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Events

Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
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
Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
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
March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30
Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-07-02 - 1934-07-05
Nuremberg Laws enacted 1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936-03-07
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Korean Armistice Agreement 1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état 1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état 1954-02-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16

People

William Howard Taft age 39
Vincent Auriol age 12
Nicholas II of Russia age 28
Wilhelm II age 38
Chiang Kai-shek age 9
Theodore Roosevelt age 38
George V age 31
George VI age 1
Lázaro Cárdenas age 1
Gaston Doumergue age 33
Mehmed V age 52
Emperor Meiji age 44
Paul Deschanel age 42
Charles I of Austria age 9
Paul Doumer age 40
Guangxu Emperor age 25
Warren G. Harding age 31
Ho Chi Minh age 6
Hirohito born 1901-04-29
Harry S. Truman age 12
Manuel Ávila Camacho born 1897-04-24
Queen Victoria age 77
Carlos Castillo Armas born 1914-11-04
Alexandre Millerand age 38
Mehmed VI age 36
René Coty age 15
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 6
Adolf Hitler age 8
Albert Lebrun age 25
Herbert Hoover age 22
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 15
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 66
Jacobo Árbenz born 1913-09-14
Woodrow Wilson age 40
Joseph Stalin age 18
Raymond Poincaré age 36
Edward VIII age 2
Calvin Coolidge age 24
Elizabeth II born 1926-04-21
Edward VII age 55
William McKinley age 54
Emperor Taishō age 17
Puyi born 1906-02-07
Nikita Khrushchev age 3
Hideki Tōjō age 12
Benito Mussolini age 13
Ramsay MacDonald age 30
Joseph Goebbels born 1897-10-29
Neville Chamberlain age 28
Kurt von Schleicher age 15
Souvanna Phouma born 1901-10-07
Vladimir Lenin age 27
Gamal Abdel Nasser born 1918-01-15
Anthony Eden born 1897-06-12
Andrew Bonar Law age 38
David Lloyd George age 34
Winston Churchill age 22
Jawaharlal Nehru age 7
David Ben-Gurion age 10
Georges Clemenceau age 55
Clement Attlee age 14
Kim Il-sung born 1912-04-15
Stanley Baldwin age 29
Mao Zedong age 3
H. H. Asquith age 44
Józef Piłsudski age 29
Zhou Enlai born 1898-03-05
Konrad Adenauer age 21
Earl Warren age 6
Melville Fuller age 64
Harlan F. Stone age 24
Edward Douglass White age 51
Fred M. Vinson age 7
James S. Sherman age 41
Garret Hobart age 52
Alben W. Barkley age 19
Zhu De age 10
Thomas R. Marshall age 43
Charles W. Fairbanks age 44
Charles G. Dawes age 31
John Nance Garner age 28
Charles Curtis age 37
Henry A. Wallace age 8
Richard Nixon born 1913-01-09
Omar Bradley age 4
Edward Stettinius Jr. born 1900-10-22
Elihu Root age 52
Douglas MacArthur age 17
Bainbridge Colby age 27
James F. Byrnes age 14
Dean Acheson age 4
George C. Marshall age 16
John Foster Dulles age 9
Robert Lansing age 32
Robert H. Jackson age 5
A. Mitchell Palmer age 24
William Jennings Bryan age 37
Robert Bacon age 36
Robert A. Lovett age 1
Henry L. Stimson age 29
Herbert Brownell Jr. born 1904-02-20
William R. Day age 48
Francis Biddle age 10
Tom C. Clark born 1899-09-23
Cordell Hull age 25
Philander C. Knox age 43
John Sherman age 74
John Hay age 58
Frank B. Kellogg age 40
John Marshall Harlan II born 1899-05-20
Hubert Humphrey born 1911-05-27
John F. Kennedy born 1917-05-29
Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908-08-27
Hermann Göring age 4
Gerald Ford born 1913-07-14
Melvin Laird born 1922-09-01
Charles Evans Hughes age 35
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Potter Stewart born 1915-01-23
David Souter born 1939-09-17
Hu Yaobang born 1915-11-20
Thurgood Marshall born 1908-07-02
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
Archibald Cox born 1912-05-17
James R. Schlesinger born 1929-02-15
Chiang Ching-kuo born 1910-04-27
Arthur Goldberg born 1908-08-08
Hua Guofeng born 1921-02-16
George H. W. Bush born 1924-06-12
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
James Baker born 1930-04-28
Daniel Inouye born 1924-09-07
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Clark Clifford born 1906-12-25
Walter Mondale born 1928-01-05
George Wallace born 1919-08-25
Byron White born 1917-06-08
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Jimmy Carter born 1924-10-01
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Grover Cleveland age 60
Jiang Zemin born 1926-08-17
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Kurt Daluege born 1897-09-15
Heinrich Himmler born 1900-10-07
Lee Yuan-tsu born 1923-09-24
Levi P. Morton age 72
Lewis F. Powell Jr. born 1907-09-19
Lien Chan born 1936-08-27
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
Li Peng born 1928-10-20
Liu Shaoqi born 1898-11-24
Deng Xiaoping born 1904-08-22
Martin Bormann born 1900-06-17
Henry Kissinger born 1923-05-27
Wilhelm Frick age 20
Reinhard Heydrich born 1904-03-07
Ronald Reagan born 1911-02-06
Rong Yiren born 1916-05-01
Rudolf Hess age 2
Sandra Day O'Connor born 1930-03-26
Sun Yat-sen age 30
Sun Yun-suan born 1913-11-10
William H. Webster born 1924-03-06
William J. Brennan Jr. born 1906-04-25
Yang Shangkun born 1907-08-03
Zhao Ziyang born 1919-10-17
Tôn Đức Thắng age 8
Dong Biwu age 11
Wang Zhen (general) born 1908-04-11
Li Xiannian born 1909-06-23
J. Edgar Hoover age 2
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
John Paul Stevens born 1920-04-20
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
Karl Dönitz age 5
Iwane Matsui age 18
Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15
Frank Jack Fletcher age 11
Franz von Papen age 17
Courtney Hodges age 10
Charles de Gaulle age 6
George S. Patton age 11
Jacques Chirac born 1932-11-29
Yoshijirō Umezu age 15
Raymond A. Spruance age 10
John J. Pershing age 36
William Rehnquist born 1924-10-01
Vladimir Putin born 1952-10-07
Ernst Kaltenbrunner born 1903-10-04
Raúl Castro born 1931-06-03
Heitarō Kimura age 8
Malcolm X born 1925-05-19
Rodion Malinovsky born 1898-11-23
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 29
Kingorō Hashimoto age 7
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
Martin Luther King Jr. born 1929-01-15
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 59
Ernst Röhm age 9
Emilio De Bono age 31
François Mitterrand born 1916-10-26
He Yingqin age 7
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing born 1926-02-02
Naoki Hoshino age 5
Hjalmar Schacht age 20
Erich Raeder age 21
Ferdinand Foch age 45
Ruth Bader Ginsburg born 1933-03-15
Doihara Kenji age 13
Friedrich Jeckeln age 2
Akira Mutō age 4
Alfred Rosenberg age 4
Joseph Gallieni age 48
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Enrique Peralta Azurdia born 1908-06-17
Warren Christopher born 1925-10-27
John Schofield age 65
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Fritz Todt age 5
Margaret Thatcher born 1925-10-13
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Wilhelm Keitel age 14
Erich von Manstein age 9
Mahatma Gandhi age 27
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Kim Jong-il born 1941-02-16
Nicholas Katzenbach born 1922-01-17
Fritz Sauckel age 2
Clarence M. Kelley born 1911-10-24
Mohammad Khatami born 1943-10-14
Masoud Pezeshkian born 1954-09-29
Hassan Rouhani born 1948-11-12
Matthias Erzberger age 21
Colin Powell born 1937-04-05
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Boris Yeltsin born 1931-02-01
Pol Pot born 1925-05-19
Hosni Mubarak born 1928-05-04
Warren E. Burger born 1907-09-17
Gennady Yanayev born 1937-08-26
Francisco Franco age 4
Walther Funk age 6
Fidel Castro born 1926-08-13
Erich Ludendorff age 32
Chester W. Nimitz age 12
Isoroku Yamamoto age 13
Eva Braun born 1912-02-06
Manuel Azaña age 17
Wilhelm Groener age 29
Ramsey Clark born 1927-12-18
Ōyama Iwao age 54
Otto von Bismarck age 82
Otto Rasch age 5
Otto Hofmann age 1
Nikola Tesla age 40
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Nelson Rockefeller born 1908-07-08
Nelson Mandela born 1918-07-18
Neil Armstrong born 1930-08-05
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Mohammad-Ali Rajai born 1933-06-15
Mohamed Morsi born 1951-08-08
Mikhail Gorbachev born 1931-03-02
Merrick Garland born 1952-11-13
Ludwig Erhard age 2 months
Leon Trotsky age 17
Leonid Brezhnev born 1906-12-19
Lê Duẩn born 1907-04-07
Lawrence Eagleburger born 1930-08-01
Kyösti Kallio age 24
Kurt Georg Kiesinger born 1904-04-06
Konstantin Chernenko born 1911-09-24
Kōki Hirota age 19
Kliment Voroshilov age 16
Julius Streicher age 12
Julio César Méndez Montenegro born 1915-11-23
Juan José Arévalo born 1904-09-10
Joseph Joffre age 45
Joseph Chamberlain age 60
Zhu Rongji born 1928-10-23
Zeng Qinghong born 1939-07-30
Yuri Gagarin born 1934-03-09
Yuri Andropov born 1914-06-15
Yuan Shikai age 37
Yasser Arafat born 1929-08-24
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
Willy Brandt born 1913-12-18
William P. Rogers born 1913-06-23
William M. Evarts age 79
Thomas S. Gates Jr. born 1906-04-10
Thomas Gage age 179
Thomas F. Bayard age 68
Stephen Breyer born 1938-08-15
Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09
Souphanouvong born 1909-07-13
Soong Ching-ling age 4
Semyon Timoshenko age 2
Seishirō Itagaki age 12
Saddam Hussein born 1937-04-28
Ruhollah Khomeini born 1902-09-24
Rosa Parks born 1913-02-04
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Robert Mueller born 1944-08-07
Robert McNamara born 1916-06-09
Robert F. Kennedy born 1925-11-20
Richard Olney age 61
Rex Tillerson born 1952-03-23
Peng Dehuai born 1898-10-24
Paul von Hindenburg age 49
John W. Foster age 61
Alexander Haig born 1924-12-02
Alec Douglas-Home born 1903-07-02
Albert Speer born 1905-03-19
Albert Einstein age 18
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani born 1934-08-25
Abolhassan Banisadr born 1933-03-22
Abe Fortas born 1910-06-19
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi born 1954-11-19
James Callaghan born 1912-03-27
Hubert Gough age 26
Jo Ann Robinson born 1912-04-17
Harold Wilson born 1916-03-11
Harold Macmillan age 3
Hans Fritzsche born 1900-04-21
Hans Frank born 1900-05-23
Hafez al-Assad born 1930-10-06
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Gerhard Schröder born 1944-04-07
Gerd von Rundstedt age 21
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
Georges Pompidou born 1911-07-05
George Shultz born 1920-12-13
Louis Freeh born 1950-01-06
Elliot Richardson born 1920-07-20
Eric Holder born 1951-01-21
Adlai Stevenson I age 61
William S. Sessions born 1930-05-27
Christian Herter age 2
Madeleine Albright born 1937-05-15
Helmut Schmidt born 1918-12-23
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
John N. Mitchell born 1913-09-15
John Major born 1943-03-29
John Connally born 1917-02-27
John Ashcroft born 1942-05-09
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 17
Janet Reno born 1938-07-21
Empress Dowager Cixi age 61
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Edward Heath born 1916-07-09
Edmund Muskie born 1914-03-28
Dean Rusk born 1909-02-09
David M. Kennedy (politician) born 1905-07-21
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
Cyrus Vance born 1917-03-27
Claus von Stauffenberg born 1907-11-15
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio born 1918-07-17
Cai E age 14
Benjamin Harrison age 63
Baldur von Schirach born 1907-05-09
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 4
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 33
Anwar Sadat born 1918-12-25
Antonin Scalia born 1936-03-11
Anthony Kennedy born 1936-07-23
Angela Merkel born 1954-07-17
Ali Khamenei born 1939-04-19
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Alfred Jodl age 6
Helmut Kohl born 1930-04-03