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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 53
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 50
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 54
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 37
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 19
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 75
Emperor - German Empire
Benito Juárez age 66
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 75
President - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 52
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 46
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 42
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 40
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 19
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 16
Emperor - Imperial China
Yohannes IV age 34
Emperor - Ethiopia
Yohannes III age 75
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 41
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 41
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 57
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Lanza age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Schuyler Colfax age 49
Vice President - United States
Hamilton Fish age 63
Secretary of State - United States
George S. Boutwell age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 49
Attorney General - 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 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 67
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
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 84
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 62
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 60
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 49
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 43
Senate - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 54
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 73
Senate - United States
William Windom age 45
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 59
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 56
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 61
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 58
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 51
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Foster age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 28
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 18
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 73
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 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 69
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
William H. Seward age 71
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 56
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 54
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 46
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 54
King - Denmark
Amadeo I of Spain age 26
King - Spain
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 61
President - Argentina
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 63
President - Liberia
Gabriel García Moreno age 50
President - Ecuador
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 43
President - Venezuela
Federico Errázuriz Zañartu age 47
President - Chile
Manuel Murillo Toro age 56
President - Colombia
José Balta age 58
President - Peru
Tomás Gomensoro Albín age 62
President - Uruguay
Agustín Morales age 64
President - Bolivia
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
José María Medina age 46
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 24
Hakim - Bahrain
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget age 61
President - Haiti
Santiago González age 53
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 55
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 57
Prime Minister - Canada
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 74
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rainilaiarivony age 44
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 78
Prime Minister - Belgium
William Fox age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Menyhért Lónyay age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Emmanuel Servais age 61
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Bowen age 50
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 36
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 34
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 54
Vladimir Lenin age 2
Mahatma Gandhi age 2
Leo Tolstoy age 43
Charles Darwin age 63
Vincent van Gogh age 19
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 50
Friedrich Nietzsche age 27
Thomas Edison age 25
Sigmund Freud age 16
Marie Curie age 4
Rabindranath Tagore age 11
Nikola Tesla age 15
Louis Pasteur age 49
Richard Wagner age 59
Henry Ford age 8
Friedrich Engels age 51
Theodore Roosevelt age 13
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 32
Woodrow Wilson age 15
Max Planck age 14
Dmitri Mendeleev age 38
Giuseppe Verdi age 58
James Clerk Maxwell age 40
Alexander Graham Bell age 25
Claude Monet age 31
Sun Yat-sen age 5
Florence Nightingale age 52
William Howard Taft age 14
Grover Cleveland age 35
Andrew Johnson age 63
William McKinley age 29
Warren G. Harding age 6
Millard Fillmore age 72
Rutherford B. Hayes age 49
Benjamin Harrison age 38
Gregor Mendel age 49
Chester A. Arthur age 42
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 64
Wilhelm II age 13
Napoleon III age 64
Pius XI age 14
Neville Chamberlain age 3
Pius X age 36
Leo XIII age 62
Pierre de Coubertin age 9
Benedict XV age 17
Carl Benz age 27
David Lloyd George age 9
Grigori Rasputin age 3
George V age 6
Paul von Hindenburg age 24
Edward VII age 30
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 8
Harriet Tubman age 50
Abdul Hamid II age 29
Georges Clemenceau age 30
Alexander III of Russia age 27
Józef Piłsudski age 4
Philippe Pétain age 16
Cecil Rhodes age 18
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 207
Frederick Douglass age 54
Susan B. Anthony age 52
Arthur Balfour age 23
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 4
Jefferson Davis age 63
Emmeline Pankhurst age 13
Mehmed VI age 11
Ferdinand Foch age 20
Porfirio Díaz age 41
H. H. Asquith age 19
Raymond Poincaré age 11
Friedrich Ebert age 1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 56
Stanley Baldwin age 4
Patrice de MacMahon age 63
Isabella II age 41
Ramsay MacDonald age 5
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 2
Frederick III, German Emperor age 40
Umberto I of Italy age 28
Charles G. Dawes age 6
Aristide Briand age 10
Léon Blum age 1 month
Erich Ludendorff age 7