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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 47
Queen - United Kingdom
Andrew Johnson age 57
President - United States
Napoleon III age 58
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 48
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 31
King - Belgium
Wilhelm I age 69
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Benito Juárez age 60
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 46
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 40
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 36
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 35
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 35
Emperor - Japan
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 13
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 10
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 51
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 69
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 36
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Otto von Bismarck age 51
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bettino Ricasoli age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 58
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Ulysses S. Grant age 44
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 65
Secretary of State - United States
Edwin Stanton age 51
Secretary of War - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Henry Stanbery age 63
Attorney General - United States
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 56
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 74
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 47
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 78
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Henry Wilson age 54
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 47
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 43
Senate - United States
George Henry Williams age 43
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 59
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 53
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 51
Senate - United States
James Guthrie age 73
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 70
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 55
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 52
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 43
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 66
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 55
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 23
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 29
House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 47
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 50
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 48
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 19
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 46
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 35
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 40
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 48
King - Denmark
Mongkut age 61
King - Thailand
Bartolomé Mitre age 45
President - Argentina
José Joaquín Pérez age 65
President - Chile
Venancio Flores age 58
President - Uruguay
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 51
President - Liberia
Mariano Melgarejo age 46
President - Bolivia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 39
President - Peru
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 46
President - Venezuela
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera age 67
President - Colombia
John Lawrence age 55
Viceroy - British Raj
Fabre Geffrard age 59
President - Haiti
José María Medina age 40
President - Honduras
Jerónimo Carrión age 62
President - Ecuador
Francisco Dueñas age 55
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 49
King - Netherlands
Francisco Solano López age 40
President - Paraguay
Charles Rogier age 66
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 38
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 47
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Edward Stafford age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Victor de Tornaco age 61
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Empress Dowager Cixi age 30
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 29
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 48
Leo Tolstoy age 37
Charles Darwin age 57
Vincent van Gogh age 13
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 44
Friedrich Nietzsche age 21
Thomas Edison age 19
Sigmund Freud age 10
Charles Dickens age 54
Rabindranath Tagore age 5
Nikola Tesla age 10
Louis Pasteur age 43
Richard Wagner age 53
Henry Ford age 3
Friedrich Engels age 45
Theodore Roosevelt age 7
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 26
Woodrow Wilson age 9
Max Planck age 8
Michael Faraday age 74
Dmitri Mendeleev age 32
Giuseppe Verdi age 52
James Clerk Maxwell age 35
Alexander Graham Bell age 19
Claude Monet age 25
Florence Nightingale age 46
William Howard Taft age 8
Grover Cleveland age 29
James Buchanan age 75
William McKinley age 23
Warren G. Harding age 9 months
Millard Fillmore age 66
Franklin Pierce age 61
Benjamin Harrison age 33
Gregor Mendel age 44
Chester A. Arthur age 36
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 59
Wilhelm II age 7
Pius XI age 9
Pius X age 31
Leo XIII age 56
Pierre de Coubertin age 3
Charles Babbage age 74
Benedict XV age 11
Carl Benz age 21
David Lloyd George age 3
George V age 1
Paul von Hindenburg age 18
Edward VII age 24
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 2
Harriet Tubman age 44
Abdul Hamid II age 23
Robert E. Lee age 59
Georges Clemenceau age 24
Alexander III of Russia age 21
Giuseppe Mazzini age 61
Philippe Pétain age 10
Cecil Rhodes age 13
Emperor Meiji age 13
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 201
Frederick Douglass age 48
Susan B. Anthony age 46
Arthur Balfour age 18
Jefferson Davis age 58
Adolphe Thiers age 69
Emmeline Pankhurst age 8
Mehmed VI age 5
Ferdinand Foch age 14
Porfirio Díaz age 35
H. H. Asquith age 13
Raymond Poincaré age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 50
Patrice de MacMahon age 58
Frederick III, German Emperor age 34
Umberto I of Italy age 22
Charles G. Dawes age 1
Aristide Briand age 4
Erich Ludendorff age 1
Mehmed V age 21
Itō Hirobumi age 24
Chulalongkorn age 12
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 65
Gustaf V of Sweden age 8
William Tecumseh Sherman age 46
Pyotr Stolypin age 4
Andrew Bonar Law age 7
Murad V age 25
Maximilian I of Mexico age 34
Ferdinand I of Austria age 73