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Explore November 8, 1872 – October 23, 1904

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
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
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
Hague Convention of 1899 1899-07-29
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Siege of Mafeking 1899-10-13 - 1900-05-17
Siege of Kimberley 1899-10-14 - 1900-02-15
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Siege of Ladysmith 1899-11-02 - 1900-02-28
Battle of Tirad Pass 1899-12-02 - 1899-12-02
Battle of Magersfontein 1899-12-11 - 1899-12-11
Second Battle of Colenso 1899-12-15 - 1899-12-15
Battle of Spion Kop 1900-01-23 - 1900-01-24
Battle of Paardeberg 1900-02-18 - 1900-02-27
Seymour Expedition 1900-06-10 - 1900-06-26
Battle of Diamond Hill 1900-06-11 - 1900-06-12
Battle of the Taku Forts (1900) 1900-06-16 - 1900-06-17
Siege of the International Legations 1900-06-20 - 1900-08-14
Battle of Tientsin 1900-07-13 - 1900-07-14
Battle of Peking (1900) 1900-08-14 - 1900-08-15
Battle of Bergendal 1900-08-21 - 1900-08-27
Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
Federation of Australia 1901-01-01
Balangiga massacre 1901-09-28 - 1901-09-28
First flight of the Wright Flyer 1903-12-17
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09
Battle of the Yalu River 1904-04-30 - 1904-05-01
Battle of Nanshan 1904-05-24 - 1904-05-26
Battle of Te-li-ssu 1904-06-14 - 1904-06-15
Battle of Tashihchiao 1904-07-24 - 1904-07-25
Siege of Port Arthur 1904-08-01 - 1905-01-02
Battle of the Yellow Sea 1904-08-10 - 1904-08-10
Battle off Ulsan 1904-08-14 - 1904-08-14
Battle of Liaoyang 1904-08-25 - 1904-09-05
Battle of Shaho 1904-10-05 - 1904-10-17

People

Samuel Baldwin Marks Young age 32
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 33
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 30
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 47
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 21
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 31
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 25
Secretary of State - United States
Alfred Lyttelton age 15
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Edward Stanhope age 32
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby age 46
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon age 41
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford age 47
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 27
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Bright age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 53
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 34
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 41
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 23
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 23
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 27
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles H. Aldrich age 22
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
George A. Jenks age 36
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Henry M. Hoyt age 15
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Holmes Conrad age 32
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Goode age 43
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John K. Richards age 16
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Lawrence Maxwell Jr. age 19
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Orlow W. Chapman age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Samuel F. Phillips age 48
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles H. Allen age 24
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Andrew Johnson age 63
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 63
Senate - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 20
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 48
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 61
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 73
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 40
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 45
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 59
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 3
House of Representatives - United States
George Curzon age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 12
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 12
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nathaniel P. Banks age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery born 1895-07-08
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George B. McClellan age 45
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Samuel J. Tilden age 58
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams Dix age 74
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 26
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Stoneman age 50
Governor of California - United States
James L. Kemper age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
George C. Perkins age 33
Governor of California - United States
Newton Booth age 46
Governor of California - United States
William Allen age 68
Governor of Ohio - United States
David B. Hill age 29
Governor of New York - United States
Romualdo Pacheco age 41
Governor of California - United States
Jeff Davis age 10
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Davis Long age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 34
Governor of Texas - United States
James P. Clarke age 18
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard Coke age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
James H. Berry age 31
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 17
Governor of Texas - United States
John C. Brown age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
James Budd age 21
Governor of California - United States
Washington Bartlett age 48
Governor of California - United States
William T. Hamilton age 52
Governor of Maryland - United States
William B. Washburn age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
Henry Markham age 32
Governor of California - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Meade Fishback age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Winthrop M. Crane age 19
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William E. Russell age 15
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 22
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Jim Hogg age 21
Governor of Texas - United States
John Walter Smith age 27
Governor of Maryland - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
George Pardee age 15
Governor of California - United States
Elisha Baxter age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert Waterman age 45
Governor of California - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 37
Governor of New York - United States
William Irwin age 45
Governor of California - United States
James Black Groome age 34
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 57
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Read Miller age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Q. A. Brackett age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry T. Gage age 19
Governor of California - United States
S. W. T. Lanham age 26
Governor of Texas - United States
James Philip Eagle age 35
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 40
Governor of Texas - United States
James E. Campbell age 29
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
William E. Cameron age 29
Governor of Virginia - United States
Edward Follansbee Noyes age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Myron T. Herrick age 18
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Pinkney Whyte age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Benjamin Odell age 18
Governor of New York - United States
Gilbert C. Walker age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Gaston age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Ireland age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas L. Young age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George D. Robinson age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Andrew Jackson Montague age 10
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Hoge Tyler age 26
Governor of Virginia - United States
John P. Buchanan age 25
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Charles T. O'Ferrall age 32
Governor of Virginia - United States
George K. Nash age 30
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frank S. Black age 19
Governor of New York - United States
Joel Parker age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John L. Bates age 13
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Talbot age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frederic T. Greenhalge age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Alvin Peterson Hovey age 51
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Hoadly age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
Peter Turney age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John Lee Carroll age 42
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lucius Robinson age 62
Governor of New York - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Philip W. McKinney age 40
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph D. Sayers age 31
Governor of Texas - United States
Franklin Murphy age 26
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Conrad Baker age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Albert G. Porter age 48
Governor of Indiana - United States
Asa S. Bushnell age 38
Governor of Ohio - United States
Edwin Warfield age 24
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. age 27
Governor of Maryland - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 60
Governor of Ohio - United States
Leon Abbett age 36
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Claude Matthews age 26
Governor of Indiana - United States
James D. Williams age 64
Governor of Indiana - United States
Joseph D. Bedle age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Elihu Emory Jackson age 35
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank Brown age 26
Governor of Maryland - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
Winfield T. Durbin age 25
Governor of Indiana - United States
James A. Mount age 29
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry Lloyd age 20
Governor of Maryland - United States
David Ogden Watkins age 10
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George Theodore Werts age 26
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Foster McGowan Voorhees age 16
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ozra Amander Hadley age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Ira Joy Chase age 37
Governor of Indiana - United States
George C. Ludlow age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Robert S. Green age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Alfred H. Colquitt age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States