Explore May 8, 1878

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31

People

Queen Victoria age 58
Rutherford B. Hayes age 55
Alexander II of Russia age 60
Abdul Hamid II age 35
Leopold II of Belgium age 43
Emperor Meiji age 25
Wilhelm I age 81
Porfirio Díaz age 47
Pedro II of Brazil age 52
Patrice de MacMahon age 69
Umberto I of Italy age 34
Guangxu Emperor age 6
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 46
Yohannes IV age 40
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 47
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 25
Isma'il Pasha age 47
Otto von Bismarck age 63
Benjamin Disraeli age 73
Benedetto Cairoli age 53
Morrison Waite age 61
William A. Wheeler age 58
William M. Evarts age 60
George W. McCrary age 42
William McKinley age 35
Alfonso XII age 20
Isa I of Bahrain age 30
Christian IX of Denmark age 60
Oscar II of Sweden age 49
Chulalongkorn age 24
Leo XIII age 68
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 46
Karl Marx age 60
Vladimir Lenin age 8
Mahatma Gandhi age 8
Leo Tolstoy age 49
Charles Darwin age 69
Vincent van Gogh age 25
Winston Churchill age 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 56
Friedrich Nietzsche age 33
Thomas Edison age 31
Sigmund Freud age 22
Marie Curie age 10
Nikola Tesla age 21
Louis Pasteur age 55
Richard Wagner age 65
Henry Ford age 14
Friedrich Engels age 57
Theodore Roosevelt age 19
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 38
Woodrow Wilson age 21
Max Planck age 20
Dmitri Mendeleev age 44
Giuseppe Verdi age 64
Herbert Hoover age 3
James Clerk Maxwell age 46
Calvin Coolidge age 5
Alexander Graham Bell age 31
Ulysses S. Grant age 56
Claude Monet age 37
Sun Yat-sen age 11
Florence Nightingale age 58
James A. Garfield age 46
William Howard Taft age 20
Konrad Adenauer age 2
Grover Cleveland age 41
Warren G. Harding age 12
Benjamin Harrison age 44
Gregor Mendel age 55
Chester A. Arthur age 48
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 70
Wilhelm II age 19
Guglielmo Marconi age 4
Neville Chamberlain age 9
Carl Benz age 33
David Lloyd George age 15
George V age 12
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 1
Paul von Hindenburg age 30
Edward VII age 36
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 14
Harriet Tubman age 56
Georges Clemenceau age 36
Empress Dowager Cixi age 42
William Ewart Gladstone age 68
Józef Piłsudski age 10
Philippe Pétain age 22
Cecil Rhodes age 24
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 213
Frederick Douglass age 60
Susan B. Anthony age 58
Arthur Balfour age 29
Jefferson Davis age 69
Reza Shah age 1 month
Emmeline Pankhurst age 19
Mehmed VI age 17
Ferdinand Foch age 26
H. H. Asquith age 25
Raymond Poincaré age 17
Friedrich Ebert age 7
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 62
Stanley Baldwin age 10
Isabella II age 47
Ramsay MacDonald age 11
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 8
Frederick III, German Emperor age 46
Charles G. Dawes age 12
Aristide Briand age 16
Léon Blum age 6
Erich Ludendorff age 13
Mehmed V age 33
Itō Hirobumi age 36
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 77
Albert I of Belgium age 3
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 48
Pietro Badoglio age 6
Andrew Bonar Law age 19
Murad V age 37
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 21
Cordell Hull age 6
Alben W. Barkley age 5 months
Gerd von Rundstedt age 2
John Nance Garner age 9
Alexandre Millerand age 19
Karl Renner age 7
Amadeo I of Spain age 32
Yuan Shikai age 18
Joseph Joffre age 26
Paul Doumer age 21
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 85
Armand Fallières age 36
Gaston Doumergue age 14
Jules Grévy age 70
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 40
Deodoro da Fonseca age 50
Erich Raeder age 2
John J. Pershing age 17
Elihu Root age 33
Edmund Barton age 29
Bernhard von Bülow age 29
Hjalmar Schacht age 1
Charles Curtis age 18
Thomas R. Marshall age 24
Hannibal Hamlin age 68
Frank B. Kellogg age 21
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 17
Wilhelm Frick age 1
Alfred Deakin age 21
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 41
Félix Faure age 37
Émile Loubet age 39
Menelik II age 33
Jean Casimir-Perier age 30
Charles W. Fairbanks age 26
Paul Deschanel age 23
Abdur Rahman Khan age 38
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 40
Talaat Pasha age 3
Garret Hobart age 33
Levi P. Morton age 54
Wilhelm Marx age 15
Édouard Herriot age 5
Leo von Caprivi age 47
Philipp Scheidemann age 12
Schuyler Colfax age 55
Thomas A. Hendricks age 58
William Jennings Bryan age 18
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 1
Katsura Tarō age 30
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 27
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 31
Gustav Bauer age 8
Peter I of Serbia age 33
Abbas II of Egypt age 3
Kyösti Kallio age 5
James S. Sherman age 22
Billy Hughes age 15
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 10
Fuad I of Egypt age 10
Georg Michaelis age 20
Georg von Hertling age 34
Constantin Fehrenbach age 26
Giovanni Giolitti age 35
Jan Smuts age 7
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 5
Chris Watson age 11
Wilhelm Cuno age 1
Yamagata Aritomo age 39
Ivanoe Bonomi age 4
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 59
Zewditu age 2
Joseph Chamberlain age 41
Ismail Kemal age 34
Andrew Fisher age 15
Terauchi Masatake age 26
Hara Takashi age 22
Francesco Crispi age 59
George B. McClellan age 51
Matsukata Masayoshi age 43