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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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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 Charleroi 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23

Battle of the Ardennes 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 Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26

Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30

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 Anzac Cove 1915-04-25 - 1915-05-03

Landing at Cape Helles 1915-04-25 - 1915-04-26

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

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

General relativity 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

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

Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead age 49

Governor-General - New Zealand

William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 6

Governor-General - Australia

Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman born 1874-11-16

Governor-General - Australia

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet age 41

Governor-General - New Zealand

David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow age 40

Governor-General - New Zealand

George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby age 54

Governor-General - New Zealand

Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore age 44

Governor-General - New Zealand

William Jervois age 52

Governor-General - New Zealand

Henri Cor age 9

Governor-General - Madagascar

Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié age 20

Governor-General - Madagascar

Empress Dowager Cixi age 38

Regent - Imperial China

Zaifeng, Prince Chun born 1883-02-12

Prince Regent - Imperial China

Empress Dowager Ci'an age 36

Regent - Imperial China

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

Rosa Luxemburg age 2

John Maynard Keynes born 1883-06-05

Simone de Beauvoir born 1908-01-09

Niels Bohr born 1885-10-07

Leon Trotsky born 1879-11-07

Max Planck age 15

Dmitri Mendeleev age 39

Giuseppe Verdi age 60

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 born 1874-08-10

James Clerk Maxwell age 42

Alexander Graham Bell age 26

Kim Il-sung born 1912-04-15

Kwame Nkrumah born 1909-09-21

Hirohito born 1901-04-29

Claude Monet age 33

Ho Chi Minh born 1890-05-19

Florence Nightingale age 53

B. R. Ambedkar born 1891-04-14

Eleanor Roosevelt born 1884-10-11

Konrad Adenauer born 1876-01-05

Georges Pompidou born 1911-07-05

Millard Fillmore age 74

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

François Mitterrand born 1916-10-26

Alexander Fleming born 1881-08-06

Francisco Franco born 1892-12-04

David Ben-Gurion born 1886-10-16

Gregor Mendel age 51

Milton Friedman born 1912-07-31

Ruhollah Khomeini born 1902-09-24

Giuseppe Garibaldi age 66

Josip Broz Tito born 1892-05-07

Guglielmo Marconi born 1874-04-25

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 born 1876-03-02

John von Neumann born 1903-12-28

George VI born 1895-12-14

Pius XI age 16

Heinrich Himmler born 1900-10-07

Neville Chamberlain age 4

Augusto Pinochet born 1915-11-25

Haile Selassie born 1892-07-23

Yuri Andropov born 1914-06-15

Douglas MacArthur born 1880-01-26

Erwin Rommel born 1891-11-15

Carl Benz age 29

Hermann Göring born 1893-01-12

Rachel Carson born 1907-05-27

Grigori Rasputin age 4

Edward VIII born 1894-06-23

Muhammad Ali Jinnah born 1876-12-25

Paul von Hindenburg age 26

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 10

Henry Dunant age 45

Harriet Tubman age 51

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 16

George C. Marshall born 1880-12-31

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 49

Vyacheslav Molotov born 1890-03-09

Józef Piłsudski age 6

Anthony Eden born 1897-06-12

Menachem Begin born 1913-08-16

Philippe Pétain age 17

Emiliano Zapata born 1879-08-08

Erich Honecker born 1912-08-25

Francis Crick born 1916-06-08

Harold Macmillan born 1894-02-10

Cecil Rhodes age 20

Ibn Saud born 1876-01-01

Harold Wilson born 1916-03-11

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 209

Frederick Douglass age 55

Adolf Eichmann born 1906-03-19

James Callaghan born 1912-03-27

António de Oliveira Salazar born 1889-04-28

Eva Braun born 1912-02-06

Juan Perón born 1895-10-08

T. E. Lawrence born 1888-08-16

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon born 1900-08-04

Susan B. Anthony age 53

Aldo Moro born 1916-09-23

Léopold Sédar Senghor born 1906-10-09

Ludwig Erhard born 1897-02-04

Jomo Kenyatta born 1893-10-20

Sirimavo Bandaranaike born 1916-04-17

Joachim von Ribbentrop born 1893-04-30

Jonas Salk born 1914-10-28

Karl Dönitz born 1891-09-16

Fulgencio Batista born 1901-01-16

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 6

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan born 1888-09-05

Syngman Rhee born 1875-03-26

U Thant born 1909-01-22

Jefferson Davis age 65

Rudolf Hess born 1894-04-26

George S. Patton born 1885-11-11

Hideki Tojo born 1884-12-30

İsmet İnönü born 1884-09-24

Bernard Montgomery born 1887-11-17

Gustav Stresemann born 1878-05-10

Albert Speer born 1905-03-19

Adolphe Thiers age 76

Võ Nguyên Giáp born 1911-08-25

Reza Shah born 1878-03-15

Empress Elisabeth of Austria age 36

Rajendra Prasad born 1884-12-03

Alexander Kerensky born 1881-05-04

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel born 1875-10-31

Eisaku Satō born 1901-03-27

Georgy Malenkov born 1902-01-08

Getúlio Vargas born 1882-04-19

Karl Liebknecht age 2

King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud born 1906-01-01

Emmeline Pankhurst age 15

Sergei Korolev born 1907-01-12

Reinhard Heydrich born 1904-03-07

Mehmed VI age 12

Ferdinand Foch age 22

Edward Heath born 1916-07-09

Lavrentiy Beria born 1899-03-29

Lester B. Pearson born 1897-04-23

Habib Bourguiba born 1903-08-03

Felix Dzerzhinsky born 1877-09-11

Claus von Stauffenberg born 1907-11-15

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