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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 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 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 Trautenau 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27
Battle of Náchod 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 Spicheren 1870-08-06 - 1870-08-06
Battle of Wörth 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
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
Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893-09-19

People

George M. Bibb age 63
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Charles Foster age 12
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 5
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William W. Belknap age 10
Secretary of War - United States
Charles J. Folger age 22
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild born 1842-04-30
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 7
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton born 1845-12-17
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Walter Forward age 54
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 35
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Holt age 33
Secretary of War - United States
Redfield Proctor age 8
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 7
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 8
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Guthrie age 47
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John Nelson age 48
Secretary Of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 36
Attorney General - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 21
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 25
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry D. Gilpin age 39
Attorney General - United States
William Crowninshield Endicott age 13
Secretary of War - United States
William Harcourt age 12
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William M. Meredith age 40
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Isaac Toucey age 47
Attorney General - United States
James Speed age 28
Attorney General - United States
John Y. Mason age 41
Attorney General - United States
George W. Crawford age 41
Secretary of War - United States
George W. McCrary age 4
Secretary of War - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 34
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 25
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 20
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 23
Attorney General - United States
Hugh S. Legaré age 43
Secretary Of State - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 2
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 18
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 43
Attorney General - United States
Hugh Childers age 12
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 23
Attorney General - United States
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 41
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Stanbery age 37
Attorney General - United States
Daniel S. Lamont born 1851-02-09
Secretary of War - United States
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 24
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 16
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 7
Attorney General - United States
James Madison Porter age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller born 1840-09-06
Attorney General - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 33
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 14
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Goulburn age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 59
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 14
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 37
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William S. Derrick age 37
Secretary Of State - United States
William Hunter age 34
Secretary Of State - United States
William F. Wharton born 1847-06-28
Secretary Of State - United States
Jacob L. Martin age 29
Secretary Of State - United States
Stephen B. Elkins born 1841-09-26
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 3
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White born 1845-11-03
Senate - United States
John Quincy Adams age 72
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley born 1843-01-29
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George born 1863-01-17
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis born 1860-01-25
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman born 1855-10-24
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 28
Governor of Georgia - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 21
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 24
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 4
Governor Of Virginia - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 16
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Leo XIII age 30
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII born 1886-05-17
King - Spain
Charles XIV John age 77
King - Sweden
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands born 1880-08-31
Queen - Netherlands
Isabella II age 9
Queen - Spain
Chulalongkorn born 1853-09-20
King - Thailand
Charles XV age 14
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 22
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII born 1857-11-28
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 11
King - Sweden
Amadeo I of Spain born 1845-05-30
King - Spain
Oscar I age 40
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 1
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 4 months
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 22
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco born 1848-11-13
Prince - Monaco
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne born 1845-01-14
Viceroy - British Raj
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 8
Viceroy - British Raj
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 28
Viceroy - British Raj
George Tupou II born 1874-06-18
King - Tonga
José Santos Zelayo born 1853-11-01
President - Nicaragua
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 29
Viceroy - British Raj
John Lawrence age 29
Viceroy - British Raj
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 18
Viceroy - British Raj
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 14
Viceroy - British Raj
William Denison age 36
Viceroy - British Raj
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 20
Viceroy - British Raj
Isa I of Bahrain born 1848-01-01
Hakim - Bahrain
John Strachey age 16
Viceroy - British Raj
Lerotholi age 4
King - Lesotho
Charles Canning age 27
Viceroy - British Raj
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 13
Viceroy - British Raj
Estanislao Figueras age 20
Head of State - Spain
Francesc Pi i Margall age 16
Head of State - Spain
Nicolás Salmerón age 2
Head of State - Spain
Emilio Castelar age 7
Head of State - Spain
Francisco Serrano age 29
Head of State - Spain
Erik Gustaf Boström born 1842-02-11
Prime Minister - Sweden
Richard Seddon born 1845-06-22
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Paul Eyschen born 1841-09-09
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana born 1852-12-10
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš born 1846-01-01
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 22
Vladimir Lenin born 1870-04-22
Mahatma Gandhi born 1869-10-02
Leo Tolstoy age 11
Joseph Stalin born 1878-12-18
Charles Darwin age 31
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 18
Friedrich Nietzsche born 1844-10-15
Thomas Edison born 1847-02-11
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born 1881-01-01
Sigmund Freud born 1856-05-06
Charles Dickens age 28
Marie Curie born 1867-11-07
Franklin D. Roosevelt born 1882-01-30
Rabindranath Tagore born 1861-05-07
Charles de Gaulle born 1890-11-22
Nikola Tesla born 1856-07-10
Louis Pasteur age 17
Richard Wagner age 26
Henry Ford born 1863-07-30
Benito Mussolini born 1883-07-29
Friedrich Engels age 19
Harry S. Truman born 1884-05-08
Jawaharlal Nehru born 1889-11-14
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky born 1840-05-07
Dwight D. Eisenhower born 1890-10-14
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 48
Dmitri Mendeleev age 6
Giuseppe Verdi age 26
Andrew Jackson age 73
Herbert Hoover born 1874-08-10
James Clerk Maxwell age 8
Calvin Coolidge born 1872-07-04
Alexander Graham Bell born 1847-03-03
Claude Monet born 1840-11-14
Ho Chi Minh born 1890-05-19
Sun Yat-sen born 1866-11-12
Florence Nightingale age 20
William Howard Taft born 1857-09-15
Konrad Adenauer born 1876-01-05
Warren G. Harding born 1865-11-02
Chiang Kai-shek born 1887-10-31
John XXIII born 1881-11-25
Alexander Fleming born 1881-08-06
Francisco Franco born 1892-12-04
David Ben-Gurion born 1886-10-16
Gregor Mendel age 17
Ada Lovelace age 24
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 32
Josip Broz Tito born 1892-05-07
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 4
Haile Selassie born 1892-07-23
Pierre de Coubertin born 1863-01-01
Charles Babbage age 48
Douglas MacArthur born 1880-01-26
Benedict XV born 1854-11-21
Erwin Rommel born 1891-11-15
Carl Benz born 1844-11-25
Hermann Göring born 1893-01-12
Grigori Rasputin born 1869-01-21
George V born 1865-06-03
Muhammad Ali Jinnah born 1876-12-25
Paul von Hindenburg born 1847-10-02
Edward VII born 1841-11-09
Clement Attlee born 1883-01-03