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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
Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875-03-01
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06
Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04
Founding of the Indian National Congress 1885-12-28 - 1885-12-31
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
Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22
Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16
Battle of Mukden 1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-09-05
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12
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
First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30
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 Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
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
Gallipoli campaign 1915-02-19 - 1916-01-09
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
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
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
Battle of Aqaba 1917-07-06 - 1917-07-06
Battle of Passchendaele 1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10
Kornilov affair 1917-09-10 - 1917-09-13
Battle of Caporetto 1917-10-24 - 1917-11-19
Balfour Declaration 1917-11-02 - 1917-11-02
October Revolution 1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly 1918-01-19 - 1918-01-19
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918-03-03 - 1918-03-03
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 Saint-Mihiel 1918-09-12 - 1918-09-15
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
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
Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Battle of Warsaw (1920) 1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25
Tambov Rebellion 1920-08-19
Non-cooperation movement 1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12
Siege of Perekop (1920) 1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17
Kronstadt rebellion 1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18
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
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
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Salt March 1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
Mukden Incident 1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power 1933-01-30
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-06-30 - 1934-07-02
Long March 1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference 1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
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
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Xi'an Incident 1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Bombing of Guernica 1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Battle of Wuhan 1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro 1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939-08-23
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
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
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
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 Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
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 1944-10-26 - 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
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
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
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
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
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
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
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
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
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China 1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of Inchon 1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
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
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01

People

Ali Saibou born 1940-06-17
Andrés Rodríguez born 1923-06-19
Arleigh Winston Scott born 1900-03-27
Aurelius Marie born 1904-12-23
Giovanni Lajolo born 1935-01-03
Bernard Montgomery born 1887-11-17
Erwin Rommel born 1891-11-15
Joachim von Ribbentrop born 1893-04-30
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 24
Erich von Falkenhayn age 11
John French age 19
Alexander von Kluck age 26
Robert Nivelle age 15
Enver Pasha born 1881-11-23
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 19
P. G. T. Beauregard age 54
Irvin McDowell age 53
Joseph E. Johnston age 65
James Longstreet age 51
George Pickett age 47
Winfield Scott Hancock age 48
Daniel Sickles age 52
Henry W. Slocum age 45
Oliver O. Howard age 41
George Sykes age 49
Ambrose Burnside age 48
Joseph Hooker age 57
William Buel Franklin age 49
John C. Pemberton age 58
Thomas Armstrong Morris age 60
George Alexander Porterfield age 49
Franz Sigel age 47
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 53
Mansfield Lovell age 49
Gustavus Woodson Smith age 50
Daniel Harvey Hill age 51
Charles Henry Davis age 65
William S. Rosecrans age 53
Braxton Bragg age 55
John Alexander McClernand age 60
David Dixon Porter age 59
Thomas James Churchill age 48
Nathaniel P. Banks age 56
Franklin Gardner age 49
Quincy Adams Gillmore age 47
William Booth Taliaferro age 49
William Mahone age 45
Franklin Buchanan age 72
William J. Hardee age 56
Stephen D. Lee age 39
Alfred Howe Terry age 44
William Lamb age 37
Philip Henry Sheridan age 41
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 42
Fitzhugh Lee age 36
Horatio Gouverneur Wright age 52
Richard Herron Anderson age 50
B. R. Ambedkar born 1891-04-14
C. Rajagopalachari born 1878-12-10
Lin Biao born 1907-12-05
Liu Bocheng born 1892-12-04
Chen Yi born 1901-08-26
Li Zongren born 1890-08-13
Bai Chongxi born 1893-03-18
Du Yuming born 1904-11-28
Fu Zuoyi born 1895-06-02
Tang Enbo born 1899-09-20
Hugh Dowding born 1882-04-24
Fedor von Bock born 1880-12-03
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb born 1876-09-05
Maxime Weygand age 5
Maurice Gamelin born 1872-09-20
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort born 1886-07-10
Albert Kesselring born 1885-11-30
Hugo Sperrle born 1885-02-07
Franz Halder born 1884-06-30
Walter Model born 1891-01-24
Günther von Kluge born 1882-10-30
Konstantin Rokossovsky born 1896-12-21
Nikolai Vatutin born 1901-12-16
Ivan Konev born 1897-12-28
Miles Dempsey born 1896-12-15
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski born 1899-03-01
Harold Alexander born 1891-12-10
Richard O'Connor born 1889-08-21
Rodolfo Graziani born 1882-08-11
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim born 1889-04-04
Giovanni Messe born 1883-12-10
Georg Stumme born 1886-07-29
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma born 1891-09-11
Yakov Sverdlov born 1885-06-03
Felix Dzerzhinsky born 1877-09-11
Mikhail Tukhachevsky born 1893-02-16
Semyon Budyonny born 1883-04-25
Mikhail Frunze born 1885-02-02
Lavr Kornilov age 2
Anton Denikin born 1872-12-16
Alexander Kolchak born 1874-11-16
Pyotr Wrangel born 1878-08-27
Nikolai Yudenich age 10
Nestor Makhno born 1888-11-07
Moshe Dayan born 1915-05-20
Glubb Pasha born 1897-04-16
Fawzi al-Qawuqji born 1890-01-19
Djemal Pasha age 4 months
Shlomo Shamir born 1915-06-15
Alexandra of Denmark age 27
Mary of Teck age 5
Wallis Simpson born 1896-06-19
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon born 1900-08-04
Prince Philip born 1921-06-10
Queen Camilla born 1947-07-17
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 80
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 207
Heinrich Lübke born 1894-10-14
Gustav Heinemann born 1899-07-23
Walter Scheel born 1919-07-08
Karl Carstens born 1914-12-14
Richard von Weizsäcker born 1920-04-15
Roman Herzog born 1934-04-05
Johannes Rau born 1931-01-16
Horst Köhler born 1943-02-22
Joachim Gauck born 1940-01-24
Frank-Walter Steinmeier born 1956-01-05
Hayato Ikeda born 1899-12-03
Eisaku Satō born 1901-03-27
Kakuei Tanaka born 1918-05-04
Takeo Miki born 1907-03-17
Takeo Fukuda born 1905-01-14
Masayoshi Ōhira born 1910-03-12
Masayoshi Ito born 1913-12-15
Zenkō Suzuki born 1911-01-11
Yasuhiro Nakasone born 1918-05-27
Noboru Takeshita born 1924-02-26
Sōsuke Uno born 1922-08-27
Toshiki Kaifu born 1931-01-02
Kiichi Miyazawa born 1919-10-08
Morihiro Hosokawa born 1938-01-14
Tsutomu Hata born 1935-08-24
Tomiichi Murayama born 1924-03-03
Ryutaro Hashimoto born 1937-07-29
Keizō Obuchi born 1937-06-25
Yoshirō Mori born 1937-07-14
Junichiro Koizumi born 1942-01-08
Shinzo Abe born 1954-09-21
Yasuo Fukuda born 1936-07-16
Tarō Asō born 1940-09-20
Yukio Hatoyama born 1947-02-11
Naoto Kan born 1946-10-10
Yoshihiko Noda born 1957-05-20
Yoshihide Suga born 1948-12-06
Fumio Kishida born 1957-07-29
Shigeru Ishiba born 1957-02-04
Akihito born 1933-12-23
Alexei Kosygin born 1904-02-21
Nikolai Tikhonov born 1905-05-14
Nikolai Ryzhkov born 1929-09-28
Napoleon III age 64
Michel Debré born 1912-01-15
Maurice Couve de Murville born 1907-01-24
Jacques Chaban-Delmas born 1915-03-07
Pierre Messmer born 1916-03-20
Raymond Barre born 1924-04-12
Pierre Mauroy born 1928-07-05
Laurent Fabius born 1946-08-20
Michel Rocard born 1930-08-23
Édith Cresson born 1934-01-27
Pierre Bérégovoy born 1925-12-23
Alain Juppé born 1945-08-15
Lionel Jospin born 1937-07-12
Jean-Pierre Raffarin born 1948-08-03
Dominique de Villepin born 1953-11-14
François Fillon born 1954-03-04
Jean-Marc Ayrault born 1950-01-25
Michel Barnier born 1951-01-09
François Bayrou born 1951-05-25
Bettino Ricasoli age 63
Urbano Rattazzi age 64
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 67
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 63
Charles Magill Conrad age 67
Joseph Holt age 65
Simon Cameron age 73
Édouard Balladur born 1929-05-02
Ngo Dinh Diem born 1901-01-03
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu born 1923-04-05
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ born 1930-09-08
Dương Văn Minh born 1916-02-16
William Westmoreland born 1914-03-26
Creighton Abrams born 1914-09-15
Võ Nguyên Giáp born 1911-08-25
Lê Đức Thọ born 1911-10-14
Văn Tiến Dũng born 1917-05-02
Matthew Ridgway born 1895-03-03
Walton Walker born 1889-12-03
Mark W. Clark born 1896-05-01
James Van Fleet born 1892-03-19
Paik Sun-yup born 1920-11-23
Alexander H. Stephens age 60
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 51