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Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
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 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 Wörth 1870-08-06 - 1870-08-06
Battle of Spicheren 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
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
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06

People

Augustus Bradford age 37
Governor of Maryland - United States
Francis Thomas age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
James W. Throckmorton age 18
Governor of Texas - United States
James McDowell age 47
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pendleton Murrah age 17
Governor of Texas - United States
Joel Parker age 26
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William Trousdale age 53
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 31
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry H. Wells age 20
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Talbot age 25
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Claflin age 25
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 33
Governor of Maryland - United States
Dewitt Clinton Senter age 13
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Rodman M. Price age 27
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Enoch Louis Lowe age 23
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas W. Bartley age 31
Governor of Ohio - United States
John Lee Carroll age 13
Governor of Maryland - United States
Charles Anderson age 29
Governor of Ohio - United States
Lucius Robinson age 32
Governor of New York - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 11
Governor of New York - United States
Mordecai Bartley age 59
Governor of Ohio - United States
Seabury Ford age 41
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Bebb age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Myron H. Clark age 37
Governor of New York - United States
James Whitcomb age 47
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Brough age 32
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Medill age 41
Governor of Ohio - United States
Conrad Baker age 26
Governor of Indiana - United States
Albert G. Porter age 19
Governor of Indiana - United States
Edward H. East age 13
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Abram A. Hammond age 29
Governor of Indiana - United States
William A. Newell age 26
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Daniel Haines age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Benjamin F. Conley age 28
Governor of Georgia - United States
Joseph A. Wright age 33
Governor of Indiana - United States
Marcus Lawrence Ward age 30
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William C. Bouck age 57
Governor of New York - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 30
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard C. Byrd age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Samuel Adams (Arkansas politician) age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James D. Williams age 35
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Young age 41
Governor of New York - United States
Ashbel P. Willard age 22
Governor of Indiana - United States
Oden Bowie age 16
Governor of Maryland - United States
Charles C. Stratton age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Joseph D. Bedle age 22
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George Franklin Fort age 34
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 14
Governor of Indiana - United States
Paris C. Dunning age 37
Governor of Indiana - United States
Samuel Bigger age 41
Governor of Indiana - United States
Charles Smith Olden age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ozra Amander Hadley age 17
Governor of Arkansas - United States
George C. Ludlow age 13
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas Fletcher age 26
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Martin Van Buren age 60
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 8
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William F. Wharton born 1847-06-28
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 23
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 33
Pope - Vatican City
Charles XIV John age 80
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 12
Queen - Spain
Chulalongkorn born 1853-09-20
King - Thailand
Charles XV age 17
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 25
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII born 1857-11-28
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 14
King - Sweden
Amadeo I of Spain born 1845-05-30
King - Spain
Oscar I age 44
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 4
King - Kingdom of Romania
Mongkut age 38
King - Thailand
Christian VIII age 57
Monarch - Denmark
Frederick VII of Denmark age 35
Monarch - Denmark
Abdur Rahman Khan age 3
Emir - Afghanistan
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 32
President - Argentina
Bartolomé Mitre age 22
President - Argentina
Rama III age 55
King - Thailand
Julio Argentino Roca age 2 months
President - Argentina
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 34
President - Liberia
Justo José de Urquiza age 41
President - Argentina
Juan José Flores age 43
President - Ecuador
Carlos Antonio López age 52
President - Paraguay
Nicolás Avellaneda age 5
President - Argentina
Fructuoso Rivera age 58
President - Uruguay
Gabriel García Moreno age 21
President - Ecuador
Stephen Allen Benson age 27
President - Liberia
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 11
Viceroy - British Raj
Manuel Montt age 34
President - Chile
Manuel Bulnes age 43
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 51
President - Uruguay
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 32
Viceroy - British Raj
José Joaquín Pérez age 42
President - Chile
Ramón Castilla age 46
President - Peru
Domingo Santa María age 18
President - Chile
Aníbal Pinto age 18
President - Chile
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 63
President - Ecuador
Venancio Flores age 35
President - Uruguay
Santiago Derqui age 34
President - Argentina
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 28
President - Liberia
Juan Antonio Lavalleja age 59
President - Uruguay
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 14
President - Venezuela
Faustin Soulouque age 61
President - Haiti
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 33
President - Uruguay
Bernardino Caballero age 4
President - Paraguay
José Gregorio Monagas age 48
President - Venezuela
José Ballivián age 38
President - Bolivia
Mariano Melgarejo age 23
President - Bolivia
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu age 18
President - Chile
James Spriggs Payne age 23
President - Liberia
Edward James Roye age 28
President - Liberia
Bernardo Berro age 40
President - Uruguay
Manuel Pardo age 9
President - Peru
José Rufino Echenique age 34
President - Peru
Manuel Felipe de Tovar age 40
President - Venezuela
Juan Lindo age 53
President - Honduras
Anthony W. Gardner age 23
President - Liberia
James Skivring Smith age 18
President - Liberia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 16
President - Peru
Cándido Bareiro age 9
President - Paraguay
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 23
President - Venezuela
Carlos Soublette age 53
President - Venezuela
Juan Bautista Gill age 2
President - Paraguay
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera age 45
President - Colombia
Marco Aurelio Soto born 1846-11-13
President - Honduras
Tomás Villalba age 37
President - Uruguay
José Tadeo Monagas age 58
President - Venezuela
Higinio Uriarte age 8 months
President - Paraguay
José Miguel de Velasco age 48
President - Bolivia
Tomás Frías age 38
President - Bolivia
José María Obando age 48
President - Colombia
Manuel Murillo Toro age 27
President - Colombia
José Santos Guardiola age 26
President - Honduras
Atanasio Aguirre age 42
President - Uruguay
José Eugenio Ellauri age 8
President - Uruguay
Lorenzo Latorre born 1844-07-28
President - Uruguay
José Balta age 29
President - Peru
Francisco Linares Alcántara age 18
President - Venezuela
Pedro Gual Escandón age 60
President - Venezuela
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 22
Emir - Qatar
Adolfo Ballivián age 11
President - Bolivia
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 29
President - Costa Rica
Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco age 37
President - Peru
Tomás Gomensoro Albín age 33
President - Uruguay
Guillermo Tell Villegas age 20
President - Venezuela
Julián Castro age 33
President - Venezuela
Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual age 13
President - Venezuela
Francisco García Calderón age 9
President - Peru
Facundo Machaín born 1845-11-26
President - Paraguay
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 32
Viceroy - British Raj
John Lawrence age 32
Viceroy - British Raj
Agustín Morales age 35
President - Bolivia
Jorge Córdova age 21
President - Bolivia
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 35
President - Bolivia
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez age 37
President - Colombia
Francisco Javier Zaldúa age 31
President - Colombia
Rafael Zaldívar age 9
President - El Salvador
Juan Francisco Giró age 52
President - Uruguay
José María de Achá age 33
President - Bolivia
José María Linares age 35
President - Bolivia
José María Rojas Garrido age 19
President - Colombia
Julián Trujillo Largacha age 15
President - Colombia
Fabre Geffrard age 37
President - Haiti
José Trinidad Cabañas age 38
President - Honduras
José María Medina age 17
President - Honduras
Manuel Basilio Bustamante age 58
President - Uruguay
Eusebio Guilarte age 37
President - Bolivia
Santiago Pérez de Manosalbas age 13
President - Colombia
Sylvain Salnave age 17
President - Haiti
Michel Domingue age 30
President - Haiti
Jerónimo Carrión age 39
President - Ecuador
Francisco Robles age 33
President - Ecuador
Juan Javier Espinosa age 27
President - Ecuador
José María Plá age 48
President - Uruguay
William Denison age 39
Viceroy - British Raj
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 24
Viceroy - British Raj
José María Melo age 43
President - Colombia
Lysius Salomon age 28
President - Haiti
Francisco Ferrera age 49
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain born 1848-01-01
Hakim - Bahrain
John Strachey age 20
Viceroy - British Raj
Eustorgio Salgar age 11
President - Colombia
Santos Gutiérrez age 22
President - Colombia
Gerardo Barrios age 30
President - El Salvador
Tomás Gutiérrez age 26
President - Peru
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 11
President - Haiti
Bartolomé Calvo age 28
President - Colombia
Santos Acosta age 14
President - Colombia
José de Obaldía age 37
President - Colombia
Ponciano Leiva age 21
President - Honduras
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget age 33
President - Haiti
Francisco Dueñas age 32
President - El Salvador
Coronado Chávez age 35
President - Honduras
Joseph Lamothe
President - Haiti
Pedro Alcántara Herrán age 42
President - Colombia
Juan José Nieto Gil age 38
President - Colombia
Rafael Campo age 29
President - El Salvador
Santiago González age 25
President - El Salvador
Miguel Santín del Castillo age 13
President - El Salvador
José Javier Eguiguren age 27
President - Ecuador
Saturnino Lizano Gutiérrez age 16
President - Costa Rica
Andrés del Valle age 9
President - El Salvador