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Events

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

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

Battle of Appomattox Court House 1865-04-09

Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20

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 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

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

Mary of Teck born 1867-05-26

Bernhard von Bülow born 1849-05-03

Aleksey Brusilov born 1853-08-03

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

Paul Kruger age 11

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) born 1847-11-26

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

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener born 1850-06-24

Charles W. Fairbanks born 1852-05-11

Paul Deschanel born 1855-02-13

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud born 1861-12-15

Douglas Hyde born 1860-01-17

Álvaro Obregón born 1880-02-19

Ōkuma Shigenobu born 1838-03-11

Shigeru Yoshida born 1878-09-22

Talaat Pasha born 1874-09-01

Edward Smith born 1850-01-27

Victoria, Princess Royal born 1840-11-21

Maud of Wales born 1869-11-26

Garret Hobart born 1844-06-03

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb born 1876-09-05

Joseph Wirth born 1879-09-06

Wilhelm Marx born 1863-01-15

Hans Luther born 1879-03-10

Édouard Herriot born 1872-07-05

Leo von Caprivi age 6

Philipp Scheidemann born 1865-07-26

Pavel Nakhimov age 35

Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 39

William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19

Sveinn Björnsson born 1881-02-27

Christian Michelsen born 1857-03-15

Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) born 1876-05-18

Katsura Tarō born 1848-01-04

Saigō Takamori age 9

Tōgō Heihachirō born 1848-01-27

Konstantin von Neurath born 1873-02-02

Hipólito Yrigoyen born 1850-07-13

Ioannis Metaxas born 1871-04-12

Kārlis Ulmanis born 1877-09-04

Venustiano Carranza born 1859-12-29

Clara Barton age 15

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery born 1847-05-07

Gustav Bauer born 1870-01-06

Peter I of Serbia born 1844-07-11

Abbas II of Egypt born 1874-07-14

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig born 1861-06-19

Maria II of Portugal age 18

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria born 1858-08-21

Kyösti Kallio born 1873-04-10

James S. Sherman born 1855-10-24

Billy Hughes born 1862-09-25

William Lyon Mackenzie King born 1874-12-17

Plutarco Elías Calles born 1877-09-25

Gabriel Narutowicz born 1865-03-17

Erich von Falkenhayn born 1861-09-11

Prince Maximilian of Baden born 1867-07-10

Fuad I of Egypt born 1868-03-26

August von Mackensen born 1849-12-06

Jérôme Bonaparte age 52

Maximilian II of Bavaria age 25

Marie Thérèse of France age 58

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg born 1868-03-01

Marie of Romania born 1875-10-29

Nicolae Iorga born 1871-06-05

Maurice Gamelin born 1872-09-20

Georg Michaelis born 1857-09-08

Georg von Hertling born 1843-08-31

Constantin Fehrenbach born 1852-01-11

Giovanni Giolitti born 1842-10-27

Jan Smuts born 1870-05-24

Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar born 1872-06-21

Guadalupe Victoria age 50

Nicholas I of Montenegro born 1841-10-07

Lew Wallace age 10

Chris Watson born 1867-04-09

Francisco Largo Caballero born 1869-10-15

C. Rajagopalachari born 1878-12-10

Djemal Pasha born 1872-05-06

Wilhelm Cuno born 1876-07-02

Yamagata Aritomo born 1838-06-14

Ivanoe Bonomi born 1873-10-18

Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 18

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 65

Zewditu born 1876-04-29

Demetrios Vikelas age 2

Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 42

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia born 1878-12-04

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom born 1843-04-25

Ismail Kemal born 1844-01-16

Andrew Fisher born 1862-08-29

Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30

Terauchi Masatake born 1852-02-05

Hara Takashi born 1856-03-15

Francesco Crispi age 18

Ludwig III of Bavaria born 1845-01-07

Emperor Kōkaku age 65

Wilfrid Laurier born 1841-11-20

Nikola Pašić born 1845-12-18

David Farragut age 36

Matsukata Masayoshi age 2

Inukai Tsuyoshi born 1855-06-04

Paul Reynaud born 1878-10-15

Floriano Peixoto born 1839-04-30

Jules Ferry age 5

Jean-de-Dieu Soult age 68

Olga Constantinovna of Russia born 1851-09-03

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine born 1864-11-01

Maria Christina of Austria born 1858-07-21

Charlotte of Belgium born 1840-06-07

Allan Octavian Hume age 8

Henry L. Stimson born 1867-09-21

Victoriano Huerta born 1850-12-22

Ignacy Mościcki born 1867-12-01

Sergio Osmeña born 1878-09-09

Philip Henry Sheridan age 6

Auguste de Marmont age 63

Lucretia Mott age 44

Victoria of Baden born 1862-08-07

Spyridon Louis born 1873-01-12

Charles Evans Hughes born 1862-04-11

Tokugawa Yoshinobu born 1837-10-28

Kuroda Kiyotaka born 1840-11-09

Prudente de Morais born 1841-10-04

Venceslau Brás born 1868-02-26

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar born 1853-03-23

Ludwig Beck born 1880-06-29

Armando Diaz born 1861-12-05

Ernest Bevin born 1881-03-09

Otto, King of Bavaria born 1848-04-27

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein born 1858-10-22

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom born 1857-04-14

Kate Sheppard born 1847-03-10

Arthur Meighen born 1874-06-16

Robert Nivelle born 1856-10-15

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf born 1852-11-11

Maxime Weygand born 1867-01-21

Kuniaki Koiso born 1880-03-22

Kijūrō Shidehara born 1872-09-13

Hong Xiuquan age 23

Nilo Peçanha born 1867-10-02

Li Hongzhang age 14

Luigi Cadorna born 1850-09-04

Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 13

Sophia of Prussia born 1870-06-14

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom born 1846-05-25

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine born 1863-04-05

George Meade age 21

Emilio De Bono born 1866-03-19

George Reid born 1845-02-25

Earle Page born 1880-08-08

Pál Teleki born 1879-11-01

Jānis Čakste born 1859-09-14

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 20

Albert I, Prince of Monaco born 1848-11-13

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora born 1877-07-06

F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 54

Saionji Kinmochi born 1849-12-07

Antonio Salandra born 1853-08-13

Luigi Facta born 1861-09-13

Rodrigues Alves born 1848-07-07

Afonso Pena born 1847-11-30

Chen Duxiu born 1879-10-08

Georgy Gapon born 1870-02-05

Lin Tse-hsu age 51

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck born 1870-03-20

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 55

Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 27

John Abbott age 16

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 71

Carrie Chapman Catt born 1859-01-09

Dadabhai Naoroji age 11

Habibullah Khan born 1872-06-03

Ugyen Wangchuck born 1862-06-11

Richard Bedford Bennett born 1870-07-03

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