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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
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
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
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

Abraham Lincoln age 22
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 12
Queen - United Kingdom
Andrew Jackson age 64
President - United States
Martin Van Buren age 49
President - United States
Andrew Johnson age 23
President - United States
James Buchanan age 40
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 47
President - United States
James K. Polk age 36
President - United States
John Tyler age 41
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 32
President - United States
William Henry Harrison age 58
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 27
President - United States
Napoleon III age 23
President - France
Alexander II of Russia age 13
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 35
Emperor - Russian Empire
William IV age 66
King - United Kingdom
Leopold II of Belgium born 1835-04-09
King - Belgium
Wilhelm I age 34
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 63
Emperor Francis I - Austrian Empire
Jefferson Davis age 23
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 25
President - Mexico
Louis Philippe I age 58
King of the French - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 11
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 6
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 41
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 46
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdulaziz age 1
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 8
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 38
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 37
President - Mexico
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 59
Shah - Iran
Sam Houston age 38
President - Republic of Texas
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 5 months
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 5 months
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 5 months
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Albert age 33
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Gojong of the Korean Empire born 1852-09-08
King - Joseon
Daoguang Emperor age 49
Emperor - Imperial China
Tongzhi Emperor born 1856-04-27
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 24
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 31
Emperor - Japan
Tewodros II age 14
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 16
President - Guatemala
Mirabeau B. Lamar age 33
President - Republic of Texas
José Ignacio Pavón age 41
President - Mexico
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 29
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 16
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 35
Emperor - Ethiopia
Anson Jones age 33
President - Republic of Texas
Mariano Rivera Paz age 27
President - Guatemala
David G. Burnet age 43
President - Republic of Texas
Gigar age 87
Emperor - Ethiopia
José Venancio López age 41
President - Guatemala
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 1
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Sunjo of Joseon age 41
King - Joseon
Heonjong of Joseon age 4
King - Joseon
Cheoljong of Joseon age 5 months
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 61
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 36
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 64
President - France
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 29
President - France
José Joaquín de Herrera age 39
President - Mexico
Nicolás Bravo age 45
President - Mexico
Anastasio Bustamante age 51
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 37
President - Mexico
Valentín Gómez Farías age 50
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 29
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 35
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 42
President - Mexico
Melchor Múzquiz age 43
President - Mexico
Valentín Canalizo age 37
President - Mexico
Francisco Javier Echeverría age 34
President - Mexico
Juan Bautista Ceballos age 20
President - Mexico
Manuel Gómez Pedraza age 42
President - Mexico
José Justo Corro age 37
President - Mexico
Miguel Barragán age 42
President - Mexico
Manuel María Lombardini age 29
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 34
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 31
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 19
President - Mexico
Juan Álvarez age 41
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 25
President - Mexico
Otto von Bismarck age 16
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Klemens von Metternich age 58
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 21
Prime Minister - Italy
Robert Peel age 43
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 39
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 32
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bettino Ricasoli age 22
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 23
Prime Minister - Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 27
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Carlo Farini age 19
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 13
Prime Minister - Italy
John Marshall age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Salmon P. Chase age 23
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 54
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John C. Calhoun age 49
Vice President - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 22
Vice President - United States
William R. King age 45
Vice President - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 51
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 10
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 39
Vice President - United States
Ulysses S. Grant age 9
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 27
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 22
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 30
Secretary of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 49
Secretary of State - United States
George B. McClellan age 5
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Winfield Scott age 45
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Edward Everett age 37
Secretary of State - United States
Edwin Stanton age 17
Secretary of War - United States
Lewis Cass age 49
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Edward Livingston age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Louis McLane age 45
Secretary of State - United States
John Forsyth age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Abel P. Upshur age 41
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 35
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 21
Secretary of State - United States
John Adams Dix age 33
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Levi Woodbury age 42
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Ewing age 42
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 32
Secretary of War - United States
Caleb Cushing age 31
Attorney General - United States
John B. Floyd age 25
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 21
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Corwin age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 44
Attorney General - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 35
Secretary of War - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 16
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 23
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Felix Grundy age 54
Attorney General - United States
William J. Duane age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William P. Fessenden age 25
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 38
Attorney General - United States
George M. Bibb age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Forward age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 27
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Holt age 25
Secretary of War - United States
James Guthrie age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Nelson age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 28
Attorney General - United States
Henry D. Gilpin age 30
Attorney General - United States
William M. Meredith age 32
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Isaac Toucey age 39
Attorney General - United States
James Speed age 19
Attorney General - United States
John Y. Mason age 32
Attorney General - United States
George W. Crawford age 33
Secretary of War - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 25
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 34
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh S. Legaré age 35
Secretary of State - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 35
Attorney General - United States
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 33
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 31
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 32
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey age 50
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 39
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 25
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 30
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William S. Derrick age 29
Secretary of State - United States
William Hunter age 26
Secretary of State - United States
Jacob L. Martin age 21
Secretary of State - United States
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 19
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland age 47
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 16
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 31
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 4 months
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 18
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton age 57
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby age 33
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 53
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Charles Williams-Wynn age 56
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham age 32
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 30
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Robert Nisbet-Hamilton age 28
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 43
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Henry Wilson age 19
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 12
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 54
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 8
Senate - United States