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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
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
Siege of Strasbourg 1870-08-16 - 1870-09-28
Battle of Mars-la-Tour 1870-08-16 - 1870-08-16
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
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

Lyman J. Gage age 30
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 31
Secretary of War - United States
Jacob M. Dickinson age 16
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 29
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 47
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 50
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 29
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 45
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Hugh Childers age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 50
Attorney General - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 7
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Stanbery age 64
Attorney General - United States
Daniel S. Lamont age 16
Secretary of War - United States
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 51
Attorney General - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 34
Attorney General - United States
William H. H. Miller age 26
Attorney General - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Griggs age 17
Attorney General - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 24
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John C. Bates age 24
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 17
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
J. Franklin Bell age 11
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Butler Loomis age 5
Secretary Of State - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 15
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 64
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 25
Secretary Of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 19
Secretary Of State - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 25
Secretary of War - United States
Ramsay MacDonald age 6 months
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Andrew Bonar Law age 8
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 74
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Arthur Henderson age 3
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 5
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Keir Hardie age 10
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
George Barnes age 8
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Langalibalele Dube born 1871-02-22
President - African National Congress
Edward Martyn age 8
President - Sinn Féin
John Sweetman age 22
President - Sinn Féin
Arthur Griffith born 1871-03-31
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Curtis age 7
Senate - United States
John Nance Garner born 1868-11-22
House of Representatives - United States
Woodrow Wilson age 10
Governor Of New Jersey - United States
Thomas R. Marshall age 13
Governor Of Indiana - United States
George B. McClellan age 40
Governor Of New Jersey - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 55
Governor of Georgia - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 48
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 31
Governor Of Virginia - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt born 1882-01-30
New York State Senate - United States
Calvin Coolidge born 1872-07-04
Massachusetts House Of Representatives - United States
Warren G. Harding age 1
Ohio Senate - United States
Pius X age 31
Pope - Vatican City
Leo XIII age 57
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII born 1886-05-17
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands born 1880-08-31
Queen - Netherlands
Isabella II age 36
Queen - Spain
Haakon VII of Norway born 1872-08-03
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 13
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 8
King - Sweden
Emilio Aguinaldo born 1869-03-22
President - Philippines
Charles XV age 40
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark born 1870-09-26
King - Denmark
Christian IX of Denmark age 49
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 9
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 38
King - Sweden
Amadeo I of Spain age 21
King - Spain
George Curzon age 8
Viceroy - British Raj
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 23
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 28
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh born 1881-01-01
King - Thailand
Abdur Rahman Khan age 27
Emir - Afghanistan
Sobhuza II born 1899-07-22
King - Eswatini
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg born 1894-06-14
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 49
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 18
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan born 1872-06-03
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 23
President - Argentina
Ugyen Wangchuck age 4
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 14
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Juan Vicente Gómez age 9
President - Venezuela
Roque Sáenz Peña age 16
President - Argentina
Yusef of Morocco born 1882-01-01
Sultan - Morocco
Abdelaziz of Morocco born 1878-02-24
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 10
President - Uruguay
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco born 1875-01-01
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 24
President - Ecuador
Manuel de Arriaga age 26
President - Portugal
Augusto Leguía age 4
President - Peru
Eduardo López de Romaña age 20
President - Peru
José Figueroa Alcorta age 6
President - Argentina
Manuel Quintana age 31
President - Argentina
Cipriano Castro age 8
President - Venezuela
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 35
Viceroy - British Raj
George Tupou II born 1874-06-18
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 26
King - Cambodia
Pedro Montt age 17
President - Chile
Germán Riesco age 12
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 3
President - Peru
Ramón Barros Luco age 31
President - Chile
Emilio Aceval age 13
President - Paraguay
Serapio Calderón age 23
President - Peru
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 16
President - Chile
Emiliano Figueroa age 9 months
President - Chile
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 17
Viceroy - British Raj
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 21
Viceroy - British Raj
José Manuel Pando age 17
President - Bolivia
Adolfo Díaz born 1875-07-15
President - Nicaragua
Arthur Barclay age 12
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 13
President - Nicaragua
Walter Hauser age 29
President - Switzerland
Manuel Gondra born 1872-01-01
President - Paraguay
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 5
President - Bolivia
José Manuel Marroquín age 39
President - Colombia
Marc-Emile Ruchet age 13
President - Switzerland
Ernst Brenner age 10
President - Switzerland
Josef Zemp age 32
President - Switzerland
Liberato Marcial Rojas born 1870-08-17
President - Paraguay
Andrés Héctor Carvallo age 4
President - Paraguay
Emiliano González Navero age 5
President - Paraguay
Leónidas Plaza age 1
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 46
President - Haiti
Adolf Deucher age 36
President - Switzerland
Eduard Müller age 18
President - Switzerland
Pablo Arosemena age 30
President - Panama
Cecilio Báez age 5
President - Paraguay
Juan Antonio Escurra age 7
President - Paraguay
Benigno Ferreira age 21
President - Paraguay
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo born 1867-09-12
President - Colombia
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 53
President - Colombia
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 8
President - Costa Rica
Ramón Cáceres age 4 months
President - Dominican Republic
Tomás Regalado age 5
President - El Salvador
William D. Coleman age 24
President - Liberia
Garretson W. Gibson age 34
President - Liberia
Robert Comtesse age 19
President - Switzerland
Ludwig Forrer age 22
President - Switzerland
Juan Bautista Gaona age 21
President - Paraguay
Albino Jara born 1877-02-28
President - Paraguay
John Lawrence age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Eliodoro Villazón age 19
President - Bolivia
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 22
President - Costa Rica
Daniel Edward Howard age 5
President - Liberia
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 41
Viceroy - British Raj
Elías Fernández Albano age 22
President - Chile
Emilio Estrada Carmona age 11
President - Ecuador
Manuel Enrique Araujo age 1
President - El Salvador
Fernando Figueroa age 17
President - El Salvador
Pedro José Escalón age 20
President - El Salvador
Cincinnatus Leconte age 12
President - Haiti
François C. Antoine Simon age 23
President - Haiti
Francisco Bertrand age 6 months
President - Honduras
Miguel R. Dávila age 10
President - Honduras
Manuel Bonilla age 17
President - Honduras
Pedro Peña age 2
President - Paraguay
Aníbal Zañartu age 20
President - Chile
Cleto González Víquez age 8
President - Costa Rica
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Ramón González Valencia age 15
President - Colombia
Isa I of Bahrain age 19
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 31
President - Haiti
Federico Boyd age 15
President - Panama
John Strachey age 43
Viceroy - British Raj
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 34
President - Haiti
Terencio Sierra age 27
President - Honduras
José Madriz age 6
President - Nicaragua
Juan José Estrada Morales born 1872-01-01
President - Nicaragua
Demetrio H. Brid age 7
President - Panama
Lerotholi age 31
King - Lesotho
Luis Mena born 1900-01-01
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Oquelí Bustillo age 11
President - Honduras
Euclídes de Angulo age 25
President - Colombia
Juan Ángel Arias Boquín age 7
President - Honduras
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 14
Emir - Qatar
José Dolores Estrada born 1869-01-01
President - Nicaragua
Vincenzo Mularoni born 1900-01-01
Captain Regent - San Marino
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 40
Viceroy - British Raj
Charles Hardinge age 8
Viceroy - British Raj
Rafael Reyes age 17
President - Colombia
Estanislao Figueras age 47
Head of State - Spain
Francesc Pi i Margall age 42
Head of State - Spain
Nicolás Salmerón age 29
Head of State - Spain
Emilio Castelar age 34
Head of State - Spain
Francisco Serrano age 56
Head of State - Spain
Pyotr Stolypin age 5
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Eleftherios Venizelos age 2
Prime Minister - Greece
Edmund Barton age 18
Prime Minister - Australia
Alfred Deakin age 10
Prime Minister - Australia
Sergei Witte age 17
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Christian Michelsen age 10
Prime Minister - Norway
Chris Watson age 0 months
Prime Minister - Australia
Andrew Fisher age 4
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 25
Prime Minister - Canada