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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20

People

Queen Victoria age 46
Queen - United Kingdom
Andrew Johnson age 56
President - United States
Napoleon III age 57
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 47
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm I age 68
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Benito Juárez age 59
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 45
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 9
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 50
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 68
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 34
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Otto von Bismarck age 50
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
Ulysses S. Grant age 43
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Edwin Stanton age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James Speed age 53
Attorney General - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 66
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 60
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 66
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 77
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Henry Wilson age 53
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 45
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 42
Senate - United States
George Henry Williams age 42
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 58
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 52
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 49
Senate - United States
James Guthrie age 72
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 69
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
Rutherford B. Hayes age 42
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 42
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 38
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 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 53
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 69
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
Henry Lowry-Corry age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 28
House of Representatives - 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 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Parson Brownlow age 59
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 44
Governor of Georgia - United States
Reuben Fenton age 45
Governor of New York - 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 47
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 39
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 47
King - Denmark
Mongkut age 60
King - Thailand
Bartolomé Mitre age 43
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 43
President - Ecuador
José Joaquín Pérez age 64
President - Chile
Venancio Flores age 57
President - Uruguay
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 50
President - Liberia
Mariano Melgarejo age 45
President - Bolivia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 38
President - Peru
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 45
President - Venezuela
John Lawrence age 54
Viceroy - British Raj
Fabre Geffrard age 58
President - Haiti
José María Medina age 39
President - Honduras
Francisco Dueñas age 54
President - El Salvador
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
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Christian Albrecht Bluhme age 70
Prime Minister - Denmark
Rainilaiarivony age 37
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Victor de Tornaco age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Frederick Weld age 42
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 29
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 27
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 47
Leo Tolstoy age 36
Charles Darwin age 56
Vincent van Gogh age 12
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 43
Friedrich Nietzsche age 20
Thomas Edison age 18
Sigmund Freud age 9
Charles Dickens age 53
Rabindranath Tagore age 4
Nikola Tesla age 8
Louis Pasteur age 42
Richard Wagner age 52
Henry Ford age 1
Friedrich Engels age 44
Theodore Roosevelt age 6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 25
Woodrow Wilson age 8
Max Planck age 7
Michael Faraday age 73
Dmitri Mendeleev age 31
Giuseppe Verdi age 51
James Clerk Maxwell age 34
Alexander Graham Bell age 18
Claude Monet age 24
Florence Nightingale age 45
William Howard Taft age 7
Grover Cleveland age 28
James Buchanan age 74
William McKinley age 22
Millard Fillmore age 65
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 8
Pius X age 30
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
George V age 0 months
Paul von Hindenburg age 17
Edward VII age 23
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 1
Harriet Tubman age 43
Abdul Hamid II age 22
Robert E. Lee age 58
Georges Clemenceau age 23
Alexander III of Russia age 20
Giuseppe Mazzini age 59
Philippe Pétain age 9
Leopold II of Belgium age 30
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
Jefferson Davis age 57
Adolphe Thiers age 68
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 57
Frederick III, German Emperor age 33
Umberto I of Italy age 21
Aristide Briand age 3
Erich Ludendorff age 1 month