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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
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 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
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
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
Invention of the telephone 1876-03-10

People

Abraham Lincoln age 40
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 30
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 27
President - United States
Andrew Johnson age 40
President - United States
James Buchanan age 58
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 64
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 49
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 44
President - United States
Napoleon III age 41
President - France
Alexander II of Russia age 31
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 52
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 6
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 14
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji born 1852-11-03
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 52
Emperor - German Empire
Jefferson Davis age 40
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 43
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 52
President - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 29
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 23
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 58
King - Belgium
Patrice de MacMahon age 40
President - France
Abdulaziz age 19
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 26
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V age 8
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 55
President - Mexico
Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 17
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 17
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 17
Emperor - Imperial China
Gojong of the Korean Empire born 1852-09-08
King - Joseon
Daoguang Emperor age 66
Emperor - Imperial China
Tongzhi Emperor born 1856-04-27
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 31
Emperor - Ethiopia
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 26
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 11
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 33
President - Guatemala
José María Iglesias age 26
President - Mexico
José Ignacio Pavón age 58
President - Mexico
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 46
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 34
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 18
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Heonjong of Joseon age 21
King - Joseon
Cheoljong of Joseon age 17
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 53
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Isma'il Pasha age 18
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Louis-Jules Trochu age 34
President - France
José Joaquín de Herrera age 57
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 46
President - Mexico
Juan Bautista Ceballos age 38
President - Mexico
Manuel María Lombardini age 46
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 49
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 37
President - Mexico
Juan Álvarez age 59
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 42
President - Mexico
Otto von Bismarck age 34
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 39
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bettino Ricasoli age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Agostino Depretis age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Carlo Farini age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 30
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Lanza age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 41
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 32
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 39
Vice President - United States
William R. King age 63
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 28
Vice President - United States
Henry Wilson age 37
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 26
Vice President - United States
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 46
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 67
Secretary of State - United States
George B. McClellan age 22
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Winfield Scott age 62
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Edward Everett age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Edwin Stanton age 34
Secretary of War - United States
Lewis Cass age 66
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Hamilton Fish age 40
Secretary of State - United States
William M. Evarts age 31
Attorney General - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 32
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Jeremiah S. Black age 39
Secretary of State - United States
John Adams Dix age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Caleb Cushing age 49
Attorney General - United States
George S. Boutwell age 31
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Schofield age 17
Secretary of War - United States
John B. Floyd age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Alphonso Taft age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Corwin age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 61
Attorney General - United States
Howell Cobb age 33
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 40
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 26
Attorney General - United States
William P. Fessenden age 42
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Bates age 55
Attorney General - United States
William W. Belknap age 19
Secretary of War - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 16
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Holt age 42
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 17
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Guthrie age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 30
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 34
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William M. Meredith age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James Speed age 37
Attorney General - United States
George W. Crawford age 50
Secretary of War - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 34
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwards Pierrepont age 32
Attorney General - United States
William Adams Richardson age 27
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 53
Attorney General - United States
Hugh Childers age 21
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 50
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Stanbery age 46
Attorney General - United States
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 33
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 25
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 37
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset age 44
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 42
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 23
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Hunter age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 22
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 37
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Levi Woodbury age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 34
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 45
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond age 31
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 70
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 38
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Robert Nisbet-Hamilton age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 61
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John C. Calhoun age 67
Senate - United States
Sam Houston age 56
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 29
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 72
Senate - United States
James G. Blaine age 19
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 25
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 26
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 20
Senate - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 31
Senate - United States
Thomas Ewing age 59
Senate - United States
William Windom age 22
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 53
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 33
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 67
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 56
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 38
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 35
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 47
Senate - United States
Robert F. Stockton age 53
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 17
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 10 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Peel age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William A. Wheeler age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 88
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Canfield Spencer age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom