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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Taiping Rebellion 1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Second Opium War 1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24

People

Emmeline Pankhurst age 5 months
Ferdinand Foch age 7
Porfirio Díaz age 28
H. H. Asquith age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 43
Patrice de MacMahon age 50
Frederick III, German Emperor age 27
Umberto I of Italy age 14
Abdulaziz age 28
Mehmed V age 14
Itō Hirobumi age 17
Chulalongkorn age 5
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 58
Ludwig II of Bavaria age 13
Liliʻuokalani age 20
Gustaf V of Sweden age 6 months
William Tecumseh Sherman age 38
Prince Albert age 39
Charles XV age 32
Andrew Bonar Law age 3 months
Murad V age 18
Maximilian I of Mexico age 26
Ferdinand I of Austria age 65
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 2
George I of Greece age 13
Christian IX of Denmark age 40
Alfonso XII age 1
Oscar II of Sweden age 29
Alexandra of Denmark age 14
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 64
Lajos Kossuth age 56
Amadeo I of Spain age 13
John Wilkes Booth age 20
Joseph Joffre age 6
John A. Macdonald age 44
Paul Doumer age 1
Stonewall Jackson age 34
Armand Fallières age 17
Jules Grévy age 51
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 21
Deodoro da Fonseca age 31
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 53
George Armstrong Custer age 19
Auguste Beernaert age 29
Elihu Root age 13
Edmund Barton age 9
Bernhard von Bülow age 9
Aleksey Brusilov age 5
Thomas R. Marshall age 4
Frank B. Kellogg age 2
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 15
Carol I of Romania age 19
Alfred Deakin age 2
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 74
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 22
Félix Faure age 17
Paul Kruger age 33
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 11
Sergei Witte age 9
Émile Loubet age 20
Menelik II age 14
Jean Casimir-Perier age 11
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 8
Charles W. Fairbanks age 6
Paul Deschanel age 3
Abdur Rahman Khan age 19
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 20
George M. Dallas age 66
Edward Smith age 8
Victoria, Princess Royal age 18
Garret Hobart age 14
Levi P. Morton age 34
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 10
Leo von Caprivi age 27
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) age 60
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 47
Robert FitzRoy age 53
Thomas A. Hendricks age 39
Christian Michelsen age 1
Katsura Tarō age 11
Saigō Takamori age 30
Tōgō Heihachirō age 10
Adlai Stevenson I age 23
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 8
Clara Barton age 37
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 11
Peter I of Serbia age 14
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria age 4 months
James S. Sherman age 3
Isma'il Pasha age 28
August von Mackensen age 9
Jérôme Bonaparte age 74
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 47
Georg Michaelis age 1
Georg von Hertling age 15
Constantin Fehrenbach age 6
Giovanni Giolitti age 16
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 17
Lew Wallace age 31
Yamagata Aritomo age 20
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 39
Demetrios Vikelas age 23
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 64
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 15
Joseph Chamberlain age 22
Ismail Kemal age 14
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 6
Terauchi Masatake age 6
Hara Takashi age 2
Francesco Crispi age 40
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 14
Bartolomé Mitre age 37
George B. McClellan age 32
Tongzhi Emperor age 2
Wilfrid Laurier age 17
Nikola Pašić age 13
David Farragut age 57
Matsukata Masayoshi age 23
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 3
Floriano Peixoto age 19
Jules Ferry age 26
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 7
Francisco Solano López age 32
Maria Christina of Austria age 5 months
Charlotte of Belgium age 18
Allan Octavian Hume age 29
Victoriano Huerta age 8
Philip Henry Sheridan age 27
Lucretia Mott age 66
Gyula Andrássy age 35
Leland Stanford age 34
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 21
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 18
Prudente de Morais age 17
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 5
Otto, King of Bavaria age 10
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 2 months
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 1
Alexander Mackenzie age 36
Kate Sheppard age 11
Robert Nivelle age 2
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 6
Hong Xiuquan age 45
Li Hongzhang age 35
Luigi Cadorna age 8
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 34
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 12
George Meade age 43
George Reid age 13
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 41
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 10
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 76
Saionji Kinmochi age 9
Bettino Ricasoli age 49
Antonio Salandra age 5
Rodrigues Alves age 10
Afonso Pena age 11
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 76
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies age 49
John Abbott age 37
Dadabhai Naoroji age 33
Julio Argentino Roca age 15
Abraham Kuyper age 21
Agostino Depretis age 45
Sidney Sonnino age 11
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia age 2
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 22
Georg V of Hanover age 39
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 56
Marie Henriette of Austria age 22
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 14
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 61
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 49
Michael Hainisch age 4 months
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 6
Pedro Lascuráin age 2
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 6
Urbano Rattazzi age 50
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 54
Campos Sales age 17
Mikhail Skobelev age 15
Saitō Makoto age 2 months
Paolo Boselli age 20
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 5
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 47
William I of Württemberg age 77
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 8
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 25
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 10
John Hay age 20
Robert Borden age 4
Saad Zaghloul age 2
Takahashi Korekiyo age 4
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 32
Tewfik Pasha age 6
Louis-Jules Trochu age 43
Albert I of Saxony age 30
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 31
Sophie of Württemberg age 40
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia age 1