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Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850

Belgian Revolution 1830-08-25 - 1831-07-21

Black Hawk War 1832-04-06 - 1832-08-27

Reform Act 1832 1832-06-07

Slavery Abolition Act 1833 1833-08-28

Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14

First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29

Treaty of Waitangi 1840-02-06

Treaty of Nanking 1842-08-29

First Morse telegraph line 1844-05-24

Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852

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

Repeal of the Corn Laws 1846-06-25

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

Sonderbund War 1847-11-03 - 1847-11-29

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 - 1868

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

Convention of Kanagawa 1854-03-31

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

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 Náchod 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Langensalza (1866) 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

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 Guangzhou Uprising 1895-10-26

Progressive era 1896 - 1916

Battle of Adwa 1896-03-01

1896 Summer Olympics 1896-04-06 - 1896-04-15

People

Vasily Blyukher born 1889-12-01

Fuad I of Egypt born 1868-03-26

Nicolae Iorga born 1871-06-05

Rómulo Gallegos born 1884-08-02

Maurice Gamelin born 1872-09-20

Georg Michaelis born 1857-09-08

Georg von Hertling born 1843-08-31

Constantin Fehrenbach born 1852-01-11

Jan Smuts born 1870-05-24

Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar born 1872-06-21

Guadalupe Victoria age 44

Chris Watson born 1867-04-09

Robert Menzies born 1894-12-20

Lauri Kristian Relander born 1883-05-31

Francisco Largo Caballero born 1869-10-15

C. Rajagopalachari born 1878-12-10

Günther von Kluge born 1882-10-30

Yakov Sverdlov born 1885-06-03

Djemal Pasha born 1872-05-06

Wilhelm Cuno born 1876-07-02

Ichirō Hatoyama born 1883-01-01

Ivanoe Bonomi born 1873-10-18

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 59

Zewditu born 1876-04-29

Fritz Todt born 1891-09-04

Ismail Kemal born 1844-01-16

Andrew Fisher born 1862-08-29

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi born 1884-11-24

Manuel Roxas born 1892-01-01

Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30

Terauchi Masatake born 1852-02-05

Hara Takashi born 1856-03-15

Wilfrid Laurier born 1841-11-20

Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg born 1896-01-23

Wang Jingwei born 1883-05-04

David Farragut age 30

Inukai Tsuyoshi born 1855-06-04

Paul Reynaud born 1878-10-15

Henry L. Stimson born 1867-09-21

John Curtin born 1885-01-08

Ásgeir Ásgeirsson born 1894-05-13

Victoriano Huerta born 1850-12-22

Ignacy Mościcki born 1867-12-01

José Paciano Laurel born 1891-03-09

Sergio Osmeña born 1878-09-09

Rodolfo Graziani born 1882-08-11

Charles Evans Hughes born 1862-04-11

Earl Warren born 1891-03-19

Tokugawa Yoshinobu born 1837-10-28

Louis St. Laurent born 1882-02-01

Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg born 1894-06-14

Khorloogiin Choibalsan born 1895-02-08

Elpidio Quirino born 1890-11-16

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax born 1881-04-16

William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 71

Venceslau Brás born 1868-02-26

James F. Byrnes born 1882-05-02

Arthur Meighen born 1874-06-16

Georgios Papandreou born 1888-02-13

Zalman Shazar born 1889-12-22

Robert Nivelle born 1856-10-15

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf born 1852-11-11

Maxime Weygand born 1867-01-21

Kuniaki Koiso born 1880-03-22

Kijūrō Shidehara born 1872-09-13

Hong Xiuquan age 17

Nilo Peçanha born 1867-10-02

François Darlan born 1881-08-07

George Meade age 15

Emilio De Bono born 1866-03-19

George Reid born 1845-02-25

Earle Page born 1880-08-08

Pál Teleki born 1879-11-01

Jānis Čakste born 1859-09-14

Per Albin Hansson born 1885-10-28

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora born 1877-07-06

F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 48

Saionji Kinmochi born 1849-12-07

Antonio Salandra born 1853-08-13

Luigi Facta born 1861-09-13

Rodrigues Alves born 1848-07-07

Afonso Pena born 1847-11-30

Eurico Gaspar Dutra born 1883-05-18

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 65

Habibullah Khan born 1872-06-03

S. M. Bruce born 1883-04-15

Ugyen Wangchuck born 1862-06-11

Richard Bedford Bennett born 1870-07-03

Abraham Kuyper born 1837-10-29

Anastasio Somoza García born 1896-02-01

Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski born 1895-06-01

Tanaka Giichi born 1864-06-22

Tanzan Ishibashi born 1884-09-25

Sidney Sonnino born 1847-03-11

Washington Luís born 1869-10-26

Joseph Cook born 1860-12-07

Karl Seitz born 1869-09-04

Michael Hainisch born 1858-08-15

William Tubman born 1895-11-29

William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg born 1852-04-22

Pedro Lascuráin born 1856-05-08

Khawaja Nazimuddin born 1894-07-19

Wellington Koo born 1888-01-29

Sunjong of the Korean Empire born 1874-03-25

Yamamoto Gonnohyōe born 1852-11-26

Nobuyuki Abe born 1875-11-24

Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni born 1887-12-03

Tetsu Katayama born 1887-07-28

Hitoshi Ashida born 1887-11-15

Campos Sales born 1841-02-15

Artur Bernardes born 1875-08-08

Avery Brundage born 1887-09-28

Bernardino Rivadavia age 51

Apolinario Mabini born 1864-07-22

Robert H. Jackson born 1892-02-13

Fan S. Noli born 1882-01-06

James Scullin born 1876-09-18

Arthur Fadden born 1894-04-13

Ben Chifley born 1885-09-22

Joseph Lyons born 1879-09-15

Adolf Schärf born 1890-04-20

Theodor Körner born 1873-04-24

Kazys Grinius born 1866-12-17

Óscar Carmona born 1869-11-24

Juan Negrín born 1892-02-03

Hugo Sperrle born 1885-02-07

Katō Takaaki born 1860-01-03

Saitō Makoto born 1858-10-27

Kantarō Suzuki born 1868-01-18

Paolo Boselli born 1838-06-08

Francesco Saverio Nitti born 1868-07-19

Dwight F. Davis born 1879-07-05

Mark W. Clark born 1896-05-01

Epitácio Pessoa born 1865-05-23

Hussein Kamel of Egypt born 1853-10-21

John Hay born 1838-10-08

Robert Borden born 1854-06-26

Arturo Alessandri born 1868-12-20

Saad Zaghloul born 1857-01-01

Väinö Tanner born 1881-03-12

Mihály Károlyi born 1875-03-04

Aleksandras Stulginskis born 1885-02-26

Adolfo de la Huerta born 1881-05-26

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines born 1890-12-30

Takahashi Korekiyo born 1854-07-27

Giuseppe Zanardelli age 4

Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay born 1887-06-21

Félix Gouin born 1884-10-04

Kōki Hirota born 1878-02-14

Aimo Cajander born 1879-04-04

Louis II, Prince of Monaco born 1870-07-12

John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe born 1859-12-05

Teófilo Braga born 1843-02-24

Petru Groza born 1884-12-07

Zhang Zuolin born 1875-03-19

Juan Vicente Gómez born 1857-07-24

Władysław Raczkiewicz born 1885-01-23

James Longstreet age 10

Nathan Bedford Forrest age 10

Vasily Chapayev born 1887-02-09

J. Sigfrid Edström born 1870-11-21

Al Smith born 1873-12-30

Kiichirō Hiranuma born 1867-09-28

Robert Lansing born 1864-10-17

William, Prince of Albania born 1876-03-26

István Tisza born 1861-04-22

Thorvald Stauning born 1873-10-26

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy born 1892-09-08

Ali Fethi Okyar born 1880-04-29

Stanisław Wojciechowski born 1869-03-15

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 5

P. G. T. Beauregard age 13

Katō Tomosaburō born 1861-02-22

Hermes da Fonseca born 1855-05-12

Stafford Cripps born 1889-04-24

Henry Morgenthau Jr. born 1891-05-11

W. Averell Harriman born 1891-11-15

Roque Sáenz Peña born 1851-03-19

Aleksandar Stamboliyski born 1879-03-01

Tomás Estrada Palma born 1835-07-09

Jaan Tõnisson born 1868-12-22

Alexandros Zaimis born 1855-11-21

Seán T. O'Kelly born 1882-08-25

Emilio Portes Gil born 1890-10-03

Alexandru Averescu born 1859-03-21

Kiyoura Keigo born 1850-02-14

Okada Keisuke born 1868-01-20

Senjūrō Hayashi born 1876-02-23

Mitsumasa Yonai born 1880-03-02

Ferruccio Parri born 1890-01-19

Delfim Moreira born 1868-11-07

Henri de Baillet-Latour born 1876-03-01

Andrew Mellon born 1855-03-24

Matthias Erzberger born 1875-09-20

Raymond A. Spruance born 1886-07-03

Tôn Đức Thắng born 1888-08-20

Frank Forde born 1890-07-18

Lauri Ingman born 1868-06-30

Alexandros Papagos born 1883-12-09

Zoltán Tildy born 1889-11-18

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