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Events

California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26

Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30

Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31

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

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

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

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

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 Langensalza (1866) 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Náchod 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

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 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

Siege of Strasbourg 1870-08-16 - 1870-09-28

Battle of Mars-la-Tour 1870-08-16 - 1870-08-16

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

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

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

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 8

Viceroy - British Raj

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 21

Viceroy - British Raj

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 41

Viceroy - British Raj

Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 42

Viceroy - British Raj

John Lawrence age 42

Viceroy - British Raj

Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 31

Viceroy - British Raj

Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 27

Viceroy - British Raj

William Denison age 48

Viceroy - British Raj

Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 33

Viceroy - British Raj

Isa I of Bahrain age 5

Hakim - Bahrain

John Strachey age 29

Viceroy - British Raj

Charles Canning age 40

Viceroy - British Raj

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 26

Viceroy - British Raj

Estanislao Figueras age 33

Head of State - Spain

Francesc Pi i Margall age 28

Head of State - Spain

Nicolás Salmerón age 14

Head of State - Spain

Emilio Castelar age 20

Head of State - Spain

Francisco Serrano age 42

Head of State - Spain

Paul Eyschen age 11

Prime Minister - Luxembourg

Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 3 months

Prime Minister - Nepal

Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 7

Prime Minister - Montenegro

Theodore Roosevelt born 1858-10-27

New York State Assembly

Adolf Hitler born 1889-04-20

Albert Einstein born 1879-03-14

Karl Marx age 34

Vladimir Lenin born 1870-04-22

Mahatma Gandhi born 1869-10-02

Leo Tolstoy age 24

Joseph Stalin born 1878-12-18

Charles Darwin age 44

Vincent van Gogh born 1853-03-30

Pablo Picasso born 1881-10-25

Charlie Chaplin born 1889-04-16

Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30

Fyodor Dostoevsky age 31

Friedrich Nietzsche age 8

Thomas Edison age 6

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born 1881-01-01

Sigmund Freud born 1856-05-06

Charles Dickens age 41

Marie Curie born 1867-11-07

Franklin D. Roosevelt born 1882-01-30

Rabindranath Tagore born 1861-05-07

Nikola Tesla born 1856-07-10

Louis Pasteur age 30

Richard Wagner age 39

Henry Ford born 1863-07-30

Benito Mussolini born 1883-07-29

Friedrich Engels age 32

Harry S. Truman born 1884-05-08

Jawaharlal Nehru born 1889-11-14

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 12

Woodrow Wilson born 1856-12-28

John Maynard Keynes born 1883-06-05

Niels Bohr born 1885-10-07

Leon Trotsky born 1879-11-07

Max Planck born 1858-04-23

Michael Faraday age 61

Dmitri Mendeleev age 19

Giuseppe Verdi age 39

Herbert Hoover born 1874-08-10

James Clerk Maxwell age 21

Calvin Coolidge born 1872-07-04

Alexander Graham Bell age 6

Claude Monet age 12

Ho Chi Minh born 1890-05-19

Sun Yat-sen born 1866-11-12

Florence Nightingale age 32

William Howard Taft born 1857-09-15

Konrad Adenauer born 1876-01-05

Martin Van Buren age 70

John Tyler age 63

Warren G. Harding born 1865-11-02

Millard Fillmore age 53

Chiang Kai-shek born 1887-10-31

John XXIII born 1881-11-25

Alexander Fleming born 1881-08-06

David Ben-Gurion born 1886-10-16

Gregor Mendel age 30

Giuseppe Garibaldi age 45

Guglielmo Marconi born 1874-04-25

Pius XII born 1876-03-02

Pius XI born 1857-05-31

Neville Chamberlain born 1869-03-18

Pius X age 17

Pierre de Coubertin born 1863-01-01

Charles Babbage age 61

Douglas MacArthur born 1880-01-26

Benedict XV born 1854-11-21

Carl Benz age 8

Grigori Rasputin born 1869-01-21

George V born 1865-06-03

Muhammad Ali Jinnah born 1876-12-25

Paul von Hindenburg age 5

Edward VII age 11

Clement Attlee born 1883-01-03

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria born 1863-12-18

Harriet Tubman age 31

George C. Marshall born 1880-12-31

Robert E. Lee age 46

Georges Clemenceau age 11

Empress Dowager Cixi age 17

Giuseppe Mazzini age 47

Vyacheslav Molotov born 1890-03-09

Józef Piłsudski born 1867-12-05

Philippe Pétain born 1856-04-24

Emiliano Zapata born 1879-08-08

Klemens von Metternich age 79

Cecil Rhodes born 1853-07-05

Ibn Saud born 1876-01-01

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 188

Frederick Douglass age 35

António de Oliveira Salazar born 1889-04-28

T. E. Lawrence born 1888-08-16

Susan B. Anthony age 33

Arthur Balfour age 4

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim born 1867-06-16

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan born 1888-09-05

Syngman Rhee born 1875-03-26

George S. Patton born 1885-11-11

Hideki Tojo born 1884-12-30

İsmet İnönü born 1884-09-24

Bernard Montgomery born 1887-11-17

Gustav Stresemann born 1878-05-10

Reza Shah born 1878-03-15

Rajendra Prasad born 1884-12-03

Alexander Kerensky born 1881-05-04

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel born 1875-10-31

Getúlio Vargas born 1882-04-19

Emmeline Pankhurst born 1858-07-15

Mehmed VI born 1861-01-14

Ferdinand Foch age 1

H. H. Asquith age 6 months

Felix Dzerzhinsky born 1877-09-11

Raymond Poincaré born 1860-08-20

Hastings Banda born 1890-01-01

Friedrich Ebert born 1871-02-04

Pancho Villa born 1878-06-05

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 37

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

Erich Ludendorff born 1865-04-09

Kliment Voroshilov born 1881-02-04

Mehmed V age 8

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 52

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

Alfred Jodl born 1890-05-10

Ion Antonescu born 1882-06-02

Gustaf V of Sweden born 1858-06-16

William Tecumseh Sherman age 33

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 20

Ferdinand I of Austria age 59

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 age 8

John Nance Garner born 1868-11-22

Alexandre Millerand born 1859-02-10

Vincent Auriol born 1884-08-27

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