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Events

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 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 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

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

Gyula Gömbös born 1886-12-26

Johan Nygaardsvold born 1879-09-06

Bernardino Machado born 1851-03-28

Hans-Jürgen von Arnim born 1889-04-04

Wakatsuki Reijirō born 1866-03-21

Hamaguchi Osachi born 1870-04-01

Luigi Luzzatti born 1841-03-11

René Viviani born 1863-11-08

Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 40

Ōyama Iwao born 1842-11-12

Joseph Gallieni born 1849-04-24

Christian Herter born 1895-03-28

José Félix Uriburu born 1868-07-20

Agustín Pedro Justo born 1876-02-26

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez born 1882-10-21

Döme Sztójay born 1883-01-05

Rashid Ali al-Gaylani born 1892-01-01

Yusef of Morocco born 1882-01-01

Sidónio Pais born 1872-05-01

Américo Tomás born 1894-11-19

Li Zongren born 1890-08-13

Christian Rakovsky born 1873-08-13

Ho Chong born 1896-04-08

Eduardo Dato born 1856-08-12

J. E. B. Stuart born 1833-02-06

Giuseppe Saracco age 9

Alessandro Fortis born 1842-09-16

Louis Botha born 1862-09-27

François Achille Bazaine age 20

Fevzi Çakmak born 1876-01-12

Nereu Ramos born 1888-09-03

Wilhelm Groener born 1867-11-22

Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear born 1868-10-04

Carlos Ibáñez del Campo born 1877-11-03

Pedro Aguirre Cerda born 1879-02-06

Otto Strandman born 1875-11-30

Toivo Mikael Kivimäki born 1886-06-05

Adone Zoli born 1887-12-16

Gustavs Zemgals born 1871-08-12

Abelardo L. Rodríguez born 1889-05-12

Francisco León de la Barra born 1863-06-16

Pascual Ortiz Rubio born 1877-03-10

Oscar Torp born 1893-06-08

Titu Maiorescu born 1840-02-15

Rickard Sandler born 1884-01-29

Carl Gustaf Ekman born 1872-10-06

Felix Hamrin born 1875-01-14

Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp born 1883-08-19

Arvid Lindman born 1862-09-19

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld born 1862-02-04

Shukri al-Quwatli born 1891-10-21

José Batlle y Ordóñez born 1856-05-21

Manuel Prado Ugarteche born 1889-04-21

Giovanni Messe born 1883-12-10

Tommaso Tittoni born 1855-11-16

José Linhares born 1886-01-28

Carlos Luz born 1894-08-04

William D. Leahy born 1875-05-06

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield born 1859-07-13

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel born 1870-11-06

James Forrestal born 1892-02-15

Vicente López y Planes age 46

Manuel Blanco Encalada age 41

Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook born 1879-05-25

Zeng Guofan age 19

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim born 1891-08-06

Julius Raab born 1891-11-29

Laureano Gómez born 1889-02-20

Gerardo Machado born 1871-09-28

Jüri Uluots born 1890-01-13

Juho Vennola born 1872-06-19

Mauno Pekkala born 1890-01-27

Kaarlo Castrén born 1860-02-28

István Bethlen born 1874-10-08

Nuri as-Said born 1888-01-01

Alberts Kviesis born 1881-12-22

Bechara El Khoury born 1890-08-10

Augustinas Voldemaras born 1883-04-16

Johan Ludwig Mowinckel born 1870-10-22

Ion I. C. Brătianu born 1864-08-20

Octavian Goga born 1881-04-01

T. V. Soong born 1891-12-04

Heungseon Daewongun age 10

Alexander von Kluck born 1846-05-20

Braxton Bragg age 14

Henry Halleck age 16

Pyotr Krasnov born 1869-09-22

Joseph Stilwell born 1883-03-19

J. G. Strijdom born 1893-07-14

W. T. Cosgrave born 1880-06-06

Iwane Matsui born 1878-07-27

Frank Jack Fletcher born 1885-04-29

Edelmiro Julián Farrell born 1887-02-12

Bogdan Filov born 1883-04-10

Sisowath Monivong born 1875-12-27

Norodom Suramarit born 1896-03-06

Kaarel Eenpalu born 1888-05-28

Juho Sunila born 1875-08-16

Noe Zhordania born 1868-01-14

Ferenc Münnich born 1886-11-18

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy born 1885-04-13

Joseph Bech born 1887-02-17

Francisco S. Carvajal born 1870-12-09

Abd al-Hafid of Morocco born 1875-01-01

Manuel Gomes da Costa born 1863-01-14

Carl Swartz born 1858-06-05

Joseph Hooker age 16

John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort born 1886-07-10

Luigi Pelloux born 1839-03-01

Lij Iyasu born 1895-02-04

Kimon Georgiev born 1882-08-11

László Bárdossy born 1890-12-10

Géza Lakatos born 1890-04-30

Ólafur Thors born 1892-01-19

Francisco Craveiro Lopes born 1894-04-12

Manuel de Arriaga born 1840-06-08

Armand Călinescu born 1893-06-04

Nils Edén born 1871-08-25

Hsu Shih-chang born 1855-10-23

Cao Kun born 1862-12-12

Feng Guozhang born 1859-01-07

Şükrü Saracoğlu born 1887-06-17

Ignacy Daszyński born 1866-10-26

Augusto Leguía born 1863-02-19

Eduardo López de Romaña born 1847-03-19

José Canalejas born 1854-07-31

Alejandro Lerroux born 1864-03-04

William H. Crawford age 59

John A. Costello born 1891-06-20

Rauf Orbay born 1881-07-27

Seishirō Itagaki born 1885-01-21

Friedrich Jeckeln born 1895-02-02

Thomas Gage age 113

Essad Toptani born 1863-01-01

Roberto Marcelino Ortiz born 1886-09-24

José Figueroa Alcorta born 1860-11-20

Victorino de la Plaza born 1840-11-02

Manuel Quintana born 1835-10-19

Johann Schober born 1874-11-14

Ignaz Seipel born 1876-07-19

Hubert Pierlot born 1883-12-23

Camille Huysmans born 1871-05-26

Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou born 1891-03-15

Jorge Ubico born 1878-11-10

Béla Miklós born 1890-06-11

Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa born 1894-02-15

Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg born 1889-03-21

Gunnar Knudsen born 1848-09-19

Oscar von Sydow born 1873-07-12

Ernst Trygger born 1857-10-27

Karl Staaff born 1860-01-21

Hashim al-Atassi born 1875-12-06

Cipriano Castro born 1858-10-12

Władysław Grabski born 1874-07-07

José Luis Bustamante y Rivero born 1894-01-15

Antonio Maura born 1853-05-02

Winfield Scott Hancock age 7

Liu Bocheng born 1892-12-04

Albert Sidney Johnston age 28

Claire Lee Chennault born 1893-09-06

J. B. M. Hertzog born 1866-04-03

Dušan Simović born 1882-10-28

Anton Korošec born 1872-05-12

Courtney Hodges born 1887-01-05

William R. Day born 1849-04-17

Bainbridge Colby born 1869-12-22

Nasrullah Khan born 1874-01-01

Ramón Castillo born 1873-11-20

Boutros Ghali born 1846-01-01

Ants Piip born 1884-02-28

Edwin Linkomies born 1894-12-22

Theodoros Pangalos born 1878-01-11

Nikolaos Plastiras born 1883-11-04

Georgios Kondylis born 1879-08-26

Spyridon Lambros born 1851-04-20

Miklós Kállay born 1887-01-23

Dirk Jan de Geer born 1870-12-14

Charles D. B. King born 1875-03-12

Jørgen Løvland born 1848-02-03

José Mendes Cabeçadas born 1883-08-19

Gheorghe Tătărescu born 1886-11-02

Nicholas Golitsyn born 1850-04-12

Ivan Goremykin born 1839-11-08

Maciej Rataj born 1884-02-19

Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro born 1889-08-12

Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones born 1863-05-09

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow born 1887-09-24

Georg Stumme born 1886-07-29

Matthew Ridgway born 1895-03-03

Dragiša Cvetković born 1893-01-15

J. Lawton Collins born 1896-05-01

Leonard Wood born 1860-10-09

Ramón Freire age 43

Robert Smith age 73

Pedro Pablo Ramírez born 1884-01-30

Michael Mayr born 1864-04-10

Georges Theunis born 1873-02-28

Paul van Zeeland born 1893-11-11

Aleksandar Tsankov born 1879-06-29

Mariano Ospina Pérez born 1891-11-24

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