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Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850-01-01

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

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 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

W. T. Cosgrave born 1880-06-06

Iwane Matsui born 1878-07-27

Frank Jack Fletcher born 1885-04-29

Edelmiro Julián Farrell born 1887-02-12

Bogdan Filov born 1883-04-10

Sisowath Monivong born 1875-12-27

Kaarel Eenpalu born 1888-05-28

Juho Sunila born 1875-08-16

Noe Zhordania born 1868-01-14

Ferenc Münnich born 1886-11-18

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy born 1885-04-13

Joseph Bech born 1887-02-17

Francisco S. Carvajal born 1870-12-09

Abd al-Hafid of Morocco born 1875-01-01

Manuel Gomes da Costa born 1863-01-14

Carl Swartz born 1858-06-05

Joseph Hooker age 30

John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort born 1886-07-10

Luigi Pelloux age 6

Kimon Georgiev born 1882-08-11

Eloy Alfaro age 2

Manuel de Arriaga age 4

Nils Edén born 1871-08-25

Hsu Shih-chang born 1855-10-23

Cao Kun born 1862-12-12

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

Rauf Orbay born 1881-07-27

Seishirō Itagaki born 1885-01-21

Thomas Gage age 127

Essad Toptani born 1863-01-01

Roberto Marcelino Ortiz born 1886-09-24

José Figueroa Alcorta born 1860-11-20

Victorino de la Plaza age 4

Manuel Quintana age 9

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

Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg born 1889-03-21

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 21

Albert Sidney Johnston age 42

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

Dušan Simović born 1882-10-28

Anton Korošec born 1872-05-12

Edward Douglass White born 1845-11-03

Courtney Hodges born 1887-01-05

Louis McLane age 59

John W. Foster age 9

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 age 5

Maciej Rataj born 1884-02-19

Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro born 1889-08-12

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

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

Georg Stumme born 1886-07-29

Leonard Wood born 1860-10-09

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 26

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

Doihara Kenji born 1883-08-08

Harlan F. Stone born 1872-10-11

Richard Olney age 9

Robert Bacon born 1860-07-05

Philander C. Knox born 1853-05-06

Omer Nishani born 1887-02-05

Rudolf Ramek born 1881-04-12

Andrey Lyapchev born 1866-12-12

Johannes Vares born 1890-01-12

Antti Tulenheimo born 1879-12-04

Rafael Erich born 1879-06-10

Károly Huszár born 1882-09-10

Gyula Károlyi born 1871-05-07

Hannes Hafstein born 1861-12-04

Alexander Bustamante born 1884-02-24

Hendrikus Colijn born 1869-06-22

Jens Hundseid born 1883-05-06

Taimur bin Faisal Al Said born 1886-01-01

Vladimir Kokovtsov born 1853-04-30

Boris Stürmer born 1848-07-27

Fredrik von Otter age 12

Giuseppe Motta born 1871-12-29

Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena born 1887-03-29

George Tupou II born 1874-06-18

Eleazar López Contreras born 1883-05-05

Eusebio Ayala born 1875-08-14

Santiago Casares Quiroga born 1884-05-08

Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 12

José Giral born 1879-10-22

Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas born 1859-11-05

Sisowath of Cambodia age 4

Richard S. Ewell age 28

Robert Gould Shaw age 7

Charles Joseph Bonaparte born 1851-06-09

Yoshijirō Umezu born 1882-01-04

Cai E born 1882-12-19

Francis Biddle born 1886-05-09

Léon Delacroix born 1867-12-27

Daniel Salamanca Urey born 1869-07-08

Vasil Radoslavov born 1854-07-27

Pedro Montt born 1849-06-29

Germán Riesco born 1854-05-28

Juan Luis Sanfuentes born 1858-12-27

Eduardo Santos born 1888-08-28

Oskari Mantere born 1874-09-18

Georgios Tsolakoglou born 1886-04-01

Jón Þorláksson born 1877-03-03

Jón Magnússon born 1859-01-16

Carl Theodor Zahle born 1866-01-19

Niels Neergaard born 1854-06-27

Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics born 1887-02-05

João do Canto e Castro born 1862-05-19

Dimitrie Sturdza age 12

Patriarch Miron of Romania born 1868-07-20

Gerhard Louis De Geer born 1854-11-27

Christian Lundeberg age 2

Gustave Ador born 1845-12-23

Juan Bautista Pérez born 1869-12-20

Kazimierz Bartel born 1882-03-03

José Pardo y Barreda born 1864-02-24

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading born 1860-10-10

Robert Anderson age 39

George Pickett age 20

Sterling Price age 35

Richard O'Connor born 1889-08-21

Joseph Avenol born 1879-06-09

William Gibbs McAdoo born 1863-10-31

Nathaniel Lyon age 26

John Bell Hood age 14

Shefqet Vërlaci born 1877-12-15

Otto Ender born 1875-12-24

Henri Carton de Wiart born 1869-01-31

Jules Renkin born 1862-12-03

Ramón Barros Luco age 9

Juan Antonio Rios born 1888-11-10

Alfonso López Pumarejo born 1886-01-31

Mustafa al-Nahhas born 1879-06-15

Theodoros Deligiannis age 25

Dimitrios Gounaris born 1866-01-05

Konstantinos Demertzis born 1876-11-07

Konstantinos Tsaldaris born 1884-04-14

Manuel Estrada Cabrera born 1859-11-21

Gyula Peidl born 1873-04-04

Móric Esterházy born 1881-04-27

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