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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31

Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31

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 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

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

Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09

Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05

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

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 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

Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02

Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23

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

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 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 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

Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15

Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21

Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04

Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06

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

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

Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16

October Revolution 1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08

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

Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919-04-13 - 1919-04-13

Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11

Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09

Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28

Battle of Petrograd 1919-09-28 - 1919-11-14

Orel–Kursk operation 1919-10-11 - 1919-11-18

Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31

Founding of the League of Nations 1920-01-10

Kiev offensive (1920) 1920-04-24 - 1920-06-13

Battle of Warsaw (1920) 1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 1920-08-18

Tambov Rebellion 1920-08-19

Non-cooperation movement 1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12

Siege of Perekop (1920) 1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17

First Battle of İnönü 1921-01-06 - 1921-01-11

Kronstadt rebellion 1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18

Second Battle of İnönü 1921-03-26 - 1921-03-31

Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir 1921-07-10 - 1921-07-24

Battle of the Sakarya 1921-08-23 - 1921-09-13

Battle of Dumlupınar 1922-08-26 - 1922-08-30

Burning of Smyrna 1922-09-13 - 1922-09-22

March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29

Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30

People

Martin Bormann born 1900-06-17

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi born 1920-12-09

Hastings Banda born 1890-01-01

Moshe Dayan born 1915-05-20

Pancho Villa born 1878-06-05

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 62

Trygve Lie born 1896-07-16

Isabella II age 47

Franz von Papen born 1879-10-29

Celâl Bayar born 1883-05-16

Subhas Chandra Bose born 1897-01-23

Nestor Makhno born 1888-11-07

Franjo Tuđman born 1922-05-14

Urho Kekkonen born 1900-09-03

Walter Ulbricht born 1893-06-30

Isoroku Yamamoto born 1884-04-04

Wilhelm Keitel born 1882-09-22

Hubert Humphrey born 1911-05-27

Charles G. Dawes age 12

Nelson Rockefeller born 1908-07-08

Alec Douglas-Home born 1903-07-02

Alcide De Gasperi born 1881-04-03

Cemal Gürsel born 1895-10-13

Léon Blum age 6

Robert Schuman born 1886-06-29

Alfred Rosenberg born 1893-01-12

Georgi Dimitrov born 1882-06-30

Imre Nagy born 1896-06-07

Andrei Gromyko born 1909-07-18

Erich Ludendorff age 13

Kliment Voroshilov born 1881-02-04

Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09

Kenan Evren born 1917-07-17

Isaac Shamir born 1915-10-22

Faisal I of Iraq born 1885-05-20

Yasuhiro Nakasone born 1918-05-27

Umberto II of Italy born 1904-09-15

Ngo Dinh Diem born 1901-01-03

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 77

Henry A. Wallace born 1888-10-07

Abdullah I of Jordan born 1882-01-01

Leopold III of Belgium born 1901-11-03

Erich von Manstein born 1887-11-24

Chaim Weizmann age 3

Sandro Pertini born 1896-09-25

Theodor Heuss born 1884-01-31

Walter Scheel born 1919-07-08

Alfred Jodl born 1890-05-10

Olav V of Norway born 1903-07-02

Ion Antonescu born 1882-06-02

Alfredo Stroessner born 1912-11-03

William Tecumseh Sherman age 58

Wallis Simpson born 1896-06-19

Juscelino Kubitschek born 1902-09-12

Ernst Röhm born 1887-11-28

Hua Guofeng born 1921-02-16

Agostinho Neto born 1922-09-17

Ahmed Sékou Touré born 1922-01-09

Ayub Khan born 1907-05-14

Saud of Saudi Arabia born 1902-01-15

Pietro Badoglio age 6

Juan Antonio Samaranch born 1920-07-17

Chester W. Nimitz born 1885-02-24

Zakir Husain born 1897-02-08

Juliana of the Netherlands born 1909-04-30

Pridi Banomyong born 1900-05-11

Yun Po-sun born 1897-08-26

Gustav Heinemann born 1899-07-23

Murad V age 37

Hans Frank born 1900-05-23

János Kádár born 1912-05-26

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro born 1918-09-09

Fahri Korutürk born 1903-08-03

Michael I of Romania born 1921-10-25

Édouard Daladier born 1884-06-18

Kurt von Schleicher born 1882-04-07

Cordell Hull age 6

Frederik IX of Denmark born 1899-03-11

Tunku Abdul Rahman born 1903-02-08

Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden born 1882-11-11

Chang Myon born 1899-08-28

Manuel Azaña born 1880-01-10

Zhao Ziyang born 1919-10-17

Gerd von Rundstedt age 2

J. Edgar Hoover born 1895-01-01

Engelbert Dollfuss born 1892-10-04

P. V. Narasimha Rao born 1921-06-28

Adnan Menderes born 1899-01-01

Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 8

Ivan Konev born 1897-12-28

Alexandra of Denmark age 33

Karl Carstens born 1914-12-14

Arthur Seyss-Inquart born 1892-07-22

Vincent Auriol born 1884-08-27

Rafael Trujillo born 1891-10-24

V. V. Giri born 1894-08-10

Giovanni Leone born 1908-11-03

Yahya Khan born 1917-02-04

Cevdet Sunay born 1899-02-10

Alexei Kosygin born 1904-02-21

Pierre Laval born 1883-06-28

George F. Kennan born 1904-02-16

Amadeo I of Spain age 33

Farouk of Egypt born 1920-02-11

Joseph Joffre age 26

K. R. Narayanan born 1920-10-27

Levi Eshkol born 1895-10-25

Félix Houphouët-Boigny born 1905-10-16

Rainier III, Prince of Monaco born 1923-05-31

Liaquat Ali Khan born 1895-10-01

Heinrich Lübke born 1894-10-14

Ernst Kaltenbrunner born 1903-10-04

Liu Shaoqi born 1898-11-24

Paul Doumer age 21

Gough Whitlam born 1916-07-11

François Duvalier born 1907-04-14

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed born 1905-05-13

Luigi Einaudi age 4

Enrico de Nicola age 6 months

Mikhail Tukhachevsky born 1893-02-16

Anton Denikin age 5

Robert McNamara born 1916-06-09

Omar Bradley born 1893-02-12

Soong Ching-ling born 1893-01-27

Gaston Doumergue age 14

Mohamed Naguib born 1901-02-20

Mátyás Rákosi born 1892-03-09

Charan Singh born 1902-12-23

Semyon Budyonny born 1883-04-25

Erich Raeder age 2

Julius Streicher born 1885-02-12

René Coty born 1882-03-20

R. Venkataraman born 1910-12-04

Antonio Segni born 1891-02-02

Siad Barre born 1919-10-06

Mikhail Frunze born 1885-02-02

Mary of Teck age 11

Hjalmar Schacht age 1

Rodion Malinovsky born 1898-11-23

Hannibal Hamlin age 68

Frank B. Kellogg age 21

Lázaro Cárdenas born 1895-05-21

Makarios III born 1913-08-13

Gulzarilal Nanda born 1898-07-04

Moshe Sharett born 1894-10-16

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan born 1918-05-06

Pyotr Wrangel born 1878-08-27

Alexei Rykov born 1881-02-25

P. W. Botha born 1916-01-12

Wilhelm Frick age 1

Semyon Timoshenko born 1895-02-18

Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15

Paul-Henri Spaak born 1899-01-25

Zail Singh born 1916-05-05

Amintore Fanfani born 1908-02-06

Willem Drees born 1886-07-05

Jozef Tiso born 1887-10-13

Prajadhipok born 1893-11-08

Lavr Kornilov age 7

Nikolai Bulganin born 1895-06-11

João Goulart born 1919-03-01

Jean Monnet born 1888-11-09

John Foster Dulles born 1888-02-25

Ferhat Abbas born 1899-08-24

Shankar Dayal Sharma born 1918-08-19

Chaim Herzog born 1918-09-17

Giuseppe Saragat born 1898-09-19

Mohammed V of Morocco born 1909-08-10

Prem Tinsulanonda born 1920-08-26

Manuel L. Quezon born 1878-08-19

Lin Biao born 1907-12-05

Fedor von Bock born 1880-12-03

Jacobo Árbenz born 1913-09-14

Bruno Kreisky born 1911-01-22

Seretse Khama born 1921-07-01

Risto Ryti born 1889-02-03

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy born 1913-05-19

Giovanni Gronchi born 1887-09-10

Agatha Barbara born 1923-03-11

Nnamdi Azikiwe born 1904-11-16

Iskandar Ali Mirza born 1899-11-13

Bolesław Bierut born 1892-04-18

Baldur von Schirach born 1907-05-09

Dean Acheson born 1893-04-11

Andreas Papandreou born 1919-02-05

Douglas Hyde age 18

Walter Model born 1891-01-24

Shigeru Yoshida born 1878-09-22

Kakuei Tanaka born 1918-05-04

Talaat Pasha age 3

Chiang Ching-kuo born 1910-04-27

Kurt Schuschnigg born 1897-12-14

Konstantinos Karamanlis born 1907-03-21

Inder Kumar Gujral born 1919-12-04

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 30

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 1

Albert Kesselring born 1885-11-30

Wilhelm Marx age 15

Hans Luther born 1879-03-10

Édouard Herriot age 5

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