✦ History

Explore May 24, 1874 – November 16, 1878

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875-03-01
Invention of the telephone 1876-03-10
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 1877-04-24 - 1878-03-03
Battle of Svistov 1877-06-26 - 1877-06-27
Battle of Shipka Pass 1877-07-17 - 1878-01-09
Siege of Plevna 1877-07-20 - 1877-12-10
Battle of Eski Zagra 1877-07-31 - 1877-07-31
Battle of Lovcha 1877-09-01 - 1877-09-03
Battle of Aladzha 1877-10-15 - 1877-10-15
Battle of Gorni Dubnik 1877-10-24 - 1877-10-24
Battle of Kars (1877) 1877-11-17 - 1877-11-17
Battle of Philippopolis (1878) 1878-01-16 - 1878-01-17

People

Queen Victoria age 55
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 52
President - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 51
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 56
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 31
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 21
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 77
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 43
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 54
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 48
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 65
President - France
Umberto I of Italy age 30
King - Italy
Abdulaziz age 44
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V age 33
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Guangxu Emperor age 2
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 42
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 21
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 18
Emperor - Imperial China
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 51
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 36
Emperor - Ethiopia
José María Iglesias age 51
President - Mexico
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 43
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 43
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 59
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 57
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry Wilson age 62
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 54
Vice President - United States
John Sherman age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hamilton Fish age 65
Secretary of State - United States
William M. Evarts age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 33
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Alphonso Taft age 63
Secretary of War - United States
George Henry Williams age 51
Attorney General - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William W. Belknap age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 54
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 57
Attorney General - United States
William Adams Richardson age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 48
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 64
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 43
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 63
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 86
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 65
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 64
Senate - United States
James G. Blaine age 44
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 50
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 45
Senate - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 56
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 75
Senate - United States
George S. Boutwell age 56
Senate - United States
William Windom age 47
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 58
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 41
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 42
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 42
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 16
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 30
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 20
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Lowe age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Adlai Stevenson I age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 37
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas A. Hendricks age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
George B. McClellan age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Samuel J. Tilden age 60
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams Dix age 75
Governor of New York - United States
James L. Kemper age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
Newton Booth age 48
Governor of California - United States
William Allen age 70
Governor of Ohio - United States
Romualdo Pacheco age 42
Governor of California - United States
Richard Coke age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
John C. Brown age 47
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Elisha Baxter age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Irwin age 46
Governor of California - United States
James Black Groome age 36
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Read Miller age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 46
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Gaston age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas L. Young age 41
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 55
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Joel Parker age 57
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas Talbot age 55
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Lee Carroll age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lucius Robinson age 63
Governor of New York - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 61
Governor of Ohio - United States
James D. Williams age 66
Governor of Indiana - United States
Joseph D. Bedle age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard Olney age 38
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 58
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 56
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 26
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 54
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 20
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 56
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 16
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 45
King - Sweden
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 63
President - Argentina
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 65
President - Liberia
Nicolás Avellaneda age 36
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 52
President - Ecuador
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 42
Viceroy - British Raj
Aníbal Pinto age 49
President - Chile
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 45
President - Venezuela
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu age 49
President - Chile
James Spriggs Payne age 54
President - Liberia
Manuel Pardo age 39
President - Peru
Anthony W. Gardner age 54
President - Liberia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 47
President - Peru
Juan Bautista Gill age 33
President - Paraguay
Marco Aurelio Soto age 27
President - Honduras
Higinio Uriarte age 31
President - Paraguay
Tomás Frías age 69
President - Bolivia
José Eugenio Ellauri age 39
President - Uruguay
Lorenzo Latorre age 29
President - Uruguay
Francisco Linares Alcántara age 49
President - Venezuela
Rafael Zaldívar age 40
President - El Salvador
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Julián Trujillo Largacha age 46
President - Colombia
José María Medina age 48
President - Honduras
Santiago Pérez de Manosalbas age 44
President - Colombia
Michel Domingue age 60
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 26
Hakim - Bahrain
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 41
President - Haiti
Ponciano Leiva age 52
President - Honduras
Santiago González age 55
President - El Salvador
José Javier Eguiguren age 58
President - Ecuador
Andrés del Valle age 40
President - El Salvador
Jacinto de Castro age 62
President - Dominican Republic
Marcos Antonio Cabral age 32
President - Dominican Republic
Crescencio Gómez age 41
President - Honduras
Manuel María Ramírez Fortoul age 57
President - Colombia
Marcelino Mejía
President - Honduras
Pedro Carve
President - Uruguay
Francisco Serrano age 63
Head of State - Spain
William III of the Netherlands age 57
King - Netherlands
Hilarión Daza age 34
President - Bolivia
John A. Macdonald age 59
Prime Minister - Canada
Alexander Mackenzie age 52
Prime Minister - Canada
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Konstantinos Kanaris age 84
Prime Minister - Greece
Charilaos Trikoupis age 41
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 43
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Walthère Frère-Orban age 62
Prime Minister - Belgium
George Grey age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 46
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Epameinondas Deligeorgis age 45
Prime Minister - Greece
Christen Andreas Fonnesbech age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Jan Heemskerk age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 80
Prime Minister - Belgium
Jules Malou age 63
Prime Minister - Belgium
Frederik Stang age 66
Prime Minister - Norway
Joaquín Jovellar y Soler age 54
Prime Minister - Spain
Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ioan Emanoil Florescu age 54
Prime Minister - Romania
Harry Atkinson age 42
Prime Minister - New Zealand
István Bittó age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Emmanuel Servais age 63
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Béla Wenckheim age 63
Prime Minister - Hungary