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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Unification of Germany 1866-08-18 - 1871-05-10
Ten Years' War 1868-10-10 - 1878-02-10
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
Siege of Strasbourg 1870-08-16 - 1870-09-28
Battle of Mars-la-Tour 1870-08-16 - 1870-08-16
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
Capture of Rome 1870-09-20
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
Great Chicago Fire 1871-10-08 - 1871-10-10
Khivan campaign of 1873 1873-03-11 - 1873-06-14
Panic of 1873 1873-05-09
Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875-03-01
Great Sioux War of 1876 1876 - 1877-12-31
Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876 1876-02-26
Invention of the telephone 1876-03-10
Battle of the Little Bighorn 1876-06-25 - 1876-06-26
Satsuma Rebellion 1877-01-29 - 1877-09-24
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
Congress of Berlin 1878-06-13 - 1878-07-13
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
Mahdist War 1881-06-29 - 1899-11-24
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06
Anglo-Egyptian War 1882-07-11 - 1882-09-13
1883 eruption of Krakatoa 1883-08-26 - 1883-08-27
Franco-Hova Wars 1883-12 - 1895-09-30
Siege of Khartoum 1884-03-13 - 1885-01-26
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
Second Franco-Dahomean War 1892-07-04 - 1894-01-15
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
Cuban War of Independence 1895-02-24 - 1898-08-12
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 El Caney 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Battle of San Juan Hill 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
Battle of Omdurman 1898-09-02
Fashoda Incident 1898-09-18 - 1898-11-03
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
War of the Golden Stool 1900-03 - 1900-09-30
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
Herero and Nama genocide 1904 - 1908
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
Einstein's annus mirabilis papers 1905
Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22
Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16
Battle of Sandepu 1905-01-25 - 1905-01-29
Battle of Mukden 1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Battle of Tsushima 1905-05-27 - 1905-05-28
Maji Maji Rebellion 1905-07 - 1907-08
Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-09-05
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

People

L. M. Shaw age 21
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 28
Secretary of War - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 33
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 42
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 34
Secretary of War - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 55
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 49
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 52
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 32
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh Childers age 42
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 53
Attorney General - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 10
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 44
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 19
Secretary of War - United States
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 53
Attorney General - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 36
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Smith age 44
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller age 29
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 20
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young age 29
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 31
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 27
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John C. Bates age 27
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 20
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 44
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Butler Loomis age 8
Secretary of State - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 18
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 28
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 22
Secretary of State - United States
Alfred Lyttelton age 13
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Edward Stanhope age 29
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby age 43
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon age 38
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford age 44
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 7
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 13
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 31
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 24
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 58
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Edward Martyn age 11
President - Sinn Féin
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 39
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton age 39
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 20
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 25
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles H. Aldrich age 19
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
George A. Jenks age 33
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Henry M. Hoyt age 13
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Holmes Conrad age 30
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Goode age 40
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John K. Richards age 13
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Lawrence Maxwell Jr. age 16
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Orlow W. Chapman age 39
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Samuel F. Phillips age 45
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Truman H. Newberry age 5
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles H. Allen age 21
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Frank W. Hackett age 28
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles Hial Darling age 11
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Andrew Johnson age 61
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 60
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 45
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 59
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 70
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 38
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 43
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 56
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 1
House of Representatives - United States
George Curzon age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 10
House of Representatives - United States
John C. Breckinridge age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 9
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel born 1870-11-06
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nathaniel P. Banks age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon born 1873-02-28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John W. Weeks age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 10 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 70
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 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate born 1877-05-10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George B. McClellan age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Samuel J. Tilden age 56
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams Dix age 71
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 23
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 34
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Stoneman age 47
Governor of California - United States
James L. Kemper age 46
Governor of Virginia - United States
George C. Perkins age 30
Governor of California - United States
Newton Booth age 44
Governor of California - United States
William Allen age 66
Governor of Ohio - United States
David B. Hill age 26
Governor of New York - United States
Romualdo Pacheco age 38
Governor of California - United States
Jeff Davis age 7
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry Huntly Haight age 44
Governor of California - United States
John Davis Long age 31
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 31
Governor of Texas - United States
Claude A. Swanson age 7
Governor of Virginia - United States
James P. Clarke age 15
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard Coke age 40
Governor of Texas - United States
James H. Berry age 28
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Powell Clayton age 36
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 14
Governor of Texas - United States
John C. Brown age 43
Governor of Tennessee - United States
James Budd age 18
Governor of California - United States
Washington Bartlett age 45
Governor of California - United States
William T. Hamilton age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
William B. Washburn age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Henry Markham age 29
Governor of California - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Meade Fishback age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Winthrop M. Crane age 16
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William E. Russell age 13
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 19
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Jim Hogg age 18
Governor of Texas - United States
John Walter Smith age 25
Governor of Maryland - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
George Pardee age 12
Governor of California - United States
Elisha Baxter age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert Waterman age 43
Governor of California - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 34
Governor of New York - United States
William Irwin age 42
Governor of California - United States
James Black Groome age 31
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Read Miller age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 39
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 39
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Q. A. Brackett age 27
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Henry T. Gage age 17
Governor of California - United States
S. W. T. Lanham age 23
Governor of Texas - United States
James Philip Eagle age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Theodore F. Randolph age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 37
Governor of Texas - United States
James E. Campbell age 26
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 41
Governor of Virginia - United States
William E. Cameron age 27
Governor of Virginia - United States
Edward Follansbee Noyes age 37
Governor of Ohio - United States
Myron T. Herrick age 15
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Pinkney Whyte age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 30
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Lewis Douglas age 24
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Benjamin Odell age 16
Governor of New York - United States
Gilbert C. Walker age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Gaston age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Ireland age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas L. Young age 37
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George D. Robinson age 36
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Andrew Jackson Montague age 7
Governor of Virginia - United States