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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 San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Battle of El Caney 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
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
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
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
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
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
Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21
Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
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

Federico Boyd age 22
President - Panama
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 41
President - Haiti
Joseph Davilmar Théodore age 27
President - Haiti
Terencio Sierra age 34
President - Honduras
José Madriz age 13
President - Nicaragua
Juan José Estrada Morales age 2
President - Nicaragua
Demetrio H. Brid age 14
President - Panama
Lerotholi age 38
King - Lesotho
Luis Mena born 1900-01-01
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Oquelí Bustillo age 17
President - Honduras
José Bordas Valdés born 1874-08-06
President - Dominican Republic
Euclídes de Angulo age 32
President - Colombia
Juan Ángel Arias Boquín age 14
President - Honduras
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani born 1881-01-17
Emir - Qatar
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 21
Emir - Qatar
José Dolores Estrada age 5
President - Nicaragua
Vincenzo Mularoni born 1900-01-01
Captain Regent - San Marino
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Charles Hardinge age 15
Viceroy - British Raj
Rafael Reyes age 24
President - Colombia
Emilio Castelar age 41
Head of State - Spain
Francisco Serrano age 63
Head of State - Spain
Pyotr Stolypin age 11
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Eleftherios Venizelos age 9
Prime Minister - Greece
Edmund Barton age 24
Prime Minister - Australia
Alfred Deakin age 17
Prime Minister - Australia
Sergei Witte age 24
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Christian Michelsen age 16
Prime Minister - Norway
Billy Hughes age 11
Prime Minister - Australia
Chris Watson age 6
Prime Minister - Australia
Ismail Kemal age 29
Prime Minister - Albania
Andrew Fisher age 11
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 32
Prime Minister - Canada
Nikola Pašić age 28
Prime Minister - Serbia
George Reid age 28
Prime Minister - Australia
Abraham Kuyper age 36
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Joseph Cook age 13
Prime Minister - Australia
Robert Borden age 19
Prime Minister - Canada
István Tisza age 12
Prime Minister - Hungary
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Eduardo Dato age 17
Prime Minister - Spain
Titu Maiorescu age 33
Prime Minister - Romania
Erik Gustaf Boström age 31
Prime Minister - Sweden
Arvid Lindman age 11
Prime Minister - Sweden
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 11
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 9
Prime Minister - Romania
José Canalejas age 19
Prime Minister - Spain
Essad Toptani age 11
Prime Minister - Albania
Gunnar Knudsen age 25
Prime Minister - Norway
Karl Staaff age 13
Prime Minister - Sweden
Antonio Maura age 20
Prime Minister - Spain
Spyridon Lambros age 22
Prime Minister - Greece
Jørgen Løvland age 25
Prime Minister - Norway
Ivan Goremykin age 34
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 10
Prime Minister - Spain
Hannes Hafstein age 12
Prime Minister - Iceland
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 20
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Boris Stürmer age 25
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Fredrik von Otter age 40
Prime Minister - Sweden
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 41
Prime Minister - Spain
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas age 14
Prime Minister - Spain
Vasil Radoslavov age 19
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Carl Theodor Zahle age 7
Prime Minister - Denmark
Niels Neergaard age 19
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dimitrie Sturdza age 40
Prime Minister - Romania
Christian Lundeberg age 31
Prime Minister - Sweden
Theodoros Deligiannis age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Dimitrios Gounaris age 7
Prime Minister - Greece
Sándor Wekerle age 25
Prime Minister - Hungary
Klaus Berntsen age 29
Prime Minister - Denmark
Richard Seddon age 28
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Otto Blehr age 26
Prime Minister - Norway
Johan Ramstedt age 21
Prime Minister - Sweden
Francisco Silvela age 30
Prime Minister - Spain
Segismundo Moret age 40
Prime Minister - Spain
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 25
Prime Minister - Spain
Charles de Broqueville age 13
Prime Minister - Belgium
Petko Karavelov age 30
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Dimitrios Rallis age 30
Prime Minister - Greece
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 24
Prime Minister - Hungary
Sigurður Eggerz born 1875-03-01
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jens Christian Christensen age 17
Prime Minister - Denmark
Wollert Konow age 28
Prime Minister - Norway
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 41
Prime Minister - Spain
Aleksandar Malinov age 6
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos age 22
Prime Minister - Greece
Georgios Theotokis age 30
Prime Minister - Greece
Stefanos Dragoumis age 32
Prime Minister - Greece
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 28
Prime Minister - Denmark
Theo Heemskerk age 21
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jens Bratlie age 17
Prime Minister - Norway
Petre P. Carp age 36
Prime Minister - Romania
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 41
Prime Minister - Romania
José López Domínguez age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 49
Prime Minister - Spain
Fejzi Alizoti born 1874-09-22
Prime Minister - Albania
Turhan Përmeti age 27
Prime Minister - Albania
Frans Schollaert age 22
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ivan Evstratiev Geshov age 24
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Racho Petrov age 12
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Stoyan Danev age 15
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Stefanos Skouloudis age 35
Prime Minister - Greece
Hannibal Sehested age 31
Prime Minister - Denmark
Hugo Egmont Hørring age 31
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 34
Prime Minister - Denmark
Nicolaas Pierson age 34
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Pieter Cort van der Linden age 27
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Paul Eyschen age 32
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
João Pinheiro Chagas age 10
Prime Minister - Portugal
Kálmán Széll age 30
Prime Minister - Hungary
László Lukács age 23
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 30
Prime Minister - Belgium
Jules de Trooz age 16
Prime Minister - Belgium
Géza Fejérváry age 40
Prime Minister - Hungary
Björn Jónsson age 27
Prime Minister - Iceland
Kristján Jónsson age 21
Prime Minister - Iceland
Theo de Meester age 22
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Afonso Costa age 2
Prime Minister - Portugal
Janko Vukotić age 7
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Massey age 17
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Johannes Steen age 46
Prime Minister - Norway
Francis Hagerup age 20
Prime Minister - Norway
Vladan Đorđević age 29
Prime Minister - Serbia
Petar Gudev age 10
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Dimitar Stanchov age 10
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis age 25
Prime Minister - Greece
Joseph Ward age 17
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Todor Ivanchov age 16
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Victor Thorn age 29
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 21
Prime Minister - Nepal
Duarte Leite age 9
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mathias Mongenast age 30
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hubert Loutsch born 1878-11-18
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 2
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mitar Martinović age 3
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Thomas Mackenzie age 19
Prime Minister - New Zealand
William Hall-Jones age 22
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Joaquim Pimenta de Castro age 27
Prime Minister - Portugal
Andrija Radović age 1
Prime Minister - Montenegro
José de Castro age 5
Prime Minister - Portugal
Lazar Tomanović age 28
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Petar Velimirović age 25
Prime Minister - Serbia
Marko Radulović age 7
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Lazar Mijušković age 6
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 28
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Marko Trifković age 9
Prime Minister - Serbia
Da Lam Tserenchimed age 5
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Enrique de la Riva Agüero Riglos age 16
Prime Minister - Peru
Germán Schreiber age 12
Prime Minister - Peru
Risto Popović age 2
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Mirko M. Mijušković born 1875-08-29
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 6
Prime Minister - Portugal
Javier Prado age 2
Prime Minister - Peru
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 13
Governor-General - Australia
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 21
Governor-General - Australia
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 6
Governor-General - Australia
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 13
Governor-General - Australia
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman born 1874-11-16
Governor-General - Australia
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 27
Governor-General - Australia
Henri Cor age 9
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié age 20
Governor-General - Madagascar
Adolf Hitler born 1889-04-20
Albert Einstein born 1879-03-14
Karl Marx age 55
Ronald Reagan born 1911-02-06
Vladimir Lenin age 3
Mahatma Gandhi age 4
Leo Tolstoy age 45
Joseph Stalin born 1878-12-18
Charles Darwin age 64
Vincent van Gogh age 20
Pablo Picasso born 1881-10-25
Charlie Chaplin born 1889-04-16
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 52
Friedrich Nietzsche age 29
Thomas Edison age 26
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born 1881-01-01
Sigmund Freud age 17
Marie Curie age 6
Rabindranath Tagore age 12
Mao Zedong born 1893-12-26
Charles de Gaulle born 1890-11-22
Nikola Tesla age 17
Walt Disney born 1901-12-05
Louis Pasteur age 51
George Orwell born 1903-06-25
Ernest Hemingway born 1899-07-21
Richard Wagner age 60
Henry Ford age 10
Benito Mussolini born 1883-07-29
Jean-Paul Sartre born 1905-06-21
Friedrich Engels age 53
Mother Teresa born 1910-08-26
Harry S. Truman born 1884-05-08
Jawaharlal Nehru born 1889-11-14
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 33
Dwight D. Eisenhower born 1890-10-14
Richard Nixon born 1913-01-09
Alan Turing born 1912-06-23
John Maynard Keynes born 1883-06-05