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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
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
American Civil War 1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Second French intervention in Mexico 1861-12-08 - 1867-06-21

People

Mehmed V age 17
Itō Hirobumi age 20
Chulalongkorn age 8
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 61
Ludwig II of Bavaria age 16
Edward Bulwer-Lytton age 58
Liliʻuokalani age 23
Gustaf V of Sweden age 3
William Tecumseh Sherman age 41
Andrew Bonar Law age 3
Murad V age 21
Maximilian I of Mexico age 29
Ferdinand I of Austria age 68
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 5
George I of Greece age 16
Christian IX of Denmark age 43
Hjalmar Branting age 1
Alfonso XII age 4
Oscar II of Sweden age 32
Alexandra of Denmark age 17
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 67
Lajos Kossuth age 59
Alexandre Millerand age 2
Amadeo I of Spain age 16
George Curzon age 2
John Wilkes Booth age 23
Yuan Shikai age 2
Joseph Joffre age 9
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 10 months
John A. Macdonald age 46
Paul Doumer age 4
Stonewall Jackson age 37
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 69
Armand Fallières age 20
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 1
Jules Grévy age 54
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 24
Deodoro da Fonseca age 34
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 56
George Armstrong Custer age 22
Auguste Beernaert age 32
John J. Pershing age 1
Elihu Root age 16
Sam Houston age 68
Edmund Barton age 12
Bernhard von Bülow age 12
Aleksey Brusilov age 8
Charles Curtis age 1
Thomas R. Marshall age 7
Frank B. Kellogg age 5
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 18
Carol I of Romania age 22
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 1
Alfred Deakin age 5
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 25
Félix Faure age 20
Paul Kruger age 36
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 14
Sergei Witte age 12
Émile Loubet age 23
Menelik II age 17
Georgy Lvov age 1 month
Jean Casimir-Perier age 14
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 11
Charles W. Fairbanks age 9
Paul Deschanel age 6
Abdur Rahman Khan age 22
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 0 months
Douglas Hyde age 1
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 23
George M. Dallas age 69
Edward Smith age 11
Victoria, Princess Royal age 21
Garret Hobart age 17
Levi P. Morton age 37
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 13
Leo von Caprivi age 30
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 50
Robert FitzRoy age 56
Thomas A. Hendricks age 42
William Jennings Bryan age 1
Christian Michelsen age 4
Katsura Tarō age 13
Saigō Takamori age 33
Tōgō Heihachirō age 13
Adlai Stevenson I age 26
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 11
Venustiano Carranza age 2
Clara Barton age 40
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 14
Peter I of Serbia age 17
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 6 months
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria age 3
James S. Sherman age 6
Erich von Falkenhayn age 3 months
Isma'il Pasha age 31
August von Mackensen age 12
Maximilian II of Bavaria age 50
Georg Michaelis age 4
Georg von Hertling age 18
Constantin Fehrenbach age 9
Giovanni Giolitti age 19
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 20
Lew Wallace age 34
Yamagata Aritomo age 23
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 42
Demetrios Vikelas age 26
Anna Pavlovna of Russia age 66
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 18
Joseph Chamberlain age 25
Ismail Kemal age 17
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 9
Terauchi Masatake age 9
Hara Takashi age 5
Francesco Crispi age 43
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 16
Bartolomé Mitre age 40
Wilfrid Laurier age 20
Nikola Pašić age 16
David Farragut age 60
Matsukata Masayoshi age 26
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 6
Floriano Peixoto age 22
Jules Ferry age 29
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 10
Francisco Solano López age 35
Maria Christina of Austria age 3
Charlotte of Belgium age 21
Allan Octavian Hume age 32
Victoriano Huerta age 11
Philip Henry Sheridan age 30
Lucretia Mott age 69
Gyula Andrássy age 38
Leland Stanford age 37
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 24
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 21
Prudente de Morais age 20
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 8
Armando Diaz age 0 months
Otto, King of Bavaria age 13
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 3
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 4
Alexander Mackenzie age 39
Kate Sheppard age 14
Robert Nivelle age 5
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 9
Hong Xiuquan age 48
Li Hongzhang age 38
Luigi Cadorna age 11
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 37
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 15
George Meade age 46
George Reid age 16
Jānis Čakste age 2
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 44
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 13
Saionji Kinmochi age 12
Antonio Salandra age 8
Luigi Facta age 3 months
Rodrigues Alves age 13
Afonso Pena age 14
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily age 79
John Abbott age 40
Carrie Chapman Catt age 2
Dadabhai Naoroji age 36
Julio Argentino Roca age 18
Abraham Kuyper age 24
Agostino Depretis age 48
Sidney Sonnino age 14
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia age 5
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 25
Georg V of Hanover age 42
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria age 59
Marie Henriette of Austria age 25
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 17
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 63
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 52
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 33
Joseph Cook age 1
Michael Hainisch age 3
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 9
Pedro Lascuráin age 5
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 9
Urbano Rattazzi age 53
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 57
Campos Sales age 20
Mikhail Skobelev age 18
Katō Takaaki age 1
Saitō Makoto age 3
Paolo Boselli age 23
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 8
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 50
William I of Württemberg age 80
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 11
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 28
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 13
Winfield Scott age 75
John Hay age 23
Robert Borden age 7
Saad Zaghloul age 4