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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

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 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 Spicheren 1870-08-06 - 1870-08-06

Battle of Wörth 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

Khivan campaign of 1873 1873-03-11 - 1873-06-14

Panic of 1873 1873-05-09

Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875-03-01

Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876 1876-02-26

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

Mahdist War 1881-06-29 - 1899-11-24

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06

People

Fateh Jung Shah age 38

Prime Minister - Nepal

Jung Bahadur Rana age 26

Prime Minister - Nepal

Krishna Bahadur Kunwar Rana age 20

Prime Minister - Nepal

Mathabar Singh Thapa age 45

Prime Minister - Nepal

Ranodip Singh Kunwar age 18

Prime Minister - Nepal

Shirley Waldemar Baker age 7

Prime Minister - Tonga

Robert FitzRoy age 38

Governor-General - New Zealand

Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead age 18

Governor-General - New Zealand

George Bowen age 21

Governor-General - New Zealand

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet age 11

Governor-General - New Zealand

Thomas Gore Browne age 36

Governor-General - New Zealand

George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby age 24

Governor-General - New Zealand

Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore age 13

Governor-General - New Zealand

Empress Dowager Cixi age 7

Regent - Imperial China

Empress Dowager Ci'an age 6

Regent - Imperial China

Theodore Roosevelt born 1858-10-27

New York State Assembly

Albert Einstein born 1879-03-14

Karl Marx age 25

Vladimir Lenin born 1870-04-22

Mahatma Gandhi born 1869-10-02

Leo Tolstoy age 15

Joseph Stalin born 1878-12-18

Charles Darwin age 34

Vincent van Gogh born 1853-03-30

Pablo Picasso born 1881-10-25

Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30

Fyodor Dostoevsky age 21

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 31

Marie Curie born 1867-11-07

Franklin D. Roosevelt born 1882-01-30

Rabindranath Tagore born 1861-05-07

Nikola Tesla born 1856-07-10

Louis Pasteur age 20

Richard Wagner age 30

Henry Ford born 1863-07-30

Friedrich Engels age 22

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 3

Woodrow Wilson born 1856-12-28

Rosa Luxemburg born 1871-03-05

Leon Trotsky born 1879-11-07

Max Planck born 1858-04-23

Michael Faraday age 52

Dmitri Mendeleev age 9

Giuseppe Verdi age 30

Andrew Jackson age 76

Herbert Hoover born 1874-08-10

James Clerk Maxwell age 12

Calvin Coolidge born 1872-07-04

Alexander Graham Bell born 1847-03-03

Claude Monet age 2

Sun Yat-sen born 1866-11-12

Florence Nightingale age 23

William Howard Taft born 1857-09-15

Konrad Adenauer born 1876-01-05

Grover Cleveland age 6

Warren G. Harding born 1865-11-02

Nicholas II of Russia born 1868-05-18

John XXIII born 1881-11-25

Alexander Fleming born 1881-08-06

Gregor Mendel age 21

Ada Lovelace age 27

Giuseppe Garibaldi age 36

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 8

Pierre de Coubertin born 1863-01-01

Charles Babbage age 51

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 age 1

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria born 1863-12-18

Henry Dunant age 15

Harriet Tubman age 21

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell born 1857-02-22

George C. Marshall born 1880-12-31

Robert E. Lee age 36

Georges Clemenceau age 2

Giuseppe Mazzini age 38

Lord Kelvin age 19

Samuel Morse age 52

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

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 178

Frederick Douglass age 25

Susan B. Anthony age 23

José de San Martín age 65

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

Empress Elisabeth of Austria age 5

Alexander Kerensky born 1881-05-04

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel born 1875-10-31

Getúlio Vargas born 1882-04-19

Karl Liebknecht born 1871-08-13

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 27

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 11

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

George Stephenson age 62

Emperor Taishō born 1879-08-31

Georgi Dimitrov born 1882-06-30

Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 74

Erich Ludendorff born 1865-04-09

Kliment Voroshilov born 1881-02-04

Mehmed V born 1844-11-02

Itō Hirobumi age 1

Haakon VII of Norway born 1872-08-03

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 42

Ludwig II of Bavaria born 1845-08-25

Abdullah I of Jordan born 1882-01-01

Albert I of Belgium born 1875-04-08

Chaim Weizmann born 1874-11-27

Joseph Bonaparte age 75

Liliʻuokalani age 5

Ion Antonescu born 1882-06-02

Gustaf V of Sweden born 1858-06-16

Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia born 1872-06-06

William Tecumseh Sherman age 23

Mohammad Mosaddegh born 1882-05-19

Pyotr Stolypin born 1862-04-14

Emilio Aguinaldo born 1869-03-22

Prince Albert age 24

Pietro Badoglio born 1871-09-28

Sarojini Naidu born 1879-02-13

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma age 51

Andrew Bonar Law born 1858-09-16

Enver Pasha born 1881-11-23

Maximilian I of Mexico age 11

Austen Chamberlain born 1863-10-16

Albert Lebrun born 1871-08-29

Eleftherios Venizelos born 1864-08-23

Christian X of Denmark born 1870-09-26

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg born 1856-11-29

George I of Greece born 1845-12-24

Kurt von Schleicher born 1882-04-07

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

John Wilkes Booth age 5

Yuan Shikai born 1859-09-16

Joseph Joffre born 1852-01-12

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria born 1861-02-26

William I of the Netherlands age 71

Paul Doumer born 1857-03-22

Luigi Einaudi born 1874-03-24

Enrico de Nicola born 1877-11-09

Stonewall Jackson age 19

Anton Denikin born 1872-12-16

Armand Fallières age 1

Léon Bourgeois born 1851-05-29

Gaston Doumergue born 1863-08-01

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 6

Deodoro da Fonseca age 16

Ferdinand de Lesseps age 37

Constantine I of Greece born 1868-08-02

George Armstrong Custer age 3

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