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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Siege of Petersburg 1864-06-09 - 1865-03-25
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01

People

Abraham Lincoln age 56
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 45
Queen - United Kingdom
Napoleon III age 56
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 46
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm I age 67
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 56
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 58
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 44
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 39
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 74
King - Belgium
Abdulaziz age 35
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 33
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 33
Emperor - Japan
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 12
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 8
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 49
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 68
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 34
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Otto von Bismarck age 49
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 80
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 57
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 55
Vice President - United States
Ulysses S. Grant age 42
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Edwin Stanton age 50
Secretary of War - United States
William P. Fessenden age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James Speed age 52
Attorney General - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 65
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset age 60
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 60
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 65
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 65
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 76
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Henry Wilson age 53
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 45
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 41
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 51
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 49
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 68
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 54
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 51
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 41
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 65
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 54
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 7
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 21
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 56
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Frederick Low age 36
Governor of California - United States
Oliver P. Morton age 41
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 43
Governor of Georgia - United States
Reuben Fenton age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Harris Flanagin age 47
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Isaac Murphy age 65
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Augustus Bradford age 59
Governor of Maryland - United States
Pendleton Murrah age 39
Governor of Texas - United States
Joel Parker age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John Brough age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
William A. Wheeler age 45
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 29
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 49
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 46
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 17
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 45
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 34
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 38
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 46
King - Denmark
Mongkut age 60
King - Thailand
Bartolomé Mitre age 43
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 43
President - Ecuador
José Joaquín Pérez age 63
President - Chile
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 49
President - Liberia
Mariano Melgarejo age 44
President - Bolivia
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 45
President - Venezuela
Tomás Villalba age 59
President - Uruguay
John Lawrence age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Fabre Geffrard age 58
President - Haiti
José María Medina age 38
President - Honduras
Francisco Dueñas age 54
President - El Salvador
Benigno Filomeno de Rojas age 54
President - Dominican Republic
William III of the Netherlands age 48
King - Netherlands
Francisco Solano López age 38
President - Paraguay
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 67
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Charles Rogier age 64
Prime Minister - Belgium
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 70
Prime Minister - Denmark
Rainilaiarivony age 37
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Benizelos Roufos age 70
Prime Minister - Greece
Victor de Tornaco age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Frederick Weld age 41
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 29
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 27
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 46
Leo Tolstoy age 36
Charles Darwin age 56
Vincent van Gogh age 11
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 43
Friedrich Nietzsche age 20
Thomas Edison age 18
Sigmund Freud age 8
Charles Dickens age 53
Rabindranath Tagore age 3
Nikola Tesla age 8
Louis Pasteur age 42
Richard Wagner age 51
Henry Ford age 1
Friedrich Engels age 44
Theodore Roosevelt age 6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 24
Woodrow Wilson age 8
Max Planck age 6
Michael Faraday age 73
Dmitri Mendeleev age 31
Giuseppe Verdi age 51
James Clerk Maxwell age 33
Alexander Graham Bell age 17
Claude Monet age 24
Florence Nightingale age 44
William Howard Taft age 7
Grover Cleveland age 27
James Buchanan age 73
William McKinley age 22
Millard Fillmore age 65
Rutherford B. Hayes age 42
Franklin Pierce age 60
Benjamin Harrison age 31
Gregor Mendel age 42
Chester A. Arthur age 35
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 57
Wilhelm II age 6
Pius XI age 7
Pius X age 29
Leo XIII age 55
Pierre de Coubertin age 2
Charles Babbage age 73
Benedict XV age 10
Carl Benz age 20
David Lloyd George age 2
Paul von Hindenburg age 17
Edward VII age 23
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 1
Harriet Tubman age 42
Abdul Hamid II age 22
Robert E. Lee age 58
Georges Clemenceau age 23
Alexander III of Russia age 19
Giuseppe Mazzini age 59
Philippe Pétain age 8
Leopold II of Belgium age 29
Cecil Rhodes age 11
Emperor Meiji age 12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 200
Frederick Douglass age 47
Susan B. Anthony age 45
Arthur Balfour age 16
Adolphe Thiers age 67
Emmeline Pankhurst age 6
Mehmed VI age 4
Ferdinand Foch age 13
Porfirio Díaz age 34
H. H. Asquith age 12
Raymond Poincaré age 4
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 49
Patrice de MacMahon age 56
Frederick III, German Emperor age 33
Umberto I of Italy age 20
Aristide Briand age 2
Mehmed V age 20