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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
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 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
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

Abraham Lincoln age 48
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 37
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 34
President - United States
James A. Garfield age 25
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 19
President - United States
Andrew Johnson age 48
President - United States
James Buchanan age 65
President - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 34
President - United States
Franklin Pierce age 52
President - United States
Benjamin Harrison age 23
President - United States
Chester A. Arthur age 27
President - United States
Wilhelm II born 1859-01-27
Emperor - German Empire
Napoleon III age 48
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 38
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 14
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 11
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 21
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 4
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 59
Emperor - German Empire
Jefferson Davis age 48
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 50
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 59
President - France
Porfirio Díaz age 26
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 36
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 31
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 66
King - Belgium
Patrice de MacMahon age 48
President - France
Frederick III, German Emperor age 25
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy age 12
King - Italy
Abdulaziz age 27
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdülmecid I age 33
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V age 16
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Jules Grévy age 49
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 19
President - France
Deodoro da Fonseca age 29
President - Brazil
Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 25
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 16
President - France
Menelik II age 12
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 9
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt born 1874-07-14
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Emperor Kōmei age 25
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 25
Emperor - Imperial China
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 4
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 9 months
Emperor - Imperial China
Floriano Peixoto age 17
President - Brazil
Prudente de Morais age 15
President - Brazil
Tewodros II age 39
Emperor - Ethiopia
Tewfik Pasha age 4
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 33
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 19
Emperor - Ethiopia
Charles Dupuy age 5
President - France
Manuel González age 23
President - Mexico
Rafael Carrera age 41
President - Guatemala
José María Iglesias age 34
President - Mexico
José Ignacio Pavón age 66
President - Mexico
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 54
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 42
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 60
Emperor - Ethiopia
Nicholas II of Russia born 1868-05-18
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 26
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Cheoljong of Joseon age 25
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 61
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Isma'il Pasha age 26
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Louis-Jules Trochu age 41
President - France
Ignacio Comonfort age 44
President - Mexico
Otto von Bismarck age 41
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Itō Hirobumi age 15
Prime Minister - Japan
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 72
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 27
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Émile Loubet age 18
Prime Minister - France
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Leo von Caprivi age 25
Chancellor - German Empire
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 9
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 14
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 18
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 37
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 21
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 21
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 16
Prime Minister - Japan
Bettino Ricasoli age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Agostino Depretis age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Urbano Rattazzi age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Carlo Farini age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 17
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Lanza age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Sanjō Sanetomi age 19
Prime Minister - Japan
Nubar Pasha age 32
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 17
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 31
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 25
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 16
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 23
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Salmon P. Chase age 49
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Roger B. Taney age 79
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 24
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 40
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 47
Vice President - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 36
Vice President - United States
Henry Wilson age 45
Vice President - United States
Levi P. Morton age 32
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 37
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 33
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 37
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 21
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu born 1886-03-05
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
H. H. Asquith age 4
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 20
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 20
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
George B. McClellan age 30
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
James G. Blaine age 27
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 70
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 13
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 33
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edwin Stanton age 42
Secretary of War - United States
Lewis Cass age 74
Secretary of State - United States
William L. Marcy age 70
Secretary of State - United States
Hamilton Fish age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 12
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William M. Evarts age 39
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 28
Secretary of State - United States
John W. Foster age 20
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 24
Secretary of State - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 16
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 39
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 21
Secretary of State - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 29
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Jeremiah S. Black age 47
Secretary of State - United States
John Adams Dix age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 57
Secretary of War - United States
Caleb Cushing age 57
Attorney General - United States
George S. Boutwell age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Schofield age 25
Secretary of War - United States
John B. Floyd age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Alphonso Taft age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Windom age 29
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Howell Cobb age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 33
Attorney General - United States
William P. Fessenden age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 63
Attorney General - United States
Charles Foster age 28
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 22
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 31
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William W. Belknap age 27
Secretary of War - United States
Charles J. Folger age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 14
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 24
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 11
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Joseph Holt age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Redfield Proctor age 25
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 24
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 25
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Guthrie age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Judson Harmon age 11
Attorney General - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 38
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 30
Secretary of War - United States
William Harcourt age 29
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Speed age 44
Attorney General - United States
George W. McCrary age 21
Secretary of War - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 42
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 36
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 39
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 19
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 35
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh Childers age 29
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 40
Attorney General - United States
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 58
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Stanbery age 54
Attorney General - United States
Daniel S. Lamont age 6
Secretary of War - United States
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 40
Attorney General - United States
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 33
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 23
Attorney General - United States
William H. H. Miller age 16
Attorney General - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 14
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 31
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 31
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom