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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
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Red River Campaign 1864-03-10 - 1864-05-22
Third Battle of Nanjing 1864-03-14 - 1864-07-19
Battle of Spotsylvania 1864-05-08 - 1864-05-21

People

Abraham Lincoln age 55
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 45
Queen - United Kingdom
Napoleon III age 56
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 46
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm I age 67
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jefferson Davis age 55
President - Confederate States of America
Benito Juárez age 58
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 44
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 38
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 73
King - Belgium
Abdulaziz age 34
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 32
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 32
Emperor - Japan
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 11
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 8
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 46
Emperor - Ethiopia
Rafael Carrera age 48
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 67
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 33
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Otto von Bismarck age 49
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 79
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Marco Minghetti age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Roger B. Taney age 87
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hannibal Hamlin age 54
Vice President - United States
Ulysses S. Grant age 42
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edwin Stanton age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Bates age 70
Attorney General - United States
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 65
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 59
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 65
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 64
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 76
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Henry Wilson age 52
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 44
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 41
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 57
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 51
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 48
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 68
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 53
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 50
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 41
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 64
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 53
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 20
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 55
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Horatio Seymour age 54
Governor of New York - United States
Frederick Low age 35
Governor of California - United States
Oliver P. Morton age 40
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Albion Andrew age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Joseph E. Brown age 43
Governor of Georgia - United States
Harris Flanagin age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Isaac Murphy age 64
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Augustus Bradford age 58
Governor of Maryland - United States
Pendleton Murrah age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
Joel Parker age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John Brough age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
William A. Wheeler age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 28
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 46
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 16
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 44
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 33
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 38
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 46
King - Denmark
Mongkut age 59
King - Thailand
Bartolomé Mitre age 42
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 42
President - Ecuador
José Joaquín Pérez age 63
President - Chile
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 49
President - Liberia
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 44
President - Venezuela
Atanasio Aguirre age 63
President - Uruguay
John Lawrence age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
José María de Achá age 53
President - Bolivia
Fabre Geffrard age 57
President - Haiti
José María Medina age 38
President - Honduras
Francisco Dueñas age 53
President - El Salvador
José Antonio Salcedo age 48
President - Dominican Republic
William III of the Netherlands age 47
King - Netherlands
Francisco Solano López age 37
President - Paraguay
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 66
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 46
Prime Minister - Romania
Charles Rogier age 63
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ditlev Gothard Monrad age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Zinovios Valvis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Frederick Whitaker age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Victor de Tornaco age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Rainivoninahitriniony age 40
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Empress Dowager Cixi age 28
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 26
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 46
Leo Tolstoy age 35
Charles Darwin age 55
Vincent van Gogh age 11
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 42
Friedrich Nietzsche age 19
Thomas Edison age 17
Sigmund Freud age 8
Charles Dickens age 52
Rabindranath Tagore age 3
Nikola Tesla age 7
Louis Pasteur age 41
Richard Wagner age 51
Henry Ford age 9 months
Friedrich Engels age 43
Theodore Roosevelt age 5
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 24
Woodrow Wilson age 7
Max Planck age 6
Michael Faraday age 72
Dmitri Mendeleev age 30
Giuseppe Verdi age 50
James Clerk Maxwell age 32
Alexander Graham Bell age 17
Claude Monet age 23
Florence Nightingale age 44
William Howard Taft age 6
Grover Cleveland age 27
James Buchanan age 73
William McKinley age 21
Millard Fillmore age 64
Rutherford B. Hayes age 41
Franklin Pierce age 59
Benjamin Harrison age 30
Gregor Mendel age 41
Chester A. Arthur age 34
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 56
Wilhelm II age 5
Pius XI age 6
Pius X age 28
Leo XIII age 54
Pierre de Coubertin age 1
Charles Babbage age 72
Benedict XV age 9
Carl Benz age 19
David Lloyd George age 1
Paul von Hindenburg age 16
Edward VII age 22
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 5 months
Harriet Tubman age 42
Abdul Hamid II age 21
Robert E. Lee age 57
Georges Clemenceau age 22
Alexander III of Russia age 19
Giuseppe Mazzini age 58
Philippe Pétain age 8
Leopold II of Belgium age 29
Cecil Rhodes age 10
Emperor Meiji age 11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 199
Frederick Douglass age 46
Susan B. Anthony age 44
Arthur Balfour age 15
Adolphe Thiers age 67
Emmeline Pankhurst age 5
Mehmed VI age 3
Ferdinand Foch age 12
Porfirio Díaz age 33
H. H. Asquith age 11
Raymond Poincaré age 3
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 48
Patrice de MacMahon age 55
Frederick III, German Emperor age 32
Umberto I of Italy age 20
Aristide Briand age 2