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Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
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
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
Balangiga massacre 1901-09-28 - 1901-09-28
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
February Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16
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
Battle of Caporetto 1917-10-24 - 1917-11-19
Battle of Beersheba (1917) 1917-10-31 - 1917-10-31
Third Battle of Gaza 1917-11-01 - 1917-11-02
Balfour Declaration 1917-11-02 - 1917-11-02
October Revolution 1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Battle of Jerusalem (1917) 1917-11-17 - 1917-12-30
Battle of Cambrai (1917) 1917-11-20 - 1917-12-07
Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly 1918-01-19 - 1918-01-19
Representation of the People Act 1918 1918-02-06
Ice March 1918-02-22 - 1918-05-13
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918-03-03 - 1918-03-03
Spanish flu 1918-03-04 - 1920-04-30
Operation Michael 1918-03-21 - 1918-04-05
Battle of the Lys (1918) 1918-04-09 - 1918-04-29
Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion 1918-05-14 - 1918-09-10
Third Battle of the Aisne 1918-05-27 - 1918-06-06
Battle of Cantigny 1918-05-28 - 1918-05-28
Battle of Belleau Wood 1918-06-01 - 1918-06-26
Second Battle of the Piave River 1918-06-15 - 1918-06-23
Battle of Tsaritsyn 1918-07-01 - 1920-01-01
Second Battle of the Marne 1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Execution of the Romanov family 1918-07-17 - 1918-07-17
Battle of Amiens (1918) 1918-08-08 - 1918-08-12
Battle of Saint-Mihiel 1918-09-12 - 1918-09-15
Battle of Megiddo (1918) 1918-09-19 - 1918-09-25
Meuse–Argonne offensive 1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
Battle of the St Quentin Canal 1918-09-29 - 1918-10-02
Battle of Sharqat 1918-10-23 - 1918-10-30
Battle of Vittorio Veneto 1918-10-24 - 1918-11-03
German Revolution 1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11
Polish–Ukrainian War 1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18
Armistice of 11 November 1918 1918-11-11
Biennio Rosso 1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18

People

Thomas Mackenzie age 25
Prime Minister - New Zealand
William Hall-Jones age 28
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Joaquim Pimenta de Castro age 32
Prime Minister - Portugal
Andrija Radović age 7
Prime Minister - Montenegro
José de Castro age 11
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jovan Plamenac age 6
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Lazar Tomanović age 33
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Petar Velimirović age 31
Prime Minister - Serbia
Marko Radulović age 12
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Lazar Mijušković age 11
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 33
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Evgenije Popović age 37
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Marko Trifković age 14
Prime Minister - Serbia
Da Lam Tserenchimed age 10
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Enrique de la Riva Agüero Riglos age 21
Prime Minister - Peru
Milo Matanović age 9
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Germán Schreiber age 17
Prime Minister - Peru
Risto Popović age 8
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Mirko M. Mijušković age 3
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 11
Prime Minister - Portugal
Javier Prado age 7
Prime Minister - Peru
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 18
Governor-General - Australia
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 27
Governor-General - Australia
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 12
Governor-General - Australia
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 19
Governor-General - Australia
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 4
Governor-General - Australia
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 32
Governor-General - Australia
Martial Merlin age 19
Governor-General - Madagascar
Abraham Schrameck age 11
Governor-General - Madagascar
Henri Cor age 15
Governor-General - Madagascar
Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié age 25
Governor-General - Madagascar
Joseph Stalin age 7 months
People's Commissar for Nationalities - Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler born 1889-04-20
Albert Einstein age 4 months
Karl Marx age 61
Ronald Reagan born 1911-02-06
Nelson Mandela born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi age 9
Leo Tolstoy age 50
Charles Darwin age 70
Vincent van Gogh age 26
Pablo Picasso born 1881-10-25
Charlie Chaplin born 1889-04-16
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 57
Friedrich Nietzsche age 34
Thomas Edison age 32
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born 1881-01-01
Sigmund Freud age 23
John F. Kennedy born 1917-05-29
Marie Curie age 11
Rabindranath Tagore age 18
Mao Zedong born 1893-12-26
Charles de Gaulle born 1890-11-22
Nikola Tesla age 23
Walt Disney born 1901-12-05
Louis Pasteur age 56
George Orwell born 1903-06-25
Ernest Hemingway born 1899-07-21
Richard Wagner age 66
Henry Ford age 16
Benito Mussolini born 1883-07-29
Jean-Paul Sartre born 1905-06-21
Friedrich Engels age 58
Mother Teresa born 1910-08-26
Harry S. Truman born 1884-05-08
Jawaharlal Nehru born 1889-11-14
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 39
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
Simone de Beauvoir born 1908-01-09
Niels Bohr born 1885-10-07
Leon Trotsky born 1879-11-07
Max Planck age 21
Dmitri Mendeleev age 45
Giuseppe Verdi age 65
Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908-08-27
Gerald Ford born 1913-07-14
Indira Gandhi born 1917-11-19
Enrico Fermi born 1901-09-29
Nikita Khrushchev born 1894-04-15
Herbert Hoover age 4
James Clerk Maxwell age 48
Alexander Graham Bell age 32
Ulysses S. Grant age 57
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn born 1918-12-11
Kwame Nkrumah born 1909-09-21
Hirohito born 1901-04-29
Claude Monet age 38
Ho Chi Minh born 1890-05-19
Florence Nightingale age 59
Konrad Adenauer age 3
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
Deng Xiaoping born 1904-08-22
Ferdinand Marcos born 1917-09-11
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 57
Milton Friedman born 1912-07-31
Ruhollah Khomeini born 1902-09-24
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 72
Josip Broz Tito born 1892-05-07
Guglielmo Marconi age 5
J. Robert Oppenheimer born 1904-04-22
Gamal Abdel Nasser born 1918-01-15
Rosa Parks born 1913-02-04
Sukarno born 1901-06-06
John Paul I born 1912-10-17
Anwar Sadat born 1918-12-25
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 3
John von Neumann born 1903-12-28
George VI born 1895-12-14
Pius XI age 22
Heinrich Himmler born 1900-10-07
Neville Chamberlain age 10
Augusto Pinochet born 1915-11-25
Nicolae Ceaușescu born 1918-01-26
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 34
Hermann Göring born 1893-01-12
Helmut Schmidt born 1918-12-23
Rachel Carson born 1907-05-27
Grigori Rasputin age 10
Edward VIII born 1894-06-23
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 2
Paul von Hindenburg age 31
Wernher von Braun born 1912-03-23
Clement Attlee born 1883-01-03
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 15
Harriet Tubman age 57
George C. Marshall born 1880-12-31
Enver Hoxha born 1908-10-16
Konstantin Chernenko born 1911-09-24
Empress Dowager Cixi age 43
Zhou Enlai born 1898-03-05
Park Chung-hee born 1917-11-14
Vyacheslav Molotov born 1890-03-09
Anthony Eden born 1897-06-12
Menachem Begin born 1913-08-16
Philippe Pétain age 23
Emiliano Zapata born 1879-08-08
Erich Honecker born 1912-08-25
Harold Macmillan born 1894-02-10
Cecil Rhodes age 26
Ibn Saud age 3
Harold Wilson born 1916-03-11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 214
Frederick Douglass age 61
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
Susan B. Anthony age 59
Aldo Moro born 1916-09-23
Léopold Sédar Senghor born 1906-10-09
Ludwig Erhard born 1897-02-04
Kurt Waldheim born 1918-12-21
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 12
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan born 1888-09-05
Syngman Rhee age 4
U Thant born 1909-01-22
Jefferson Davis age 71
Rudolf Hess born 1894-04-26
George S. Patton born 1885-11-11
Giulio Andreotti born 1919-01-14
Hideki Tojo born 1884-12-30
İsmet İnönü born 1884-09-24
Ahmad ibn Billah born 1916-12-25
Bernard Montgomery born 1887-11-17
Gustav Stresemann age 1
Albert Speer born 1905-03-19
Reza Shah age 1
Rajendra Prasad born 1884-12-03
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 3
Eisaku Satō born 1901-03-27
Georgy Malenkov born 1902-01-08
Getúlio Vargas born 1882-04-19
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud born 1906-01-01