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Self-Strengthening Movement
1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Reconstruction era
1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age
1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
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
Benjamin Harrison
age 42
President
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United States
William McKinley
age 32
President
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United States
William Howard Taft
age 18
President
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United States
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
Guangxu Emperor
age 4
Emperor
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Imperial China
Warren G. Harding
age 9
President
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United States
Nicholas II of Russia
age 7
Emperor
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Russia
Mehmed VI
age 14
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed V
age 30
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Grover Cleveland
age 38
President
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United States
Emperor Meiji
age 22
Emperor
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Japan
Chester A. Arthur
age 45
President
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United States
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 45
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Emperor Taishō
born 1879-08-31
Emperor
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Japan
Georges Clemenceau
age 34
Prime Minister
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France
Wilhelm II
age 16
Emperor
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German Empire
H. H. Asquith
age 23
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Woodrow Wilson
age 18
President
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United States
Charles I of Austria
born 1887-08-17
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
David Lloyd George
age 12
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Theodore Roosevelt
age 16
President
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United States
Raymond Poincaré
age 15
President
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France
Rutherford B. Hayes
age 52
President
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United States
James A. Garfield
age 43
President
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United States
Ulysses S. Grant
age 53
President
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United States
Queen Victoria
age 56
Queen
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United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton
age 51
Vice President
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United States
Edward VII
age 33
King
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United Kingdom
Garret Hobart
age 31
Vice President
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United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 23
Vice President
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United States
James S. Sherman
age 19
Vice President
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United States
Thomas R. Marshall
age 21
Vice President
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United States
Calvin Coolidge
age 3
Vice President
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United States
George V
age 10
King
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United Kingdom
Otto von Bismarck
age 60
Chancellor
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German Empire
Charles Curtis
age 15
Senate
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United States
Józef Piłsudski
age 7
Chief Of State
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Poland
Alben W. Barkley
born 1877-11-24
House of Representatives
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United States
John Nance Garner
age 6
House of Representatives
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United States
Edward Douglass White
age 29
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Joseph Stalin
born 1878-12-18
People's Commissar for Nationalities
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Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin
age 5
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Charles Evans Hughes
age 13
Governor of New York
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United States
Dong Biwu
born 1886-03-05
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
born 1907-08-03
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
born 1919-10-17
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
born 1915-11-20
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
born 1921-02-16
Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi
born 1898-11-24
Communist Party of China
Iwane Matsui
born 1878-07-27
Imperial Japanese Army
Ronald Reagan
born 1911-02-06
Republican Party (United States)
Hermann Göring
born 1893-01-12
Imperial German Army
Joseph Goebbels
born 1897-10-29
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
born 1894-04-26
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
born 1904-03-07
Nazi Party
Kurt von Schleicher
born 1882-04-07
Imperial German Army
Martin Bormann
born 1900-06-17
Nazi Party
Herbert Hoover
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
born 1890-10-14
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
born 1904-08-22
Communist Party of China
Heinrich Himmler
born 1900-10-07
Nazi Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
born 1882-01-30
New York State Senate
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United States
Harlan F. Stone
age 2
Republican Party (United States)
Earl Warren
born 1891-03-19
United States Army
Sun Yat-sen
age 8
Kuomintang
Zhou Enlai
born 1898-03-05
Communist Party of China
Mao Zedong
born 1893-12-26
Communist Party of China
Kurt Daluege
born 1897-09-15
Nazi Party
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
born 1880-01-26
United States Army
Adolf Hitler
born 1889-04-20
Imperial German Army
George S. Patton
born 1885-11-11
United States Army
Li Xiannian
born 1909-06-23
Communist Party of China
Potter Stewart
born 1915-01-23
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
born 1908-08-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
born 1877-03-12
Nazi Party
William J. Brennan Jr.
born 1906-04-25
Democratic Party (United States)
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
Raymond A. Spruance
born 1886-07-03
United States Navy
Courtney Hodges
born 1887-01-05
United States Army
Tôn Đức Thắng
born 1888-08-20
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
born 1906-12-25
Democratic Party (United States)
Yoshijirō Umezu
born 1882-01-04
Imperial Japanese Army
George Wallace
born 1919-08-25
Democratic Party (United States)
Charles de Gaulle
born 1890-11-22
French Army
John J. Pershing
age 15
United States Army
Franz von Papen
born 1879-10-29
Imperial German Army
Karl Dönitz
born 1891-09-16
Nazi Party
Rong Yiren
born 1916-05-01
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
born 1908-04-11
Communist Party of China
Robert A. Lovett
born 1895-09-14
United States Navy
John Foster Dulles
born 1888-02-25
Republican Party (United States)
Byron White
born 1917-06-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
born 1910-04-27
Kuomintang
Souphanouvong
born 1909-07-13
Ruhollah Khomeini
born 1902-09-24
Nikita Khrushchev
born 1894-04-15
Kim Il-sung
born 1912-04-15
Benito Mussolini
born 1883-07-29
Jefferson Davis
age 67
Neville Chamberlain
age 6
Friedrich Jeckeln
born 1895-02-02
Paul von Hindenburg
age 27
Kliment Voroshilov
born 1881-02-04
Richard Nixon
born 1913-01-09
Semyon Timoshenko
born 1895-02-18
He Yingqin
born 1890-04-02
Lê Duẩn
born 1907-04-07
Ho Chi Minh
born 1890-05-19
Akira Mutō
born 1892-12-15
Doihara Kenji
born 1883-08-08
Kōki Hirota
born 1878-02-14
Erich Ludendorff
age 10
Naoki Hoshino
born 1892-04-10
Wilhelm Groener
age 7
Francisco Franco
born 1892-12-04
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
age 7
Kyösti Kallio
age 2
Hjalmar Schacht
born 1877-01-22
Baldur von Schirach
born 1907-05-09
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
born 1892-07-22
Fritz Sauckel
born 1894-10-27
Alfred Rosenberg
born 1893-01-12
Rosa Parks
born 1913-02-04
Hideki Tōjō
born 1884-12-30
Yuan Shikai
age 16
Erich Raeder
born 1876-04-24
Hirohito
born 1901-04-29
Hans Fritzsche
born 1900-04-21
Claus von Stauffenberg
born 1907-11-15
Walther Funk
born 1890-08-18
Wilhelm Keitel
born 1882-09-22
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
born 1903-10-04
Harry S. Truman
born 1884-05-08
Lyndon B. Johnson
born 1908-08-27
Chiang Kai-shek
born 1887-10-31
Hubert Gough
age 5
Clarence M. Kelley
born 1911-10-24
Gamal Abdel Nasser
born 1918-01-15
Joseph Gallieni
age 26
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 39
Nelson Rockefeller
born 1908-07-08
Matthias Erzberger
born 1875-09-20
Ferdinand Foch
age 23
Joseph Chamberlain
age 39
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 32
George C. Marshall
born 1880-12-31
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 37
Thomas Gage
age 157
Jo Ann Robinson
born 1912-04-17
Konrad Adenauer
born 1876-01-05
Nikola Tesla
age 19
Nelson Mandela
born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi
age 5
Albert Einstein
born 1879-03-14
John Marshall Harlan II
born 1899-05-20
Abe Fortas
born 1910-06-19
Gerald Ford
born 1913-07-14
Yuri Andropov
born 1914-06-15
Winston Churchill
age 9 months
Julius Streicher
born 1885-02-12
Alfred Jodl
born 1890-05-10
George B. McClellan
age 48
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
John Schofield
age 44
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
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
age 11
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
born 1906-04-10
Robert McNamara
born 1916-06-09
Cai E
born 1882-12-19
Charles G. Dawes
age 10
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
age 23
Anthony Eden
born 1897-06-12
Clement Attlee
born 1883-01-03
Emilio De Bono
age 9
John Bell Hood
age 44
Albert Speer
born 1905-03-19
Manuel Azaña
born 1880-01-10