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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24
Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857-03-06
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 - 1895
Emancipation reform of 1861 1861-03-03
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy 1861-03-17
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
First Geneva Convention 1864-08-22
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
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01
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 Trautenau 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27
Battle of Langensalza (1866) 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
Transatlantic telegraph cable 1866-07-27
Alaska Purchase 1867-03-30
Canadian Confederation 1867-07-01
Meiji Restoration 1868-01-03
Boshin War 1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27
Opening of the Suez Canal 1869-11-17
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
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
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
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

People

T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 15
Secretary of State - United States
William Hunter age 51
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 9
Secretary of State - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 15
Secretary of War - United States
Arthur Balfour age 8
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 18
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 11
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 30
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 38
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond age 38
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 18
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 18
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 26
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 28
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 7
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 16
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Matthew Talbot Baines age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 12
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 16
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Howard Taft born 1857-09-15
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
James Alexander Hamilton age 68
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Sam Houston age 63
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 32
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 69
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 61
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 30
Senate - United States
Isaac Toucey age 64
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 60
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 46
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 43
Senate - United States
Joseph Lane age 55
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 25
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 14
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George born 1863-01-17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon born 1859-01-11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis born 1860-01-25
House of Representatives - United States
William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Corwin age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass born 1858-01-04
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna born 1863-07-06
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 6 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby born 1865-04-04
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster born 1866-01-31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar born 1860-03-06
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne born 1859-10-17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery born 1895-07-08
House of Representatives - United States
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 29
House of Representatives - United States
William S. Rosecrans age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Austen Chamberlain born 1863-10-16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 5 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leland Stanford age 32
Governor of California - United States
Samuel J. Tilden age 43
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 10
Governor of Ohio - United States
Horatio Seymour age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 21
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Stoneman age 34
Governor of California - United States
Milton Latham age 29
Governor of California - United States
Henry A. Wise age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Weller age 44
Governor of California - United States
James L. Kemper age 33
Governor of Virginia - United States
Frederick Low age 28
Governor of California - United States
George C. Perkins age 17
Governor of California - United States
Newton Booth age 31
Governor of California - United States
William Allen age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
David B. Hill age 13
Governor of New York - United States
Romualdo Pacheco age 25
Governor of California - United States
J. Neely Johnson age 31
Governor of California - United States
Edwin D. Morgan age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Oliver P. Morton age 33
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jacob D. Cox age 28
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry Huntly Haight age 31
Governor of California - United States
John Davis Long age 18
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 18
Governor of Texas - United States
James P. Clarke age 2
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard Coke age 27
Governor of Texas - United States
James H. Berry age 15
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Powell Clayton age 23
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John G. Downey age 29
Governor of California - United States
Parson Brownlow age 51
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 1
Governor of Texas - United States
John C. Brown age 30
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Francis Lubbock age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
Edward Clark age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
James Budd age 5
Governor of California - United States
William Dennison Jr. age 41
Governor of Ohio - United States
Washington Bartlett age 32
Governor of California - United States
William T. Hamilton age 36
Governor of Maryland - United States
William B. Washburn age 37
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 29
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas Holliday Hicks age 58
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 35
Governor of Georgia - United States
Henry Markham age 16
Governor of California - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Meade Fishback age 25
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William E. Russell age 1 month
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 6
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Reuben Fenton age 37
Governor of New York - United States
Jim Hogg age 5
Governor of Texas - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
Elisha Baxter age 29
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert Waterman age 30
Governor of California - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 21
Governor of New York - United States
David Tod age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Irwin age 29
Governor of California - United States
James Black Groome age 18
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 41
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Read Miller age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 26
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 26
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry Gardner age 37
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harris Flanagin age 39
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Alexander Bullock age 40
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Q. A. Brackett age 14
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry S. Lane age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
Thomas Swann age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Andrew Jackson Hamilton age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
James Philip Eagle age 19
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
Theodore F. Randolph age 30
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Hardin Richard Runnels age 36
Governor of Texas - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 24
Governor of Texas - United States
James E. Campbell age 13
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 28
Governor of Virginia - United States
William E. Cameron age 14
Governor of Virginia - United States
Edward Follansbee Noyes age 24
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Pinkney Whyte age 32
Governor of Maryland - United States
Henry Rector age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Gilbert C. Walker age 23
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Gaston age 36
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Ireland age 30
Governor of Texas - United States
John A. King age 69
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas L. Young age 24
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George D. Robinson age 23
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John P. Buchanan age 9
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Charles T. O'Ferrall age 16
Governor of Virginia - United States
Isaac Murphy age 57
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Letcher age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
Augustus Bradford age 51
Governor of Maryland - United States
James W. Throckmorton age 32
Governor of Texas - United States
Pendleton Murrah age 31
Governor of Texas - United States
Joel Parker age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Elias Nelson Conway age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry H. Wells age 33
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Talbot age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Claflin age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Watkins Ligon age 46
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frederic T. Greenhalge age 14
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Alvin Peterson Hovey age 35
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Hoadly age 30
Governor of Ohio - United States
Dewitt Clinton Senter age 26
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Peter Turney age 29
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John Lee Carroll age 26
Governor of Maryland - United States
Charles Anderson age 42
Governor of Ohio - United States
Lucius Robinson age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 25
Governor of New York - United States
Philip W. McKinney age 24
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Brough age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Conrad Baker age 40
Governor of Indiana - United States
Albert G. Porter age 32
Governor of Indiana - United States
Edward H. East age 26
Governor of Tennessee - United States