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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

People

Queen Victoria age 52
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 49
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 53
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 36
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 18
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 74
Emperor - German Empire
Benito Juárez age 65
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 74
President - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 51
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 45
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 41
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 40
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 19
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 15
Emperor - Imperial China
Yohannes III age 74
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 41
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 40
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 56
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Lanza age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Schuyler Colfax age 48
Vice President - United States
Hamilton Fish age 63
Secretary of State - United States
George S. Boutwell age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William W. Belknap age 42
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 66
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Benjamin Bristow age 39
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
James Alexander Hamilton age 83
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 62
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 59
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 48
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 43
Senate - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 54
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 72
Senate - United States
William Windom age 44
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 58
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 56
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 60
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 58
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 50
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Foster age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 28
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 59
House of Representatives - United States
George W. McCrary age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry Huntly Haight age 46
Governor of California - United States
John C. Brown age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Edmund J. Davis age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
Theodore F. Randolph age 45
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Gilbert C. Walker age 38
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Claflin age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Conrad Baker age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Oden Bowie age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Ozra Amander Hadley age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William H. Seward age 70
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 55
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 53
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 24
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Chulalongkorn age 18
King - Thailand
Charles XV age 45
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 53
King - Denmark
Amadeo I of Spain age 26
King - Spain
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 60
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 49
President - Ecuador
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 42
President - Venezuela
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 61
President - Uruguay
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu age 46
President - Chile
Edward James Roye age 56
President - Liberia
José Balta age 57
President - Peru
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Agustín Morales age 63
President - Bolivia
José María Medina age 45
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 23
Hakim - Bahrain
Eustorgio Salgar age 40
President - Colombia
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget age 61
President - Haiti
Santiago González age 53
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 54
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 56
Prime Minister - Canada
Gyula Andrássy age 48
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 73
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Rainilaiarivony age 43
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
William Fox age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jules d'Anethan age 68
Prime Minister - Belgium
Emmanuel Servais age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Bowen age 50
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 35
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 34
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 53
Vladimir Lenin age 1
Mahatma Gandhi age 2
Leo Tolstoy age 43
Charles Darwin age 62
Vincent van Gogh age 18
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 49
Friedrich Nietzsche age 27
Thomas Edison age 24
Sigmund Freud age 15
Marie Curie age 3
Rabindranath Tagore age 10
Nikola Tesla age 15
Louis Pasteur age 48
Richard Wagner age 58
Henry Ford age 8
Friedrich Engels age 50
Theodore Roosevelt age 12
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 31
Woodrow Wilson age 14
Max Planck age 13
Dmitri Mendeleev age 37
Giuseppe Verdi age 58
James Clerk Maxwell age 40
Alexander Graham Bell age 24
Claude Monet age 30
Sun Yat-sen age 4
Florence Nightingale age 51
William Howard Taft age 14
Grover Cleveland age 34
Andrew Johnson age 62
William McKinley age 28
Warren G. Harding age 5
Millard Fillmore age 71
Benjamin Harrison age 38
Gregor Mendel age 49
Chester A. Arthur age 42
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 64
Wilhelm II age 12
Napoleon III age 63
Pius XI age 14
Neville Chamberlain age 2
Pius X age 36
Leo XIII age 61
Pierre de Coubertin age 8
Benedict XV age 16
Carl Benz age 26
David Lloyd George age 8
Grigori Rasputin age 2
George V age 6
Paul von Hindenburg age 24
Edward VII age 29
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 7
Harriet Tubman age 49
Abdul Hamid II age 29
Georges Clemenceau age 30
Alexander III of Russia age 26
Giuseppe Mazzini age 66
Józef Piłsudski age 3
Philippe Pétain age 15
Cecil Rhodes age 18
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 206
Frederick Douglass age 53
Susan B. Anthony age 51
Arthur Balfour age 23
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 4
Jefferson Davis age 63
Emmeline Pankhurst age 13
Mehmed VI age 10
Ferdinand Foch age 20
Porfirio Díaz age 41
H. H. Asquith age 19
Raymond Poincaré age 11
Friedrich Ebert age 8 months
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 55
Stanley Baldwin age 4
Patrice de MacMahon age 63