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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

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

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

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

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

Peterloo Massacre 1819-08-16

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

Missouri Compromise 1820-03-06

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

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

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

Civil Rights Act of 1866 1866-04-09

Austro-Prussian War 1866-06-14 - 1866-07-22

Battle of Custoza (1866) 1866-06-24 - 1866-06-24

Battle of Náchod 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Langensalza (1866) 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Trautenau 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Skalitz 1866-06-28 - 1866-06-28

Battle of Gitschin 1866-06-29 - 1866-06-29

Battle of Königgrätz 1866-07-03 - 1866-07-03

Battle of Dermbach 1866-07-04 - 1866-07-04

Battle of Kissingen 1866-07-10 - 1866-07-10

Battle of Aschaffenburg (1866) 1866-07-14 - 1866-07-14

Battle of Lissa (1866) 1866-07-20 - 1866-07-20

Transatlantic telegraph cable 1866-07-27

Alaska Purchase 1867-03-30

Canadian Confederation 1867-07-01

Meiji Restoration 1868-01-03

Boshin War 1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27

People

José Miguel Gómez born 1858-07-06

Mario García Menocal born 1866-12-17

Pavlos Kountouriotis born 1854-01-01

António José de Almeida born 1866-07-17

Irvin McDowell born 1818-10-15

Nicolás Salmerón born 1838-04-10

Francisco Serrano age 7

Ahmed Muhtar Pasha born 1832-11-01

Archduke Eugen of Austria born 1863-05-21

Taytu Betul born 1851-01-01

Nelson A. Miles born 1839-08-08

Jubal Early age 1

Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 36

Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 10

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

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

Bezmiâlem Sultan age 11

Mikhail Miloradovich age 46

Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 14

Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia age 50

Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 14

Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) age 8

Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia age 44

Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg age 20

Princess Margaretha of Saxony born 1840-05-24

Hiram Johnson born 1866-09-02

John Sutter age 14

Robert Bacon born 1860-07-05

Philander C. Knox born 1853-05-06

Andrey Lyapchev born 1866-12-12

Hannes Hafstein born 1861-12-04

Vladimir Kokovtsov born 1853-04-30

Boris Stürmer born 1848-07-27

Fredrik von Otter born 1833-04-10

Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero born 1832-09-04

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

Sisowath of Cambodia born 1840-09-07

Richard S. Ewell age 10 months

Robert Gould Shaw born 1837-10-10

Charles Joseph Bonaparte born 1851-06-09

Zuo Zongtang age 5

Hans Hartwig von Beseler born 1850-04-27

John Pope born 1822-03-16

Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg age 49

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings age 63

Iosif Gurko born 1828-07-28

Max von Gallwitz born 1852-05-02

John Monash born 1865-06-27

Ercole Consalvi age 60

Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 17

Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) age 9

Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg age 3 months

Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg born 1838-06-02

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

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

Princess Anastasia of Montenegro born 1868-01-04

Pertevniyal Sultan age 6

Princess Augusta of Prussia age 37

Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 15

William II, Elector of Hesse age 40

Frederick I of Anhalt born 1831-04-29

Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen age 79

Archduchess Clementina of Austria age 19

Princess Elisabeth of Savoy age 17

Archduchess Sophie of Austria born 1855-03-05

Miguel Ángel Juárez born 1844-09-29

Todor Burmov born 1834-01-14

Domingo Santa María born 1825-08-04

Aníbal Pinto born 1825-03-15

Kálmán Tisza born 1830-12-16

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava born 1826-06-21

Léon Delacroix born 1867-12-27

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

Carl Theodor Zahle born 1866-01-19

Niels Neergaard born 1854-06-27

João do Canto e Castro born 1862-05-19

Dimitrie Sturdza born 1833-03-09

Gerhard Louis De Geer born 1854-11-27

Christian Lundeberg born 1842-07-14

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 12

George Pickett born 1825-01-16

William Gibbs McAdoo born 1863-10-31

Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 58

Koos de la Rey born 1847-10-22

Charles Cousin-Montauban age 21

Kodama Gentarō born 1852-03-16

Piet Joubert born 1834-01-20

Christiaan de Wet born 1854-10-07

Ian Hamilton born 1853-01-16

Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach born 1818-06-24

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia born 1826-05-26

Dominique Vandamme age 47

Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 2

Princess Anna of Prussia born 1836-05-17

Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau born 1837-09-14

Leopold IV of Anhalt age 23

Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este age 36

Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria born 1860-09-05

Tage Reedtz-Thott born 1839-03-13

Antonio Guzmán Blanco born 1829-02-20

Joaquín Crespo born 1841-08-22

Gillis Bildt born 1820-10-16

John Bright age 6

Ahmed Vefik Pasha born 1823-07-06

Arsenio Martínez Campos born 1831-12-14

Nathaniel Lyon born 1818-07-14

John Bell Hood born 1831-06-01

Melville Fuller born 1833-02-11

Jules Renkin born 1862-12-03

Ramón Barros Luco born 1835-06-09

Theodoros Deligiannis born 1820-01-14

Dimitrios Gounaris born 1866-01-05

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 born 1843-09-14

Guillermo Billinghurst born 1851-07-27

Francisco Silvela born 1843-12-15

Segismundo Moret born 1833-06-02

Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas born 1860-09-05

Raimundo Fernández Villaverde born 1848-01-20

Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon born 1866-09-12

Oliver O. Howard born 1830-11-08

George H. Thomas age 1

Edward Carson born 1854-02-09

Empress Dowager Longyu born 1868-01-28

Aimable Pélissier age 23

Simon Bolivar Buckner born 1823-04-01

Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 39

Princess Sophie of the Netherlands born 1824-04-08

Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia born 1827-08-28

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 born 1820-12-12

Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg age 58

Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 45

Louis Faidherbe born 1818-06-03

Princess Frederica of Prussia, Duchess of Anhalt-Dessau age 21

Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg age 32

Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine age 8

Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen born 1851-04-01

Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe born 1859-07-20

Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este age 41

Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria born 1833-03-02

Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este born 1821-07-20

George Grey age 5

Alfred Francis Russell age 4 months

Johan Sverdrup age 1

Bernardino Caballero born 1839-05-20

Gustaf Åkerhielm born 1833-06-24

Morrison Waite age 1

John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow born 1860-09-25

Heinrich Lammasch born 1853-05-21

Charles de Broqueville born 1860-12-04

Petko Karavelov born 1843-04-05

Federico Errázuriz Echaurren born 1850-11-16

Emiliano Figueroa born 1866-07-12

Dimitrios Rallis born 1844-01-01

Károly Khuen-Héderváry born 1849-05-23

Jens Christian Christensen born 1856-11-21

Wollert Konow born 1845-08-16

Christopher Hornsrud born 1859-11-15

Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi born 1864-06-08

Alexander Trepov born 1862-09-30

Eugenio Montero Ríos born 1832-11-13

Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin born 1849-05-16

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto born 1845-07-09

Charles Hardinge born 1858-06-20

William S. Rosecrans born 1819-09-06

Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi born 1839-10-05

Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud age 19

Arthur Arz von Straußenburg born 1857-06-16

Oreste Baratieri born 1841-11-13

Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy born 1862-09-11

Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev born 1843-05-13

Josias von Heeringen born 1850-03-09

Petar Bojović born 1858-07-16

Oskar von Hutier born 1857-08-27

Constantin Prezan born 1861-01-27

Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz age 21

Charles Warren born 1840-02-07

Friedrich von Gentz age 53

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia born 1861-10-16

Rahime Perestu Sultan born 1826-01-01

Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet born 1864-05-05

Alexander Tormasov age 65

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