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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924

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

Compromise of 1850 1850-09-09 - 1850-09-20

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

Kansas–Nebraska Act 1854-05-30

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

Battle of Solferino 1859-06-24

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry 1859-10-16 - 1859-10-18

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

Unification of Germany 1866-08-18 - 1871-05-10

Alaska Purchase 1867-03-30

Canadian Confederation 1867-07-01

Meiji Restoration 1868-01-03

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

Ten Years' War 1868-10-10 - 1878-02-10

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

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

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

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

Capture of Rome 1870-09-20

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

René Viviani born 1863-11-08

Yohannes IV age 10

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

Karl Nesselrode age 67

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

Émile Combes age 12

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

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

Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 11 months

Caroline Augusta of Bavaria age 56

Vicente López y Planes age 62

Manuel Blanco Encalada age 57

Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 12

Guillaume-Henri Dufour age 60

Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau age 1

Zeng Guofan age 36

Kaarlo Castrén born 1860-02-28

Johan Ludwig Mowinckel born 1870-10-22

Ion I. C. Brătianu born 1864-08-20

Heungseon Daewongun age 27

Alexander von Kluck age 1

Braxton Bragg age 31

Benedetto Cairoli age 23

Henry Halleck age 33

Pyotr Krasnov born 1869-09-22

Manuel González age 14

Valentín Gómez Farías age 67

Gustav Ritter von Kahr born 1862-11-29

Enomoto Takeaki age 11

Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov age 60

Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg born 1865-12-23

Archduke John of Austria age 66

Andrés de Santa Cruz age 55

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg age 28

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 16

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia born 1860-10-03

Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia born 1859-04-26

Princess Cecilie of Baden age 8

Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 70

Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870) age 40

Princess Maria Annunciata of the Two Sicilies age 4

Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 5

Stefan Stambolov born 1854-01-30

Carlos Pellegrini age 1

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 9

Sanford B. Dole age 3

Noe Zhordania born 1868-01-14

Francisco S. Carvajal born 1870-12-09

Manuel Gomes da Costa born 1863-01-14

Carl Swartz born 1858-06-05

Joseph Hooker age 33

Sanjō Sanetomi age 11

Luigi Pelloux age 9

Nicolás Bravo age 61

Franz von Hipper born 1863-09-13

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner born 1854-03-23

Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 15

Svetozar Boroević born 1856-12-13

Cetshwayo kaMpande age 22

Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen born 1856-06-04

Wilhelm von Tegetthoff age 20

Alfred von Waldersee age 15

Empress Shōken born 1849-05-09

Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia age 4

Étienne Maurice Gérard age 75

Frederick II of Baden born 1857-07-09

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine born 1866-07-11

Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) born 1867-05-31

Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont born 1861-02-17

José Evaristo Uriburu age 16

Alexandre Ribot age 6

Eloy Alfaro age 5

Manuel de Arriaga age 7

Hsu Shih-chang born 1855-10-23

Cao Kun born 1862-12-12

Feng Guozhang born 1859-01-07

Ignacy Daszyński born 1866-10-26

Augusto Leguía born 1863-02-19

Eduardo López de Romaña age 1

José Canalejas born 1854-07-31

Alejandro Lerroux born 1864-03-04

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 3

Nubar Pasha age 23

Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 2

Frederick Francis II age 25

Karl von Bülow age 1

Stepa Stepanović born 1856-03-11

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia born 1860-07-28

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia born 1866-04-13

Frederick Francis III born 1851-03-19

Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 51

Princess Marianne of the Netherlands age 37

Princess Viktoria of Prussia born 1866-04-12

Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Sardinia age 47

Princess Francisca of Brazil age 23

Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 5

Luis Sáenz Peña age 25

Charilaos Trikoupis age 15

Jean-Pierre Boyer age 72

Robert Themptander age 4

James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 35

Samuel J. Tilden age 34

Mahmud Shevket Pasha born 1856-01-01

Henri Brisson age 12

Jules Méline age 9

Karel Kramář born 1860-12-27

Thomas Gage age 130

Essad Toptani born 1863-01-01

José Figueroa Alcorta born 1860-11-20

Victorino de la Plaza age 7

Manuel Quintana age 12

Gunnar Knudsen born 1848-09-19

Ernst Trygger born 1857-10-27

Karl Staaff born 1860-01-21

Cipriano Castro born 1858-10-12

Antonio Maura born 1853-05-02

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 16

Winfield Scott Hancock age 24

Albert Sidney Johnston age 45

J. B. M. Hertzog born 1866-04-03

Anastasio Bustamante age 67

Estanislao Figueras age 28

Katsu Kaishū age 25

FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 59

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 30

Hermann von Eichhorn age 1 month

Lucjan Żeligowski born 1865-10-17

Zinovy Rozhestvensky born 1848-11-11

Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 25

Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 65

Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia born 1850-01-14

Princess Milica of Montenegro born 1866-07-26

Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia born 1860-07-25

Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg born 1852-11-16

Archduke Rainer of Austria (1783–1853) age 64

Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria born 1849-07-02

Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal born 1855-08-24

José María Iglesias age 25

Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 22

Arvid Posse age 28

Carl Johan Thyselius age 36

Cyrus West Field age 28

Said Halim Pasha born 1864-02-19

Edward Douglass White age 2

Louis McLane age 61

John W. Foster age 12

Walter Q. Gresham age 16

William R. Day born 1849-04-17

Bainbridge Colby born 1869-12-22

Boutros Ghali age 2

Spyridon Lambros born 1851-04-20

Dirk Jan de Geer born 1870-12-14

Jørgen Løvland age 1 month

Nicholas Golitsyn born 1850-04-12

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