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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27

Reform Act 1832 1832-06-07

Slavery Abolition Act 1833 1833-08-28

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 Náchod 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Langensalza (1866) 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

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06

1883 eruption of Krakatoa 1883-08-26 - 1883-08-27

Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04

Berlin Conference 1884-11-15 - 1885-02-26

Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

Founding of the Indian National Congress 1885-12-28 - 1885-12-31

Haymarket affair 1886-05-04

Lei Áurea 1888-05-13

People

Feng Guozhang born 1859-01-07

Şükrü Saracoğlu born 1887-06-17

Ignacy Daszyński born 1866-10-26

Augusto Leguía born 1863-02-19

Eduardo López de Romaña born 1847-03-19

José Canalejas born 1854-07-31

Alejandro Lerroux born 1864-03-04

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne born 1845-01-14

William H. Crawford age 59

Rauf Orbay born 1881-07-27

Alexander Vandegrift born 1887-03-13

Masaharu Homma born 1887-11-27

Prince Leopold of Bavaria born 1846-02-09

Archduke Joseph August of Austria born 1872-08-09

Frederick Francis II age 8

Karl von Bülow born 1846-03-24

Stepa Stepanović born 1856-03-11

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia born 1860-07-28

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia born 1866-04-13

Frederick Francis III born 1851-03-19

Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 34

Princess Marianne of the Netherlands age 21

Princess Viktoria of Prussia born 1866-04-12

Princess Margaret of Prussia born 1872-04-22

Francis IV of Modena age 52

Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria age 30

Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Sardinia age 30

Princess Francisca of Brazil age 7

Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria born 1842-05-15

Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha born 1878-09-01

Luis Sáenz Peña age 9

Mahmud Shevket Pasha born 1856-01-01

Seishirō Itagaki born 1885-01-21

Thomas Gage age 113

Essad Toptani born 1863-01-01

Roberto Marcelino Ortiz born 1886-09-24

José Figueroa Alcorta born 1860-11-20

Victorino de la Plaza born 1840-11-02

Manuel Quintana born 1835-10-19

Johann Schober born 1874-11-14

Ignaz Seipel born 1876-07-19

Hubert Pierlot born 1883-12-23

Camille Huysmans born 1871-05-26

Jorge Ubico born 1878-11-10

Gunnar Knudsen born 1848-09-19

Oscar von Sydow born 1873-07-12

Ernst Trygger born 1857-10-27

Karl Staaff born 1860-01-21

Hashim al-Atassi born 1875-12-06

Cipriano Castro born 1858-10-12

Władysław Grabski born 1874-07-07

Antonio Maura born 1853-05-02

Winfield Scott Hancock age 7

Albert Sidney Johnston age 28

J. B. M. Hertzog born 1866-04-03

Dušan Simović born 1882-10-28

Anton Korošec born 1872-05-12

Ahmad Qavam born 1876-01-02

Nobutake Kondō born 1886-09-25

Katsu Kaishū age 8

FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan age 43

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 14

Hermann von Eichhorn born 1848-02-13

Lucjan Żeligowski born 1865-10-17

Zinovy Rozhestvensky born 1848-11-11

Shunroku Hata born 1879-07-26

Empress Teimei born 1884-06-25

Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 9

Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 55

Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 48

Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia born 1850-01-14

Princess Milica of Montenegro born 1866-07-26

Frederick Francis IV born 1882-04-09

Princess Helen of Serbia born 1884-11-04

Heinrich von Vietinghoff born 1887-12-06

Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia born 1860-07-25

Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg born 1852-11-16

Archduke Rainer of Austria (1783–1853) age 48

Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria born 1849-07-02

Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal born 1855-08-24

Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein born 1885-12-31

Cyrus West Field age 11

Mark Sykes born 1879-03-16

Said Halim Pasha born 1864-02-19

Edward Douglass White born 1845-11-03

Courtney Hodges born 1887-01-05

John W. Foster born 1836-03-02

William R. Day born 1849-04-17

Bainbridge Colby born 1869-12-22

Nasrullah Khan born 1874-01-01

Ramón Castillo born 1873-11-20

Boutros Ghali born 1846-01-01

Ants Piip born 1884-02-28

Theodoros Pangalos born 1878-01-11

Nikolaos Plastiras born 1883-11-04

Georgios Kondylis born 1879-08-26

Spyridon Lambros born 1851-04-20

Miklós Kállay born 1887-01-23

Dirk Jan de Geer born 1870-12-14

Charles D. B. King born 1875-03-12

Jørgen Løvland born 1848-02-03

José Mendes Cabeçadas born 1883-08-19

Gheorghe Tătărescu born 1886-11-02

Nicholas Golitsyn born 1850-04-12

Ivan Goremykin born 1839-11-08

Maciej Rataj born 1884-02-19

Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones born 1863-05-09

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow born 1887-09-24

A. P. Hill age 5

Georg Stumme born 1886-07-29

Leonard Wood born 1860-10-09

Prince Gong born 1833-01-11

Black Hawk age 64

Yakov Yurovsky born 1878-06-07

Josef Harpe born 1887-09-21

George Dewey born 1837-12-26

Maximilian von Prittwitz born 1848-11-27

Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia age 33

Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia age 6

Damat Ferid Pasha born 1853-01-01

Nikola Zhekov born 1865-01-06

Prince Gaston, Count of Eu born 1842-04-28

Sergey Kamenev born 1881-04-16

Prince Charles of Prussia age 30

Marie of Prussia age 6

George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 5

Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia born 1887-01-29

Hermine Reuss of Greiz born 1887-12-17

Prince Arthur of Connaught born 1883-01-13

Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily age 52

Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies age 15

Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria age 13

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 9 months

Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg age 33

Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies born 1849-08-02

Princess Louise of Belgium born 1858-02-18

Infanta María Teresa of Spain born 1882-11-12

Prince Henry of Battenberg born 1858-10-05

Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone born 1874-04-14

Ramón Freire age 43

John Ballance born 1839-03-27

Slobodan Jovanović born 1869-12-03

Robert Smith age 74

Pedro Pablo Ramírez born 1884-01-30

Michael Mayr born 1864-04-10

Georges Theunis born 1873-02-28

Aleksandar Tsankov born 1879-06-29

José Miguel Gómez born 1858-07-06

Mario García Menocal born 1866-12-17

Alexandros Koryzis born 1885-01-01

Pavlos Kountouriotis born 1854-01-01

Tiburcio Carías born 1876-03-05

Sándor Garbai born 1879-03-27

István Friedrich born 1883-07-01

Kálmán Darányi born 1886-03-22

Erik Scavenius born 1877-07-13

Edwin Barclay born 1882-01-05

Antanas Merkys born 1887-02-13

Peder Kolstad born 1878-11-28

António José de Almeida born 1866-07-17

Ion G. Duca born 1879-12-20

Iuliu Maniu born 1873-01-08

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod born 1872-02-27

H. H. Kung born 1881-09-11

Yen Hsi-shan born 1883-08-08

Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada born 1884-07-15

José Félix Estigarribia born 1888-02-21

Óscar R. Benavides born 1876-03-15

Don Stephen Senanayake born 1884-10-20

Diego Martínez Barrio born 1883-11-25

Irvin McDowell age 13

Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth born 1876-08-17

Huang Xing born 1874-01-01

Vladimir Purishkevich born 1870-08-24

Ahmed Muhtar Pasha born 1832-11-01

Archduke Eugen of Austria born 1863-05-21

Taytu Betul born 1851-01-01

Halil Kut born 1882-01-01

Mario Roatta born 1887-02-02

Nelson A. Miles born 1839-08-08

Jubal Early age 14

Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld age 50

Princess Charlotte of Württemberg age 24

Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia born 1860-06-13

Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia born 1864-01-22

Bezmiâlem Sultan age 24

Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 28

Mitsuru Ushijima born 1887-07-31

Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 28

Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) age 22

Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) born 1884-07-14

Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia age 57

Princess Clémentine of Belgium born 1872-07-30

Princess Margaretha of Saxony born 1840-05-24

Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha born 1884-04-20

Hiram Johnson born 1866-09-02

Miriam A. Ferguson born 1875-06-13

John Sutter age 28

Doihara Kenji born 1883-08-08

Harlan F. Stone born 1872-10-11

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