✦ History

Explore December 28, 1875 – March 2, 1895

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Invention of the telephone 1876-03-10
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
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Assassination of Alexander II of Russia 1881-03-13
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
Haymarket affair 1886-05-04
Lei Áurea 1888-05-13
Meiji Constitution 1889-02-11
Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil) 1889-11-15
Wounded Knee Massacre 1890-12-29
Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom 1893-01-17
Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893-09-19
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-01-13 - 1896-10-23

People

Queen Victoria age 56
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 53
President - United States
James A. Garfield age 44
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 38
President - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 53
President - United States
Nicholas II of Russia age 7
Emperor - Russian Empire
Benjamin Harrison age 42
President - United States
Chester A. Arthur age 46
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 16
Emperor - German Empire
Alexander II of Russia age 57
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 33
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 45
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Alexander III of Russia age 30
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 40
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 23
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 78
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 45
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 55
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 50
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 67
President - France
Frederick III, German Emperor age 44
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy age 31
King - Italy
Abdulaziz age 45
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V age 35
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Jules Grévy age 68
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 38
President - France
Deodoro da Fonseca age 48
President - Brazil
Guangxu Emperor age 4
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 44
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 34
President - France
Menelik II age 31
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 28
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt age 1
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Isma'il Pasha age 45
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 23
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 36
President - Brazil
Prudente de Morais age 34
President - Brazil
Tewfik Pasha age 23
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 52
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 38
Emperor - Ethiopia
Charles Dupuy age 24
President - France
Manuel González age 42
President - Mexico
José María Iglesias age 53
President - Mexico
Otto von Bismarck age 60
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 34
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Émile Loubet age 37
Prime Minister - France
Leo von Caprivi age 44
Chancellor - German Empire
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 28
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 33
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 37
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 56
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 40
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 40
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 35
Prime Minister - Japan
Agostino Depretis age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Sanjō Sanetomi age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Nubar Pasha age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 44
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 35
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 42
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 59
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Levi P. Morton age 51
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 56
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 56
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 40
Vice President - United States
Midhat Pasha age 53
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 52
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kâmil Pasha age 44
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mahmud Nedim Pasha age 58
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Said Pasha age 38
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Saffet Pasha age 62
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Arifi Pasha age 46
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Hamdi Pasha age 50
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kadri Pasha age 44
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Sadık Pasha age 51
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Abdurrahman Nureddin Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Dong Biwu born 1886-03-05
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
H. H. Asquith age 23
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 39
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 32
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hamilton Fish age 67
Secretary of State - United States
William M. Evarts age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 47
Secretary of State - United States
John W. Foster age 39
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 34
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 40
Attorney General - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 48
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Alphonso Taft age 65
Secretary of War - United States
William Windom age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 67
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 62
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 60
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Foster age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William W. Belknap age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Charles J. Folger age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 33
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 30
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Redfield Proctor age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 43
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 44
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 34
Secretary of War - United States
William Harcourt age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 40
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 55
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 58
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 38
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 59
Attorney General - United States
Daniel S. Lamont age 24
Secretary of War - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 42
Attorney General - United States
William H. H. Miller age 35
Attorney General - United States
George Ward Hunt age 50
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William F. Wharton age 28
Secretary of State - United States
Arthur Balfour age 27
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 39
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 37
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 30
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Bright age 64
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 72
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 37
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 44
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 26
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 64
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Howard Taft age 18
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
James Alexander Hamilton age 87
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 66
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 51
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 76
Senate - United States
George S. Boutwell age 57
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 43
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 49
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 32
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 15
House of Representatives - United States
William Jennings Bryan age 15
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Keir Hardie age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nathaniel P. Banks age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom