Explore October 21, 1853 – October 9, 1917

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Events

California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) 1853-05-08 - 1855-05-31
Crimean War 1853-10-16 - 1856-03-30
Battle of Sinop 1853-11-30 - 1853-11-30
Battle of the Alma 1854-09-20 - 1854-09-20
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) 1854-10-17 - 1855-09-11
Battle of Balaclava 1854-10-25 - 1854-10-25
Battle of Inkerman 1854-11-05 - 1854-11-05
Battle of the Chernaya 1855-08-16 - 1855-08-16
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24
Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857-05-10 - 1858-11-01
Battle of Sanhe 1858-11-07 - 1858-11-18
Publication of On the Origin of Species 1859-11-24
Battle of Anqing 1860-04-01 - 1861-09-05
Expedition of the Thousand 1860-05-05 - 1860-10-26
Battle of Palikao 1860-09-21
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Emancipation reform of 1861 1861-03-03
Battle of Fort Sumter 1861-04-12 - 1861-04-13
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Battle of Philippi 1861-06-03
First Battle of Bull Run 1861-07-21
Battle of Wilson's Creek 1861-08-10
Battle of Port Royal 1861-11-07 - 1861-11-07
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
Battle of Fort Henry 1862-02-06 - 1862-02-06
Battle of Fort Donelson 1862-02-11 - 1862-02-16
Battle of Island Number Ten 1862-02-28 - 1862-04-08
Battle of Hampton Roads 1862-03-08 - 1862-03-09
First Battle of Kernstown 1862-03-23 - 1862-03-23
Battle of Shiloh 1862-04-06 - 1862-04-07
Capture of New Orleans 1862-04-25
Siege of Corinth 1862-04-29 - 1862-05-30
Battle of Plum Point Bend 1862-05-10 - 1862-05-10
Battle of Drewry's Bluff 1862-05-15 - 1862-05-15
Battle of Front Royal 1862-05-23 - 1862-05-23
First Battle of Winchester 1862-05-25 - 1862-05-25
Battle of Seven Pines 1862-05-31 - 1862-06-01
Battle of Memphis 1862-06-06
Battle of Port Republic 1862-06-09 - 1862-06-09
Seven Days Battles 1862-06-25 - 1862-07-01
Battle of Cedar Mountain 1862-08-09 - 1862-08-09
Second Battle of Bull Run 1862-08-28 - 1862-08-30
Battle of Antietam 1862-09-17
Battle of Cixi 1862-09-20 - 1862-09-21
Battle of Perryville 1862-10-08 - 1862-10-08
Battle of Fredericksburg 1862-12-11 - 1862-12-15
Battle of Chickasaw Bayou 1862-12-26 - 1862-12-29
Battle of Stones River 1862-12-31 - 1863-01-02
Emancipation Proclamation 1863-01-01
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Battle of Arkansas Post 1863-01-09 - 1863-01-11
First Battle of Charleston Harbor 1863-04-07 - 1863-04-07
Battle of Chancellorsville 1863-04-30 - 1863-05-06
Battle of Champion Hill 1863-05-16 - 1863-05-16
Siege of Vicksburg 1863-05-18 - 1863-07-04
Siege of Port Hudson 1863-05-22 - 1863-07-09
West Virginia admitted to Union 1863-06-20
Battle of Gettysburg 1863-07-01 - 1863-07-03
First Battle of Fort Wagner 1863-07-10 - 1863-07-11
Second Battle of Fort Wagner 1863-07-18
Battle of Chickamauga 1863-09-18 - 1863-09-20
Second Battle of Chattanooga 1863-11-23 - 1863-11-25
Battle of Fort Sanders 1863-11-29 - 1863-11-29
Sinking of USS Housatonic 1864-02-17 - 1864-02-17
Battle of Olustee 1864-02-20 - 1864-02-20
Red River Campaign 1864-03-10 - 1864-05-22
Third Battle of Nanjing 1864-03-14 - 1864-07-19
Battle of Mansfield 1864-04-08 - 1864-04-08
Battle of the Wilderness 1864-05-05 - 1864-05-07
Battle of Spotsylvania 1864-05-08 - 1864-05-21
Battle of Resaca 1864-05-13 - 1864-05-15
Battle of New Market 1864-05-15
Battle of Cold Harbor 1864-05-31 - 1864-06-12
Siege of Petersburg 1864-06-09 - 1865-03-25
Battle of Cherbourg (1864) 1864-06-19 - 1864-06-19
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain 1864-06-27 - 1864-06-27
Battle of Monocacy 1864-07-09 - 1864-07-09
Battle of Fort Stevens 1864-07-11 - 1864-07-12
Battle of Peachtree Creek 1864-07-20 - 1864-07-20
Battle of Atlanta 1864-07-22 - 1864-07-22
Battle of the Crater 1864-07-30
Battle of Mobile Bay 1864-08-05
Battle of Jonesborough 1864-08-31 - 1864-09-01
Third Battle of Winchester 1864-09-19 - 1864-09-19
Battle of Fisher's Hill 1864-09-21 - 1864-09-22
Battle of Cedar Creek 1864-10-19 - 1864-10-19
Sherman's March to the Sea 1864-11-15 - 1864-12-21
Battle of Franklin 1864-11-30
Battle of Nashville 1864-12-15 - 1864-12-16
First Battle of Fort Fisher 1864-12-23 - 1864-12-27
Second Battle of Fort Fisher 1865-01-13 - 1865-01-15
Battle of Waynesboro (1865) 1865-03-02 - 1865-03-02
Battle of Averasborough 1865-03-16 - 1865-03-16
Battle of Bentonville 1865-03-19 - 1865-03-21
Battle of Five Forks 1865-04-01
Battle of Sailor's Creek 1865-04-06
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Battle of Appomattox Court House 1865-04-09
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865-04-14
Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution 1865-12-06
Civil Rights Act of 1866 1866-04-09
Austro-Prussian War 1866-06-14 - 1866-07-22
Battle of Custoza (1866) 1866-06-24 - 1866-06-24
Battle of Náchod 1866-06-27 - 1866-06-27
Battle of Gitschin 1866-06-29 - 1866-06-29
Battle of Königgrätz 1866-07-03 - 1866-07-03
Battle of Lissa (1866) 1866-07-20 - 1866-07-20
Alaska Purchase 1867-03-30
Meiji Restoration 1868-01-03
Boshin War 1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27
Opening of the Suez Canal 1869-11-17
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Enforcement Act of 1870 1870-05-31
Franco-Prussian War 1870-07-19 - 1871-01-28
Battle of Gravelotte 1870-08-18
Siege of Metz 1870-08-20 - 1870-10-27
Battle of Sedan 1870-09-01
Siege of Paris (1870–1871) 1870-09-19 - 1871-01-28
Proclamation of the German Empire 1871-01-18
Second Enforcement Act 1871-02-28
Paris Commune 1871-03-18 - 1871-05-28
Third Enforcement Act 1871-04-20
Panic of 1873 1873-05-09
Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875-03-01
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 1877-04-24 - 1878-03-03
Battle of Shipka Pass 1877-07-17 - 1878-01-09
Siege of Plevna 1877-07-20 - 1877-12-10
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
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 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
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
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
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 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
Battle of Diamond Hill 1900-06-11 - 1900-06-12
Battle of Bergendal 1900-08-21 - 1900-08-27
Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
First flight of the Wright Flyer 1903-12-17
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09
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
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
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
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
Battle of Łódź (1914) 1914-11-11 - 1914-12-06
Armenian genocide 1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
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
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
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
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
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 Romani 1916-08-03 - 1916-08-05
Battle of Gorizia (1916) 1916-08-06 - 1916-08-17
Battle of Bucharest 1916-11-25 - 1916-12-03
Assassination of Grigori Rasputin 1916-12-30 - 1916-12-30
February Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
First Battle of Gaza 1917-03-26 - 1917-03-26
Battle of Vimy Ridge 1917-04-09 - 1917-04-12
Battle of Arras (1917) 1917-04-09 - 1917-05-16
Nivelle offensive 1917-04-16 - 1917-05-09
Battle of Messines (1917) 1917-06-07 - 1917-06-14
Kerensky offensive 1917-07-01 - 1917-07-19
Battle of Aqaba 1917-07-06 - 1917-07-06
Battle of Passchendaele 1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo 1917-08-18 - 1917-09-12
Riga offensive (1917) 1917-09-01 - 1917-09-03
Kornilov affair 1917-09-10 - 1917-09-13

People

Abraham Lincoln age 44
Theodore Roosevelt born 1858-10-27
Woodrow Wilson born 1856-12-28
Queen Victoria age 34
Ulysses S. Grant age 31
Sun Yat-sen born 1866-11-12
James A. Garfield age 21
William Howard Taft born 1857-09-15
Grover Cleveland age 16
Andrew Johnson age 44
James Buchanan age 62
William McKinley age 10
Rutherford B. Hayes age 31
Franklin Pierce age 48
Benjamin Harrison age 20
Chester A. Arthur age 24
Wilhelm II born 1859-01-27
Napoleon III age 45
George V born 1865-06-03
Edward VII age 11
Alexander II of Russia age 35
Nicholas I of Russia age 57
Abdul Hamid II age 11
Alexander III of Russia age 8
Leopold II of Belgium age 18
Emperor Meiji age 11 months
Wilhelm I age 56
Jefferson Davis age 45
Benito Juárez age 47
Puyi born 1906-02-07
Adolphe Thiers age 56
Porfirio Díaz age 23
Victor Emmanuel II age 33
Pedro II of Brazil age 27
Leopold I of Belgium age 62
Raymond Poincaré born 1860-08-20
Patrice de MacMahon age 45
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy born 1869-11-11
Frederick III, German Emperor age 22
Umberto I of Italy age 9
Abdulaziz age 23
Emperor Taishō born 1879-08-31
Abdülmecid I age 30
Mehmed V age 8
Charles I of Austria born 1887-08-17
Albert I of Belgium born 1875-04-08
Murad V age 13
Francisco I. Madero born 1873-10-30
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 59
Yuan Shikai born 1859-09-16
Armand Fallières age 11
Jules Grévy age 46
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 16
Deodoro da Fonseca age 26
Guangxu Emperor born 1871-08-14
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 22
Félix Faure age 12
Émile Loubet age 14
Menelik II age 9
Jean Casimir-Perier age 5
Abbas II of Egypt born 1874-07-14
Emperor Kōmei age 22
Ahmad Shah Qajar born 1898-01-21
Fuad I of Egypt born 1868-03-26
Xianfeng Emperor age 22
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar born 1872-06-21
Zewditu born 1876-04-29
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 1
Tongzhi Emperor born 1856-04-27
Floriano Peixoto age 14
Victoriano Huerta age 2
Prudente de Morais age 12
Venceslau Brás born 1868-02-26
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 7 months
Nilo Peçanha born 1867-10-02
Rodrigues Alves age 5
Afonso Pena age 5
Pedro Lascuráin born 1856-05-08
Sunjong of the Korean Empire born 1874-03-25
Campos Sales age 12
Hussein Kamel of Egypt born 1853-10-21
Tewodros II age 35
Tewfik Pasha age 11 months
Hermes da Fonseca born 1855-05-12
Tomás Estrada Palma age 18
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 30
Yohannes IV age 16
Charles Dupuy age 1
Francisco León de la Barra born 1863-06-16
Manuel González age 20
Francisco S. Carvajal born 1870-12-09
Lij Iyasu born 1895-02-04
Rafael Carrera age 38
Feng Guozhang born 1859-01-07
José Miguel Gómez born 1858-07-06
Mario García Menocal born 1866-12-17
Manuel Estrada Cabrera born 1859-11-21
Eulalio Gutiérrez born 1881-02-02
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 51
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 38
Yohannes III age 56
Nicholas II of Russia born 1868-05-18
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 23
Venustiano Carranza born 1859-12-29
Cheoljong of Joseon age 22
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 58
Isma'il Pasha age 22
Otto von Bismarck age 38
Benjamin Disraeli age 48
Pierre de Coubertin born 1863-01-01
David Lloyd George born 1863-01-17
Georges Clemenceau age 12
William Ewart Gladstone age 43
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 43
Arthur Balfour age 5
H. H. Asquith age 1
Aristide Briand born 1862-03-28
Itō Hirobumi age 12
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 69
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 23
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg born 1856-11-29
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 61
Bernhard von Bülow age 4
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 69
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 17
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 54
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 15
Leo von Caprivi age 22
Katsura Tarō age 5
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 6
Georg Michaelis born 1857-09-08
Giovanni Giolitti age 10
Yamagata Aritomo age 15
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 34
Demetrios Vikelas age 18
Terauchi Masatake age 1
Francesco Crispi age 35
Matsukata Masayoshi age 18
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 12
Saionji Kinmochi age 3
Bettino Ricasoli age 44
Antonio Salandra age 2 months
Agostino Depretis age 40
Sidney Sonnino age 6
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 10 months
Urbano Rattazzi age 45
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 48
Paolo Boselli age 15
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 26
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 44
Luigi Carlo Farini age 41
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 14
Luigi Luzzatti age 12
René Viviani born 1863-11-08
Marco Minghetti age 34
Giuseppe Saracco age 32
Alessandro Fortis age 11
Louis Botha born 1862-09-27
Giovanni Lanza age 43
Tommaso Tittoni born 1855-11-16
Benedetto Cairoli age 28
Sanjō Sanetomi age 16
Luigi Pelloux age 14
Hsu Shih-chang born 1855-10-23
Nubar Pasha age 28
Boutros Ghali age 7
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 14
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 27
Botho zu Eulenburg age 22
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 13
Xiong Xiling born 1870-01-01
Riyad Pasha age 19
Li Jingxi born 1859-01-01
Raghib Pasha age 34
Muhammad Said Pasha born 1863-01-19
Salmon P. Chase age 45
Roger B. Taney age 76
Edward Douglass White age 7
Melville Fuller age 20
Morrison Waite age 36
Thomas R. Marshall born 1854-03-14
Hannibal Hamlin age 44
John C. Breckinridge age 32
Henry Wilson age 41
Charles W. Fairbanks age 1
Garret Hobart age 9
Levi P. Morton age 29
William A. Wheeler age 34
Schuyler Colfax age 30
Thomas A. Hendricks age 34
James S. Sherman born 1855-10-24
Adlai Stevenson I age 18
Winston Churchill born 1874-11-30
Andrew Bonar Law born 1858-09-16
George Curzon born 1859-01-11
William H. Seward age 52
Elihu Root age 8
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 3
William Jennings Bryan born 1860-03-19
Joseph Chamberlain age 17