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Texas annexation
1845-12-29
Mexican-American War
1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02
Taiping Rebellion
1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion
1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Second Opium War
1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24
Battle of Palikao
1860-09-21
Self-Strengthening Movement
1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
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
1861-06-21
Battle of Wilson's Creek
1861-08-10
Capture of New Orleans
1862-04-25
Battle of Seven Pines
1862-05-31 - 1862-06-01
Battle of Memphis
1862-06-06
Seven Days Battles
1862-06-25 - 1862-07-01
Battle of Antietam
1862-09-17
Battle of Fredericksburg
1862-12-11 - 1862-12-15
Battle of Stones River
1862-12-31 - 1863-01-02
Emancipation Proclamation
1863-01-01
Battle of Arkansas Post
1863-01-09 - 1863-01-11
Battle of Chancellorsville
1863-04-30 - 1863-05-06
Siege of Vicksburg
1863-05-18 - 1863-08-04
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 the Wilderness
1864-05-05 - 1864-05-07
Battle of Spotsylvania
1864-05-08 - 1864-05-21
Battle of New Market
1864-05-15
Battle of Cold Harbor
1864-05-31 - 1864-06-12
Battle of the Crater
1864-06-30
Battle of Mobile Bay
1864-08-05
Battle of Jonesborough
1864-08-31 - 1864-09-01
Battle of Franklin
1864-11-30
Battle of Nashville
1864-12-15 - 1864-12-16
Second Battle of Fort Fisher
1865-01-13 - 1865-01-15
Battle of Bentonville
1865-03-19 - 1865-03-21
Battle of Five Forks
1865-04-01
Battle of Sailor's Creek
1865-04-06
Battle of Appomattox Court House
1865-04-09
Reconstruction era
1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1865-04-14
Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution
1865-12-06
Civil Rights Act of 1866
1866-04-09
Boshin War
1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27
Gilded Age
1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Enforcement Act of 1870
1870-05-31
Franco-Prussian War
1870-07-19 - 1871-01-28
Second Enforcement Act
1871-02-28
Third Enforcement Act
1871-04-20
Civil Rights Act of 1875
1875-03-01
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882-05-06
Sino-French War
1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04
First Sino-Japanese War
1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
First Guangzhou Uprising
1895-10-26
Progressive era
1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Spanish-American War
1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13
Wuxu Coup
1898-09-22
Philippine-American War
1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War
1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Boxer Rebellion
1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Huizhou Uprising
1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
Russo-Japanese War
1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Battle of Mukden
1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Treaty of Portsmouth
1905-09-05
Zhennanguan Uprising
1907-12-01
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
July Crisis
1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I
1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
First Battle of the Marne
1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of Ypres
1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Armenian genocide
1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
Second Battle of Champagne
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
National Protection War
1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Battle of Verdun
1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Battle of the Somme
1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Russian Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War
1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Second Battle of the Marne
1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Meuse–Argonne offensive
1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
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
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
1918-11-12 - 1918-09-15
Biennio Rosso
1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War
1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War
1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles
1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
People
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 15
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
James A. Garfield
age 13
President
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United States
Rutherford B. Hayes
age 23
President
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United States
Wilhelm II
born 1859-01-27
Emperor
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German Empire
Charles I of Austria
born 1887-08-17
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Raymond Poincaré
born 1860-08-20
President
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France
Georges Clemenceau
age 4
Prime Minister
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France
Ulysses S. Grant
age 23
President
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United States
H. H. Asquith
born 1852-09-12
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
David Lloyd George
born 1863-01-17
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Franklin Pierce
age 40
President
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United States
Tongzhi Emperor
born 1856-04-27
Emperor
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Imperial China
Guangxu Emperor
born 1871-08-14
Emperor
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Imperial China
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
William Howard Taft
born 1857-09-15
President
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United States
James K. Polk
age 50
President
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United States
Millard Fillmore
age 45
President
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United States
Zachary Taylor
age 60
President
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United States
Mehmed V
age 1
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed VI
born 1861-01-14
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Theodore Roosevelt
born 1858-10-27
President
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United States
Woodrow Wilson
born 1856-12-28
President
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United States
Emperor Taishō
born 1879-08-31
Emperor
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Japan
Nicholas II of Russia
born 1868-05-18
Emperor
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Russia
Warren G. Harding
born 1865-11-02
President
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United States
Abraham Lincoln
age 36
President
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United States
Andrew Johnson
age 36
President
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United States
Emperor Meiji
born 1852-11-03
Emperor
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Japan
Daoguang Emperor
age 63
Emperor
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Imperial China
Xianfeng Emperor
age 14
Emperor
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Imperial China
William McKinley
age 2
President
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United States
Benjamin Harrison
age 12
President
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United States
Grover Cleveland
age 8
President
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United States
James Buchanan
age 54
President
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United States
Chester A. Arthur
age 16
President
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United States
George V
born 1865-06-03
King
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United Kingdom
Thomas R. Marshall
born 1854-03-14
Vice President
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United States
Queen Victoria
age 26
Queen
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United Kingdom
James S. Sherman
born 1855-10-24
Vice President
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United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
born 1852-05-11
Vice President
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United States
Garret Hobart
age 1
Vice President
-
United States
Jefferson Davis
age 37
President
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Confederate States of America
Edward VII
age 3
King
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United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton
age 21
Vice President
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United States
Otto von Bismarck
age 30
Chancellor
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German Empire
Calvin Coolidge
born 1872-07-04
Vice President
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United States
Charles Curtis
born 1860-01-25
Senate
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United States
Józef Piłsudski
born 1867-12-05
Chief Of State
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Poland
John Nance Garner
born 1868-11-22
House of Representatives
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
born 1877-11-24
House of Representatives
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United States
John Quincy Adams
age 78
House of Representatives
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United States
Edward Douglass White
born 1845-11-03
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Winfield Scott
age 59
Commanding General of the US Army
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United States
George B. McClellan
age 18
Commanding General of the US Army
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United States
Vladimir Lenin
born 1870-04-22
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
born 1878-12-18
People's Commissar for Nationalities
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Soviet Union
Charles Evans Hughes
born 1862-04-11
Governor of New York
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United States
Hua Guofeng
born 1921-02-16
Communist Party of China
Hermann Göring
born 1893-01-12
Imperial German Army
George S. Patton
born 1885-11-11
United States Army
Joseph Goebbels
born 1897-10-29
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
born 1894-04-26
Nazi Party
Robert A. Lovett
born 1895-09-14
United States Navy
Hu Yaobang
born 1915-11-20
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
born 1909-06-23
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
born 1907-08-03
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
born 1886-03-05
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
born 1919-10-17
Communist Party of China
Adolf Hitler
born 1889-04-20
Imperial German Army
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
born 1880-01-26
United States Army
Mao Zedong
born 1893-12-26
Communist Party of China
Kurt Daluege
born 1897-09-15
Nazi Party
Heinrich Himmler
born 1900-10-07
Nazi Party
Zhou Enlai
born 1898-03-05
Communist Party of China
Sun Yat-sen
born 1866-11-12
Kuomintang
Earl Warren
born 1891-03-19
United States Army
John Foster Dulles
born 1888-02-25
Republican Party (United States)
Harlan F. Stone
born 1872-10-11
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
born 1911-02-06
Republican Party (United States)
Iwane Matsui
born 1878-07-27
Imperial Japanese Army
John J. Pershing
born 1860-09-13
United States Army
Franz von Papen
born 1879-10-29
Imperial German Army
Wilhelm Frick
born 1877-03-12
Nazi Party
J. Edgar Hoover
born 1895-01-01
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
born 1912-05-17
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
born 1908-07-02
Democratic Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
born 1907-09-19
Democratic Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
born 1920-04-20
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
born 1913-11-10
Kuomintang
Frank Jack Fletcher
born 1885-04-29
United States Navy
Rong Yiren
born 1916-05-01
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
born 1908-04-11
Communist Party of China
Raymond A. Spruance
born 1886-07-03
United States Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
born 1882-01-30
New York State Senate
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United States
Byron White
born 1917-06-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
born 1910-04-27
Kuomintang
Courtney Hodges
born 1887-01-05
United States Army
George Wallace
born 1919-08-25
Democratic Party (United States)
Reinhard Heydrich
born 1904-03-07
Nazi Party
Charles de Gaulle
born 1890-11-22
French Army
Karl Dönitz
born 1891-09-16
Nazi Party
Kurt von Schleicher
born 1882-04-07
Imperial German Army
Liu Shaoqi
born 1898-11-24
Communist Party of China
Martin Bormann
born 1900-06-17
Nazi Party
Clark Clifford
born 1906-12-25
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
born 1888-08-20
Communist Party of Vietnam
Herbert Hoover
born 1874-08-10
Republican Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
born 1906-04-25
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
born 1915-01-23
Republican Party (United States)
Yoshijirō Umezu
born 1882-01-04
Imperial Japanese Army
Deng Xiaoping
born 1904-08-22
Communist Party of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
born 1890-10-14
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
born 1908-08-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Kai-shek
born 1887-10-31
Lyndon B. Johnson
born 1908-08-27
Nikita Khrushchev
born 1894-04-15
Robert E. Lee
age 38
Ruhollah Khomeini
born 1902-09-24
Kim Il-sung
born 1912-04-15
Souphanouvong
born 1909-07-13
Benito Mussolini
born 1883-07-29
Paul von Hindenburg
born 1847-10-02
Richard Nixon
born 1913-01-09
Ho Chi Minh
born 1890-05-19
Erich Ludendorff
born 1865-04-09
Wilhelm Groener
born 1867-11-22
Francisco Franco
born 1892-12-04
Fritz Sauckel
born 1894-10-27
Alfred Rosenberg
born 1893-01-12
Erich Raeder
born 1876-04-24
Hans Fritzsche
born 1900-04-21
Walther Funk
born 1890-08-18
Wilhelm Keitel
born 1882-09-22
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
born 1903-10-04
Friedrich Jeckeln
born 1895-02-02
Neville Chamberlain
born 1869-03-18
Kliment Voroshilov
born 1881-02-04
Semyon Timoshenko
born 1895-02-18
He Yingqin
born 1890-04-02
Lê Duẩn
born 1907-04-07
Akira Mutō
born 1892-12-15
Doihara Kenji
born 1883-08-08
Kōki Hirota
born 1878-02-14
Naoki Hoshino
born 1892-04-10
Manuel Azaña
born 1880-01-10
Harry S. Truman
born 1884-05-08
Claus von Stauffenberg
born 1907-11-15
Hirohito
born 1901-04-29
Yuan Shikai
born 1859-09-16
Hideki Tōjō
born 1884-12-30
Rosa Parks
born 1913-02-04
Seishirō Itagaki
born 1885-01-21
Kingorō Hashimoto
born 1890-02-19
Heitarō Kimura
born 1888-09-28
Rodion Malinovsky
born 1898-11-23
Leonid Brezhnev
born 1906-12-19
Kiichirō Hiranuma
born 1867-09-28
Kyösti Kallio
born 1873-04-10
Hjalmar Schacht
born 1877-01-22
Baldur von Schirach
born 1907-05-09
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
born 1892-07-22
Gamal Abdel Nasser
born 1918-01-15
Joseph Gallieni
born 1849-04-24
Edward VIII
born 1894-06-23
John Connally
born 1917-02-27
Soong Ching-ling
born 1893-01-27
Zhu De
born 1886-12-01
Empress Dowager Cixi
age 9
Nelson Rockefeller
born 1908-07-08
Matthias Erzberger
born 1875-09-20
Ferdinand Foch
born 1851-10-02
Joseph Chamberlain
age 9
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
born 1879-12-17
Gerd von Rundstedt
born 1875-12-12
Omar Bradley
born 1893-02-12
Erich von Manstein
born 1887-11-24
Ōyama Iwao
age 2
George C. Marshall
born 1880-12-31
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
born 1863-12-18
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
born 1906-04-10
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
born 1918-07-17
Konstantin Chernenko
born 1911-09-24
David M. Kennedy (politician)
born 1905-07-21
Carlos Castillo Armas
born 1914-11-04
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
born 1915-11-23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
born 1908-06-17
Jacobo Árbenz
born 1913-09-14
Juan José Arévalo
born 1904-09-10
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
age 8
Thomas Gage
age 127
Jo Ann Robinson
born 1912-04-17
Konrad Adenauer
born 1876-01-05
Nikola Tesla
born 1856-07-10
Nelson Mandela
born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi
born 1869-10-02
Albert Einstein
born 1879-03-14
John Marshall Harlan II
born 1899-05-20
Abe Fortas
born 1910-06-19
Clarence M. Kelley
born 1911-10-24
Gerald Ford
born 1913-07-14
Yuri Andropov
born 1914-06-15
Winston Churchill
born 1874-11-30
Julius Streicher
born 1885-02-12
Alfred Jodl
born 1890-05-10
George Meade
age 29
Otto Hofmann
born 1896-03-16
Fritz Todt
born 1891-09-04
Otto Rasch
born 1891-12-07
Hans Frank
born 1900-05-23
George Shultz
born 1920-12-13
Souvanna Phouma
born 1901-10-07
Nathaniel Lyon
age 27
John Schofield
age 14
Eva Braun
born 1912-02-06
Ernst Röhm
born 1887-11-28
Isoroku Yamamoto
born 1884-04-04
Chester W. Nimitz
born 1885-02-24
George VI
born 1895-12-14
Robert McNamara
born 1916-06-09
Cai E
born 1882-12-19
Zeng Guofan
age 33
Charles G. Dawes
born 1865-08-27
Henry A. Wallace
born 1888-10-07
Hubert Humphrey
born 1911-05-27
Spiro Agnew
born 1918-11-09
Leon Trotsky
born 1879-11-07
Peng Dehuai
born 1898-10-24
Warren E. Burger
born 1907-09-17
Fred M. Vinson
born 1890-01-22
Joseph Joffre
born 1852-01-12
Anthony Eden
born 1897-06-12
Clement Attlee
born 1883-01-03
Emilio De Bono
born 1866-03-19
John Bell Hood
age 14
Martin Van Buren
age 62
John Tyler
age 55
Albert Speer
born 1905-03-19
Hubert Gough
born 1870-08-12