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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Unification of Germany 1866-08-18 - 1871-05-10
Ten Years' War 1868-10-10 - 1878-02-10
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

People

Queen Victoria age 50
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 47
President - United States
Napoleon III age 61
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 51
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 39
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Leopold II of Belgium age 34
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 17
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 72
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Benito Juárez age 63
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 49
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 44
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 40
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 38
Shah - Iran
Isma'il Pasha age 39
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 17
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 13
Emperor - Imperial China
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 55
President - Guatemala
Otto von Bismarck age 54
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
William Ewart Gladstone age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Lanza age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Schuyler Colfax age 46
Vice President - United States
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 54
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Hamilton Fish age 61
Secretary of State - United States
George S. Boutwell age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 54
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
William W. Belknap age 40
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 42
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 54
Attorney General - United States
Robert Lowe age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 65
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Bright age 58
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 60
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 58
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 46
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 59
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 41
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 70
Senate - United States
George Henry Williams age 46
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 56
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 54
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 56
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 49
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 26
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 33
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 57
House of Representatives - United States
George W. McCrary age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry Huntly Haight age 44
Governor of California - United States
Powell Clayton age 36
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Theodore F. Randolph age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Gilbert C. Walker age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Claflin age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Dewitt Clinton Senter age 39
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Conrad Baker age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Oden Bowie age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
Rufus Bullock age 35
Governor of Georgia - United States
William H. Seward age 68
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 50
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 34
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 54
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 50
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 51
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 22
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Chulalongkorn age 16
King - Thailand
Charles XV age 43
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 51
King - Denmark
William III of the Netherlands age 53
King - Netherlands
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 59
President - Argentina
Francisco Solano López age 43
President - Paraguay
Gabriel García Moreno age 48
President - Ecuador
Francisco Serrano age 59
Head of State - Spain
José Joaquín Pérez age 68
President - Chile
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 59
President - Uruguay
Mariano Melgarejo age 49
President - Bolivia
Edward James Roye age 55
President - Liberia
José Balta age 55
President - Peru
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
José María Medina age 43
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 22
Hakim - Bahrain
Santos Gutiérrez age 49
President - Colombia
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget age 59
President - Haiti
Francisco Dueñas age 59
President - El Salvador
Jesús Jiménez Zamora age 46
President - Costa Rica
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius age 50
State President - South African Republic
Johannes Brand age 46
State President - Orange Free State
John A. Macdonald age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Gyula Andrássy age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Walthère Frère-Orban age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 42
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thrasyvoulos Zaimis age 47
Prime Minister - Greece
Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
William Fox age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Pieter Philip van Bosse age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Emmanuel Servais age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Jung Bahadur Rana age 52
Prime Minister - Nepal
George Bowen age 48
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 34
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 32
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 51
Mahatma Gandhi age 4 months
Leo Tolstoy age 41
Charles Darwin age 61
Vincent van Gogh age 16
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 48
Friedrich Nietzsche age 25
Thomas Edison age 23
Sigmund Freud age 13
Charles Dickens age 58
Marie Curie age 2
Rabindranath Tagore age 8
Nikola Tesla age 13
Louis Pasteur age 47
Richard Wagner age 56
Henry Ford age 6
Friedrich Engels age 49
Theodore Roosevelt age 11
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 29
Woodrow Wilson age 13
Max Planck age 11
Dmitri Mendeleev age 36
Giuseppe Verdi age 56
James Clerk Maxwell age 38
Alexander Graham Bell age 22
Claude Monet age 29
Sun Yat-sen age 3
Florence Nightingale age 49
William Howard Taft age 12
Grover Cleveland age 32
Andrew Johnson age 61
William McKinley age 27
Warren G. Harding age 4
Millard Fillmore age 70
Nicholas II of Russia age 1
Benjamin Harrison age 36
Gregor Mendel age 47
Chester A. Arthur age 40
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 62
Wilhelm II age 11
Pius XI age 12
Neville Chamberlain age 11 months
Pius X age 34
Leo XIII age 60
Pierre de Coubertin age 7
Charles Babbage age 78
Benedict XV age 15
Carl Benz age 25
David Lloyd George age 7
Grigori Rasputin age 1
George V age 4
Paul von Hindenburg age 22
Edward VII age 28
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 6
Henry Dunant age 41
Harriet Tubman age 48
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 12
Abdul Hamid II age 27
Robert E. Lee age 63
Georges Clemenceau age 28
Alexander III of Russia age 24
Giuseppe Mazzini age 64
Lord Kelvin age 45
Samuel Morse age 78
Józef Piłsudski age 2
Philippe Pétain age 13
Cecil Rhodes age 16
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 205
Frederick Douglass age 52
Susan B. Anthony age 50
Arthur Balfour age 21
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 2