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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Nian Rebellion 1851 - 1868
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Paraguayan War 1864-11-12 - 1870-03-01
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Boshin War 1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27

People

Queen Victoria age 48
Queen - United Kingdom
Andrew Johnson age 59
President - United States
Napoleon III age 59
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 49
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 32
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 15
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 70
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Benito Juárez age 61
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 47
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 42
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 38
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 36
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 15
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 11
Emperor - Imperial China
Tewodros II age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 53
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 71
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 37
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 37
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 52
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha age 53
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ulysses S. Grant age 45
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 63
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. Seward age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Edwin Stanton age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Stanbery age 65
Attorney General - United States
Henry Lowry-Corry age 64
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 58
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 75
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond age 50
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh age 65
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 79
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Henry Wilson age 56
Senate - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 48
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 44
Senate - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 50
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 69
Senate - United States
George Henry Williams age 44
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 61
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 54
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 52
Senate - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 71
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 57
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 54
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Schuyler Colfax age 44
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Elihu B. Washburne age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 68
House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 57
House of Representatives - United States
William Windom age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 24
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry Huntly Haight age 42
Governor of California - United States
Parson Brownlow age 62
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Reuben Fenton age 48
Governor of New York - United States
Alexander Bullock age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas Swann age 59
Governor of Maryland - United States
Elisha M. Pease age 56
Governor of Texas - United States
Isaac Murphy age 68
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Conrad Baker age 51
Governor of Indiana - United States
Marcus Lawrence Ward age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William A. Wheeler age 48
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 32
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 52
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 49
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 20
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 48
New York State Senate - United States
Isabella II age 37
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 41
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 49
King - Denmark
Mongkut age 63
King - Thailand
Bartolomé Mitre age 46
President - Argentina
José Joaquín Pérez age 66
President - Chile
Mariano Melgarejo age 47
President - Bolivia
James Spriggs Payne age 48
President - Liberia
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón age 48
President - Venezuela
John Lawrence age 57
Viceroy - British Raj
José María Medina age 41
President - Honduras
Sylvain Salnave age 42
President - Haiti
Juan Javier Espinosa age 52
President - Ecuador
Santos Acosta age 39
President - Colombia
Francisco Dueñas age 57
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 51
King - Netherlands
Francisco Solano López age 41
President - Paraguay
John A. Macdonald age 53
Prime Minister - Canada
Gyula Andrássy age 44
Prime Minister - Hungary
Walthère Frère-Orban age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 40
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Dimitrios Voulgaris age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Emmanuel Servais age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama age 61
Prime Minister - Portugal
George Bowen age 46
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 32
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 30
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 49
Leo Tolstoy age 39
Charles Darwin age 59
Vincent van Gogh age 14
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 46
Friedrich Nietzsche age 23
Thomas Edison age 21
Sigmund Freud age 11
Charles Dickens age 56
Marie Curie age 3 months
Rabindranath Tagore age 6
Nikola Tesla age 11
Louis Pasteur age 45
Richard Wagner age 54
Henry Ford age 4
Friedrich Engels age 47
Theodore Roosevelt age 9
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 27
Woodrow Wilson age 11
Max Planck age 9
Dmitri Mendeleev age 34
Giuseppe Verdi age 54
James Clerk Maxwell age 36
Alexander Graham Bell age 20
Claude Monet age 27
Sun Yat-sen age 1
Florence Nightingale age 47
William Howard Taft age 10
Grover Cleveland age 30
James Buchanan age 76
William McKinley age 25
Warren G. Harding age 2
Millard Fillmore age 68
Franklin Pierce age 63
Benjamin Harrison age 34
Gregor Mendel age 45
Chester A. Arthur age 38
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 60
Wilhelm II age 9
Pius XI age 10
Pius X age 32
Leo XIII age 58
Pierre de Coubertin age 5
Charles Babbage age 76
Benedict XV age 13
Carl Benz age 23
David Lloyd George age 5
George V age 2
Paul von Hindenburg age 20
Edward VII age 26
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 4
Harriet Tubman age 46
Abdul Hamid II age 25
Robert E. Lee age 61
Georges Clemenceau age 26
Alexander III of Russia age 22
Giuseppe Mazzini age 62
Józef Piłsudski age 2 months
Philippe Pétain age 11
Cecil Rhodes age 14
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 203
Frederick Douglass age 50
Susan B. Anthony age 48
Arthur Balfour age 19
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 8 months
Jefferson Davis age 59
Adolphe Thiers age 70
Emmeline Pankhurst age 9
Mehmed VI age 7
Ferdinand Foch age 16
Porfirio Díaz age 37
H. H. Asquith age 15
Raymond Poincaré age 7
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 52