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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31

People

Queen Victoria age 53
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 51
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 55
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 38
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 20
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 76
Emperor - German Empire
Adolphe Thiers age 76
President - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 53
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 47
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 43
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 41
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 20
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 17
Emperor - Imperial China
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 50
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 35
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 42
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 42
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 58
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Lanza age 63
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry Wilson age 61
Vice President - United States
Hamilton Fish age 64
Secretary Of State - United States
George Henry Williams age 50
Attorney General - United States
William W. Belknap age 43
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Adams Richardson age 51
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Robert Lowe age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 68
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thomas A. Hendricks age 53
Governor Of Indiana - United States
Chulalongkorn age 19
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 55
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 44
King - Sweden
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Isa I of Bahrain age 25
Hakim - Bahrain
Estanislao Figueras age 53
Head of State - Spain
Karl Marx age 55
Vladimir Lenin age 3
Mahatma Gandhi age 3
Leo Tolstoy age 44
Charles Darwin age 64
Vincent van Gogh age 20
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 51
Friedrich Nietzsche age 28
Thomas Edison age 26
Sigmund Freud age 17
Marie Curie age 5
Rabindranath Tagore age 12
Nikola Tesla age 16
Louis Pasteur age 50
Richard Wagner age 60
Henry Ford age 9
Friedrich Engels age 52
Theodore Roosevelt age 14
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 33
Woodrow Wilson age 16
Max Planck age 15
Dmitri Mendeleev age 39
Giuseppe Verdi age 59
James Clerk Maxwell age 41
Calvin Coolidge age 10 months
Alexander Graham Bell age 26
Claude Monet age 32
Sun Yat-sen age 6
Florence Nightingale age 53
James A. Garfield age 41
William Howard Taft age 15
Grover Cleveland age 36
Andrew Johnson age 64
William McKinley age 30
Warren G. Harding age 7
Millard Fillmore age 73
Rutherford B. Hayes age 50
Benjamin Harrison age 39
Gregor Mendel age 50
Chester A. Arthur age 43
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 65
Wilhelm II age 14
Pius XI age 15
Neville Chamberlain age 4
Pius X age 37
Leo XIII age 63
Pierre de Coubertin age 10
Benedict XV age 18
Carl Benz age 28
David Lloyd George age 10
Grigori Rasputin age 4
George V age 7
Paul von Hindenburg age 25
Edward VII age 31
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 9
Harriet Tubman age 51
Abdul Hamid II age 30
Georges Clemenceau age 31
Empress Dowager Cixi age 37
Alexander III of Russia age 28
Józef Piłsudski age 5
Philippe Pétain age 17
Cecil Rhodes age 19
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 208
Frederick Douglass age 55
Susan B. Anthony age 53
Arthur Balfour age 24
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 5
Jefferson Davis age 64
Emmeline Pankhurst age 14
Mehmed VI age 12
Ferdinand Foch age 21
Porfirio Díaz age 42
H. H. Asquith age 20
Raymond Poincaré age 12
Friedrich Ebert age 2
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 57
Stanley Baldwin age 5
Patrice de MacMahon age 64
Isabella II age 42
Ramsay MacDonald age 6
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 3
Frederick III, German Emperor age 41
Umberto I of Italy age 29
Charles G. Dawes age 7
Aristide Briand age 11
Léon Blum age 1
Erich Ludendorff age 8
Mehmed V age 28
Itō Hirobumi age 31
Haakon VII of Norway age 9 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 72
Gustaf V of Sweden age 14
William Tecumseh Sherman age 53
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 43
Pyotr Stolypin age 11
Emilio Aguinaldo age 4
Pietro Badoglio age 1
Andrew Bonar Law age 14
Murad V age 32
Ferdinand I of Austria age 80
Eleftherios Venizelos age 8
Christian X of Denmark age 2
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 16
Cordell Hull age 1
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 2
Hjalmar Branting age 12
Alfonso XII age 15
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 3
Alexandra of Denmark age 28
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 79
John Nance Garner age 4
Alexandre Millerand age 14
Karl Renner age 2
Amadeo I of Spain age 27
George Curzon age 14
Yuan Shikai age 13
Joseph Joffre age 21
Paul Doumer age 16
Anton Denikin age 4 months
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 80
Armand Fallières age 31
Gaston Doumergue age 9
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 12
Jules Grévy age 65
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 35
Deodoro da Fonseca age 45
John J. Pershing age 12
Guangxu Emperor age 1
Elihu Root age 28
Edmund Barton age 24
Mary of Teck age 5
Bernhard von Bülow age 24
Charles Curtis age 13
Thomas R. Marshall age 19
Hannibal Hamlin age 63
Frank B. Kellogg age 16
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 29
Carol I of Romania age 34
Ferdinand I of Romania age 7
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 12
Alfred Deakin age 16
Lavr Kornilov age 2
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 36
Félix Faure age 32
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 8
Sergei Witte age 23
Émile Loubet age 34
Menelik II age 28
John C. Breckinridge age 52
Georgy Lvov age 11
Jean Casimir-Perier age 25
Arthur Henderson age 9
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 22
Charles W. Fairbanks age 21
Paul Deschanel age 18
Abdur Rahman Khan age 33
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 11
Douglas Hyde age 13
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 35
Garret Hobart age 28
Levi P. Morton age 49
William A. Wheeler age 53
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 24