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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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 21

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

Celâl Bayar born 1883-05-16

Nestor Makhno born 1888-11-07

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy born 1869-11-11

Isoroku Yamamoto born 1884-04-04

Wilhelm Keitel born 1882-09-22

Charles G. Dawes born 1865-08-27

Éamon de Valera born 1882-10-14

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

Robert Schuman born 1886-06-29

Emperor Taishō born 1879-08-31

Georgi Dimitrov born 1882-06-30

Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 68

Erich Ludendorff born 1865-04-09

Kliment Voroshilov born 1881-02-04

Mehmed V born 1844-11-02

Charles I of Austria born 1887-08-17

Haakon VII of Norway born 1872-08-03

Faisal I of Iraq born 1885-05-20

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 36

Henry A. Wallace born 1888-10-07

Abdullah I of Jordan born 1882-01-01

Albert I of Belgium born 1875-04-08

Erich von Manstein born 1887-11-24

Chaim Weizmann born 1874-11-27

Theodor Heuss born 1884-01-31

Joseph Bonaparte age 69

Ion Antonescu born 1882-06-02

Gustaf V of Sweden born 1858-06-16

William Tecumseh Sherman age 17

Ernst Röhm born 1887-11-28

Pyotr Stolypin born 1862-04-14

Emilio Aguinaldo born 1869-03-22

Pietro Badoglio born 1871-09-28

Chester W. Nimitz born 1885-02-24

Andrew Bonar Law born 1858-09-16

Maximilian I of Mexico age 5

Eleftherios Venizelos born 1864-08-23

Christian X of Denmark born 1870-09-26

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg born 1856-11-29

Édouard Daladier born 1884-06-18

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

Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden born 1882-11-11

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

Vincent Auriol born 1884-08-27

Karl Renner born 1870-12-14

Pierre Laval born 1883-06-28

George Curzon born 1859-01-11

Yuan Shikai born 1859-09-16

Joseph Joffre born 1852-01-12

Paul Doumer born 1857-03-22

Luigi Einaudi born 1874-03-24

Enrico de Nicola born 1877-11-09

Stonewall Jackson age 13

Anton Denikin born 1872-12-16

Armand Fallières born 1841-11-06

Gaston Doumergue born 1863-08-01

Ignacy Jan Paderewski born 1860-11-18

Semyon Budyonny born 1883-04-25

Deodoro da Fonseca age 9

Erich Raeder born 1876-04-24

Julius Streicher born 1885-02-12

John J. Pershing born 1860-09-13

René Coty born 1882-03-20

Elihu Root born 1845-02-15

Edmund Barton born 1849-01-18

Mikhail Frunze born 1885-02-02

Mary of Teck born 1867-05-26

Bernhard von Bülow born 1849-05-03

Hjalmar Schacht born 1877-01-22

Charles Curtis born 1860-01-25

Thomas R. Marshall born 1854-03-14

Frank B. Kellogg born 1856-12-22

Frederik VIII of Denmark born 1843-06-03

Ferdinand I of Romania born 1865-08-24

Pyotr Wrangel born 1878-08-27

Alexei Rykov born 1881-02-25

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando born 1860-05-19

Wilhelm Frick born 1877-03-12

Alfred Deakin born 1856-08-03

Konstantin Päts born 1874-02-22

Willem Drees born 1886-07-05

Jozef Tiso born 1887-10-13

Lavr Kornilov born 1870-08-30

Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 10 months

Félix Faure born 1841-01-30

Alexander I of Yugoslavia born 1888-12-16

Jean Monnet born 1888-11-09

John Foster Dulles born 1888-02-25

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg born 1865-01-28

Sergei Witte born 1849-06-29

Vajiravudh born 1881-01-01

Manuel L. Quezon born 1878-08-19

Fedor von Bock born 1880-12-03

Émile Loubet born 1838-12-30

Menelik II born 1844-08-17

Risto Ryti born 1889-02-03

Giovanni Gronchi born 1887-09-10

Antanas Smetona born 1874-08-10

Georgy Lvov born 1861-11-02

Jean Casimir-Perier born 1847-11-08

Arthur Henderson born 1863-09-13

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener born 1850-06-24

Charles W. Fairbanks born 1852-05-11

Paul Deschanel born 1855-02-13

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud born 1861-12-15

Douglas Hyde born 1860-01-17

Álvaro Obregón born 1880-02-19

Ōkuma Shigenobu born 1838-03-11

Shigeru Yoshida born 1878-09-22

Talaat Pasha born 1874-09-01

Garret Hobart born 1844-06-03

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb born 1876-09-05

Albert Kesselring born 1885-11-30

Joseph Wirth born 1879-09-06

Wilhelm Marx born 1863-01-15

Hans Luther born 1879-03-10

Édouard Herriot born 1872-07-05

Leo von Caprivi age 6

Philipp Scheidemann born 1865-07-26

William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19

Sveinn Björnsson born 1881-02-27

Christian Michelsen born 1857-03-15

Władysław Sikorski born 1881-05-20

Franz Halder born 1884-06-30

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 73

Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) born 1876-05-18

Katsura Tarō born 1848-01-04

Saigō Takamori age 9

Zhu De born 1886-12-01

Hipólito Yrigoyen born 1850-07-13

Ioannis Metaxas born 1871-04-12

Kārlis Ulmanis born 1877-09-04

Clara Barton age 15

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery born 1847-05-07

Gustav Bauer born 1870-01-06

Heinrich Brüning born 1885-11-26

Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk born 1887-08-22

Peter I of Serbia born 1844-07-11

Abbas II of Egypt born 1874-07-14

Kyösti Kallio born 1873-04-10

Billy Hughes born 1862-09-25

William Lyon Mackenzie King born 1874-12-17

Plutarco Elías Calles born 1877-09-25

Gabriel Narutowicz born 1865-03-17

Erich von Falkenhayn born 1861-09-11

Prince Maximilian of Baden born 1867-07-10

Fuad I of Egypt born 1868-03-26

Nicolae Iorga born 1871-06-05

Rómulo Gallegos born 1884-08-02

Maurice Gamelin born 1872-09-20

Henry Addington age 80

Georg Michaelis born 1857-09-08

Georg von Hertling born 1843-08-31

Constantin Fehrenbach born 1852-01-11

Giovanni Giolitti born 1842-10-27

Jan Smuts born 1870-05-24

Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar born 1872-06-21

Guadalupe Victoria age 50

Chris Watson born 1867-04-09

Lauri Kristian Relander born 1883-05-31

Francisco Largo Caballero born 1869-10-15

C. Rajagopalachari born 1878-12-10

Günther von Kluge born 1882-10-30

Yakov Sverdlov born 1885-06-03

Djemal Pasha born 1872-05-06

Wilhelm Cuno born 1876-07-02

Yamagata Aritomo born 1838-06-14

Ichirō Hatoyama born 1883-01-01

Ivanoe Bonomi born 1873-10-18

Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 18

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 65

Zewditu born 1876-04-29

Demetrios Vikelas age 2

Ismail Kemal born 1844-01-16

Andrew Fisher born 1862-08-29

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi born 1884-11-24

Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30

Terauchi Masatake born 1852-02-05

Hara Takashi born 1856-03-15

Henry Clay age 60

Wilfrid Laurier born 1841-11-20

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