✦ History

Explore April 29, 1872 – August 16, 1882

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
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

Queen Victoria age 52
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 50
President - United States
James A. Garfield age 40
President - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 49
President - United States
Chester A. Arthur age 42
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 54
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 29
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 41
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Alexander III of Russia age 27
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 37
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 19
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 75
Emperor - German Empire
Benito Juárez age 66
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 75
President - France
Porfirio Díaz age 41
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 52
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 46
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 63
President - France
Umberto I of Italy age 28
King - Italy
Abdulaziz age 42
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V age 31
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Jules Grévy age 64
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 8 months
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 40
Shah - Iran
Isma'il Pasha age 41
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 19
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 16
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewfik Pasha age 19
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 49
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 34
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 38
President - Mexico
José María Iglesias age 49
President - Mexico
Justo Rufino Barrios age 36
President - Guatemala
Miguel García Granados age 62
President - Guatemala
Otto von Bismarck age 57
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Lanza age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 32
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 38
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Salmon P. Chase age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 55
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry Wilson age 60
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 52
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 49
Vice President - United States
Midhat Pasha age 49
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 48
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mahmud Nedim Pasha age 54
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Said Pasha age 34
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Hüseyin Avni Pasha age 53
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Saffet Pasha age 58
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Arifi Pasha age 42
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Hamdi Pasha age 46
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kadri Pasha age 40
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Şirvanlı Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha age 44
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Sadık Pasha age 47
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Abdurrahman Nureddin Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
James G. Blaine age 42
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 28
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hamilton Fish age 63
Secretary of State - United States
William M. Evarts age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 31
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 54
Secretary of State - United States
George S. Boutwell age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alphonso Taft age 61
Secretary of War - United States
William Windom age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 49
Attorney General - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 56
Secretary of War - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William W. Belknap age 42
Secretary of War - United States
Charles J. Folger age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 36
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 52
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 55
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 34
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Benjamin H. Brewster age 55
Attorney General - United States
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 46
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 39
Attorney General - United States
George Ward Hunt age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon age 40
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 35
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hugh Childers age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 41
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Samuel F. Phillips age 48
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 63
Senate - United States
Benjamin Harrison age 38
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 62
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 47
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 61
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 43
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 73
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 40
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 45
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 39
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 58
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Levi P. Morton age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 53
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Foster age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 28
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas A. Hendricks age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
George B. McClellan age 45
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Samuel J. Tilden age 58
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams Dix age 73
Governor of New York - United States
James L. Kemper age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
George C. Perkins age 32
Governor of California - United States
Newton Booth age 46
Governor of California - United States
William Allen age 68
Governor of Ohio - United States
Romualdo Pacheco age 40
Governor of California - United States
John Davis Long age 33
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Richard Coke age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
John C. Brown age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William T. Hamilton age 51
Governor of Maryland - United States
William B. Washburn age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 56
Governor of Texas - United States
Elisha Baxter age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Irwin age 44
Governor of California - United States
James Black Groome age 34
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Read Miller age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 39
Governor of Texas - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
William E. Cameron age 29
Governor of Virginia - United States
Edward Follansbee Noyes age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Pinkney Whyte age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Gilbert C. Walker age 38
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Gaston age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas L. Young age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Joel Parker age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas Talbot age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Lee Carroll age 41
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lucius Robinson age 61
Governor of New York - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Conrad Baker age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Albert G. Porter age 48
Governor of Indiana - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 59
Governor of Ohio - United States
James D. Williams age 64
Governor of Indiana - United States
Joseph D. Bedle age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 43
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ozra Amander Hadley age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
George C. Ludlow age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Alfred H. Colquitt age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States
James Milton Smith age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States
William H. Seward age 71
New York State Senate - United States