Explore April 16, 1839 – August 6, 1908

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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Second Seminole War 1835-12-23 - 1842-08-14
First Opium War 1839-09-04 - 1842-08-29
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09-01 - 1852-12-31
Texas annexation 1845-12-29
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02
Siege of Fort Texas 1846-05-03 - 1846-05-09
Battle of Palo Alto 1846-05-08 - 1846-05-08
Battle of Resaca de la Palma 1846-05-09 - 1846-05-09
Battle of Monterrey 1846-09-21 - 1846-09-24
Battle of San Pasqual 1846-12-06 - 1846-12-07
Battle of El Brazito 1846-12-25 - 1846-12-25
Battle of Río San Gabriel 1847-01-08 - 1847-01-09
Battle of Buena Vista 1847-02-22 - 1847-02-23
Battle of the Sacramento River 1847-02-28 - 1847-02-28
Siege of Veracruz 1847-03-09 - 1847-03-29
Battle of Cerro Gordo 1847-04-18 - 1847-04-18
Battle of Contreras 1847-08-19 - 1847-08-20
Battle of Churubusco 1847-08-20 - 1847-08-20
Battle of Molino del Rey 1847-09-08 - 1847-09-08
Battle of Chapultepec 1847-09-12 - 1847-09-13
Siege of Puebla (1847) 1847-09-14 - 1847-10-12
Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
The Communist Manifesto published 1848-02-21
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Seneca Falls Convention 1848-07-19 - 1848-07-20
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Great Exhibition 1851-05-01 - 1851-10-15
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24
Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857-05-10 - 1858-11-01
Publication of On the Origin of Species 1859-11-24
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
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Battle of Fort Sumter 1861-04-12 - 1861-04-13
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 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
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
Battle of Appomattox Court House 1865-04-09
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
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
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 Gravelotte 1870-08-18
Siege of Metz 1870-08-20 - 1870-10-27
Battle of Sedan 1870-09-01
Siege of Paris (1870–1871) 1870-09-19 - 1871-01-28
Proclamation of the German Empire 1871-01-18
Second Enforcement Act 1871-02-28
Paris Commune 1871-03-18 - 1871-05-28
Third Enforcement Act 1871-04-20
Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875-03-01
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 1877-04-24 - 1878-03-03
Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04
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
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
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
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
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
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
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
Zhennanguan Uprising 1907-12-01

People

Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen born 1873-08-04
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas born 1860-09-05
Ricardo Samper Ibáñez born 1881-08-25
Gabino Bugallal y Araujo born 1861-02-19
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio born 1902-09-06
Trường Chinh born 1907-02-09
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud born 1906-01-01
Saud of Saudi Arabia born 1902-01-15
Ibn Saud born 1876-01-01
Georgy Zhukov born 1896-12-01
T. E. Lawrence born 1888-08-16
Faisal I of Iraq born 1885-05-20
Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia born 1872-06-06
Grigori Rasputin born 1869-01-21
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia born 1895-11-15
Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia born 1897-06-10
Maria Nikolaevna of Russia born 1899-06-26
Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia born 1901-06-18
Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia born 1904-08-12
William Tecumseh Sherman age 19
Stonewall Jackson age 15
Clara Barton age 17
Jeongye Daewongun age 54
Heungseon Daewongun age 18
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel born 1875-10-31
Subhas Chandra Bose born 1897-01-23
Lord Mountbatten born 1900-06-25
Rabindranath Tagore born 1861-05-07
Charles Hardinge born 1858-06-20
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford born 1868-08-12
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading born 1860-10-10
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax born 1881-04-16
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon born 1866-09-12
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow born 1887-09-24
Archibald Wavell born 1883-05-05
Arleigh Winston Scott born 1900-03-27
Du Xigui born 1875-11-12
Huang Fu born 1883-03-08
Aurelius Marie born 1904-12-23
Bernard Montgomery born 1887-11-17
Erwin Rommel born 1891-11-15
Joachim von Ribbentrop born 1893-04-30
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25
Erich von Falkenhayn born 1861-09-11
John French born 1852-09-28
Alexander von Kluck born 1846-05-20
Robert Nivelle born 1856-10-15
Enver Pasha born 1881-11-23
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf born 1852-11-11
P. G. T. Beauregard age 20
Robert Anderson age 33
Irvin McDowell age 20
Joseph E. Johnston age 32
James Longstreet age 18
Richard S. Ewell age 22
A. P. Hill age 13
J. E. B. Stuart age 6
George Pickett age 14
Winfield Scott Hancock age 15
Daniel Sickles age 19
Henry W. Slocum age 11
Oliver O. Howard age 8
George Sykes age 16
Ambrose Burnside age 14
Joseph Hooker age 24
Edwin V. Sumner age 42
William Buel Franklin age 16
John C. Pemberton age 24
James B. McPherson age 10
Thomas Armstrong Morris age 27
George Alexander Porterfield age 16
Franz Sigel age 14
Benjamin McCulloch age 27
Sterling Price age 29
David Farragut age 37
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 20
Mansfield Lovell age 16
Gustavus Woodson Smith age 17
Daniel Harvey Hill age 17
Charles Henry Davis age 32
Charles Ellet Jr. age 29
William S. Rosecrans age 19
Braxton Bragg age 22
John Alexander McClernand age 26
David Dixon Porter age 25
Thomas James Churchill age 15
Nathaniel P. Banks age 23
Franklin Gardner age 16
Quincy Adams Gillmore age 14
William Booth Taliaferro age 16
Robert Gould Shaw age 1
George H. Thomas age 22
William Mahone age 12
Franklin Buchanan age 38
William J. Hardee age 23
Stephen D. Lee age 5
Alfred Howe Terry age 11
William Lamb age 3
William H. C. Whiting age 15
Philip Henry Sheridan age 8
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 9
Fitzhugh Lee age 3
Horatio Gouverneur Wright age 19
Richard Herron Anderson age 17
James Edward Montgomery
B. R. Ambedkar born 1891-04-14
C. Rajagopalachari born 1878-12-10
Lin Biao born 1907-12-05
Liu Bocheng born 1892-12-04
Chen Yi born 1901-08-26
Li Zongren born 1890-08-13
Bai Chongxi born 1893-03-18
Du Yuming born 1904-11-28
Fu Zuoyi born 1895-06-02
Tang Enbo born 1899-09-20
Hugh Dowding born 1882-04-24
Fedor von Bock born 1880-12-03
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb born 1876-09-05
Maxime Weygand born 1867-01-21
Maurice Gamelin born 1872-09-20
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort born 1886-07-10
Albert Kesselring born 1885-11-30
Hugo Sperrle born 1885-02-07
Franz Halder born 1884-06-30
Walter Model born 1891-01-24
Günther von Kluge born 1882-10-30
Konstantin Rokossovsky born 1896-12-21
Nikolai Vatutin born 1901-12-16
Ivan Konev born 1897-12-28
Miles Dempsey born 1896-12-15
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski born 1899-03-01
Harold Alexander born 1891-12-10
Richard O'Connor born 1889-08-21
Rodolfo Graziani born 1882-08-11
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim born 1889-04-04
Giovanni Messe born 1883-12-10
Georg Stumme born 1886-07-29
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma born 1891-09-11
Yakov Sverdlov born 1885-06-03
Felix Dzerzhinsky born 1877-09-11
Mikhail Tukhachevsky born 1893-02-16
Semyon Budyonny born 1883-04-25
Mikhail Frunze born 1885-02-02
Lavr Kornilov born 1870-08-30
Anton Denikin born 1872-12-16
Alexander Kolchak born 1874-11-16
Pyotr Wrangel born 1878-08-27
Nikolai Yudenich born 1862-07-30
Nestor Makhno born 1888-11-07
Glubb Pasha born 1897-04-16
Fawzi al-Qawuqji born 1890-01-19
Djemal Pasha born 1872-05-06
Prince Albert age 19
Alexandra of Denmark born 1844-12-01
Mary of Teck born 1867-05-26
Wallis Simpson born 1896-06-19
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon born 1900-08-04
D. F. Malan born 1874-05-22
Bernardo O'Higgins age 60
C. R. Swart born 1894-12-05
Jim Fouché born 1898-06-06
Nicolaas Diederichs born 1903-11-17
Emmanuel de Grouchy age 72
Chūichi Nagumo born 1887-03-25