✦ 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 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
Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-03
Siege of Santiago 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-17
Puerto Rico campaign 1898-07-25 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Manila (1898) 1898-08-13 - 1898-08-13
Wuxu Coup 1898-09-22
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05
Battle of Quingua 1899-04-23 - 1899-04-23

People

Queen Victoria age 51
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 49
President - United States
James A. Garfield age 39
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 34
President - United States
William McKinley age 28
President - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 48
President - United States
Benjamin Harrison age 37
President - United States
Chester A. Arthur age 41
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 12
Emperor - German Empire
Alexander II of Russia age 53
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 28
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 26
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 36
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 18
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 74
Emperor - German Empire
Benito Juárez age 65
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 74
President - France
Porfirio Díaz age 40
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 51
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 45
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 62
President - France
Frederick III, German Emperor age 39
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy age 27
King - Italy
Abdulaziz age 41
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V age 30
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Jules Grévy age 63
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 33
President - France
Deodoro da Fonseca age 43
President - Brazil
Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 39
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 30
President - France
Émile Loubet age 32
President - France
Menelik II age 26
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 23
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt born 1874-07-14
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 18
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 15
Emperor - Imperial China
Floriano Peixoto age 32
President - Brazil
Prudente de Morais age 29
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 18
Shah - Iran
Campos Sales age 30
President - Brazil
Tewfik Pasha age 18
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 48
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 33
Emperor - Ethiopia
Charles Dupuy age 19
President - France
Manuel González age 37
President - Mexico
José María Iglesias age 48
President - Mexico
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 11
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 56
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 74
Emperor - Ethiopia
Nicholas II of Russia age 2
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 40
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 40
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 56
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Pierre de Coubertin age 8
President - International Olympic Committee
William Ewart Gladstone age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 29
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 41
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 33
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 40
Chancellor - German Empire
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 24
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 28
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 32
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 52
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 36
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 36
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 30
Prime Minister - Japan
Agostino Depretis age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Lanza age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Sanjō Sanetomi age 34
Prime Minister - Japan
Luigi Pelloux age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 31
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 45
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 39
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 30
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Salmon P. Chase age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 38
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 54
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry Wilson age 59
Vice President - United States
Garret Hobart age 26
Vice President - United States
Levi P. Morton age 47
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 51
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 48
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 51
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 35
Vice President - United States
Peng Dehuai born 1898-10-24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu born 1886-03-05
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long born 1896-03-22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
H. H. Asquith age 18
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 34
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 34
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 41
Secretary of State - United States
John Hay age 32
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 27
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Hamilton Fish age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 26
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William M. Evarts age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 42
Secretary of State - United States
John W. Foster age 35
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 39
Secretary of State - United States
William R. Day age 22
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 30
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 35
Secretary of State - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George S. Boutwell age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alphonso Taft age 60
Secretary of War - United States
William Windom age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 62
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 48
Attorney General - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 55
Secretary of War - United States
Russell A. Alger age 35
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Foster age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William W. Belknap age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Charles J. Folger age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 29
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 25
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 27
Attorney General - United States
Redfield Proctor age 39
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 38
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 25
Attorney General - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 34
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 35
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 51
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 54
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 33
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh Childers age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 54
Attorney General - United States
Daniel S. Lamont age 20
Secretary of War - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 38
Attorney General - United States
William H. H. Miller age 30
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 21
Attorney General - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 29
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 23
Secretary of State - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 29
Secretary of War - United States
Arthur Balfour age 22
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 33
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 25
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 56
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 32
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 40
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
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
Theodore Roosevelt age 12
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
James Alexander Hamilton age 83
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
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
Simon Cameron age 72
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 44
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 60
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 57
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 39
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 8
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
Joseph E. Johnston age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States