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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14

First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

Treaty of Waitangi 1840-02-06

Treaty of Nanking 1842-08-29

First Morse telegraph line 1844-05-24

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

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 Náchod 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

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

Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04

War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

Assassination of Alexander II of Russia 1881-03-13

People

António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama age 31

Prime Minister - Portugal

Daniel Pollen age 24

Prime Minister - New Zealand

George Waterhouse age 13

Prime Minister - New Zealand

Tēvita ʻUnga age 13

Prime Minister - Tonga

John Hall age 12

Prime Minister - New Zealand

Constantin A. Kretzulescu age 28

Prime Minister - Romania

Božo Petrović-Njegoš born 1846-01-01

Prime Minister - Montenegro

António Rodrigues Sampaio age 31

Prime Minister - Portugal

Robert FitzRoy age 32

Governor-General - New Zealand

William Hobson age 43

Governor-General - New Zealand

Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead age 12

Governor-General - New Zealand

George Bowen age 15

Governor-General - New Zealand

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet age 5

Governor-General - New Zealand

Thomas Gore Browne age 30

Governor-General - New Zealand

George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby age 18

Governor-General - New Zealand

Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore age 7

Governor-General - New Zealand

Empress Dowager Cixi age 1

Regent - Imperial China

Empress Dowager Ci'an born 1837-08-12

Regent - Imperial China

Albert Einstein born 1879-03-14

Karl Marx age 19

Vladimir Lenin born 1870-04-22

Mahatma Gandhi born 1869-10-02

Leo Tolstoy age 8

Joseph Stalin born 1878-12-18

Charles Darwin age 28

Vincent van Gogh born 1853-03-30

Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30

Fyodor Dostoevsky age 15

Friedrich Nietzsche born 1844-10-15

Thomas Edison born 1847-02-11

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born 1881-01-01

Sigmund Freud born 1856-05-06

Charles Dickens age 25

Marie Curie born 1867-11-07

Rabindranath Tagore born 1861-05-07

Nikola Tesla born 1856-07-10

Louis Pasteur age 14

Richard Wagner age 24

Henry Ford born 1863-07-30

Friedrich Engels age 16

Theodore Roosevelt born 1858-10-27

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky born 1840-05-07

Woodrow Wilson born 1856-12-28

Leon Trotsky born 1879-11-07

Max Planck born 1858-04-23

Michael Faraday age 45

Dmitri Mendeleev age 3

Giuseppe Verdi age 23

Andrew Jackson age 70

Herbert Hoover born 1874-08-10

James Clerk Maxwell age 6

Calvin Coolidge born 1872-07-04

Alexander Graham Bell born 1847-03-03

Claude Monet born 1840-11-14

Sun Yat-sen born 1866-11-12

Florence Nightingale age 17

William Howard Taft born 1857-09-15

Konrad Adenauer born 1876-01-05

Grover Cleveland age 4 months

Warren G. Harding born 1865-11-02

Gregor Mendel age 15

Ada Lovelace age 21

Giuseppe Garibaldi age 30

Wilhelm II born 1859-01-27

Guglielmo Marconi born 1874-04-25

Pius XII born 1876-03-02

Pius XI born 1857-05-31

Neville Chamberlain born 1869-03-18

Pius X age 2

Pierre de Coubertin born 1863-01-01

Charles Babbage age 45

Douglas MacArthur born 1880-01-26

Benedict XV born 1854-11-21

Carl Benz born 1844-11-25

David Lloyd George born 1863-01-17

Grigori Rasputin born 1869-01-21

George V born 1865-06-03

Muhammad Ali Jinnah born 1876-12-25

Paul von Hindenburg born 1847-10-02

Edward VII born 1841-11-09

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria born 1863-12-18

Harriet Tubman age 15

George C. Marshall born 1880-12-31

Robert E. Lee age 30

Georges Clemenceau born 1841-09-28

Giuseppe Mazzini age 32

Józef Piłsudski born 1867-12-05

Philippe Pétain born 1856-04-24

Emiliano Zapata born 1879-08-08

Cecil Rhodes born 1853-07-05

Ibn Saud born 1876-01-01

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 83

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 172

Frederick Douglass age 19

Susan B. Anthony age 17

José de San Martín age 59

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim born 1867-06-16

Syngman Rhee born 1875-03-26

Gustav Stresemann born 1878-05-10

Reza Shah born 1878-03-15

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel born 1875-10-31

Emmeline Pankhurst born 1858-07-15

Mehmed VI born 1861-01-14

Ferdinand Foch born 1851-10-02

H. H. Asquith born 1852-09-12

Felix Dzerzhinsky born 1877-09-11

Raymond Poincaré born 1860-08-20

Friedrich Ebert born 1871-02-04

Pancho Villa born 1878-06-05

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 21

Stanley Baldwin born 1867-08-03

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands born 1880-08-31

Franz von Papen born 1879-10-29

Ramsay MacDonald born 1866-10-12

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy born 1869-11-11

Frederick III, German Emperor age 5

Charles G. Dawes born 1865-08-27

Alcide De Gasperi born 1881-04-03

Alexander Kolchak born 1874-11-16

Aristide Briand born 1862-03-28

Léon Blum born 1872-04-09

Emperor Taishō born 1879-08-31

Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 68

Erich Ludendorff born 1865-04-09

Kliment Voroshilov born 1881-02-04

Mehmed V born 1844-11-02

Itō Hirobumi born 1841-10-16

Haakon VII of Norway born 1872-08-03

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 36

Albert I of Belgium born 1875-04-08

Chaim Weizmann born 1874-11-27

Joseph Bonaparte age 69

Gustaf V of Sweden born 1858-06-16

William Tecumseh Sherman age 17

Pyotr Stolypin born 1862-04-14

Emilio Aguinaldo born 1869-03-22

Pietro Badoglio born 1871-09-28

Andrew Bonar Law born 1858-09-16

Maximilian I of Mexico age 5

Eleftherios Venizelos born 1864-08-23

Christian X of Denmark born 1870-09-26

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg born 1856-11-29

Cordell Hull born 1871-10-02

Juho Kusti Paasikivi born 1870-11-27

Hjalmar Branting born 1860-11-23

Manuel Azaña born 1880-01-10

Alben W. Barkley born 1877-11-24

Gerd von Rundstedt born 1875-12-12

Francisco I. Madero born 1873-10-30

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

Alexandra of Denmark born 1844-12-01

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

Yuan Shikai born 1859-09-16

Joseph Joffre born 1852-01-12

Paul Doumer born 1857-03-22

Luigi Einaudi born 1874-03-24

Enrico de Nicola born 1877-11-09

Stonewall Jackson age 13

Anton Denikin born 1872-12-16

Armand Fallières born 1841-11-06

Gaston Doumergue born 1863-08-01

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 0 months

Deodoro da Fonseca age 10

Auguste Beernaert age 8

Erich Raeder born 1876-04-24

John J. Pershing born 1860-09-13

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

Hjalmar Schacht born 1877-01-22

Charles Curtis born 1860-01-25

Thomas R. Marshall born 1854-03-14

Frank B. Kellogg born 1856-12-22

Frederik VIII of Denmark born 1843-06-03

Ferdinand I of Romania born 1865-08-24

Pyotr Wrangel born 1878-08-27

Alexei Rykov born 1881-02-25

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando born 1860-05-19

Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood born 1864-09-14

Wilhelm Frick born 1877-03-12

Alfred Deakin born 1856-08-03

Konstantin Päts born 1874-02-22

Lavr Kornilov born 1870-08-30

Félix Faure born 1841-01-30

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg born 1865-01-28

Sergei Witte born 1849-06-29

Vajiravudh born 1881-01-01

Manuel L. Quezon born 1878-08-19

Fedor von Bock born 1880-12-03

Émile Loubet born 1838-12-30

Menelik II born 1844-08-17

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

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