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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

Assassination of Alexander II of Russia 1881-03-13

Mahdist War 1881-06-29 - 1899-11-24

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06

Anglo-Egyptian War 1882-07-11 - 1882-09-13

1883 eruption of Krakatoa 1883-08-26 - 1883-08-27

Franco-Hova Wars 1883-12 - 1895-09-30

Siege of Khartoum 1884-03-13 - 1885-01-26

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

Second Franco-Dahomean War 1892-07-04 - 1894-01-15

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

Cuban War of Independence 1895-02-24 - 1898-08-12

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

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 San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01

Battle of El Caney 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

Battle of Omdurman 1898-09-02

Fashoda Incident 1898-09-18 - 1898-11-03

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

War of the Golden Stool 1900-03 - 1900-09-30

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

Herero and Nama genocide 1904 - 1908

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

Maji Maji Rebellion 1905-07 - 1907-08

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

Bosnian Crisis 1908-10-06 - 1909-03-31

South Africa Act 1909 1910-05-31

Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 1910-08-22

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

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

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 Galicia 1914-08-23 - 1914-09-11

Battle of Mons 1914-08-23 - 1914-08-23

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 Tanga 1914-11-02 - 1914-11-05

Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30

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

Sinking of the RMS Lusitania 1915-05-07

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

Battle of Bucharest 1916-11-25 - 1916-12-03

Assassination of Grigori Rasputin 1916-12-30 - 1916-12-30

Zimmermann Telegram 1917-01-16 - 1917-03-01

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 - 1918-08-06

Execution of the Romanov family 1918-07-17 - 1918-07-17

Hundred Days Offensive 1918-08-08 - 1918-11-11

Battle of Amiens (1918) 1918-08-08 - 1918-08-12

Battle of Saint-Mihiel 1918-09-12 - 1918-09-15

Vardar offensive 1918-09-15 - 1918-09-29

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 - 1920

Spartacist uprising 1919-01-05 - 1919-01-12

Irish War of Independence 1919-01-21 - 1921-07-11

Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18

March 1st Movement 1919-03-01

People

Gustav Bauer age 9

Heinrich Brüning born 1885-11-26

Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk born 1887-08-22

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 18

Genrikh Yagoda born 1891-11-07

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria age 20

Princess Alice of Battenberg born 1885-02-25

Walther Funk born 1890-08-18

Fritz Sauckel born 1894-10-27

Kyösti Kallio age 6

Harold Holt born 1908-08-05

William Lyon Mackenzie King age 4

Plutarco Elías Calles age 1

Milovan Đilas born 1911-06-12

Gabriel Narutowicz age 14

Carol II of Romania born 1893-10-15

Archibald Wavell born 1883-05-05

Erich von Falkenhayn age 17

Fumimaro Konoe born 1891-10-12

Vasily Blyukher born 1889-12-01

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco born 1897-09-20

Isma'il Pasha age 48

Alain Poher born 1909-04-17

August von Mackensen age 29

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg age 11

Marie of Romania age 3

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej born 1901-11-08

Nicolae Iorga age 8

Rómulo Gallegos born 1884-08-02

Maurice Gamelin age 6

Constantin Fehrenbach age 27

Hayato Ikeda born 1899-12-03

Jan Smuts age 9

Kirill Meretskov born 1897-06-07

Italo Balbo born 1896-06-06

Edward Rydz-Śmigły born 1886-03-11

Nicholas I of Montenegro age 37

Lew Wallace age 52

Oswald Mosley born 1896-11-16

Antonín Novotný born 1904-12-10

Hu Yaobang born 1915-11-20

Robert Menzies born 1894-12-20

Lauri Kristian Relander born 1883-05-31

Abd al-Karim Qasim born 1914-11-21

Ne Win born 1911-05-24

Francisco Largo Caballero age 9

C. Rajagopalachari age 8 months

Günther von Kluge born 1882-10-30

Yakov Sverdlov born 1885-06-03

Djemal Pasha age 7

Wilhelm Cuno age 3

Ichirō Hatoyama born 1883-01-01

Takeo Fukuda born 1905-01-14

Ivanoe Bonomi age 5

Hendrik Verwoerd born 1901-09-08

João Figueiredo born 1918-01-15

Allen Dulles born 1893-04-07

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark born 1882-02-02

Andrey Vyshinsky born 1883-12-10

Zita of Bourbon-Parma born 1892-05-09

Princess Märtha of Sweden born 1901-03-28

Alice Paul born 1885-01-11

Emil Hácha age 7

Fritz Todt born 1891-09-04

Joseph Kasa-Vubu born 1910-01-01

Abdul Rahman Arif born 1916-04-14

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi born 1884-11-24

Manuel Roxas born 1892-01-01

Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio born 1902-09-06

Nikolai Vatutin born 1901-12-16

Nikolai Yudenich age 17

Ernesto Geisel born 1907-08-03

Ingrid of Sweden born 1910-03-28

Bartolomé Mitre age 58

Manuel Ávila Camacho born 1897-04-24

Lon Nol born 1913-11-13

Mohammad Hatta born 1902-08-12

Mariano Rumor born 1915-06-16

Ghulam Ishaq Khan born 1915-01-20

Marcelo Caetano born 1906-08-17

Wang Jingwei born 1883-05-04

Aden Abdullah Osman Daar born 1908-12-09

Inukai Tsuyoshi age 24

Zenkō Suzuki born 1911-01-11

Paul Reynaud age 9 months

Jules Ferry age 47

Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 27

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 14

Maria Christina of Austria age 21

Charlotte of Belgium age 39

Allan Octavian Hume age 50

Antonín Zápotocký born 1884-12-19

Lê Duẩn born 1907-04-07

Li Xiannian born 1909-06-23

John Curtin born 1885-01-08

Franz Jonas born 1899-10-04

Rudolf Kirchschläger born 1915-03-20

Patricio Aylwin born 1918-11-26

Hassan Gouled Aptidon born 1916-10-15

Konstantinos Mitsotakis born 1918-10-18

Ferenc Szálasi born 1897-01-06

Ásgeir Ásgeirsson born 1894-05-13

Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz born 1911-03-12

Einar Gerhardsen born 1897-05-10

Tage Erlander born 1901-06-13

Rómulo Betancourt born 1908-02-22

Ignacy Mościcki age 11

José Paciano Laurel born 1891-03-09

Sergio Osmeña age 11 months

Luis Carrero Blanco born 1904-03-04

Philip Henry Sheridan age 48

Harold Alexander born 1891-12-10

Rodolfo Graziani born 1882-08-11

Masayoshi Ōhira born 1910-03-12

Pierre Mendès France born 1907-01-11

Oliver Tambo born 1917-10-27

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince born 1882-05-06

Lucretia Mott age 86

Heinrich Müller born 1900-04-28

Roland Freisler born 1893-10-30

Victoria of Baden age 17

Gyula Andrássy age 56

Leland Stanford age 55

Spyridon Louis age 6

Earl Warren born 1891-03-19

Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 41

Louis St. Laurent born 1882-02-01

Eduardo Frei Montalva born 1911-01-16

Ephraim Katzir born 1916-05-16

Adolfo López Mateos born 1910-05-26

Khorloogiin Choibalsan born 1895-02-08

U Nu born 1907-05-25

Rafael Caldera born 1916-01-24

Fernando Belaúnde born 1912-10-07

Elpidio Quirino born 1890-11-16

Takeo Miki born 1907-03-17

William Westmoreland born 1914-03-26

Georges Bidault born 1899-10-05

Ludwig Beck born 1880-06-29

Vasily Sokolovsky born 1897-07-09

Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin born 1894-06-16

Armando Diaz age 17

Marcel Lefebvre born 1905-11-29

Ernest Bevin born 1881-03-09

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 20

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 22

Alexander Mackenzie age 57

Kate Sheppard age 32

Hans Fritzsche born 1900-04-21

Yang Shangkun born 1907-08-03

Thurgood Marshall born 1908-07-02

Hubert Maga born 1916-08-10

Arthur Meighen age 5

Léon M'ba born 1902-02-09

Georgios Papandreou born 1888-02-13

Zalman Shazar born 1889-12-22

Piet de Jong born 1915-04-03

Philibert Tsiranana born 1912-10-18

Miguel Alemán Valdés born 1900-09-29

Robert Nivelle age 22

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 26

Maxime Weygand age 12

Kuniaki Koiso born 1880-03-22

Kijūrō Shidehara age 6

Nikolai Tikhonov born 1905-05-14

Jânio Quadros born 1917-01-25

François Darlan born 1881-08-07

Michel Aflaq born 1910-01-01

Li Hongzhang age 56

Ferdinand Schörner born 1892-06-12

Tomoyuki Yamashita born 1885-11-08

Luigi Cadorna age 28

Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 55

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia born 1882-06-13

Sophia of Prussia age 9

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 33

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 16

Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona born 1913-06-20

Emilio De Bono age 13

Dean Rusk born 1909-02-09

Cyrus Vance born 1917-03-27

Arturo Umberto Illia born 1900-08-04

Arturo Frondizi born 1908-10-28

William McMahon born 1908-02-23

Earle Page born 1880-08-08

François Tombalbaye born 1918-06-15

Pál Teleki born 1879-11-01

Kristján Eldjárn born 1916-12-06

Basappa Danappa Jatti born 1912-09-10

Mohammad Hidayatullah born 1905-12-17

Yigal Allon born 1918-10-10

Jānis Čakste age 19

Per Albin Hansson born 1885-10-28

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 2

Bettino Ricasoli age 70

Luigi Facta age 17

Eurico Gaspar Dutra born 1883-05-18

Tadamichi Kuribayashi born 1891-07-07

Chen Duxiu born 1879-10-08

Georgy Gapon age 9

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