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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

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

Rodrigues Alves born 1848-07-07

Afonso Pena age 3 months

Georgy Gapon born 1870-02-05

Lin Tse-hsu age 62

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck born 1870-03-20

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 65

Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 38

John Abbott age 27

Carrie Chapman Catt born 1859-01-09

Dadabhai Naoroji age 22

Julio Argentino Roca age 4

Ugyen Wangchuck born 1862-06-11

Richard Bedford Bennett born 1870-07-03

Abraham Kuyper age 10

Tanaka Giichi born 1864-06-22

Agostino Depretis age 35

Sidney Sonnino age 1

Washington Luís born 1869-10-26

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia born 1856-11-18

Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 12

Matthew C. Perry age 53

Georg V of Hanover age 28

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 45

Marie Henriette of Austria age 11

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 3

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 20

Joseph Cook born 1860-12-07

Karl Seitz born 1869-09-04

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 age 7

Mikhail Skobelev age 4

Apolinario Mabini born 1864-07-22

Kazys Grinius born 1866-12-17

Óscar Carmona born 1869-11-24

Katō Takaaki born 1860-01-03

Saitō Makoto born 1858-10-27

Kantarō Suzuki born 1868-01-18

Paolo Boselli age 9

Francesco Saverio Nitti born 1868-07-19

Epitácio Pessoa born 1865-05-23

Hussein Kamel of Egypt born 1853-10-21

Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 36

William I of Württemberg age 66

Reinhard Scheer born 1863-09-30

Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse born 1868-05-01

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn born 1850-05-01

Frederick Augustus II of Saxony age 50

Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 14

Princess Stéphanie of Belgium born 1864-05-21

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll born 1848-03-18

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale born 1864-01-08

Louise, Princess Royal born 1867-02-20

John Hay age 9

Robert Borden born 1854-06-26

Arturo Alessandri born 1868-12-20

Saad Zaghloul born 1857-01-01

Takahashi Korekiyo born 1854-07-27

Giuseppe Zanardelli age 21

Tewfik Pasha born 1852-11-15

Albert I of Saxony age 19

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby born 1861-04-23

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 20

Sophie of Württemberg age 29

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia born 1857-05-11

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia born 1853-10-17

Leopold II of Tuscany age 50

Adelaide of Austria age 25

Princess Sophie of Bavaria age 43

Louis II, Prince of Monaco born 1870-07-12

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

Teófilo Braga age 5

Juan Vicente Gómez born 1857-07-24

James Longstreet age 27

Nathan Bedford Forrest age 26

J. Sigfrid Edström born 1870-11-21

Alexei Kuropatkin born 1848-03-29

Georg I of Saxony age 15

Louis IV of Hesse age 10

Princess Charlotte of Prussia born 1860-07-24

Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom born 1868-07-06

John Sparrow David Thompson age 2

Kiichirō Hiranuma born 1867-09-28

Robert Lansing born 1864-10-17

István Tisza born 1861-04-22

Stanisław Wojciechowski born 1869-03-15

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 22

P. G. T. Beauregard age 29

Katō Tomosaburō born 1861-02-22

Hermes da Fonseca born 1855-05-12

Emilio Castelar age 15

Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli born 1856-02-12

Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta born 1869-01-13

Paul von Rennenkampf born 1854-04-29

J. Bruce Ismay born 1862-12-12

Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 62

Charles I of Württemberg age 25

Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild born 1868-02-08

Louise of the Netherlands age 19

Archduchess Gisela of Austria born 1856-07-12

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany born 1853-04-07

José Manuel Balmaceda age 7

Juan José Flores age 47

Louis Gerhard De Geer age 29

Richard Cobden age 43

Midhat Pasha age 25

Roque Sáenz Peña born 1851-03-19

Tomás Estrada Palma age 12

Jaan Tõnisson born 1868-12-22

Alexandros Zaimis born 1855-11-21

Alexandru Averescu born 1859-03-21

Kiyoura Keigo born 1850-02-14

Okada Keisuke born 1868-01-20

Robert Todd Lincoln age 4

Delfim Moreira born 1868-11-07

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 24

Andrew Mellon born 1855-03-24

Francesc Pi i Margall age 23

Otto Liman von Sanders born 1855-02-17

Alexander Samsonov born 1859-11-14

Mikhail Alekseyev born 1857-11-15

Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria born 1868-04-22

Archduke Otto Franz Joseph of Austria born 1865-04-21

Prince Louis of Battenberg born 1854-05-24

Nicolás Avellaneda age 10

Lauri Ingman born 1868-06-30

Bernardino Machado born 1851-03-28

Ambrose Burnside age 23

Wakatsuki Reijirō born 1866-03-21

Hamaguchi Osachi born 1870-04-01

Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 8

Luigi Luzzatti age 7

René Viviani born 1863-11-08

Yohannes IV age 10

Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria born 1869-05-18

Karl Nesselrode age 67

Tokugawa Iemochi age 1

Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark born 1870-08-30

Prince George of Greece and Denmark born 1869-06-24

Empress Myeongseong born 1851-11-17

Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria age 46

Maria Anna of Savoy age 44

Maria Pia of Savoy age 5 months

Charles Tupper age 26

Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 57

Ōyama Iwao age 5

Joseph Gallieni born 1849-04-24

José Félix Uriburu born 1868-07-20

Eduardo Dato born 1856-08-12

J. E. B. Stuart age 15

Giuseppe Saracco age 26

Alessandro Fortis age 5

Louis Botha born 1862-09-27

François Achille Bazaine age 37

Charles Dupuy born 1851-11-05

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty born 1871-01-17

Nogi Maresuke born 1849-12-25

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 15

Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia born 1858-08-22

Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 17

Ömer Lütfi Pasha age 41

Princess Louise of Prussia age 9

Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862) born 1862-08-14

Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 21

Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry age 49

Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse born 1868-11-25

Mackenzie Bowell age 24

Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 3

Ahmed Izzet Pasha born 1864-01-01

Wilhelm Groener born 1867-11-22

Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear born 1868-10-04

Francisco León de la Barra born 1863-06-16

Titu Maiorescu age 8

Erik Gustaf Boström age 6

Arvid Lindman born 1862-09-19

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld born 1862-02-04

José Batlle y Ordóñez born 1856-05-21

John French born 1852-09-28

Tommaso Tittoni born 1855-11-16

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

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel born 1870-11-06

Keir Hardie born 1856-08-15

Li Yuanhong born 1864-10-19

Osman Nuri Pasha age 16

Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 20

Radomir Putnik age 1

Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 23

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