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Explore January 1, 1873 – April 17, 1913

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Events

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
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
Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
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
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
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
Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01
Sinking of the Titanic 1912-04-14 - 1912-04-15
First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30
Battle of Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23
Battle of Kirk Kilisse 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-24
Battle of Kumanovo 1912-10-23 - 1912-10-24
Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23
Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02
Battle of Prilep 1912-11-03 - 1912-11-05
Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913) 1912-11-03 - 1913-03-26
Battle of Monastir 1912-11-16 - 1912-11-19
First Battle of Çatalca 1912-11-17 - 1912-11-18
Battle of Elli 1912-12-16 - 1912-12-16
Battle of Bizani 1913-03-04 - 1913-03-06

People

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 21
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 35
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Devens age 52
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 55
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James Clark McReynolds age 10
Attorney General - United States
Hugh Childers age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 56
Attorney General - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 13
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 21
Secretary of War - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 39
Attorney General - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 4
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller age 32
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 23
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young age 32
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 34
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 30
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John C. Bates age 30
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 23
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 47
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Franklin Bell age 16
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Butler Loomis age 11
Secretary of State - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 21
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 31
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 25
Secretary of State - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 31
Secretary of War - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 9
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 6
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Andrew Bonar Law age 14
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 9
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 10
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 2
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Bright age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 34
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 41
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 23
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice age 26
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford age 12
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Hobhouse age 10
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 28
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 16
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
George Barnes age 14
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Langalibalele Dube age 1
President - African National Congress
Edward Martyn age 13
President - Sinn Féin
John Sweetman age 28
President - Sinn Féin
Arthur Griffith age 1
President - Sinn Féin
Franklin D. Roosevelt born 1882-01-30
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
James Alexander Hamilton age 84
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Andrew Johnson age 64
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 12
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 63
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 48
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 73
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 46
Senate - United States
John W. Weeks age 12
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 62
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 59
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 40
Senate - United States
Stanley Baldwin age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley born 1877-11-24
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 4
House of Representatives - United States
George Curzon age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax born 1881-04-16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes born 1882-05-02
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nathaniel P. Banks age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon born 1873-02-28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery born 1873-11-22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood born 1880-02-24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. Mitchell Palmer age 8 months
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 56
House of Representatives - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 8
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery born 1895-07-08
House of Representatives - United States
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven born 1874-04-27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet born 1876-05-27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 4
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 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Shortt age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 45
House of Representatives - United States
William S. Rosecrans age 53
House of Representatives - United States
William Adamson age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George B. McClellan age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Samuel J. Tilden age 58
Governor of New York - United States
Hiram Johnson age 6
Governor of California - United States
James M. Cox age 2
Governor of Ohio - United States
John Adams Dix age 74
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 26
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph T. Robinson age 4 months
Governor of Arkansas - United States
George Stoneman age 50
Governor of California - United States
James L. Kemper age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
George C. Perkins age 33
Governor of California - United States
Newton Booth age 47
Governor of California - United States
William Allen age 69
Governor of Ohio - United States
David B. Hill age 29
Governor of New York - United States
Romualdo Pacheco age 41
Governor of California - United States
Jeff Davis age 10
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Davis Long age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 34
Governor of Texas - United States
Claude A. Swanson age 10
Governor of Virginia - United States
James P. Clarke age 18
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard Coke age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
James H. Berry age 31
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 17
Governor of Texas - United States
John C. Brown age 46
Governor of Tennessee - United States
James Budd age 21
Governor of California - United States
Washington Bartlett age 48
Governor of California - United States
William T. Hamilton age 52
Governor of Maryland - United States
William B. Washburn age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
James Gillett age 12
Governor of California - United States
Henry Markham age 32
Governor of California - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Meade Fishback age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Winthrop M. Crane age 19
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William E. Russell age 15
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 22
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Jim Hogg age 21
Governor of Texas - United States
John Walter Smith age 27
Governor of Maryland - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
Phillips Lee Goldsborough age 7
Governor of Maryland - United States
George Pardee age 15
Governor of California - United States
Thomas Mitchell Campbell age 16
Governor of Texas - United States
Elisha Baxter age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert Waterman age 46
Governor of California - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 37
Governor of New York - United States
William Irwin age 45
Governor of California - United States
James Black Groome age 34
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 57
Governor of Maryland - United States
William Read Miller age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Q. A. Brackett age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Andrew L. Harris age 37
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry T. Gage age 20
Governor of California - United States
S. W. T. Lanham age 26
Governor of Texas - United States
James Philip Eagle age 35
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 40
Governor of Texas - United States
James E. Campbell age 29
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
John S. Little age 21
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William E. Cameron age 30
Governor of Virginia - United States
Oscar Branch Colquitt age 11
Governor of Texas - United States
Edward Follansbee Noyes age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Myron T. Herrick age 18
Governor of Ohio - United States
Samuel M. Ralston age 15
Governor of Indiana - United States
William Pinkney Whyte age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States