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Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
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
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04
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 - 1916
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
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
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
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
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
Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02
Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23
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
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24
East African campaign (World War I) 1914-08-03 - 1918-11-25
Battle of Liège 1914-08-05 - 1914-08-16
Battle of Lorraine 1914-08-14 - 1914-09-07
Opening of the Panama Canal 1914-08-15
Battle of Gumbinnen 1914-08-20 - 1914-08-20
Battle of the Ardennes 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23
Battle of Charleroi 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23
Battle of Mons 1914-08-23 - 1914-08-23
Battle of Galicia 1914-08-23 - 1914-09-11
Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
Battle of Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26
Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) 1914-08-28 - 1914-08-28
Battle of Guise 1914-08-29 - 1914-08-30
First Battle of the Marne 1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes 1914-09-07 - 1914-09-14
First Battle of the Aisne 1914-09-13 - 1914-09-28
Siege of Przemyśl 1914-09-16 - 1915-03-22
Siege of Antwerp (1914) 1914-09-28 - 1914-10-10
Battle of the Yser 1914-10-16 - 1914-10-31
First Battle of Ypres 1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30
Battle of Tanga 1914-11-02 - 1914-11-05
Battle of Łódź (1914) 1914-11-11 - 1914-12-06
Battle of Sarikamish 1914-12-22 - 1915-01-17
Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) 1915-01-24 - 1915-01-24
Gallipoli campaign 1915-02-19 - 1916-01-09
Battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915-03-10 - 1915-03-13
Second Battle of Ypres 1915-04-22 - 1915-05-25
Armenian genocide 1915-04-24 - 1917
Landing at Cape Helles 1915-04-25 - 1915-04-26
Landing at Anzac Cove 1915-04-25 - 1915-05-03
Gorlice–Tarnów offensive 1915-05-02 - 1915-06-22
First Battle of the Isonzo 1915-06-23 - 1915-07-07
Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15
Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Macedonian front 1915-10-21 - 1918-09-30
Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) 1915-11-22 - 1915-11-25
Siege of Kut 1915-12-07 - 1916-04-29
National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Erzurum offensive 1916-01-10 - 1916-02-16
Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Lake Naroch offensive 1916-03-18 - 1916-04-14
Easter Rising 1916-04-24 - 1916-04-29
Battle of Asiago 1916-05-15 - 1916-06-10
Sykes–Picot Agreement 1916-05-16
Battle of Jutland 1916-05-31 - 1916-06-01
Brusilov Offensive 1916-06-04 - 1916-09-20
Arab Revolt 1916-06-10 - 1918-10-25
Battle of the Somme 1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Battle of Erzincan 1916-07-02 - 1916-07-25
Battle of Romani 1916-08-03 - 1916-08-05
Battle of Gorizia (1916) 1916-08-06 - 1916-08-17

People

Lindley Miller Garrison age 9
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 41
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 42
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 27
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Moody age 20
Attorney General - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
L. M. Shaw age 25
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Crowninshield Endicott age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Luke Edward Wright age 27
Secretary of War - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Jacob M. Dickinson age 22
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Devens age 53
Attorney General - United States
Edwards Pierrepont age 56
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James Clark McReynolds age 11
Attorney General - United States
Hugh Childers age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 57
Attorney General - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 14
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 22
Secretary of War - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 40
Attorney General - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 5
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Hugh L. Scott age 20
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Thomas Watt Gregory age 12
Attorney General - United States
William H. H. Miller age 33
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 24
Attorney General - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 35
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 31
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John C. Bates age 31
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 24
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Wallace Wotherspoon age 23
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Franklin Bell age 17
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Butler Loomis age 12
Secretary of State - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 22
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 32
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 26
Secretary of State - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 32
Secretary of War - United States
Ramsay MacDonald age 7
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Andrew Bonar Law age 15
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 10
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 11
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Keir Hardie age 17
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
George Barnes age 15
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Langalibalele Dube age 2
President - African National Congress
Edward Martyn age 14
President - Sinn Féin
John Sweetman age 29
President - Sinn Féin
Arthur Griffith age 2
President - Sinn Féin
Franklin D. Roosevelt born 1882-01-30
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Andrew Johnson age 65
Senate - United States
Warren G. Harding age 8
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 13
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley born 1877-11-24
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 5
House of Representatives - United States
George B. McClellan age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 61
Governor of Georgia - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 55
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 38
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Calvin Coolidge age 1
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Pius X age 38
Pope - Vatican City
Leo XIII age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Benedict XV age 19
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII born 1886-05-17
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands born 1880-08-31
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 1
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 20
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 15
King - Sweden
Emilio Aguinaldo age 4
President - Philippines
Christian X of Denmark age 3
King - Denmark
Christian IX of Denmark age 55
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 16
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 44
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 30
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 34
King - Kingdom of Romania
Ferdinand I of Romania age 8
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh born 1881-01-01
King - Thailand
Abdur Rahman Khan age 34
Emir - Afghanistan
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 23
President - Argentina
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 56
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 25
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 1
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 30
President - Argentina
Ugyen Wangchuck age 11
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 21
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Teófilo Braga age 30
President - Portugal
Juan Vicente Gómez age 16
President - Venezuela
William, Prince of Albania born 1876-03-26
King - Albania
Roque Sáenz Peña age 22
President - Argentina
Bernardino Machado age 22
President - Portugal
Yusef of Morocco born 1882-01-01
Sultan - Morocco
Abdelaziz of Morocco born 1878-02-24
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 17
President - Uruguay
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco born 1875-01-01
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 31
President - Ecuador
Manuel de Arriaga age 33
President - Portugal
Augusto Leguía age 10
President - Peru
Eduardo López de Romaña age 26
President - Peru
José Figueroa Alcorta age 13
President - Argentina
Victorino de la Plaza age 33
President - Argentina
Manuel Quintana age 38
President - Argentina
Cipriano Castro age 15
President - Venezuela
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 42
Viceroy - British Raj
Óscar R. Benavides born 1876-03-15
President - Peru
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said born 1886-01-01
Sultan - Oman
Giuseppe Motta age 2
President - Switzerland
George Tupou II born 1874-06-18
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 33
King - Cambodia
Pedro Montt age 24
President - Chile
Germán Riesco age 19
President - Chile
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 15
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 9
President - Peru
Ramón Barros Luco age 38
President - Chile
Emilio Aceval age 20
President - Paraguay
Serapio Calderón age 30
President - Peru
Guillermo Billinghurst age 22
President - Peru
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 23
President - Chile
Emiliano Figueroa age 7
President - Chile
Feliciano Viera age 2
President - Uruguay
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 24
Viceroy - British Raj
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 28
Viceroy - British Raj
José Manuel Pando age 24
President - Bolivia
Adolfo Díaz born 1875-07-15
President - Nicaragua
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 5
Viceroy - British Raj
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 14
President - Ecuador
Arthur Barclay age 19
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 20
President - Nicaragua
Walter Hauser age 36
President - Switzerland
Manuel Gondra age 2
President - Paraguay
Eduardo Schaerer age 1 month
President - Paraguay
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 15
Provisional President - Venezuela
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 12
President - Bolivia
José Manuel Marroquín age 46
President - Colombia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 19
Emir - Qatar
Marc-Emile Ruchet age 20
President - Switzerland
Ernst Brenner age 17
President - Switzerland
Josef Zemp age 39
President - Switzerland
Liberato Marcial Rojas age 3
President - Paraguay
Andrés Héctor Carvallo age 11
President - Paraguay
Emiliano González Navero age 12
President - Paraguay
Leónidas Plaza age 8
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 53
President - Haiti
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 10
President - Haiti
Adolf Deucher age 42
President - Switzerland
Eduard Müller age 25
President - Switzerland
José Gil Fortoul age 12
President - Venezuela
Pablo Arosemena age 37
President - Panama
Cecilio Báez age 12
President - Paraguay
Juan Antonio Escurra age 14
President - Paraguay
Benigno Ferreira age 27
President - Paraguay
Manuel Franco age 2
President - Paraguay
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo age 6
President - Colombia
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 60
President - Colombia
José Vicente Concha age 7
President - Colombia
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 14
President - Costa Rica
Ramón Cáceres age 7
President - Dominican Republic
Tomás Regalado age 12
President - El Salvador
William D. Coleman age 31
President - Liberia
Garretson W. Gibson age 41
President - Liberia
Robert Comtesse age 26
President - Switzerland
Ludwig Forrer age 28
President - Switzerland
Arthur Hoffmann age 16
President - Switzerland
Juan Bautista Gaona age 28
President - Paraguay
Albino Jara born 1877-02-28
President - Paraguay
Eliodoro Villazón age 25
President - Bolivia
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 29
President - Costa Rica
Tancrède Auguste age 17
President - Haiti
Daniel Edward Howard age 12
President - Liberia
Camille Decoppet age 11
President - Switzerland
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Elías Fernández Albano age 29
President - Chile
Alfredo González Flores born 1877-06-15
President - Costa Rica
Emilio Estrada Carmona age 18
President - Ecuador
Manuel Enrique Araujo age 8
President - El Salvador
Fernando Figueroa age 24
President - El Salvador
Pedro José Escalón age 26
President - El Salvador
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam age 14
President - Haiti
Cincinnatus Leconte age 19
President - Haiti
François C. Antoine Simon age 30
President - Haiti
Francisco Bertrand age 7
President - Honduras
Miguel R. Dávila age 17
President - Honduras
Manuel Bonilla age 24
President - Honduras
Pedro Peña age 9
President - Paraguay
Aníbal Zañartu age 26
President - Chile
Cleto González Víquez age 15
President - Costa Rica
Carlos Meléndez Ramírez age 12
President - El Salvador
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina born 1874-01-11
President - El Salvador
Michel Oreste age 14
President - Haiti
Ramón González Valencia age 22
President - Colombia
Isa I of Bahrain age 26
Hakim - Bahrain
Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra age 27
President - Dominican Republic
Tirésias Simon Sam age 38
President - Haiti
Oreste Zamor age 13
President - Haiti