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Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Assassination of Alexander II of Russia 1881-03-13
Mahdist War 1881-06-29 - 1899-11-24
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06
Anglo-Egyptian War 1882-07-11 - 1882-09-13
1883 eruption of Krakatoa 1883-08-26 - 1883-08-27
Franco-Hova Wars 1883-12 - 1895-09-30
Siege of Khartoum 1884-03-13 - 1885-01-26
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
Second Franco-Dahomean War 1892-07-04 - 1894-01-15
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 Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-01-13 - 1896-10-23
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
Battle of Omdurman 1898-09-02
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
War of the Golden Stool 1900-03 - 1900-09-30
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
Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 1910-08-22
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
First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30
Battle of Kirk Kilisse 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-24
Battle of Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23
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
Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913) 1912-11-03 - 1913-03-26
Battle of Prilep 1912-11-03 - 1912-11-05
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
Second Balkan War 1913-06-29 - 1913-08-10
Battle of Bregalnica 1913-06-30 - 1913-07-09
Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas 1913-07-02 - 1913-07-04
Battle of Kresna Gorge 1913-07-21 - 1913-07-31

People

Kliment of Tarnovo age 40
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Gyula Szapáry age 48
Prime Minister - Hungary
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Theodor Rosetti age 43
Prime Minister - Romania
Harry Atkinson age 49
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dimitar Petkov age 22
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Janko Vukotić age 14
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William Massey age 24
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Johannes Steen age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Francis Hagerup age 27
Prime Minister - Norway
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 13
Prime Minister - Portugal
Vladan Đorđević age 36
Prime Minister - Serbia
Leonid Sobolev age 36
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Dimitar Grekov age 33
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Æneas Mackay Jr. age 42
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Gijsbert van Tienhoven age 39
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Sotirios Sotiropoulos age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Joan Röell age 36
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Petar Gudev age 17
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Dimitar Stanchov age 17
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis age 32
Prime Minister - Greece
Joseph Ward age 24
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Frederick Whitaker age 68
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Todor Ivanchov age 23
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 28
Prime Minister - Nepal
Duarte Leite age 16
Prime Minister - Portugal
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Félix de Blochausen age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Kosta Protić age 49
Prime Minister - Serbia
João Franco age 25
Prime Minister - Portugal
Édouard Thilges age 63
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Christian Homann Schweigaard age 42
Prime Minister - Norway
Christian August Selmer age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Milutin Garašanin age 37
Prime Minister - Serbia
António Teixeira de Sousa age 23
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mitar Martinović age 10
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Thomas Mackenzie age 26
Prime Minister - New Zealand
William Hall-Jones age 29
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Gheorghe Manu age 47
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Stout age 36
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Andrija Radović age 8
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro age 31
Prime Minister - Portugal
Lazar Tomanović age 35
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Petar Velimirović age 32
Prime Minister - Serbia
John Hall age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lazar Dokić age 35
Prime Minister - Serbia
Francisco da Veiga Beirão age 39
Prime Minister - Portugal
José Luciano de Castro age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
Marko Radulović age 14
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Francisco Ferreira do Amaral age 36
Prime Minister - Portugal
José Dias Ferreira age 43
Prime Minister - Portugal
Lazar Mijušković age 13
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 35
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Marko Trifković age 16
Prime Minister - Serbia
João Crisóstomo de Abreu e Sousa age 69
Prime Minister - Portugal
António Rodrigues Sampaio age 74
Prime Minister - Portugal
Venceslau de Lima age 22
Prime Minister - Portugal
Artur de Campos Henriques age 27
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sebastião Teles age 33
Prime Minister - Portugal
Da Lam Tserenchimed age 12
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Enrique de la Riva Agüero Riglos age 23
Prime Minister - Peru
Pedro Alejandrino del Solar age 51
Prime Minister - Peru
Germán Schreiber age 19
Prime Minister - Peru
Javier Prado age 9
Prime Minister - Peru
Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 17
Prime Minister - Nepal
Dev Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 18
Prime Minister - Nepal
Ranodip Singh Kunwar age 55
Prime Minister - Nepal
Shirley Waldemar Baker age 44
Prime Minister - Tonga
Siaosi Tukuʻaho age 27
Prime Minister - Tonga
Sione Tupou Mateialona age 29
Prime Minister - Tonga
Siosateki Tonga age 28
Prime Minister - Tonga
Tevita Tuʻivakano age 11
Prime Minister - Tonga
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 20
Governor-General - Australia
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 28
Governor-General - Australia
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 13
Governor-General - Australia
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 6
Governor-General - Australia
David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow age 47
Governor-General - New Zealand
Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore age 51
Governor-General - New Zealand
William Jervois age 59
Governor-General - New Zealand
Henri Cor age 16
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié age 27
Governor-General - Madagascar
Empress Dowager Cixi age 45
Regent - Imperial China
Zaifeng, Prince Chun born 1883-02-12
Prince Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 43
Regent - Imperial China
Adolf Hitler born 1889-04-20
Albert Einstein age 1
Karl Marx age 62
Ronald Reagan born 1911-02-06
Vladimir Lenin age 10
Mahatma Gandhi age 11
Leo Tolstoy age 52
Joseph Stalin age 2
Charles Darwin age 71
Vincent van Gogh age 27
Pablo Picasso born 1881-10-25
Charlie Chaplin born 1889-04-16
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 59
Friedrich Nietzsche age 36
Thomas Edison age 33
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born 1881-01-01
Sigmund Freud age 24
Marie Curie age 13
Rabindranath Tagore age 19
Mao Zedong born 1893-12-26
Charles de Gaulle born 1890-11-22
Nikola Tesla age 24
Walt Disney born 1901-12-05
Louis Pasteur age 58
George Orwell born 1903-06-25
Ernest Hemingway born 1899-07-21
Richard Wagner age 67
Henry Ford age 17
Benito Mussolini born 1883-07-29
Jean-Paul Sartre born 1905-06-21
Friedrich Engels age 60
Mother Teresa born 1910-08-26
Harry S. Truman born 1884-05-08
Jawaharlal Nehru born 1889-11-14
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 40
Dwight D. Eisenhower born 1890-10-14
Richard Nixon born 1913-01-09
Alan Turing born 1912-06-23
Rosa Luxemburg age 9
John Maynard Keynes born 1883-06-05
Simone de Beauvoir born 1908-01-09
Niels Bohr born 1885-10-07
Leon Trotsky age 1
Max Planck age 22
Dmitri Mendeleev age 46
Giuseppe Verdi age 67
Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908-08-27
Gerald Ford born 1913-07-14
Enrico Fermi born 1901-09-29
Nikita Khrushchev born 1894-04-15
Herbert Hoover age 6
Alexander Graham Bell age 33
Ulysses S. Grant age 58
Kim Il-sung born 1912-04-15
Kwame Nkrumah born 1909-09-21
Hirohito born 1901-04-29
Claude Monet age 40
Ho Chi Minh born 1890-05-19
Florence Nightingale age 60
B. R. Ambedkar born 1891-04-14
Eleanor Roosevelt born 1884-10-11
Konrad Adenauer age 4
Georges Pompidou born 1911-07-05
Joseph Goebbels born 1897-10-29
Leonid Brezhnev born 1906-12-19
Chiang Kai-shek born 1887-10-31
Golda Meir born 1898-05-03
John XXIII born 1881-11-25
Alexander Fleming born 1881-08-06
Francisco Franco born 1892-12-04
David Ben-Gurion born 1886-10-16
Gregor Mendel age 58
Milton Friedman born 1912-07-31
Ruhollah Khomeini born 1902-09-24
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 73
Josip Broz Tito born 1892-05-07
Guglielmo Marconi age 6
J. Robert Oppenheimer born 1904-04-22
Rosa Parks born 1913-02-04
Sukarno born 1901-06-06
John Paul I born 1912-10-17
Paul VI born 1897-09-26
Willy Brandt born 1913-12-18
Dag Hammarskjöld born 1905-07-29
Salvador Allende born 1908-06-26
Pius XII age 4
John von Neumann born 1903-12-28
George VI born 1895-12-14
Pius XI age 23
Heinrich Himmler born 1900-10-07
Neville Chamberlain age 11
Haile Selassie born 1892-07-23
Douglas MacArthur age 11 months
Benedict XV age 26
Erwin Rommel born 1891-11-15
Carl Benz age 36
Hermann Göring born 1893-01-12
Rachel Carson born 1907-05-27
Grigori Rasputin age 11
Edward VIII born 1894-06-23
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 4
Paul von Hindenburg age 33
Georgy Zhukov born 1896-12-01
Wernher von Braun born 1912-03-23
Clement Attlee born 1883-01-03
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 17
Henry Dunant age 52
Harriet Tubman age 58
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 23
George C. Marshall age 0 months
Enver Hoxha born 1908-10-16
Konstantin Chernenko born 1911-09-24
Zhou Enlai born 1898-03-05
Gavrilo Princip born 1894-07-25
Lord Kelvin age 56
Vyacheslav Molotov born 1890-03-09