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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

Theodore Roosevelt age 10
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Queen Victoria age 49
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Ulysses S. Grant age 46
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James A. Garfield age 37
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Grover Cleveland age 31
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Andrew Johnson age 60
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William McKinley age 26
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Rutherford B. Hayes age 46
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Benjamin Harrison age 35
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Chester A. Arthur age 39
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Wilhelm II age 10
Emperor - German Empire
Napoleon III age 60
Emperor of the French - France
Edward VII age 27
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Alexander II of Russia age 50
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Abdul Hamid II age 26
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 23
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Leopold II of Belgium age 33
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 16
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Wilhelm I age 71
Emperor - German Empire
Benito Juárez age 62
President - Mexico
Puyi born 1906-02-07
Emperor - Imperial China
Adolphe Thiers age 71
President - France
Porfirio Díaz age 38
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 49
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 43
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 60
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy born 1869-11-11
King - Italy
Frederick III, German Emperor age 37
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy age 24
King - Italy
Abdulaziz age 39
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Murad V age 28
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Armand Fallières age 27
President - France
Jules Grévy age 61
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 31
President - France
Deodoro da Fonseca age 41
President - Brazil
Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 37
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 28
President - France
Émile Loubet age 30
President - France
Menelik II age 24
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 21
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt born 1874-07-14
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar born 1872-06-21
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 16
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 12
Emperor - Imperial China
Floriano Peixoto age 29
President - Brazil
Prudente de Morais age 27
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 15
Shah - Iran
Rodrigues Alves age 20
President - Brazil
Afonso Pena age 21
President - Brazil
Sunjong of the Korean Empire born 1874-03-25
Emperor - Korean Empire
Campos Sales age 28
President - Brazil
Tewfik Pasha age 16
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Tomás Estrada Palma age 33
President - Cuba
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 45
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 31
Emperor - Ethiopia
Charles Dupuy age 17
President - France
Manuel González age 35
President - Mexico
José María Iglesias age 46
President - Mexico
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 9
President - Guatemala
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 54
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 72
Emperor - Ethiopia
Nicholas II of Russia age 9 months
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 38
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 38
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Louis-Jules Trochu age 54
President - France
Otto von Bismarck age 53
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Pierre de Coubertin age 6
President - International Olympic Committee
Georges Clemenceau age 27
Prime Minister - France
William Ewart Gladstone age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 20
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 16
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 27
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 39
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 19
Chancellor - German Empire
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 32
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 31
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 38
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 21
Prime Minister - Japan
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 21
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 26
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 30
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 49
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 34
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 34
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 28
Prime Minister - Japan
Saionji Kinmochi age 19
Prime Minister - Japan
Agostino Depretis age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Sidney Sonnino age 21
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 42
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 29
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Saracco age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Alessandro Fortis age 26
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Lanza age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Tommaso Tittoni age 13
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Sanjō Sanetomi age 31
Prime Minister - Japan
Luigi Pelloux age 30
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 44
Prime Minister - Egypt
Boutros Ghali age 23
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 29
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 43
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 37
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 28
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 35
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Salmon P. Chase age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 36
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 52
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry Wilson age 57
Vice President - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 16
Vice President - United States
Garret Hobart age 24
Vice President - United States
Levi P. Morton age 44
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 49
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 45
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 49
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 33
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping born 1904-08-22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai born 1898-10-24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu born 1886-03-05
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi born 1901-08-26
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long born 1896-03-22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen born 1899-12-29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William Howard Taft age 11
Secretary of War - United States
David Lloyd George age 6
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Elihu Root age 24
Secretary of State - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 32
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 39
Secretary of State - United States
John Hay age 30
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 25
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Hamilton Fish age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 24
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William M. Evarts age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 40
Secretary of State - United States
John W. Foster age 33
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 36
Secretary of State - United States
William R. Day age 19
Secretary of State - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 28
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 33
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 15
Attorney General - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 17
Attorney General - United States
George S. Boutwell age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Schofield age 37
Secretary of War - United States
Alphonso Taft age 58
Secretary of War - United States
William Windom age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 45
Attorney General - United States
Reginald McKenna age 5
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 12
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Lot M. Morrill age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Russell A. Alger age 33
Secretary of War - United States
George B. Cortelyou age 6
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Foster age 40
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 34
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William W. Belknap age 39
Secretary of War - United States
Adna Chaffee age 26
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles J. Folger age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 26
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 23
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 25
Attorney General - United States
Redfield Proctor age 37
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 36
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 37
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 23
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Moody age 15
Attorney General - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
L. M. Shaw age 20
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 42
Secretary of War - United States
Luke Edward Wright age 22
Secretary of War - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 32
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 33
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 48
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 52
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 31
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh Childers age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 52
Attorney General - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 9
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 18
Secretary of War - United States
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 53
Attorney General - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 35
Attorney General - United States
William H. H. Miller age 28
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 19
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young age 28
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States