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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Ten Years' War 1868-10-10 - 1878-02-10
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

People

Zuo Zongtang age 59
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 21
John Pope age 49
Iosif Gurko age 43
Max von Gallwitz age 19
John Monash age 6
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) age 63
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 33
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) age 8
Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865–1927) age 6
Princess Anastasia of Montenegro age 3
Pertevniyal Sultan age 60
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse age 69
Frederick I of Anhalt age 40
Archduchess Clementina of Austria age 73
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 27
Todor Burmov age 37
Domingo Santa María age 46
Aníbal Pinto age 46
Kálmán Tisza age 41
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 56
James M. Cox age 1
Lunalilo age 36
Jeremiah S. Black age 61
Léon Delacroix age 3
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 2
Vasil Radoslavov age 17
Pedro Montt age 22
Germán Riesco age 17
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 12
Jón Magnússon age 12
Carl Theodor Zahle age 5
Niels Neergaard age 17
João do Canto e Castro age 9
Dimitrie Sturdza age 38
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 3
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 17
Christian Lundeberg age 29
Gustave Ador age 26
Juan Bautista Pérez age 2
José Pardo y Barreda age 7
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 11
George Pickett age 46
John Adams Dix age 73
William Gibbs McAdoo age 8
Koos de la Rey age 24
Charles Cousin-Montauban age 75
Kodama Gentarō age 19
Piet Joubert age 37
Christiaan de Wet age 17
Ian Hamilton age 18
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 53
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia age 2
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 56
Princess Anna of Prussia age 35
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 34
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria age 11
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 2
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 32
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 56
Joaquín Crespo age 30
Gillis Bildt age 51
John Bright age 60
François Georges-Picot age 12 months
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 48
Arsenio Martínez Campos age 40
John Bell Hood age 40
Melville Fuller age 38
Henri Carton de Wiart age 2
Jules Renkin age 9
Ramón Barros Luco age 36
Theodoros Deligiannis age 51
Dimitrios Gounaris age 5
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 12
Sándor Wekerle age 23
Klaus Berntsen age 27
Jonas Staugaitis age 3
Richard Seddon age 26
Otto Blehr age 24
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 11
Alexandru Marghiloman age 17
Johan Ramstedt age 19
Emilio Aceval age 18
Serapio Calderón age 28
Guillermo Billinghurst age 20
Francisco Silvela age 28
Segismundo Moret age 38
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas age 11
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 23
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 5
Oliver O. Howard age 41
Orville Wright age 4 months
Edward Carson age 17
Empress Dowager Longyu age 3
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein age 1
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 48
Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro age 5 months
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 47
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia age 44
Catherine Dolgorukova age 24
Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia age 21
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia age 17
Şevkefza Sultan age 51
Louis Faidherbe age 53
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine age 62
Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen age 20
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe age 12
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 38
Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria age 1
Walthère Frère-Orban age 59
George Grey age 59
Alfred Francis Russell age 54
Lascăr Catargiu age 48
Johan Sverdrup age 55
Bernardino Caballero age 32
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 38
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 64
Ferdinand Sarrien age 31
Morrison Waite age 55
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 11
Heinrich Lammasch age 18
Charles de Broqueville age 11
Petko Karavelov age 28
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 21
Emiliano Figueroa age 5
Dimitrios Rallis age 27
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 22
Jens Christian Christensen age 15
Wollert Konow age 26
Christopher Hornsrud age 12
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 7
Alexander Trepov age 9
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 1
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 39
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 22
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 26
Charles Hardinge age 13
William S. Rosecrans age 52
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 32
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg age 14
Oreste Baratieri age 30
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy age 9
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 28
Josias von Heeringen age 21
Petar Bojović age 13
Oskar von Hutier age 14
Constantin Prezan age 10
Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz age 75
Charles Warren age 31
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia age 10
Rahime Perestu Sultan age 45
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet age 7
August Karl von Goeben age 55
Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria age 76
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1845–1927) age 26
Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 25
Duke Philipp of Württemberg age 33
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 1
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein age 40
Miguel Antonio Caro age 29
Jorge Montt age 26
Epameinondas Deligeorgis age 42
Ditlev Gothard Monrad age 60
Ulises Heureaux age 26
Carl Christian Hall age 59
Christen Andreas Fonnesbech age 54
James Spriggs Payne age 52
Edward James Roye age 56
Manuel Pardo age 37
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 35
José Rufino Echenique age 63
Joseph B. Foraker age 25
Stojan Protić age 14
Ljubomir Davidović age 7
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha age 16
José Serrato age 3
Juan Campisteguy age 12
Hamad bin Thuwaini age 14
Hovhannes Katchaznouni age 3
Henri Jaspar age 1
Bautista Saavedra age 1
José Manuel Pando age 21
Aleksandar Malinov age 4
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 10
Petros Protopapadakis age 11
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos age 20
Georgios Theotokis age 27
Stefanos Dragoumis age 29
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 26
Theo Heemskerk age 19
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 33
Jens Bratlie age 15
Abraham Berge age 20
Petre P. Carp age 34
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 39
José Sánchez Guerra age 12
José López Domínguez age 42
Manuel Portela Valladares age 4
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 47
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 3