04-30

Victoriano Huerta born 1850-12-22

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 53

Charles Evans Hughes born 1862-04-11

Tokugawa Yoshinobu born 1837-10-28

Benedict Arnold age 49

Kuroda Kiyotaka born 1840-11-09

Prudente de Morais born 1841-10-04

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar born 1853-03-23

Robert Nivelle born 1856-10-15

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf born 1852-11-11

Hong Xiuquan born 1814-01-01

George Meade born 1815-12-31

George Reid born 1845-02-25

Jānis Čakste born 1859-09-14

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg born 1817-07-24

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

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

Julio Argentino Roca born 1843-07-17

Ugyen Wangchuck born 1862-06-11

Abraham Kuyper born 1837-10-29

Tanaka Giichi born 1864-06-22

Agostino Depretis born 1813-01-31

Sidney Sonnino born 1847-03-11

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 born 1841-02-15

James G. Blaine born 1830-01-31

Katō Takaaki born 1860-01-03

Saitō Makoto born 1858-10-27

Paolo Boselli born 1838-06-08

Epitácio Pessoa born 1865-05-23

Hussein Kamel of Egypt born 1853-10-21

John Hay born 1838-10-08

Robert Borden born 1854-06-26

Saad Zaghloul born 1857-01-01

Takahashi Korekiyo born 1854-07-27

Giuseppe Zanardelli born 1826-10-29

Tewfik Pasha born 1852-11-15

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

Teófilo Braga born 1843-02-24

Juan Vicente Gómez born 1857-07-24

James Longstreet born 1821-01-08

Nathan Bedford Forrest born 1821-07-13

Robert Lansing born 1864-10-17

István Tisza born 1861-04-22

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta born 1825-07-21

P. G. T. Beauregard born 1818-05-28

Katō Tomosaburō born 1861-02-22

Luigi Federico Menabrea born 1809-09-04

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 19

Hermes da Fonseca born 1855-05-12

Roque Sáenz Peña born 1851-03-19

Tomás Estrada Palma born 1835-07-09

Alexandros Zaimis born 1855-11-21

Alexandru Averescu born 1859-03-21

Joseph E. Johnston born 1807-02-03

Kiyoura Keigo born 1850-02-14

Robert Todd Lincoln born 1843-08-01

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada born 1823-04-24

Andrew Mellon born 1855-03-24

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 61

Bernardino Machado born 1851-03-28

Ambrose Burnside born 1824-05-23

Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì born 1839-04-16

Luigi Luzzatti born 1841-03-11

René Viviani born 1863-11-08

John Paul Jones age 43

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 21

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 26

Yohannes IV born 1837-07-11

Ōyama Iwao born 1842-11-12

Joseph Gallieni born 1849-04-24

John Sherman born 1823-05-10

Eduardo Dato born 1856-08-12

J. E. B. Stuart born 1833-02-06

Giuseppe Saracco born 1821-10-06

Alessandro Fortis born 1842-09-16

Alexander H. Stephens born 1812-02-11

Louis Botha born 1862-09-27

François Achille Bazaine born 1811-02-13

Charles Dupuy born 1851-11-05

Francisco León de la Barra born 1863-06-16

Titu Maiorescu born 1840-02-15

Erik Gustaf Boström born 1842-02-11

Arvid Lindman born 1862-09-19

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld born 1862-02-04

José Batlle y Ordóñez born 1856-05-21

John Burgoyne age 68

Giovanni Lanza born 1810-02-15

Tommaso Tittoni born 1855-11-16

Karl Mack von Leiberich age 38

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield born 1859-07-13

Zeng Guofan born 1811-11-26

Kaarlo Castrén born 1860-02-28

Ion I. C. Brătianu born 1864-08-20

Heungseon Daewongun born 1821-01-24

Alexander von Kluck born 1846-05-20

Braxton Bragg born 1817-03-22

Benedetto Cairoli born 1825-01-28

Henry Halleck born 1815-01-16

Manuel González born 1833-06-18

Manuel Gomes da Costa born 1863-01-14

Carl Swartz born 1858-06-05

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