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Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

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

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

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

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

Battle of Wörth 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

Second Enforcement Act 1871-02-28

Paris Commune 1871-03-18 - 1871-05-28

Third Enforcement Act 1871-04-20

Panic of 1873 1873-05-09

People

Rainivoninahitriniony age 21

Prime Minister - Madagascar

Apostol Arsache age 56

Prime Minister - Romania

Julius Vogel age 9

Prime Minister - New Zealand

Ádám Récsey age 69

Prime Minister - Hungary

António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama age 38

Prime Minister - Portugal

George Waterhouse age 20

Prime Minister - New Zealand

Constantin A. Kretzulescu age 35

Prime Minister - Romania

Robert FitzRoy age 39

Governor-General - New Zealand

George Bowen age 23

Governor-General - New Zealand

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet age 12

Governor-General - New Zealand

Thomas Gore Browne age 37

Governor-General - New Zealand

George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby age 25

Governor-General - New Zealand

Empress Dowager Cixi age 9

Regent - Imperial China

Empress Dowager Ci'an age 7

Regent - Imperial China

Karl Marx age 26

Vladimir Lenin born 1870-04-22

Mahatma Gandhi born 1869-10-02

Leo Tolstoy age 16

Charles Darwin age 35

Vincent van Gogh born 1853-03-30

Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30

Fyodor Dostoevsky age 23

Friedrich Nietzsche age 2 months

Thomas Edison born 1847-02-11

Sigmund Freud born 1856-05-06

Charles Dickens age 32

Marie Curie born 1867-11-07

Rabindranath Tagore born 1861-05-07

Nikola Tesla born 1856-07-10

Louis Pasteur age 22

Richard Wagner age 31

Henry Ford born 1863-07-30

Friedrich Engels age 24

Theodore Roosevelt born 1858-10-27

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 4

Woodrow Wilson born 1856-12-28

Rosa Luxemburg born 1871-03-05

Max Planck born 1858-04-23

Michael Faraday age 53

Dmitri Mendeleev age 10

Giuseppe Verdi age 31

Andrew Jackson age 77

Herbert Hoover born 1874-08-10

James Clerk Maxwell age 13

Calvin Coolidge born 1872-07-04

Alexander Graham Bell born 1847-03-03

Claude Monet age 4

Sun Yat-sen born 1866-11-12

Florence Nightingale age 24

William Howard Taft born 1857-09-15

Grover Cleveland age 7

William McKinley age 1

Warren G. Harding born 1865-11-02

Nicholas II of Russia born 1868-05-18

Benjamin Harrison age 11

Gregor Mendel age 22

Ada Lovelace age 29

Chester A. Arthur age 15

Giuseppe Garibaldi age 37

Wilhelm II born 1859-01-27

Guglielmo Marconi born 1874-04-25

Pius XI born 1857-05-31

Neville Chamberlain born 1869-03-18

Pius X age 9

Leo XIII age 34

Pierre de Coubertin born 1863-01-01

Charles Babbage age 53

Benedict XV born 1854-11-21

Carl Benz age 1 month

David Lloyd George born 1863-01-17

Grigori Rasputin born 1869-01-21

George V born 1865-06-03

Paul von Hindenburg born 1847-10-02

Edward VII age 3

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria born 1863-12-18

Henry Dunant age 16

Harriet Tubman age 22

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell born 1857-02-22

Abdul Hamid II age 2

Robert E. Lee age 37

Georges Clemenceau age 3

Alexander III of Russia born 1845-03-10

Giuseppe Mazzini age 39

Lord Kelvin age 20

Samuel Morse age 53

Józef Piłsudski born 1867-12-05

Philippe Pétain born 1856-04-24

Cecil Rhodes born 1853-07-05

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 180

Frederick Douglass age 26

Susan B. Anthony age 24

José de San Martín age 66

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim born 1867-06-16

Empress Elisabeth of Austria age 7

Karl Liebknecht born 1871-08-13

Emmeline Pankhurst born 1858-07-15

Mehmed VI born 1861-01-14

Ferdinand Foch born 1851-10-02

Porfirio Díaz age 14

H. H. Asquith born 1852-09-12

Raymond Poincaré born 1860-08-20

Friedrich Ebert born 1871-02-04

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 29

Stanley Baldwin born 1867-08-03

Ramsay MacDonald born 1866-10-12

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy born 1869-11-11

Frederick III, German Emperor age 13

Umberto I of Italy age 9 months

Charles G. Dawes born 1865-08-27

Alexander Kolchak born 1874-11-16

Aristide Briand born 1862-03-28

Léon Blum born 1872-04-09

George Stephenson age 63

Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 75

Erich Ludendorff born 1865-04-09

Mehmed V age 2 months

Itō Hirobumi age 3

Haakon VII of Norway born 1872-08-03

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 44

Ludwig II of Bavaria born 1845-08-25

Chaim Weizmann born 1874-11-27

Liliʻuokalani age 6

Gustaf V of Sweden born 1858-06-16

Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia born 1872-06-06

William Tecumseh Sherman age 24

Pyotr Stolypin born 1862-04-14

Emilio Aguinaldo born 1869-03-22

Prince Albert age 25

Pietro Badoglio born 1871-09-28

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma age 53

Andrew Bonar Law born 1858-09-16

Murad V age 4

Maximilian I of Mexico age 12

Austen Chamberlain born 1863-10-16

Albert Lebrun born 1871-08-29

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 born 1845-12-24

Cordell Hull born 1871-10-02

Juho Kusti Paasikivi born 1870-11-27

Hjalmar Branting born 1860-11-23

Francisco I. Madero born 1873-10-30

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

Alexandra of Denmark age 1 month

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 6

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

Luigi Einaudi born 1874-03-24

Stonewall Jackson age 20

Anton Denikin born 1872-12-16

Armand Fallières age 3

Gaston Doumergue born 1863-08-01

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Jules Grévy age 37

Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 7

Deodoro da Fonseca age 17

Ferdinand de Lesseps age 39

Constantine I of Greece born 1868-08-02

George Armstrong Custer age 5

Abdülmecid II born 1868-05-29

Auguste Beernaert age 15

John J. Pershing born 1860-09-13

Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14

Elihu Root born 1845-02-15

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 1

Carol I of Romania age 5

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

Konstantin Päts born 1874-02-22

Lavr Kornilov born 1870-08-30

Félix Faure age 3

Paul Kruger age 19

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) born 1847-11-26

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg born 1865-01-28

Sergei Witte born 1849-06-29

Émile Loubet age 6

Menelik II age 4 months

Richard Mentor Johnson age 64

Antanas Smetona born 1874-08-10

Georgy Lvov born 1861-11-02

Jean Casimir-Perier born 1847-11-08

Arthur Henderson born 1863-09-13

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener born 1850-06-24

Charles W. Fairbanks born 1852-05-11

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