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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26

Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30

Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868

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

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

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 Langensalza (1866) 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Náchod 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

Raymond Poincaré born 1860-08-20

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 43

Stanley Baldwin born 1867-08-03

Patrice de MacMahon age 51

Ramsay MacDonald born 1866-10-12

Frederick III, German Emperor age 27

Umberto I of Italy age 15

Charles G. Dawes born 1865-08-27

Aristide Briand born 1862-03-28

Erich Ludendorff born 1865-04-09

Mehmed V age 14

Itō Hirobumi age 17

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 58

Ludwig II of Bavaria age 13

Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 56

Liliʻuokalani age 20

Gustaf V of Sweden age 12 months

William Tecumseh Sherman age 39

Pyotr Stolypin born 1862-04-14

Prince Albert age 39

Andrew Bonar Law age 8 months

Murad V age 18

Maximilian I of Mexico age 26

Ferdinand I of Austria age 66

Austen Chamberlain born 1863-10-16

Eleftherios Venizelos born 1864-08-23

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 2

George I of Greece age 13

Hjalmar Branting born 1860-11-23

Alfonso XII age 1

Oscar II of Sweden age 30

Alexandra of Denmark age 14

Antonio López de Santa Anna age 65

Lajos Kossuth age 56

John Nance Garner born 1868-11-22

Alexandre Millerand age 4 months

Amadeo I of Spain age 14

George Curzon age 5 months

John Wilkes Booth age 21

Yuan Shikai born 1859-09-16

Joseph Joffre age 7

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria born 1861-02-26

Paul Doumer age 2

Stonewall Jackson age 35

Armand Fallières age 17

Gaston Doumergue born 1863-08-01

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Jules Grévy age 51

Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 21

Deodoro da Fonseca age 31

Ferdinand de Lesseps age 53

Constantine I of Greece born 1868-08-02

George Armstrong Custer age 19

Abdülmecid II born 1868-05-29

Auguste Beernaert age 29

John J. Pershing born 1860-09-13

Elihu Root age 14

Edmund Barton age 10

Mary of Teck born 1867-05-26

Bernhard von Bülow age 10

Aleksey Brusilov age 5

Charles Curtis born 1860-01-25

Thomas R. Marshall age 5

Frank B. Kellogg age 2

Frederik VIII of Denmark age 16

Carol I of Romania age 20

Ferdinand I of Romania born 1865-08-24

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando born 1860-05-19

Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood born 1864-09-14

Alfred Deakin age 2

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 75

Félix Faure age 18

Paul Kruger age 33

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 11

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg born 1865-01-28

Sergei Witte age 9

Émile Loubet age 20

Menelik II age 14

Georgy Lvov born 1861-11-02

Jean Casimir-Perier age 11

Arthur Henderson born 1863-09-13

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 8

Charles W. Fairbanks age 7

Paul Deschanel age 4

Abdur Rahman Khan age 19

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud born 1861-12-15

Douglas Hyde born 1860-01-17

Ōkuma Shigenobu age 21

George M. Dallas age 66

Edward Smith age 9

Victoria, Princess Royal age 18

Garret Hobart age 15

Levi P. Morton age 35

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 11

Wilhelm Marx born 1863-01-15

Leo von Caprivi age 28

Philipp Scheidemann born 1865-07-26

Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 60

Robert FitzRoy age 53

William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19

Christian Michelsen age 2

Katsura Tarō age 11

Saigō Takamori age 31

Tōgō Heihachirō age 11

Adlai Stevenson I age 23

Hipólito Yrigoyen age 8

Venustiano Carranza born 1859-12-29

Clara Barton age 37

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 12

Peter I of Serbia age 14

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig born 1861-06-19

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria age 9 months

James S. Sherman age 3

Billy Hughes born 1862-09-25

Gabriel Narutowicz born 1865-03-17

Erich von Falkenhayn born 1861-09-11

Prince Maximilian of Baden born 1867-07-10

Fuad I of Egypt born 1868-03-26

August von Mackensen age 9

Jérôme Bonaparte age 74

Maximilian II of Bavaria age 47

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg born 1868-03-01

Georg Michaelis age 1

Georg von Hertling age 15

Constantin Fehrenbach age 7

Giovanni Giolitti age 16

Nicholas I of Montenegro age 17

Lew Wallace age 32

Chris Watson born 1867-04-09

Yamagata Aritomo age 21

Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 40

Demetrios Vikelas age 24

Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 64

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 16

Joseph Chamberlain age 22

Ismail Kemal age 15

Andrew Fisher born 1862-08-29

Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30

Terauchi Masatake age 7

Hara Takashi age 3

Francesco Crispi age 40

Ludwig III of Bavaria age 14

Wilfrid Laurier age 17

Nikola Pašić age 13

David Farragut age 57

Matsukata Masayoshi age 24

Inukai Tsuyoshi age 4

Floriano Peixoto age 20

Jules Ferry age 27

Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 7

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine born 1864-11-01

Maria Christina of Austria age 10 months

Charlotte of Belgium age 19

Allan Octavian Hume age 30

Henry L. Stimson born 1867-09-21

Victoriano Huerta age 8

Ignacy Mościcki born 1867-12-01

Philip Henry Sheridan age 28

Lucretia Mott age 66

Victoria of Baden born 1862-08-07

Charles Evans Hughes born 1862-04-11

Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 21

Kuroda Kiyotaka age 18

Prudente de Morais age 17

Venceslau Brás born 1868-02-26

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 6

Armando Diaz born 1861-12-05

Otto, King of Bavaria age 11

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 7 months

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 2

Alexander Mackenzie age 37

Kate Sheppard age 12

Robert Nivelle age 2

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 6

Maxime Weygand born 1867-01-21

Hong Xiuquan age 45

Nilo Peçanha born 1867-10-02

Li Hongzhang age 36

Luigi Cadorna age 8

Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 34

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 13

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine born 1863-04-05

George Meade age 43

Emilio De Bono born 1866-03-19

George Reid age 14

Jānis Čakste born 1859-09-14

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 41

Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 10

Saionji Kinmochi age 9

Antonio Salandra age 5

Luigi Facta born 1861-09-13

Rodrigues Alves age 10

Afonso Pena age 11

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 77

John Abbott age 38

Carrie Chapman Catt age 5 months

Dadabhai Naoroji age 33

Julio Argentino Roca age 15

Ugyen Wangchuck born 1862-06-11

Abraham Kuyper age 21

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