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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852

Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04

California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31

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

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 Trautenau 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Langensalza (1866) 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

Opening of the Suez Canal 1869-11-17

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

Enforcement Act of 1870 1870-05-31

Franco-Prussian War 1870-07-19 - 1871-01-28

Battle of Wissembourg (1870) 1870-08-04 - 1870-08-04

Battle of Wörth 1870-08-06 - 1870-08-06

Battle of Spicheren 1870-08-06 - 1870-08-06

Siege of Strasbourg 1870-08-16 - 1870-09-28

Battle of Mars-la-Tour 1870-08-16 - 1870-08-16

Battle of Gravelotte 1870-08-18

Siege of Metz 1870-08-20 - 1870-10-27

Battle of Beaumont (1870) 1870-08-30 - 1870-08-30

Battle of Sedan 1870-09-01

Siege of Paris (1870–1871) 1870-09-19 - 1871-01-28

Siege of Belfort 1870-11-03 - 1871-02-18

Battle of Coulmiers 1870-11-09 - 1870-11-09

Battle of Amiens (1870) 1870-11-27 - 1870-11-27

Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande 1870-11-28 - 1870-11-28

Battle of Loigny–Poupry 1870-12-02 - 1870-12-02

Battle of Beaugency (1870) 1870-12-08 - 1870-12-10

Battle of Hallue 1870-12-23 - 1870-12-24

Battle of Bapaume (1871) 1871-01-03 - 1871-01-03

Battle of Villersexel 1871-01-09 - 1871-01-09

Battle of Le Mans 1871-01-10 - 1871-01-12

Battle of the Lisaine 1871-01-15 - 1871-01-17

Proclamation of the German Empire 1871-01-18

Battle of St. Quentin (1871) 1871-01-19 - 1871-01-19

People

Frederick III, German Emperor age 16

Umberto I of Italy age 4

Charles G. Dawes born 1865-08-27

Aristide Briand born 1862-03-28

George Stephenson age 66

Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 79

Erich Ludendorff born 1865-04-09

Mehmed V age 3

Itō Hirobumi age 6

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 47

Ludwig II of Bavaria age 2

Liliʻuokalani age 9

Gustaf V of Sweden born 1858-06-16

William Tecumseh Sherman age 28

Pyotr Stolypin born 1862-04-14

Emilio Aguinaldo born 1869-03-22

Prince Albert age 28

Andrew Bonar Law born 1858-09-16

Murad V age 7

Maximilian I of Mexico age 15

Austen Chamberlain born 1863-10-16

Eleftherios Venizelos born 1864-08-23

Christian X of Denmark born 1870-09-26

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg born 1856-11-29

George I of Greece age 2

Juho Kusti Paasikivi born 1870-11-27

Hjalmar Branting born 1860-11-23

Alfonso XII born 1857-11-28

Oscar II of Sweden age 19

Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella born 1870-01-08

Alexandra of Denmark age 3

John Nance Garner born 1868-11-22

Alexandre Millerand born 1859-02-10

Karl Renner born 1870-12-14

George Curzon born 1859-01-11

John Wilkes Booth age 9

Yuan Shikai born 1859-09-16

Joseph Joffre born 1852-01-12

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria born 1861-02-26

Paul Doumer born 1857-03-22

Stonewall Jackson age 24

Armand Fallières age 6

Gaston Doumergue born 1863-08-01

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Jules Grévy age 40

Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 10

Deodoro da Fonseca age 20

Ferdinand de Lesseps age 42

Constantine I of Greece born 1868-08-02

George Armstrong Custer age 8

Abdülmecid II born 1868-05-29

Auguste Beernaert age 18

John J. Pershing born 1860-09-13

Elihu Root age 3

Edmund Barton born 1849-01-18

Mary of Teck born 1867-05-26

Bernhard von Bülow born 1849-05-03

Aleksey Brusilov born 1853-08-03

Charles Curtis born 1860-01-25

Thomas R. Marshall born 1854-03-14

Frank B. Kellogg born 1856-12-22

Frederik VIII of Denmark age 4

Carol I of Romania age 8

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 born 1856-08-03

Lavr Kornilov born 1870-08-30

Félix Faure age 7

Paul Kruger age 22

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 3 months

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg born 1865-01-28

Sergei Witte born 1849-06-29

Émile Loubet age 9

Menelik II age 3

Richard Mentor Johnson age 67

Georgy Lvov born 1861-11-02

Jean Casimir-Perier age 4 months

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 age 8

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud born 1861-12-15

Douglas Hyde born 1860-01-17

Ōkuma Shigenobu age 10

Edward Smith born 1850-01-27

Victoria, Princess Royal age 7

Maud of Wales born 1869-11-26

Garret Hobart age 3

Levi P. Morton age 23

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25

Wilhelm Marx born 1863-01-15

Leo von Caprivi age 17

Philipp Scheidemann born 1865-07-26

Pavel Nakhimov age 45

Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 49

Robert FitzRoy age 42

William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19

Christian Michelsen born 1857-03-15

Katsura Tarō age 2 months

Saigō Takamori age 20

Tōgō Heihachirō age 1 month

Adlai Stevenson I age 12

Hipólito Yrigoyen born 1850-07-13

Venustiano Carranza born 1859-12-29

Clara Barton age 26

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 69

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 10 months

Gustav Bauer born 1870-01-06

Peter I of Serbia age 3

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

Maria II of Portugal age 28

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria born 1858-08-21

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

Prince Maximilian of Baden born 1867-07-10

Fuad I of Egypt born 1868-03-26

August von Mackensen born 1849-12-06

Jérôme Bonaparte age 63

Maximilian II of Bavaria age 36

Marie Thérèse of France age 69

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg born 1868-03-01

Georg Michaelis born 1857-09-08

Georg von Hertling age 4

Constantin Fehrenbach born 1852-01-11

Giovanni Giolitti age 5

Jan Smuts born 1870-05-24

Nicholas I of Montenegro age 6

Lew Wallace age 20

Chris Watson born 1867-04-09

Francisco Largo Caballero born 1869-10-15

Yamagata Aritomo age 9

Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 28

Demetrios Vikelas age 13

Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 53

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 4

Joseph Chamberlain age 11

Ismail Kemal age 4

Andrew Fisher born 1862-08-29

Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30

Terauchi Masatake born 1852-02-05

Hara Takashi born 1856-03-15

Francesco Crispi age 29

Ludwig III of Bavaria age 3

Wilfrid Laurier age 6

Nikola Pašić age 2

David Farragut age 46

Matsukata Masayoshi age 13

Inukai Tsuyoshi born 1855-06-04

Floriano Peixoto age 8

Jules Ferry age 15

Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 79

Olga Constantinovna of Russia born 1851-09-03

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

Maria Christina of Austria born 1858-07-21

Charlotte of Belgium age 7

Allan Octavian Hume age 18

Henry L. Stimson born 1867-09-21

Victoriano Huerta born 1850-12-22

Ignacy Mościcki born 1867-12-01

Philip Henry Sheridan age 17

Auguste de Marmont age 73

Lucretia Mott age 55

Victoria of Baden born 1862-08-07

Charles Evans Hughes born 1862-04-11

Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 10

Kuroda Kiyotaka age 7

Prudente de Morais age 6

Venceslau Brás born 1868-02-26

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

Armando Diaz born 1861-12-05

Otto, King of Bavaria born 1848-04-27

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein born 1858-10-22

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom born 1857-04-14

Alexander Mackenzie age 26

Kate Sheppard age 1

Robert Nivelle born 1856-10-15

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf born 1852-11-11

Maxime Weygand born 1867-01-21

Hong Xiuquan age 34

Nilo Peçanha born 1867-10-02

Li Hongzhang age 25

Luigi Cadorna born 1850-09-04

Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 23

Sophia of Prussia born 1870-06-14

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 1

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

George Meade age 32

Emilio De Bono born 1866-03-19

George Reid age 3

Jānis Čakste born 1859-09-14

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 30

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

F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 65

Saionji Kinmochi born 1849-12-07

Antonio Salandra born 1853-08-13

Luigi Facta born 1861-09-13

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