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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Battle of Anqing 1860-04-01 - 1861-09-05
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09

People

Abraham Lincoln age 52
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 41
Queen - United Kingdom
Napoleon III age 53
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 43
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm I age 64
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 52
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 55
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 41
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 35
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 70
Monarch - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 38
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 29
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 29
Emperor - Japan
Xianfeng Emperor age 29
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 43
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 45
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 30
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Cheoljong of Joseon age 29
King - Joseon
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 76
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 84
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 51
Vice President - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 60
Secretary Of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 74
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 53
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Simon Cameron age 62
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 67
Attorney General - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 62
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Andrew Johnson age 52
Senate - United States
Isabella II age 30
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 35
Monarch - Sweden
Charles Canning age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Karl Marx age 43
Leo Tolstoy age 32
Charles Darwin age 52
Vincent van Gogh age 8
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 39
Friedrich Nietzsche age 16
Thomas Edison age 14
Sigmund Freud age 5
Charles Dickens age 49
Otto von Bismarck age 46
Nikola Tesla age 4
Louis Pasteur age 38
Richard Wagner age 47
Friedrich Engels age 40
Theodore Roosevelt age 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 21
Woodrow Wilson age 4
Max Planck age 3
Michael Faraday age 69
Dmitri Mendeleev age 27
Giuseppe Verdi age 47
James Clerk Maxwell age 29
Alexander Graham Bell age 14
Ulysses S. Grant age 39
Claude Monet age 20
Florence Nightingale age 41
James A. Garfield age 29
William Howard Taft age 3
Grover Cleveland age 24
Martin Van Buren age 78
James Buchanan age 70
John Tyler age 71
William McKinley age 18
Millard Fillmore age 61
Rutherford B. Hayes age 38
Franklin Pierce age 56
Benjamin Disraeli age 56
Benjamin Harrison age 27
Gregor Mendel age 38
Chester A. Arthur age 31
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 53
Wilhelm II age 2
Pius XI age 3
Pius X age 25
Leo XIII age 51
Charles Babbage age 69
Benedict XV age 6
Carl Benz age 16
Paul von Hindenburg age 13
Edward VII age 19
Harriet Tubman age 39
Abdul Hamid II age 18
Robert E. Lee age 54
Georges Clemenceau age 19
Empress Dowager Cixi age 25
Alexander III of Russia age 16
Giuseppe Mazzini age 55
Philippe Pétain age 5
Leopold II of Belgium age 26
Cecil Rhodes age 7
Emperor Meiji age 8
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 196
Frederick Douglass age 43
Susan B. Anthony age 41
Arthur Balfour age 12
Adolphe Thiers age 64
Emmeline Pankhurst age 2
Mehmed VI age 3 months
Ferdinand Foch age 9
Porfirio Díaz age 30
H. H. Asquith age 8
Raymond Poincaré age 8 months
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 45
Patrice de MacMahon age 52
Frederick III, German Emperor age 29
Umberto I of Italy age 17
Abdulaziz age 31
Mehmed V age 16
Itō Hirobumi age 19
Chulalongkorn age 7
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 60
Gustaf V of Sweden age 2
William Tecumseh Sherman age 41
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 31
Andrew Bonar Law age 2
Murad V age 20
Maximilian I of Mexico age 28
Ferdinand I of Austria age 68
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 4
Christian IX of Denmark age 43
Hjalmar Branting age 5 months
Alfonso XII age 3
Oscar II of Sweden age 32
Alexandra of Denmark age 16
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 67
Alexandre Millerand age 2
Amadeo I of Spain age 15
George Curzon age 2
Yuan Shikai age 1
Joseph Joffre age 9
Paul Doumer age 4
Stonewall Jackson age 37
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 68
Armand Fallières age 19
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 5 months
Jules Grévy age 53
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 23
Deodoro da Fonseca age 33
John J. Pershing age 7 months
Elihu Root age 16
Sam Houston age 68
Edmund Barton age 12
Bernhard von Bülow age 12
Charles Curtis age 1
Thomas R. Marshall age 7
Frank B. Kellogg age 4
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 17
Carol I of Romania age 22
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 11 months
Alfred Deakin age 4
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 24
Félix Faure age 20
Sergei Witte age 11
Émile Loubet age 22
Menelik II age 16
John C. Breckinridge age 40
Henry Wilson age 49
Jean Casimir-Perier age 13
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 10
Charles W. Fairbanks age 8
Paul Deschanel age 6
Abdur Rahman Khan age 21
Douglas Hyde age 1
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 23
George M. Dallas age 68
Garret Hobart age 16
Levi P. Morton age 36
William A. Wheeler age 41
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 12
Leo von Caprivi age 30
Schuyler Colfax age 38
Thomas A. Hendricks age 41
William Jennings Bryan age 1
Christian Michelsen age 4
Katsura Tarō age 13
Saigō Takamori age 33
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 10
Clara Barton age 39
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 14
Peter I of Serbia age 16
James S. Sherman age 5
Georg Michaelis age 3
Georg von Hertling age 17
Constantin Fehrenbach age 9
Giovanni Giolitti age 18
Yamagata Aritomo age 22
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 42
Demetrios Vikelas age 26
Joseph Chamberlain age 24
Ismail Kemal age 17
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 8
Terauchi Masatake age 9
Hara Takashi age 5
Francesco Crispi age 42
George B. McClellan age 34