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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
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 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
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
Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875-03-01
Invention of the telephone 1876-03-10

People

Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 64
President - Uruguay
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 20
President - Venezuela
Faustin Soulouque age 66
President - Haiti
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 38
President - Uruguay
José Gregorio Monagas age 54
President - Venezuela
Mariano Melgarejo age 29
President - Bolivia
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu age 24
President - Chile
James Spriggs Payne age 29
President - Liberia
Edward James Roye age 34
President - Liberia
Bernardo Berro age 46
President - Uruguay
Manuel Pardo age 14
President - Peru
José Rufino Echenique age 40
President - Peru
Manuel Felipe de Tovar age 46
President - Venezuela
Hilarión Daza age 9
President - Bolivia
Juan Lindo age 59
President - Honduras
James Skivring Smith age 24
President - Liberia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 22
President - Peru
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 29
President - Venezuela
Juan Bautista Gill age 8
President - Paraguay
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera age 50
President - Colombia
Marco Aurelio Soto age 2
President - Honduras
Tomás Villalba age 43
President - Uruguay
José Tadeo Monagas age 64
President - Venezuela
Tomás Frías age 44
President - Bolivia
José María Obando age 53
President - Colombia
Manuel Murillo Toro age 33
President - Colombia
José Santos Guardiola age 32
President - Honduras
Atanasio Aguirre age 48
President - Uruguay
José Eugenio Ellauri age 14
President - Uruguay
Lorenzo Latorre age 4
President - Uruguay
José Balta age 35
President - Peru
Pedro Gual Escandón age 66
President - Venezuela
Adolfo Ballivián age 17
President - Bolivia
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 35
President - Costa Rica
Tomás Gomensoro Albín age 39
President - Uruguay
Guillermo Tell Villegas age 26
President - Venezuela
Julián Castro age 39
President - Venezuela
Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual age 19
President - Venezuela
Facundo Machaín age 3
President - Paraguay
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 38
Viceroy - British Raj
John Lawrence age 38
Viceroy - British Raj
Agustín Morales age 41
President - Bolivia
Jorge Córdova age 27
President - Bolivia
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 41
President - Bolivia
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez age 43
President - Colombia
Rafael Zaldívar age 15
President - El Salvador
Juan Francisco Giró age 58
President - Uruguay
José María de Achá age 38
President - Bolivia
José María Linares age 40
President - Bolivia
José María Rojas Garrido age 24
President - Colombia
Fabre Geffrard age 42
President - Haiti
José Trinidad Cabañas age 43
President - Honduras
José María Medina age 23
President - Honduras
Manuel Basilio Bustamante age 63
President - Uruguay
Santiago Pérez de Manosalbas age 19
President - Colombia
Sylvain Salnave age 23
President - Haiti
Michel Domingue age 35
President - Haiti
Jerónimo Carrión age 44
President - Ecuador
Francisco Robles age 39
President - Ecuador
Juan Javier Espinosa age 33
President - Ecuador
José María Plá age 54
President - Uruguay
William Denison age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 29
Viceroy - British Raj
José María Melo age 48
President - Colombia
Isa I of Bahrain age 1
Hakim - Bahrain
John Strachey age 25
Viceroy - British Raj
Eustorgio Salgar age 17
President - Colombia
Santos Gutiérrez age 28
President - Colombia
Gerardo Barrios age 35
President - El Salvador
Tomás Gutiérrez age 32
President - Peru
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 16
President - Haiti
Bartolomé Calvo age 33
President - Colombia
Santos Acosta age 20
President - Colombia
José de Obaldía age 42
President - Colombia
Ponciano Leiva age 27
President - Honduras
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget age 38
President - Haiti
Francisco Dueñas age 38
President - El Salvador
Juan José Nieto Gil age 43
President - Colombia
Rafael Campo age 35
President - El Salvador
Santiago González age 30
President - El Salvador
Miguel Santín del Castillo age 19
President - El Salvador
José Javier Eguiguren age 33
President - Ecuador
Andrés del Valle age 15
President - El Salvador
Doroteo Vasconcelos age 46
President - El Salvador
José María San Martín age 38
President - El Salvador
Victoriano Castellanos age 54
President - Honduras
Antonio Leocadio Guzmán age 47
President - Venezuela
Joaquín Riascos age 15
President - Colombia
Céleo Arias age 14
President - Honduras
José María Peralta age 41
President - El Salvador
Joaquín Eufrasio Guzmán age 48
President - El Salvador
Lorenzo Zepeda age 35
President - El Salvador
Benigno Filomeno de Rojas age 38
President - Dominican Republic
Francisco Inestroza born 1863-12-31
President - Honduras
Crescencio Gómez age 16
President - Honduras
José Santiago Bueso age 66
President - Honduras
José Félix Quirós age 38
President - El Salvador
José Francisco Montes age 19
President - Honduras
José Antonio Salcedo age 33
President - Dominican Republic
Pedro Guillermo age 34
President - Dominican Republic
Francisco de Aguilar age 39
President - Honduras
Vicente Gómez
President - El Salvador
Francisco Cruz Castro age 28
President - Honduras
Francisco Gómez y Argüelles age 39
President - Honduras
Ramón Rodríguez
President - El Salvador
Marcelino Mejía
President - Honduras
Pedro Carve
President - Uruguay
Charles Canning age 36
Viceroy - British Raj
John A. Macdonald age 34
Prime Minister - Canada
Gyula Andrássy age 26
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexander Mackenzie age 27
Prime Minister - Canada
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 21
Prime Minister - Spain
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 31
Prime Minister - Romania
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 30
Prime Minister - Sweden
Konstantinos Kanaris age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Charilaos Trikoupis age 16
Prime Minister - Greece
Charles Rogier age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 24
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 18
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 34
Prime Minister - Greece
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Barbu Catargiu age 41
Prime Minister - Romania
Walthère Frère-Orban age 37
Prime Minister - Belgium
Peter Georg Bang age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Lascăr Catargiu age 25
Prime Minister - Romania
Rainilaiarivony age 21
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thrasyvoulos Zaimis age 26
Prime Minister - Greece
Anders Sandøe Ørsted age 70
Prime Minister - Denmark
Epameinondas Deligeorgis age 20
Prime Minister - Greece
Ditlev Gothard Monrad age 37
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Christian Hall age 37
Prime Minister - Denmark
Christen Andreas Fonnesbech age 31
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 33
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jan Heemskerk age 30
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 46
Prime Minister - Greece
Jan Jacob Rochussen age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Benizelos Roufos age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ age 36
Prime Minister - Denmark
Alfred Domett age 38
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Pierre de Decker age 37
Prime Minister - Belgium
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Jules Malou age 38
Prime Minister - Belgium
Antonios Kriezis age 53
Prime Minister - Greece
Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs age 31
Prime Minister - Denmark
Henry Sewell age 41
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Frederik Stang age 41
Prime Minister - Norway
William Fox age 36
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Joaquín Jovellar y Soler age 29
Prime Minister - Spain
Henri de Brouckère age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Athanasios Miaoulis age 34
Prime Minister - Greece
Aristeidis Moraitinis age 43
Prime Minister - Greece
Bertalan Szemere age 36
Prime Minister - Hungary
Nicolae Kretzulescu age 37
Prime Minister - Romania
Jules d'Anethan age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Zinovios Valvis age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob de Kempenaer age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Menyhért Lónyay age 27
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ioan Emanoil Florescu age 29
Prime Minister - Romania
Harry Atkinson age 17
Prime Minister - New Zealand
C. A. Rosetti age 32
Prime Minister - Romania
József Szlávy age 30
Prime Minister - Hungary
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 29
Prime Minister - Netherlands
István Bittó age 27
Prime Minister - Hungary
Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 32
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Diomidis Kyriakos age 38
Prime Minister - Greece
Carl Edvard Rotwitt age 37
Prime Minister - Denmark
Floris Adriaan van Hall age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Pieter Philip van Bosse age 39
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte age 27
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Justinus van der Brugghen age 44
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Schelto van Heemstra age 41
Prime Minister - Netherlands
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 58
Prime Minister - Portugal
Emmanuel Servais age 38
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Frederick Whitaker age 37
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Béla Wenckheim age 38
Prime Minister - Hungary
Gerrit de Vries age 31
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jean-Jacques Willmar age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Charles-Mathias Simons age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Félix de Blochausen age 15
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 30
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Victor de Tornaco age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Frederick Weld age 26
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainivoninahitriniony age 25
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Apostol Arsache age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Julius Vogel age 14
Prime Minister - New Zealand
António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama age 43
Prime Minister - Portugal
Daniel Pollen age 35
Prime Minister - New Zealand
George Waterhouse age 25
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tēvita ʻUnga age 25
Prime Minister - Tonga
Constantin A. Kretzulescu age 40
Prime Minister - Romania
George Bowen age 27
Governor-General - New Zealand
Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet age 17
Governor-General - New Zealand
Thomas Gore Browne age 41
Governor-General - New Zealand
George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby age 29
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 13
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 11
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 31
Vladimir Lenin born 1870-04-22