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Explore November 16, 1862 – September 16, 1888

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Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
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 Trautenau 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27
Battle of Náchod 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27
Battle of Langensalza (1866) 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
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
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

Abraham Lincoln age 53
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 43
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 40
President - United States
James A. Garfield age 31
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 25
President - United States
Andrew Johnson age 53
President - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 40
President - United States
Chester A. Arthur age 33
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Wilhelm II age 3
Emperor - German Empire
Napoleon III age 54
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Alexander II of Russia age 44
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Abdul Hamid II age 20
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 17
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Wilhelm I age 65
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Jefferson Davis age 54
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Porfirio Díaz age 32
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Victor Emmanuel II age 42
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Pedro II of Brazil age 36
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Leopold I of Belgium age 71
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Patrice de MacMahon age 54
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Frederick III, German Emperor age 31
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Umberto I of Italy age 18
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Abdulaziz age 32
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V age 22
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Jules Grévy age 55
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 25
President - France
Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 31
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 31
Emperor - Japan
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 10
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 6
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Tewfik Pasha age 10
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 39
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 25
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 29
President - Mexico
Rafael Carrera age 47
President - Guatemala
José María Iglesias age 39
President - Mexico
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 60
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 47
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 32
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Cheoljong of Joseon age 31
King - Joseon
Isma'il Pasha age 31
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Louis-Jules Trochu age 47
President - France
Otto von Bismarck age 47
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 21
Prime Minister - Japan
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 78
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 32
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Francesco Crispi age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 22
Prime Minister - Japan
Bettino Ricasoli age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Agostino Depretis age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Carlo Farini age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Lanza age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 23
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 28
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 43
Prime Minister - Egypt
Salmon P. Chase age 54
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 85
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 45
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 53
Vice President - United States
Henry Wilson age 50
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 43
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 39
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 43
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu born 1886-03-05
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William H. Seward age 61
Secretary of State - United States
James G. Blaine age 32
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 19
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edwin Stanton age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Hamilton Fish age 54
Secretary of State - United States
William M. Evarts age 44
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 46
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 21
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 45
Secretary of State - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 35
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George S. Boutwell age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Schofield age 31
Secretary of War - United States
Alphonso Taft age 52
Secretary of War - United States
William Windom age 35
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 39
Attorney General - United States
William P. Fessenden age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 69
Attorney General - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 36
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William W. Belknap age 33
Secretary of War - United States
Charles J. Folger age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 20
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 16
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Augustus H. Garland age 30
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 31
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 36
Secretary of War - United States
William Harcourt age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Speed age 50
Attorney General - United States
George W. McCrary age 27
Secretary of War - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 42
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 45
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 25
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh Childers age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 46
Attorney General - United States
Henry Stanbery age 59
Attorney General - United States
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 46
Attorney General - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 29
Attorney General - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 37
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 36
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 59
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 26
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 36
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 51
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 62
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond age 44
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 24
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 36
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 31
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 21
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 37
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 17
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 22
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 74
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Benjamin Harrison age 29
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 38
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 63
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 35
Senate - United States
James Guthrie age 69
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 66
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 51
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 49
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 30
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Levi P. Morton age 38
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 52
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Foster age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 19
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 50
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 82
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom