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Events

California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) 1853-05-08 - 1855-05-31
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
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
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 Trautenau 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27
Battle of Náchod 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
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
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
Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875-03-01

People

Abraham Lincoln age 45
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 35
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 32
President - United States
Andrew Johnson age 45
President - United States
James Buchanan age 63
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 49
President - United States
Napoleon III age 46
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 36
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 58
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 23
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Leopold II of Belgium age 19
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 1
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 57
Emperor - German Empire
Jefferson Davis age 46
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 48
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 57
President - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 34
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 28
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 63
King - Belgium
Patrice de MacMahon age 46
President - France
Abdulaziz age 24
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 31
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 58
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 60
President - Mexico
Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 23
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 23
Emperor - Japan
Isma'il Pasha age 23
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Xianfeng Emperor age 23
Emperor - Imperial China
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 1
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor born 1856-04-27
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 36
Emperor - Ethiopia
Louis-Jules Trochu age 39
President - France
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 31
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 17
Emperor - Ethiopia
Cheoljong of Joseon age 23
King - Joseon
Rafael Carrera age 38
President - Guatemala
Juan Álvarez age 64
President - Mexico
Miguel Miramón age 22
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 42
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 54
President - Mexico
José Ignacio Pavón age 63
President - Mexico
Félix María Zuloaga age 41
President - Mexico
Manuel Robles Pezuela age 37
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 47
President - Mexico
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 51
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 39
President - Guatemala
Otto von Bismarck age 39
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 43
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bettino Ricasoli age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Carlo Farini age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 35
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Lanza age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 46
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 37
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 44
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 33
Vice President - United States
Henry Wilson age 42
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 31
Vice President - United States
Midhat Pasha age 31
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mustafa Reşid Pasha age 54
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 39
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Fuad Pasha age 40
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mahmud Nedim Pasha age 36
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Hüseyin Avni Pasha age 35
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mustafa Naili Pasha age 56
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Yusuf Kamil Pasha age 46
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha age 41
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Şirvanlı Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha age 26
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 51
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 53
Secretary of State - United States
George B. McClellan age 27
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Winfield Scott age 68
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Edwin Stanton age 39
Secretary of War - United States
Lewis Cass age 71
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Hamilton Fish age 46
Secretary of State - United States
William M. Evarts age 36
Attorney General - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 37
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 44
Secretary of State - United States
John Adams Dix age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 55
Secretary of War - United States
Caleb Cushing age 54
Attorney General - United States
George S. Boutwell age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Schofield age 22
Secretary of War - United States
John B. Floyd age 48
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Howell Cobb age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 31
Attorney General - United States
William P. Fessenden age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Bates age 60
Attorney General - United States
William W. Belknap age 24
Secretary of War - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 22
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joseph Holt age 47
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 22
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Guthrie age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Speed age 42
Attorney General - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 32
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh Childers age 27
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 55
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 62
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Stanbery age 51
Attorney General - United States
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 38
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 31
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 42
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 29
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Hunter age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 28
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 39
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond age 36
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby age 56
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sam Houston age 61
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 34
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 30
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 31
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 43
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 25
Senate - United States
John M. Clayton age 58
Senate - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 36
Senate - United States
William Windom age 27
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 66
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 22
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 58
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 41
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 38
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 52
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 61
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 58
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 40
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William A. Wheeler age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 18
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Corwin age 60
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Foster age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 7 months
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 17
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 42
House of Representatives - United States
George W. McCrary age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom