✦ History

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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Boshin War 1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27
Opening of the Suez Canal 1869-11-17
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 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
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
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
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
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
Young Turk Revolution 1908-07-03 - 1908-07-24
Ford Model T 1908-10-01

People

Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 30
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 26
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John C. Bates age 26
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 19
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Franklin Bell age 13
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Butler Loomis age 7
Secretary of State - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 17
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 27
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 21
Secretary of State - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 27
Secretary of War - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 5
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Henderson age 5
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 30
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 23
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 57
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 30
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 38
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 40
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton age 38
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 28
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 20
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice age 22
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 24
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 28
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 12
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Edward Martyn age 10
President - Sinn Féin
John Sweetman age 24
President - Sinn Féin
James Alexander Hamilton age 80
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Charles Curtis age 9
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 59
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 44
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 70
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 62
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 42
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 58
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 55
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 37
Senate - United States
Stanley Baldwin age 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 3 months
House of Representatives - United States
George Curzon age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 48
House of Representatives - United States
William Jennings Bryan age 8
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel born 1870-11-06
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 2
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nathaniel P. Banks age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon born 1873-02-28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes born 1869-03-27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 69
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 9 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 62
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 3 months
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate born 1877-05-10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 41
House of Representatives - United States
William S. Rosecrans age 49
House of Representatives - United States
George Barnes age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 1
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas R. Marshall age 14
Governor of Indiana - United States
George B. McClellan age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Charles Evans Hughes age 6
Governor of New York - United States
Samuel J. Tilden age 55
Governor of New York - United States
John Adams Dix age 70
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 22
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 33
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Stoneman age 46
Governor of California - United States
James L. Kemper age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
George C. Perkins age 29
Governor of California - United States
Newton Booth age 43
Governor of California - United States
William Allen age 65
Governor of Ohio - United States
David B. Hill age 25
Governor of New York - United States
Romualdo Pacheco age 37
Governor of California - United States
Jeff Davis age 6
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry Huntly Haight age 43
Governor of California - United States
John Davis Long age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 30
Governor of Texas - United States
Claude A. Swanson age 6
Governor of Virginia - United States
James P. Clarke age 14
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard Coke age 40
Governor of Texas - United States
James H. Berry age 27
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Powell Clayton age 35
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 13
Governor of Texas - United States
John C. Brown age 42
Governor of Tennessee - United States
James Budd age 17
Governor of California - United States
Washington Bartlett age 45
Governor of California - United States
William T. Hamilton age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
William B. Washburn age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
James Gillett age 8
Governor of California - United States
Henry Markham age 28
Governor of California - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Meade Fishback age 37
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Winthrop M. Crane age 15
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William E. Russell age 12
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 18
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Jim Hogg age 17
Governor of Texas - United States
John Walter Smith age 24
Governor of Maryland - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
George Pardee age 11
Governor of California - United States
Thomas Mitchell Campbell age 12
Governor of Texas - United States
Elisha Baxter age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert Waterman age 42
Governor of California - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 33
Governor of New York - United States
William Irwin age 41
Governor of California - United States
James Black Groome age 30
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 53
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Read Miller age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Q. A. Brackett age 26
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Andrew L. Harris age 33
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry T. Gage age 16
Governor of California - United States
S. W. T. Lanham age 22
Governor of Texas - United States
James Philip Eagle age 31
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
Theodore F. Randolph age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 36
Governor of Texas - United States
James E. Campbell age 25
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 41
Governor of Virginia - United States
John S. Little age 17
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William E. Cameron age 26
Governor of Virginia - United States
Edward Follansbee Noyes age 36
Governor of Ohio - United States
Myron T. Herrick age 14
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Pinkney Whyte age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 29
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Lewis Douglas age 23
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Benjamin Odell age 15
Governor of New York - United States
Gilbert C. Walker age 35
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Gaston age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Ireland age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas L. Young age 36
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George D. Robinson age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Andrew Jackson Montague age 6
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Hoge Tyler age 22
Governor of Virginia - United States
John P. Buchanan age 21
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Charles T. O'Ferrall age 28
Governor of Virginia - United States
Austin Lane Crothers age 8
Governor of Maryland - United States
George K. Nash age 26
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frank S. Black age 15
Governor of New York - United States
Curtis Guild Jr. age 9
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Joel Parker age 52
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John L. Bates age 9
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frank Hanly age 5
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry H. Wells age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Talbot age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Claflin age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frederic T. Greenhalge age 26
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Eben Sumner Draper age 10
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Washington Donaghey age 12
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Alvin Peterson Hovey age 47
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Hoadly age 42
Governor of Ohio - United States
Dewitt Clinton Senter age 38
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Frank W. Higgins age 12
Governor of New York - United States
Peter Turney age 41
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John I. Cox age 13
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John Lee Carroll age 38
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lucius Robinson age 58
Governor of New York - United States
John M. Pattison age 21
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 37
Governor of New York - United States
Philip W. McKinney age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph D. Sayers age 27
Governor of Texas - United States
Franklin Murphy age 23
Governor of New Jersey - United States