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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
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
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
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
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 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
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

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
Abram A. Hammond age 42
Governor of Indiana - United States
William A. Newell age 39
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Benjamin F. Conley age 41
Governor of Georgia - United States
Marcus Lawrence Ward age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 44
Governor of Ohio - United States
Leon Abbett age 20
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Claude Matthews age 11
Governor of Indiana - United States
James D. Williams age 49
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ashbel P. Willard age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
Oden Bowie age 30
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph D. Bedle age 36
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Elihu Emory Jackson age 19
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank Brown age 10
Governor of Maryland - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 28
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry Lloyd age 4
Governor of Maryland - United States
Charles Smith Olden age 58
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George Theodore Werts age 10
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ozra Amander Hadley age 30
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Ira Joy Chase age 22
Governor of Indiana - United States
George C. Ludlow age 26
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Robert S. Green age 25
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas Fletcher age 39
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Martin Van Buren age 74
New York State Senate - United States
Ogden L. Mills born 1884-08-23
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 46
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII born 1886-05-17
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands born 1880-08-31
Queen - Netherlands
Isabella II age 26
Queen - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 3
King - Thailand
Charles XV age 30
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 38
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII born 1857-11-28
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 28
King - Sweden
Amadeo I of Spain age 11
King - Spain
Oscar I age 57
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 17
King - Kingdom of Romania
Mongkut age 52
King - Thailand
William III of the Netherlands age 39
King - Netherlands
Frederick VII of Denmark age 48
Monarch - Denmark
Abdur Rahman Khan age 17
Emir - Afghanistan
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 46
President - Argentina
Bartolomé Mitre age 35
President - Argentina
Francisco Solano López age 30
President - Paraguay
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 39
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 8
Prince - Monaco
Julio Argentino Roca age 13
President - Argentina
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 47
President - Liberia
José Antonio Páez age 66
President - Venezuela
Justo José de Urquiza age 55
President - Argentina
Emilio Castelar age 24
Head of State - Spain
José Manuel Balmaceda age 16
President - Chile
Carlos Antonio López age 66
President - Paraguay
Francesc Pi i Margall age 32
Head of State - Spain
Nicolás Avellaneda age 19
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco born 1878-02-24
Sultan - Morocco
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 21
President - Peru
Carlos Pellegrini age 10
President - Argentina
José Evaristo Uriburu age 25
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 35
President - Ecuador
Eloy Alfaro age 14
President - Ecuador
Luis Sáenz Peña age 34
President - Argentina
Stephen Allen Benson age 40
President - Liberia
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 25
Viceroy - British Raj
Estanislao Figueras age 37
Head of State - Spain
Manuel Montt age 47
President - Chile
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Rafael Núñez age 31
President - Colombia
Nicolás Salmerón age 18
Head of State - Spain
Francisco Serrano age 46
Head of State - Spain
José Joaquín Pérez age 55
President - Chile
George Tupou II born 1874-06-18
King - Tonga
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 12
President - Argentina
Domingo Santa María age 31
President - Chile
Aníbal Pinto age 31
President - Chile
Venancio Flores age 48
President - Uruguay
Santiago Derqui age 47
President - Argentina
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 41
President - Liberia
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 27
President - Venezuela
Joaquín Crespo age 15
President - Venezuela
Alfred Francis Russell age 39
President - Liberia
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 46
President - Uruguay
Bernardino Caballero age 17
President - Paraguay
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi born 1864-06-08
Sultan - Oman
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 7
Viceroy - British Raj
Mariano Melgarejo age 36
President - Bolivia
Miguel Antonio Caro age 14
President - Colombia
Jorge Montt age 11
President - Chile
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu age 31
President - Chile
Ulises Heureaux age 11
President - Dominican Republic
James Spriggs Payne age 37
President - Liberia
Edward James Roye age 42
President - Liberia
Bernardo Berro age 53
President - Uruguay
Manuel Pardo age 22
President - Peru
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 20
President - Peru
Manuel Felipe de Tovar age 54
President - Venezuela
Hilarión Daza age 17
President - Bolivia
Antonio Flores Jijón age 23
President - Ecuador
Luis Cordero Crespo age 23
President - Ecuador
Anthony W. Gardner age 37
President - Liberia
James Skivring Smith age 31
President - Liberia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 30
President - Peru
Patricio Escobar age 13
President - Paraguay
Cándido Bareiro age 23
President - Paraguay
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 37
President - Venezuela
Juan Bautista Gill age 16
President - Paraguay
José Santos Zelayo age 3
President - Nicaragua
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera age 58
President - Colombia
Marco Aurelio Soto age 10
President - Honduras
Tomás Villalba age 51
President - Uruguay
José Tadeo Monagas age 72
President - Venezuela
Higinio Uriarte age 14
President - Paraguay
Mariano Baptista age 24
President - Bolivia
Tomás Frías age 52
President - Bolivia
Aniceto Arce age 32
President - Bolivia
Manuel Murillo Toro age 41
President - Colombia
José Santos Guardiola age 40
President - Honduras
Atanasio Aguirre age 55
President - Uruguay
José Eugenio Ellauri age 22
President - Uruguay
Juan Gualberto González age 5
President - Paraguay
Juan Bautista Egusquiza age 11
President - Paraguay
Lorenzo Latorre age 12
President - Uruguay
José Balta age 42
President - Peru
Francisco Linares Alcántara age 31
President - Venezuela
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl age 30
President - Venezuela
Pedro Gual Escandón age 74
President - Venezuela
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 36
Emir - Qatar
Adolfo Ballivián age 25
President - Bolivia
Juan Rafael Mora Porras age 43
President - Costa Rica
José Eusebio Otalora age 30
President - Colombia
Julio Herrera y Obes age 16
President - Uruguay
Duncan Stewart age 24
President - Uruguay
Tomás Gomensoro Albín age 47
President - Uruguay
Guillermo Tell Villegas age 34
President - Venezuela
Julián Castro age 47
President - Venezuela
Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual age 27
President - Venezuela
Francisco García Calderón age 22
President - Peru
Facundo Machaín age 11
President - Paraguay
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
John Lawrence age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Agustín Morales age 48
President - Bolivia
Jorge Córdova age 34
President - Bolivia
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez age 51
President - Colombia
Francisco Javier Zaldúa age 45
President - Colombia
Rafael Zaldívar age 23
President - El Salvador
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 19
President - Liberia
Narciso Campero age 43
President - Bolivia
Próspero Fernández Oreamuno age 22
President - Costa Rica
José María de Achá age 46
President - Bolivia
José María Linares age 48
President - Bolivia
José María Rojas Garrido age 32
President - Colombia
Julián Trujillo Largacha age 29
President - Colombia
Gregorio Pacheco age 33
President - Bolivia
Fabre Geffrard age 50
President - Haiti
José María Medina age 30
President - Honduras
Marcos Morínigo age 8
President - Paraguay
Fernando Figueroa age 7
President - El Salvador
Santiago Pérez de Manosalbas age 26
President - Colombia
Sylvain Salnave age 31
President - Haiti
Michel Domingue age 43
President - Haiti
Florvil Hyppolite age 28
President - Haiti
Jerónimo Carrión age 52
President - Ecuador
Francisco Robles age 46
President - Ecuador
Juan Javier Espinosa age 41
President - Ecuador
Joseph James Cheeseman age 13
President - Liberia
Hermógenes López age 26
President - Venezuela
Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido age 2
President - Venezuela
William Denison age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 37
Viceroy - British Raj
Policarpo Bonilla born 1858-03-17
President - Honduras
François Denys Légitime age 15
President - Haiti
Lysius Salomon age 41
President - Haiti
Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez age 11
President - El Salvador
Francisco Menéndez age 26
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 9
Hakim - Bahrain
John Strachey age 33
Viceroy - British Raj