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Events

California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26

Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30

Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31

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

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

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 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31

Emancipation reform of 1861 1861-03-03

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

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

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 Trautenau 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27

Battle of Náchod 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

Alaska Purchase 1867-03-30

Meiji Restoration 1868-01-03

Boshin War 1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27

Opening of the Suez Canal 1869-11-17

Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31

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 Spicheren 1870-08-06 - 1870-08-06

Battle of Wörth 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

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

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

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

Meiji Constitution 1889-02-11

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 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31

Battle of Adwa 1896-03-01

1896 Summer Olympics 1896-04-06 - 1896-04-15

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

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

Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09

Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05

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

Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16

Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22

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

Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-09-05

Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

1906 San Francisco earthquake 1906-04-18

People

Chaudhry Muhammad Ali born 1905-07-15

Oscar von Sydow born 1873-07-12

Ernst Trygger born 1857-10-27

Hashim al-Atassi born 1875-12-06

Seni Pramoj born 1905-05-26

Raúl Leoni born 1905-04-26

Władysław Grabski born 1874-07-07

Arnulfo Arias born 1901-08-15

José Luis Bustamante y Rivero born 1894-01-15

Winfield Scott Hancock age 29

Liu Bocheng born 1892-12-04

Albert Sidney Johnston age 50

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

Louis McLane age 66

Bainbridge Colby born 1869-12-22

Nasrullah Khan born 1874-01-01

Ramón Castillo born 1873-11-20

Boutros Ghali age 7

Ants Piip born 1884-02-28

Edwin Linkomies born 1894-12-22

Theodoros Pangalos born 1878-01-11

Nikolaos Plastiras born 1883-11-04

Xenophon Zolotas born 1904-03-26

Georgios Kondylis born 1879-08-26

Spyridon Lambros age 1

Miklós Kállay born 1887-01-23

Erik Eriksen born 1902-11-20

Dirk Jan de Geer born 1870-12-14

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

Jørgen Løvland age 5

José Mendes Cabeçadas born 1883-08-19

Gheorghe Tătărescu born 1886-11-02

Nicholas Golitsyn age 2

Aparicio Méndez born 1904-08-24

Aleksander Zawadzki born 1899-12-16

Maciej Rataj born 1884-02-19

Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro born 1889-08-12

William Gopallawa born 1897-09-17

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

He Long born 1896-03-22

Manlio Brosio born 1897-07-10

Dragiša Cvetković born 1893-01-15

J. Lawton Collins born 1896-05-01

Leonard Wood born 1860-10-09

Pedro Pablo Ramírez born 1884-01-30

Eduardo Lonardi born 1896-09-15

Michael Mayr born 1864-04-10

Alfons Gorbach born 1898-09-02

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

José Miguel Gómez born 1858-07-06

Mario García Menocal born 1866-12-17

Galo Plaza born 1906-02-17

Johan Wilhelm Rangell born 1894-10-25

Alexandros Koryzis born 1885-01-01

Pavlos Kountouriotis born 1854-01-01

Tiburcio Carías born 1876-03-05

Sándor Garbai born 1879-03-27

István Friedrich born 1883-07-01

Kálmán Darányi born 1886-03-22

Erik Scavenius born 1877-07-13

Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah born 1895-01-01

Edwin Barclay born 1882-01-05

Antanas Merkys born 1887-02-13

Peder Kolstad born 1878-11-28

António José de Almeida born 1866-07-17

Ion G. Duca born 1879-12-20

Iuliu Maniu born 1873-01-08

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod born 1872-02-27

Husni al-Za'im born 1897-01-01

H. H. Kung born 1881-09-11

Yen Hsi-shan born 1883-08-08

Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada born 1884-07-15

Stanisław Mikołajczyk born 1901-07-18

José Félix Estigarribia born 1888-02-21

Óscar R. Benavides born 1876-03-15

Don Stephen Senanayake born 1884-10-20

Diego Martínez Barrio born 1883-11-25

Irvin McDowell age 34

Miles Dempsey born 1896-12-15

Dirk Stikker born 1897-02-05

Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth born 1876-08-17

Rab Butler born 1902-12-09

Doihara Kenji born 1883-08-08

Harlan F. Stone born 1872-10-11

John M. Clayton age 56

Robert Bacon born 1860-07-05

Omer Nishani born 1887-02-05

Rudolf Ramek born 1881-04-12

Andrey Lyapchev born 1866-12-12

Johannes Vares born 1890-01-12

Antti Tulenheimo born 1879-12-04

Reino Ragnar Lehto born 1898-05-02

Rafael Erich born 1879-06-10

Ralf Törngren born 1899-03-01

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos born 1902-12-26

Károly Huszár born 1882-09-10

Gyula Károlyi born 1871-05-07

Béla Imrédy born 1891-12-29

Hermann Jónasson born 1896-12-25

Alexander Bustamante born 1884-02-24

Hendrikus Colijn born 1869-06-22

Jan Eduard de Quay born 1901-08-26

Riad Al Solh born 1893-01-01

Jens Hundseid born 1883-05-06

Taimur bin Faisal Al Said born 1886-01-01

Vladimir Kokovtsov born 1853-04-30

Boris Stürmer age 4

Giuseppe Motta born 1871-12-29

Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena born 1887-03-29

Eleazar López Contreras born 1883-05-05

Eusebio Ayala born 1875-08-14

Santiago Casares Quiroga born 1884-05-08

José Giral born 1879-10-22

Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas born 1859-11-05

Richard S. Ewell age 36

Robert Gould Shaw age 15

Seán Lemass born 1899-07-15

Hugh Gaitskell born 1906-04-09

Yoshijirō Umezu born 1882-01-04

Cai E born 1882-12-19

Francis Biddle born 1886-05-09

Léon Delacroix born 1867-12-27

Daniel Salamanca Urey born 1869-07-08

Vasil Radoslavov born 1854-07-27

Juan Luis Sanfuentes born 1858-12-27

Eduardo Santos born 1888-08-28

Otilio Ulate Blanco born 1891-08-25

Carlos Prío Socarrás born 1903-07-14

Oskari Mantere born 1874-09-18

Georgios Tsolakoglou born 1886-04-01

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes born 1895-10-17

Ferenc Nagy born 1903-10-08

Jón Þorláksson born 1877-03-03

Jón Magnússon born 1859-01-16

Carl Theodor Zahle born 1866-01-19

Niels Neergaard born 1854-06-27

Wim Schermerhorn born 1894-12-17

Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics born 1887-02-05

Peljidiin Genden born 1892-01-01

Keith Holyoake born 1904-02-11

Nurul Amin born 1893-07-15

João do Canto e Castro born 1862-05-19

Patriarch Miron of Romania born 1868-07-20

Gerhard Louis De Geer born 1854-11-27

Gustave Ador age 7

Nazim al-Kudsi born 1906-02-14

Juan Bautista Pérez born 1869-12-20

Kazimierz Bartel born 1882-03-03

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading born 1860-10-10

Robert Anderson age 47

George Pickett age 28

Sterling Price age 43

Richard O'Connor born 1889-08-21

Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma born 1891-09-11

Joseph Avenol born 1879-06-09

William Gibbs McAdoo born 1863-10-31

He Yingqin born 1890-04-02

Otto Rasch born 1891-12-07

Nathaniel Lyon age 34

John Bell Hood age 21

Shefqet Vërlaci born 1877-12-15

Otto Ender born 1875-12-24

Henri Carton de Wiart born 1869-01-31

Jules Renkin born 1862-12-03

Enrique Peñaranda born 1893-11-15

Enrique Hertzog born 1897-11-10

Ramón Barros Luco age 17

Juan Antonio Rios born 1888-11-10

Alfonso López Pumarejo born 1886-01-31

Mustafa al-Nahhas born 1879-06-15

Dimitrios Gounaris born 1866-01-05

Sofoklis Venizelos born 1894-11-03

Konstantinos Demertzis born 1876-11-07

Konstantinos Tsaldaris born 1884-04-14

Gyula Peidl born 1873-04-04

Móric Esterházy born 1881-04-27

Tryggvi Þórhallsson born 1889-02-09

Knud Kristensen born 1880-10-26

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal born 1876-12-24

Klaus Berntsen age 8

Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah born 1885-01-01

Jonas Staugaitis born 1868-05-20

Eulalio Gutiérrez born 1881-02-02

Otto Bahr Halvorsen born 1872-05-28

Manuel Teixeira Gomes born 1860-05-27

Alexandru Marghiloman born 1854-01-27

Recep Peker born 1889-02-05

Baltasar Brum born 1883-06-18

Aleksander Skrzyński born 1882-03-19

Federico Chávez born 1881-02-15

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