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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

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

Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12

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

Progressive era 1896 - 1916

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

Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-03

Siege of Santiago 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-17

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 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

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

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 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 Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26

Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30

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

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

Battle of Tanga 1914-11-02 - 1914-11-05

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 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

Sinking of the RMS Lusitania 1915-05-07

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

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

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 - 1918-08-06

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

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

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

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

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

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

May Fourth Movement 1919-05-04

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

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

Turkish War of Independence 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11

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 - 1929

Founding of the League of Nations 1920-01-10

Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05

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

Washington Naval Conference 1921-11-12 - 1922-02-06

Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921-12-06

Irish Civil War 1922-06-28 - 1923-05-24

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

Treaty of Lausanne 1923-07-24

1923 Great Kantō earthquake 1923-09-01

Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey 1923-10-29

Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09

Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin 1924-01-21 - 1924-01-27

Abolition of the Ottoman caliphate 1924-03-03

Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18

Locarno Treaties 1925-12-01

Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29

Shanghai massacre 1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07

Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05

Autumn Harvest Uprising 1927-09-07

Kellogg–Briand Pact 1928-08-27

Discovery of penicillin 1928-09-28

First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31

Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01

Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01

Wall Street Crash of 1929 1929-10-24 - 1929-10-29

Black Tuesday 1929-10-29

Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936

People

Mário Soares born 1924-12-07

Heinrich Lübke age 3

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 36

Ernst Kaltenbrunner born 1903-10-04

Liu Shaoqi born 1898-11-24

Zhu Rongji born 1928-10-23

Paul Doumer age 40

Gough Whitlam born 1916-07-11

Arnold Rüütel born 1928-05-10

François Duvalier born 1907-04-14

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed born 1905-05-13

Luigi Einaudi age 23

Enrico de Nicola age 20

Mikhail Tukhachevsky age 4

Anton Denikin age 25

Pierre Mauroy born 1928-07-05

Lê Đức Thọ born 1911-10-14

Léon Bourgeois age 46

Robert McNamara born 1916-06-09

Omar Bradley age 4

Soong Ching-ling age 4

Mohamed Naguib born 1901-02-20

Mátyás Rákosi age 5

Charan Singh born 1902-12-23

Violeta Chamorro born 1929-10-18

Ananda Mahidol born 1925-09-20

Semyon Budyonny age 14

Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 60

Constantine I of Greece age 29

Abdülmecid II age 29

Auguste Beernaert age 68

Klement Gottwald age 1

Erich Raeder age 21

Julius Streicher age 12

René Coty age 15

R. Venkataraman born 1910-12-04

Antonio Segni age 6

Evgeny Primakov born 1929-10-29

Siad Barre born 1919-10-06

Mikhail Frunze age 12

Mary of Teck age 30

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu born 1923-04-05

Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 2

Aleksey Brusilov age 44

George II of Greece age 7

Hjalmar Schacht age 21

Rodion Malinovsky born 1898-11-23

Lázaro Cárdenas age 2

Bob Hawke born 1929-12-09

Makarios III born 1913-08-13

Gulzarilal Nanda born 1898-07-04

Moshe Sharett age 3

Sam Nujoma born 1929-05-12

Abdoulaye Wade born 1926-05-29

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan born 1918-05-06

Tadeusz Mazowiecki born 1927-04-18

Pyotr Wrangel age 19

P. W. Botha born 1916-01-12

Nikolai Yezhov age 1

Lazar Kaganovich age 4

Jiang Qing born 1914-03-05

Wilhelm Frick age 20

Semyon Timoshenko age 2

Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15

Paul-Henri Spaak born 1899-01-25

Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko born 1924-01-01

Zail Singh born 1916-05-05

Amintore Fanfani born 1908-02-06

Willem Drees age 11

Jozef Tiso age 10

Lavr Kornilov age 27

Tomiichi Murayama born 1924-03-03

Nikolai Bulganin age 2

João Goulart born 1919-03-01

Jean Monnet age 9

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 50

Soong Mei-ling born 1898-03-04

Li Peng born 1928-10-20

John Foster Dulles age 9

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

Prem Tinsulanonda born 1920-08-26

Manuel L. Quezon age 19

Lin Biao born 1907-12-05

Fedor von Bock age 17

Paul of Greece born 1901-12-14

Jacobo Árbenz born 1913-09-14

Ramiz Alia born 1925-10-18

Leopoldo Galtieri born 1926-07-15

Bruno Kreisky born 1911-01-22

Seretse Khama born 1921-07-01

Ahmadou Ahidjo born 1924-08-24

Lennart Meri born 1929-03-29

Risto Ryti age 8

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy born 1913-05-19

Giovanni Gronchi age 10

Agatha Barbara born 1923-03-11

Nnamdi Azikiwe born 1904-11-16

Iskandar Ali Mirza born 1899-11-13

Bolesław Bierut age 5

Jean Casimir-Perier age 50

Peter II of Yugoslavia born 1923-09-06

Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 3

Ian Smith born 1919-04-08

Ludvík Svoboda age 2

Baldur von Schirach born 1907-05-09

Dean Acheson age 4

Andreas Papandreou born 1919-02-05

Chandra Shekhar born 1927-04-17

Douglas Hyde age 38

Walter Model age 6

Shigeru Yoshida age 19

Kakuei Tanaka born 1918-05-04

Walther von Brauchitsch age 16

René Cassin age 10

Edward Smith age 48

Victoria, Princess Royal age 57

Maud of Wales age 28

Chiang Ching-kuo born 1910-04-27

Levi P. Morton age 73

Babrak Karmal born 1929-01-06

Hafizullah Amin born 1929-08-01

Alfred Moisiu born 1929-12-01

Kurt Schuschnigg age 1 month

Zillur Rahman born 1929-03-09

Konstantinos Karamanlis born 1907-03-21

Inder Kumar Gujral born 1919-12-04

Olga Nikolaevna of Russia age 2

Maria Nikolaevna of Russia born 1899-06-26

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 49

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 21

Albert Kesselring age 12

Leo von Caprivi age 66

Alexander of Greece age 4

Girma Wolde-Giorgis born 1924-12-28

Sveinn Björnsson age 16

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr born 1914-07-01

Talal I of Jordan born 1909-02-26

Kiro Gligorov born 1917-05-03

Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 6 months

Franz Halder age 13

Nobusuke Kishi age 1

Kiichi Miyazawa born 1919-10-08

Édouard Balladur born 1929-05-02

Tōgō Heihachirō age 50

Konstantin von Neurath age 24

Zhu De age 11

Adlai Stevenson I age 62

Mohammed Daoud Khan born 1909-07-18

John Diefenbaker age 2

Ioannis Metaxas age 26

Konstantinos Stephanopoulos born 1926-08-15

Modibo Keïta born 1915-06-04

Anastasio Somoza Debayle born 1925-12-05

Diosdado Macapagal born 1910-09-28

Ramon Magsaysay born 1907-08-31

Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia age 7 months

Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia born 1904-08-12

Clara Barton age 76

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 50

Heinrich Brüning age 12

Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 10

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 36

Genrikh Yagoda age 6

Princess Alice of Battenberg age 12

Walther Funk age 7

Fritz Sauckel age 3

George Shultz born 1920-12-13

Harold Holt born 1908-08-05

Emilio Colombo born 1920-04-11

José López Portillo born 1920-06-16

Milovan Đilas born 1911-06-12

Girija Prasad Koirala born 1924-07-04

Carol II of Romania age 4

Archibald Wavell age 14

Erich von Falkenhayn age 36

Fumimaro Konoe age 6

Vasily Blyukher age 8

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 4 months

Alain Poher born 1909-04-17

August von Mackensen age 48

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg age 29

Marie of Romania age 22

Georgios Papadopoulos born 1919-05-05

Árpád Göncz born 1922-02-10

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej born 1901-11-08

Nicolae Iorga age 26

Rómulo Gallegos age 13

Maurice Gamelin age 25

Hayato Ikeda born 1899-12-03

Noboru Takeshita born 1924-02-26

Kirill Meretskov age 7 months

Italo Balbo age 1

Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 11

Nicholas I of Montenegro age 56

Lew Wallace age 70

Antonín Novotný born 1904-12-10

Hu Yaobang born 1915-11-20

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