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Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
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 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
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
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
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
South Africa Act 1909 1910-05-31
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Second Guangzhou Uprising 1911-04-27
Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01
Sinking of the Titanic 1912-04-14 - 1912-04-15

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 14
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 53
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 50
President - United States
Sun Yat-sen age 6
Provisional President - Republic of China
James A. Garfield age 41
President - United States
William Howard Taft age 15
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Grover Cleveland age 35
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William McKinley age 30
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Rutherford B. Hayes age 50
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Chester A. Arthur age 43
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Wilhelm II age 14
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George V age 7
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Alexander II of Russia age 54
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 30
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Alexander III of Russia age 27
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Leopold II of Belgium age 37
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 20
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 75
Emperor - German Empire
Puyi born 1906-02-07
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Adolphe Thiers age 75
President - France
Porfirio Díaz age 42
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 52
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 47
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 64
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Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 3
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Frederick III, German Emperor age 41
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy age 28
King - Italy
Abdulaziz age 43
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed V age 28
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Albert I of Belgium born 1875-04-08
King - Belgium
Murad V age 32
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Francisco I. Madero born 1873-10-30
President - Mexico
Yuan Shikai age 13
President - Republic of China
Armand Fallières age 31
President - France
Jules Grévy age 65
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 35
President - France
Deodoro da Fonseca age 45
President - Brazil
Guangxu Emperor age 1
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 41
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 32
President - France
Émile Loubet age 34
President - France
Menelik II age 28
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 25
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt born 1874-07-14
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar born 1898-01-21
Shah - Iran
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 7 months
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 20
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 16
Emperor - Imperial China
Floriano Peixoto age 33
President - Brazil
Prudente de Morais age 31
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 19
Shah - Iran
Nilo Peçanha age 5
President - Brazil
Rodrigues Alves age 24
President - Brazil
Afonso Pena age 25
President - Brazil
Sunjong of the Korean Empire born 1874-03-25
Emperor - Korean Empire
Campos Sales age 32
President - Brazil
Tewfik Pasha age 20
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Hermes da Fonseca age 17
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 37
President - Cuba
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 49
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 35
Emperor - Ethiopia
Charles Dupuy age 21
President - France
Francisco León de la Barra age 9
President - Mexico
Manuel González age 39
President - Mexico
José María Iglesias age 50
President - Mexico
José Miguel Gómez age 14
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 13
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 4
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 42
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 42
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 57
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Pierre de Coubertin age 10
President - International Olympic Committee
Georges Clemenceau age 31
Prime Minister - France
William Ewart Gladstone age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 24
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 20
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Raymond Poincaré age 12
Prime Minister - France
Itō Hirobumi age 31
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 43
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 16
Chancellor - German Empire
Bernhard von Bülow age 23
Chancellor - German Empire
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 36
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 34
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 41
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 25
Prime Minister - Japan
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 25
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 30
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 34
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 53
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 37
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 37
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 32
Prime Minister - Japan
Saionji Kinmochi age 23
Prime Minister - Japan
Agostino Depretis age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Sidney Sonnino age 25
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 33
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Luzzatti age 31
Prime Minister - Italy
Marco Minghetti age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Saracco age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Alessandro Fortis age 30
Prime Minister - Italy
Louis Botha age 10
Prime Minister - South Africa
Giovanni Lanza age 63
Prime Minister - Italy
Tommaso Tittoni age 17
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Sanjō Sanetomi age 35
Prime Minister - Japan
Luigi Pelloux age 33
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Boutros Ghali age 27
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 33
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 41
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 32
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 39
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Said Pasha age 10
Prime Minister - Egypt
Salmon P. Chase age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Edward Douglass White age 27
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 40
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 56
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry Wilson age 61
Vice President - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 20
Vice President - United States
Garret Hobart age 28
Vice President - United States
Levi P. Morton age 48
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 53
Vice President - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 49
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 53
Vice President - United States
James S. Sherman age 17
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 37
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
Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 10
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 27
Secretary of State - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 36
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry L. Stimson age 5
Secretary of War - United States
James G. Blaine age 43
Secretary of State - United States
John Hay age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 29
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 49
Secretary of State - United States
Hamilton Fish age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 28
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William M. Evarts age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 44
Secretary of State - United States
John W. Foster age 36
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 40
Secretary of State - United States
William R. Day age 23
Secretary of State - United States
Leonard Wood age 12
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 32
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 37
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Bacon age 12
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 19
Secretary of State - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 21
Attorney General - United States
George S. Boutwell age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alphonso Taft age 62
Secretary of War - United States
William Windom age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 49
Attorney General - United States
Reginald McKenna age 9
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 16
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Lot M. Morrill age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 57
Secretary of War - United States
Russell A. Alger age 36
Secretary of War - United States
George B. Cortelyou age 10
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Foster age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 47
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William W. Belknap age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Adna Chaffee age 30
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles J. Folger age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 40
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 27
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 29
Attorney General - United States
Redfield Proctor age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 40
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 27
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Moody age 19
Attorney General - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
L. M. Shaw age 24
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Luke Edward Wright age 26
Secretary of War - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 37
Secretary of War - United States
Jacob M. Dickinson age 22
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 35
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Devens age 52
Attorney General - United States