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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01
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) 1845-09-01 - 1852-12-31
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
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
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 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
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 Sinop 1853-11-30 - 1853-11-30
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
Battle of the Chernaya 1855-08-16 - 1855-08-16
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24
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 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Emancipation reform of 1861 1861-03-03
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
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
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 Náchod 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27
Battle of Gitschin 1866-06-29 - 1866-06-29
Battle of Königgrätz 1866-07-03 - 1866-07-03
Battle of Lissa (1866) 1866-07-20 - 1866-07-20
Alaska Purchase 1867-03-30
Meiji Restoration 1868-01-03
Boshin War 1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27
Opening of the Suez Canal 1869-11-17
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Enforcement Act of 1870 1870-05-31
Franco-Prussian War 1870-07-19 - 1871-01-28
Battle of Gravelotte 1870-08-18
Siege of Metz 1870-08-20 - 1870-10-27
Battle of Sedan 1870-09-01
Siege of Paris (1870–1871) 1870-09-19 - 1871-01-28
Proclamation of the German Empire 1871-01-18
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
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 1877-04-24 - 1878-03-03
Battle of Shipka Pass 1877-07-17 - 1878-01-09
Siege of Plevna 1877-07-20 - 1877-12-10
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
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
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
Meiji Constitution 1889-02-11

People

Abraham Lincoln age 28
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 18
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 15
President - United States
James A. Garfield age 5
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 3 months
President - United States
Martin Van Buren age 54
President - United States
Andrew Johnson age 28
President - United States
James Buchanan age 46
President - United States
Zachary Taylor age 52
President - United States
James K. Polk age 41
President - United States
John Tyler age 47
President - United States
Millard Fillmore age 37
President - United States
William Henry Harrison age 64
President - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 14
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 32
President - United States
Benjamin Harrison age 3
President - United States
Chester A. Arthur age 7
President - United States
Wilhelm II born 1859-01-27
Emperor - German Empire
Napoleon III age 29
President - France
Alexander II of Russia age 19
Emperor - Russian Empire
Nicholas I of Russia age 41
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II born 1842-09-21
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia born 1845-03-10
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 2
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji born 1852-11-03
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 40
Emperor - German Empire
Jefferson Davis age 29
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 31
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 40
President - France
Louis Philippe I age 63
King of the French - France
Porfirio Díaz age 6
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 17
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 11
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Mahmud II age 52
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Patrice de MacMahon age 29
President - France
Frederick III, German Emperor age 5
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy born 1844-03-14
King - Italy
Abdulaziz age 7
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 14
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V born 1840-09-21
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 44
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 43
President - Mexico
Jules Grévy age 29
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) born 1837-08-11
President - France
Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14
Emperor - Imperial China
Sam Houston age 44
President - Republic of Texas
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 5
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 5
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 5
Emperor - Imperial China
Charles Albert age 38
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Gojong of the Korean Empire born 1852-09-08
King - Joseon
Daoguang Emperor age 54
Emperor - Imperial China
Tongzhi Emperor born 1856-04-27
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 29
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 37
Emperor - Japan
Tewodros II age 19
Emperor - Ethiopia
Tewfik Pasha born 1852-11-15
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 14
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV born 1837-07-11
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 4
President - Mexico
Rafael Carrera age 21
President - Guatemala
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 34
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 22
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 40
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mariano Rivera Paz age 32
President - Guatemala
José Venancio López age 46
President - Guatemala
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 6
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Heonjong of Joseon age 9
King - Joseon
Cheoljong of Joseon age 5
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 66
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 41
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Isma'il Pasha age 6
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Louis-Jules Trochu age 22
President - France
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 70
President - France
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 34
President - France
José Joaquín de Herrera age 45
President - Mexico
Nicolás Bravo age 50
President - Mexico
Anastasio Bustamante age 56
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 43
President - Mexico
Valentín Gómez Farías age 56
President - Mexico
Mariano Arista age 34
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 40
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 48
President - Mexico
Valentín Canalizo age 43
President - Mexico
Francisco Javier Echeverría age 40
President - Mexico
Juan Bautista Ceballos age 26
President - Mexico
Manuel María Lombardini age 34
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 40
President - Mexico
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega age 37
President - Mexico
Ignacio Comonfort age 25
President - Mexico
Juan Álvarez age 47
President - Mexico
Martín Carrera age 30
President - Mexico
Otto von Bismarck age 22
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 32
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 27
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Klemens von Metternich age 64
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 26
Prime Minister - Italy
Robert Peel age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi born 1841-10-16
Prime Minister - Japan
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 7
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 38
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Francesco Crispi age 18
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuroda Kiyotaka born 1840-11-09
Prime Minister - Japan
Bettino Ricasoli age 28
Prime Minister - Italy
Agostino Depretis age 24
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 29
Prime Minister - Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 27
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Carlo Farini age 24
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 18
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Lanza age 27
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 12
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 12
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi born 1839-10-05
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 11
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 3
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 17
Prime Minister - Egypt
Salmon P. Chase age 29
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 4
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 20
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 27
Vice President - United States
William R. King age 51
Vice President - United States
Richard Mentor Johnson age 56
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 16
Vice President - United States
Henry Wilson age 25
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 45
Vice President - United States
Levi P. Morton age 13
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 18
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 14
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 17
Vice President - United States
John C. Calhoun age 55
Secretary Of State - United States
William H. Seward age 36
Secretary Of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 55
Secretary Of State - United States
George B. McClellan age 10
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
James G. Blaine age 7
Secretary Of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 51
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln born 1843-08-01
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Everett age 43
Secretary Of State - United States
John Sherman age 14
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Edwin Stanton age 22
Secretary of War - United States
Lewis Cass age 54
Secretary Of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 50
Secretary Of State - United States
Hamilton Fish age 28
Secretary Of State - United States
William M. Evarts age 19
Secretary Of State - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 8
Secretary Of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 5
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John Forsyth age 56
Secretary Of State - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 20
Secretary Of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby born 1841-01-15
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Abel P. Upshur age 47
Secretary Of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 40
Secretary Of State - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 19
Secretary Of State - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 9
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Jeremiah S. Black age 27
Secretary Of State - United States
John Adams Dix age 38
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Levi Woodbury age 47
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Thomas Ewing age 47
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Caleb Cushing age 37
Attorney General - United States
George S. Boutwell age 19
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John Schofield age 5
Secretary of War - United States
John B. Floyd age 31
Secretary of War - United States
Alphonso Taft age 26
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 26
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Thomas Corwin age 42
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Windom age 10
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John J. Crittenden age 49
Attorney General - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 41
Secretary of War - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Howell Cobb age 21
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 28
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Felix Grundy age 59
Attorney General - United States
George Henry Williams age 14
Attorney General - United States
William P. Fessenden age 30
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 24
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Joel Roberts Poinsett age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 21
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 43
Attorney General - United States
George M. Bibb age 60
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William W. Belknap age 7
Secretary of War - United States
Charles J. Folger age 19
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild born 1842-04-30
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 5
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton born 1845-12-17
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Walter Forward age 51
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 32
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Holt age 30
Secretary of War - United States
Redfield Proctor age 6
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 5
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 5
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Guthrie age 44
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John Nelson age 46
Secretary Of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 33
Attorney General - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 18
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom