✦ History

Explore May 9, 1871 – July 10, 1899

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Paris Commune 1871-03-18 - 1871-05-28
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
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
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896-05-18
Sinking of the USS Maine 1898-02-15
Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Manila Bay 1898-05-01 - 1898-05-01
Bombardment of San Juan 1898-05-12 - 1898-05-12
Battle of Guantánamo Bay 1898-06-06 - 1898-06-14
Capture of Guam 1898-06-20 - 1898-06-21
Battle of Las Guasimas 1898-06-24 - 1898-06-24
Battle of San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Battle of El Caney 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Siege of Santiago 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-17
Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-03
Puerto Rico campaign 1898-07-25 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Manila (1898) 1898-08-13 - 1898-08-13
Wuxu Coup 1898-09-22
Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Battle of Quingua 1899-04-23 - 1899-04-23

People

Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 21
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 30
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 26
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Howard Taft age 13
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles H. Aldrich age 20
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
George A. Jenks age 35
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Holmes Conrad age 31
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Goode age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John K. Richards age 15
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Lawrence Maxwell Jr. age 18
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Orlow W. Chapman age 40
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Samuel F. Phillips age 47
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt age 12
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles H. Allen age 23
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Andrew Johnson age 62
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 61
Senate - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 19
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 46
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 60
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 72
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 39
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 44
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 57
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 11
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 50
House of Representatives - United States
William Jennings Bryan age 11
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Keir Hardie age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nathaniel P. Banks age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery born 1895-07-08
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George B. McClellan age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Samuel J. Tilden age 57
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams Dix age 72
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 24
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 35
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Stoneman age 48
Governor of California - United States
James L. Kemper age 47
Governor of Virginia - United States
George C. Perkins age 31
Governor of California - United States
Newton Booth age 45
Governor of California - United States
William Allen age 67
Governor of Ohio - United States
David B. Hill age 27
Governor of New York - United States
Romualdo Pacheco age 39
Governor of California - United States
Henry Huntly Haight age 46
Governor of California - United States
John Davis Long age 32
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 32
Governor of Texas - United States
James P. Clarke age 16
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard Coke age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
James H. Berry age 30
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 15
Governor of Texas - United States
John C. Brown age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
James Budd age 19
Governor of California - United States
Washington Bartlett age 47
Governor of California - United States
William T. Hamilton age 50
Governor of Maryland - United States
William B. Washburn age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
Henry Markham age 30
Governor of California - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 47
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Meade Fishback age 39
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William E. Russell age 14
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 20
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Jim Hogg age 20
Governor of Texas - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 55
Governor of Texas - United States
Elisha Baxter age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert Waterman age 44
Governor of California - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 35
Governor of New York - United States
William Irwin age 43
Governor of California - United States
James Black Groome age 33
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Read Miller age 47
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 40
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Q. A. Brackett age 28
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry T. Gage age 18
Governor of California - United States
James Philip Eagle age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Theodore F. Randolph age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
James E. Campbell age 27
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
William E. Cameron age 28
Governor of Virginia - United States
Edward Follansbee Noyes age 38
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Pinkney Whyte age 46
Governor of Maryland - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 31
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Gilbert C. Walker age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Gaston age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Ireland age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas L. Young age 38
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George D. Robinson age 37
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
James Hoge Tyler age 24
Governor of Virginia - United States
John P. Buchanan age 23
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Charles T. O'Ferrall age 30
Governor of Virginia - United States
Frank S. Black age 18
Governor of New York - United States
Joel Parker age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas Talbot age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Claflin age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frederic T. Greenhalge age 28
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Alvin Peterson Hovey age 49
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Hoadly age 44
Governor of Ohio - United States
Dewitt Clinton Senter age 41
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Peter Turney age 43
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John Lee Carroll age 40
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lucius Robinson age 60
Governor of New York - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 39
Governor of New York - United States
Philip W. McKinney age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph D. Sayers age 29
Governor of Texas - United States
Conrad Baker age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Albert G. Porter age 47
Governor of Indiana - United States
Asa S. Bushnell age 36
Governor of Ohio - United States
Benjamin F. Conley age 56
Governor of Georgia - United States
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. age 26
Governor of Maryland - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Leon Abbett age 34
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Claude Matthews age 25
Governor of Indiana - United States
James D. Williams age 63
Governor of Indiana - United States
Oden Bowie age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Joseph D. Bedle age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Elihu Emory Jackson age 33
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank Brown age 24
Governor of Maryland - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 42
Governor of Indiana - United States
James A. Mount age 28
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry Lloyd age 19
Governor of Maryland - United States
David Ogden Watkins age 8
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George Theodore Werts age 25
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Foster McGowan Voorhees age 14
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ozra Amander Hadley age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Ira Joy Chase age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
George C. Ludlow age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Robert S. Green age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Alfred H. Colquitt age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Allen D. Candler age 36
Governor of Georgia - United States
Henry Dickerson McDaniel age 34
Governor of Georgia - United States
James Milton Smith age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
James S. Boynton age 38
Governor of Georgia - United States
Rufus Bullock age 37
Governor of Georgia - United States
William J. Northen age 35
Governor of Georgia - United States
William Yates Atkinson age 16
Governor of Georgia - United States
William H. Seward age 70
New York State Senate - United States
Ogden L. Mills born 1884-08-23
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 61
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII born 1886-05-17
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands born 1880-08-31
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 17
King - Thailand
Emilio Aguinaldo age 2
President - Philippines
Charles XV age 45
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 53
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 13
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 42
King - Sweden
Amadeo I of Spain age 25
King - Spain
Carol I of Romania age 32
King - Kingdom of Romania
William III of the Netherlands age 54
King - Netherlands
Abdur Rahman Khan age 31
Emir - Afghanistan
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 60
President - Argentina
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 53
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 22
Prince - Monaco
Julio Argentino Roca age 27
President - Argentina
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 62
President - Liberia
Emilio Castelar age 38
Head of State - Spain
José Manuel Balmaceda age 30
President - Chile
Francesc Pi i Margall age 47
Head of State - Spain
Nicolás Avellaneda age 33
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco born 1878-02-24
Sultan - Morocco
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 35
President - Peru