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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
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
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
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
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
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
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War 1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement 1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01
1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22
Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964 1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots 1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot 1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
Orangeburg massacre 1968-02-08
Mỹ Lai massacre 1968-03-16
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968-04-04
Fair Housing Act 1968-04-11
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28

People

Ho Chi Minh age 7
Charles de Gaulle age 6
Richard Nixon born 1913-01-09
William Howard Taft age 39
Herbert Hoover age 22
Jacques Chirac born 1932-11-29
Harry S. Truman age 13
Leonid Brezhnev born 1906-12-19
Joseph Stalin age 18
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 15
Tôn Đức Thắng age 8
Fidel Castro born 1926-08-13
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 66
Hirohito born 1901-04-29
Nicholas II of Russia age 29
Wilhelm II age 38
Charles I of Austria age 9
Raymond Poincaré age 36
Georges Clemenceau age 55
Warren G. Harding age 31
H. H. Asquith age 44
David Lloyd George age 34
Pol Pot born 1925-05-19
John F. Kennedy born 1917-05-29
Souvanna Phouma born 1901-10-07
Gamal Abdel Nasser born 1918-01-15
Guangxu Emperor age 25
Puyi born 1906-02-07
Adolf Hitler age 8
Hafez al-Assad born 1930-10-06
William McKinley age 54
Mehmed V age 52
Woodrow Wilson age 40
Chiang Kai-shek age 9
Carlos Castillo Armas born 1914-11-04
Theodore Roosevelt age 38
Winston Churchill age 22
Jacobo Árbenz born 1913-09-14
Calvin Coolidge age 24
Emperor Meiji age 44
Nikita Khrushchev age 3
Neville Chamberlain age 28
Mehmed VI age 36
Clement Attlee age 14
Anthony Eden born 1897-06-12
Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908-08-27
Gerald Ford born 1913-07-14
Lê Duẩn born 1907-04-07
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 6
Emperor Taishō age 17
Józef Piłsudski age 29
James S. Sherman age 41
George VI age 1
Thomas R. Marshall age 43
Mao Zedong age 3
Charles W. Fairbanks age 45
Hua Guofeng born 1921-02-16
Dong Biwu age 11
Kim Il-sung born 1912-04-15
Saddam Hussein born 1937-04-28
Konrad Adenauer age 21
Joseph Goebbels born 1897-10-29
Kurt von Schleicher age 15
Garret Hobart age 53
Edward VII age 55
Elizabeth II born 1926-04-21
Edward VIII age 2
Liu Shaoqi born 1898-11-24
Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09
Hubert Humphrey born 1911-05-27
Alben W. Barkley age 19
Henry A. Wallace age 8
John Nance Garner age 28
Charles Curtis age 37
Charles G. Dawes age 31
Queen Victoria age 78
George V age 32
Daniel Inouye born 1924-09-07
Robert F. Kennedy born 1925-11-20
Walter Mondale born 1928-01-05
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Zhou Enlai born 1898-03-05
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
George H. W. Bush born 1924-06-12
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Hermann Göring age 4
Zhu De age 10
Soong Ching-ling age 4
George Shultz born 1920-12-13
George C. Marshall age 16
Thomas S. Gates Jr. born 1906-04-10
Robert McNamara born 1916-06-09
Warren E. Burger born 1907-09-17
Earl Warren age 6
Edward Douglass White age 51
Fred M. Vinson age 7
Harlan F. Stone age 24
James R. Schlesinger born 1929-02-15
John Connally born 1917-02-27
Melvin Laird born 1922-09-01
Clark Clifford born 1906-12-25
John Foster Dulles age 9
David M. Kennedy (politician) born 1905-07-21
Ramsey Clark born 1927-12-18
Nicholas Katzenbach born 1922-01-17
Margaret Thatcher born 1925-10-13
Omar Bradley age 4
Douglas MacArthur age 17
Clarence M. Kelley born 1911-10-24
Deng Xiaoping born 1904-08-22
Vladimir Lenin age 27
John Paul Stevens born 1920-04-20
William Rehnquist born 1924-10-01
Lewis F. Powell Jr. born 1907-09-19
Abe Fortas born 1910-06-19
Thurgood Marshall born 1908-07-02
Arthur Goldberg born 1908-08-08
John Marshall Harlan II born 1899-05-20
Potter Stewart born 1915-01-23
William J. Brennan Jr. born 1906-04-25
Byron White born 1917-06-08
Ronald Reagan born 1911-02-06
Charles Evans Hughes age 35
Jimmy Carter born 1924-10-01
Nelson Rockefeller born 1908-07-08
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Kurt Daluege born 1897-09-15
George S. Patton age 11
Iwane Matsui age 18
Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Heinrich Himmler born 1900-10-07
Karl Dönitz age 5
Robert A. Lovett age 1
Wilhelm Frick age 20
George Wallace born 1919-08-25
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
Rudolf Hess age 3
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Colin Powell born 1937-04-05
Reinhard Heydrich born 1904-03-07
Martin Bormann born 1900-06-17
Franz von Papen age 17
Lee Yuan-tsu born 1923-09-24
Sun Yun-suan born 1913-11-10
Sun Yat-sen age 30
John J. Pershing age 36
Frank Jack Fletcher age 12
Raymond A. Spruance age 10
Courtney Hodges age 10
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
Levi P. Morton age 73
Chiang Ching-kuo born 1910-04-27
Li Peng born 1928-10-20
Rong Yiren born 1916-05-01
Wang Zhen (general) born 1908-04-11
Grover Cleveland age 60
Henry Kissinger born 1923-05-27
James Baker born 1930-04-28
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
Li Xiannian born 1909-06-23
Yang Shangkun born 1907-08-03
William H. Webster born 1924-03-06
Zhao Ziyang born 1919-10-17
Hu Yaobang born 1915-11-20
J. Edgar Hoover age 2
Archibald Cox born 1912-05-17
Sandra Day O'Connor born 1930-03-26
Antonin Scalia born 1936-03-11
Anthony Kennedy born 1936-07-23
David Souter born 1939-09-17
Jiang Zemin born 1926-08-17
Stephen Breyer born 1938-08-15
Yoshijirō Umezu age 15
Lien Chan born 1936-08-27
Martin Luther King Jr. born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
Air National Guard
Paul von Hindenburg age 49
Benito Mussolini age 13
Erich Ludendorff age 32
Souphanouvong born 1909-07-13
Wilhelm Groener age 29
Hubert Gough age 26
Naoki Hoshino age 5
Kōki Hirota age 19
Doihara Kenji age 13
Akira Mutō age 4
He Yingqin age 7
Semyon Timoshenko age 2
Kliment Voroshilov age 16
Friedrich Jeckeln age 2
Ernst Kaltenbrunner born 1903-10-04
Wilhelm Keitel age 14
Walther Funk age 6
Hans Fritzsche born 1900-04-21
Erich Raeder age 21
Alfred Rosenberg age 4
Fritz Sauckel age 2
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 4
Baldur von Schirach born 1907-05-09
Hjalmar Schacht age 20
Kyösti Kallio age 24
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 29
Rodion Malinovsky born 1898-11-23
Heitarō Kimura age 8
Kingorō Hashimoto age 7
Seishirō Itagaki age 12
Benjamin Harrison age 63
Rosa Parks born 1913-02-04
Hideki Tōjō age 12
Mikhail Gorbachev born 1931-03-02
Yuan Shikai age 37
Claus von Stauffenberg born 1907-11-15
Ruhollah Khomeini born 1902-09-24
Malcolm X born 1925-05-19
Jo Ann Robinson born 1912-04-17
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Boris Yeltsin born 1931-02-01
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Nikola Tesla age 40
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Kim Jong-il born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi age 27
Albert Einstein age 18
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Ruth Bader Ginsburg born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat born 1929-08-24
Joseph Gallieni age 48
Warren Christopher born 1925-10-27
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio born 1918-07-17
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Gennady Yanayev born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko born 1911-09-24
Keir Starmer born 1962-09-02
Liz Truss born 1975-07-26
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
John Major born 1943-03-29
Julio César Méndez Montenegro born 1915-11-23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia born 1908-06-17
Juan José Arévalo born 1904-09-10
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 59
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage age 179
Lawrence Eagleburger born 1930-08-01
Joseph Joffre age 45
Emilio De Bono age 31
Albert Speer born 1905-03-19
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Otto von Bismarck age 82
Yuri Andropov born 1914-06-15
Julius Streicher age 12
Alfred Jodl age 7
Otto Hofmann age 1
Fritz Todt age 5
Otto Rasch age 5
Hans Frank born 1900-05-23
John Schofield age 65
Eva Braun born 1912-02-06
Ernst Röhm age 9
Isoroku Yamamoto age 13
Chester W. Nimitz age 12
Manuel Azaña age 17
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Zhu Rongji born 1928-10-23
Zeng Qinghong born 1939-07-30
Empress Dowager Cixi age 61
Matthias Erzberger age 21
Ferdinand Foch age 45
Joseph Chamberlain age 60
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 17
Gerd von Rundstedt age 21
Erich von Manstein age 9
Ōyama Iwao age 54
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 33
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
Cai E age 14
Leon Trotsky age 17
Peng Dehuai born 1898-10-24
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
Francisco Franco age 4