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Explore March 5, 1879

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

People

Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 4
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 26
Nobuyuki Abe age 3
Campos Sales age 38
Artur Bernardes age 3
Apolinario Mabini age 14
James Scullin age 2
Theodor Körner age 5
Kazys Grinius age 12
Óscar Carmona age 9
Katō Takaaki age 19
Saitō Makoto age 20
Kantarō Suzuki age 11
Paolo Boselli age 40
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 10
Epitácio Pessoa age 13
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 25
John Hay age 40
Robert Borden age 24
Arturo Alessandri age 10
Saad Zaghloul age 22
Mihály Károlyi age 4
Takahashi Korekiyo age 24
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 52
Tewfik Pasha age 26
Kōki Hirota age 1
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 8
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 19
Teófilo Braga age 36
Zhang Zuolin age 3
Juan Vicente Gómez age 21
James Longstreet age 58
J. Sigfrid Edström age 8
John Sparrow David Thompson age 33
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 61
Al Smith age 5
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 11
Robert Lansing age 14
William, Prince of Albania age 2
István Tisza age 17
Thorvald Stauning age 5
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 9
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 53
P. G. T. Beauregard age 60
Katō Tomosaburō age 18
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 69
Hermes da Fonseca age 23
José Manuel Balmaceda age 38
Roque Sáenz Peña age 27
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 0 months
Tomás Estrada Palma age 43
Jaan Tõnisson age 10
Alexandros Zaimis age 23
Alexandru Averescu age 19
Kiyoura Keigo age 29
Okada Keisuke age 11
Senjūrō Hayashi age 3
Robert Todd Lincoln age 35
Delfim Moreira age 10
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 55
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 3
Andrew Mellon age 23
Matthias Erzberger age 3
Lauri Ingman age 10
Bernardino Machado age 27
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 12
Hamaguchi Osachi age 8
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 39
Luigi Luzzatti age 38
René Viviani age 15
Charles Tupper age 57
Ōyama Iwao age 36
Joseph Gallieni age 29
José Félix Uriburu age 10
Agustín Pedro Justo age 3
Sidónio Pais age 6
Christian Rakovsky age 5
Eduardo Dato age 22
Marco Minghetti age 60
Giuseppe Saracco age 57
Alessandro Fortis age 36
Louis Botha age 16
François Achille Bazaine age 68
Fevzi Çakmak age 3
Charles Dupuy age 27
Mackenzie Bowell age 55
Wilhelm Groener age 11
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 10
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 1
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 0 months
Otto Strandman age 3
Gustavs Zemgals age 7
Francisco León de la Barra age 15
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 1
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 1
Titu Maiorescu age 39
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 6
Felix Hamrin age 4
Erik Gustaf Boström age 37
Arvid Lindman age 16
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 17
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 22
Giovanni Lanza age 69
Tommaso Tittoni age 23
William D. Leahy age 3
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 19
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 8
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 43
Gerardo Machado age 7
Juho Vennola age 6
Kaarlo Castrén age 19
István Bethlen age 4
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 8
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 14
Heungseon Daewongun age 58
Alexander von Kluck age 32
Benedetto Cairoli age 54
Pyotr Krasnov age 9
Manuel González age 45
Stefan Stambolov age 25
Carlos Pellegrini age 32
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 40
Iwane Matsui age 7 months
Sisowath Monivong age 3
Juho Sunila age 3
Noe Zhordania age 11
Francisco S. Carvajal age 8
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 4
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 16
Carl Swartz age 20
Joseph Hooker age 64
Sanjō Sanetomi age 42
Luigi Pelloux age 40
José Evaristo Uriburu age 47
Hamilton Fish age 70
Eloy Alfaro age 36
Manuel de Arriaga age 38
Nils Edén age 7
Hsu Shih-chang age 23
Cao Kun age 16
Feng Guozhang age 20
Ignacy Daszyński age 12
Augusto Leguía age 16
Eduardo López de Romaña age 31
José Canalejas age 24
Alejandro Lerroux age 15
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 34
Nubar Pasha age 54
Luis Sáenz Peña age 56
Charilaos Trikoupis age 46
Robert Themptander age 35
Samuel J. Tilden age 65
Thomas Gage age 161
Essad Toptani age 16
José Figueroa Alcorta age 18
Victorino de la Plaza age 38
Manuel Quintana age 43
Johann Schober age 4
Ignaz Seipel age 2
Camille Huysmans age 7
Jorge Ubico age 3 months
Gunnar Knudsen age 30
Oscar von Sydow age 5
Ernst Trygger age 21
Karl Staaff age 19
Hashim al-Atassi age 3
Cipriano Castro age 20
Władysław Grabski age 4
Antonio Maura age 25
Winfield Scott Hancock age 55
J. B. M. Hertzog age 12
Anton Korošec age 6
Charles Rogier age 78
José María Iglesias age 56
Manuel Montt age 69
Arvid Posse age 59
Carl Johan Thyselius age 67
Edward Douglass White age 33
John W. Foster age 43
Walter Q. Gresham age 46
William R. Day age 29
Bainbridge Colby age 9
Nasrullah Khan age 5
Ramón Castillo age 5
Boutros Ghali age 33
Theodoros Pangalos age 1
Spyridon Lambros age 27
Dirk Jan de Geer age 8
Charles D. B. King age 3
Jørgen Løvland age 31
Nicholas Golitsyn age 28
Ivan Goremykin age 39
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 15
Leonard Wood age 18
Rafael Núñez age 53
John Ballance age 39
Elihu B. Washburne age 62
Michael Mayr age 14
Georges Theunis age 6
José Miguel Gómez age 20