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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Nian Rebellion 1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
First transcontinental railroad 1863-01-08 - 1869-05-10
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Boshin War 1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27

People

Queen Victoria age 48
Andrew Johnson age 59
Napoleon III age 60
Alexander II of Russia age 50
Leopold II of Belgium age 33
Emperor Meiji age 15
Wilhelm I age 71
Benito Juárez age 62
Victor Emmanuel II age 48
Pedro II of Brazil age 42
Abdulaziz age 38
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 36
Tongzhi Emperor age 12
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 37
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 15
Isma'il Pasha age 37
Otto von Bismarck age 53
Benjamin Disraeli age 63
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 58
Salmon P. Chase age 60
Ulysses S. Grant age 46
William H. Seward age 67
Edwin Stanton age 53
Isabella II age 37
Charles XV age 42
Christian IX of Denmark age 50
John Lawrence age 57
Karl Marx age 50
Leo Tolstoy age 39
Charles Darwin age 59
Vincent van Gogh age 15
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 46
Friedrich Nietzsche age 23
Thomas Edison age 21
Sigmund Freud age 12
Charles Dickens age 56
Marie Curie age 6 months
Nikola Tesla age 11
Louis Pasteur age 45
Richard Wagner age 55
Henry Ford age 4
Friedrich Engels age 47
Theodore Roosevelt age 9
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 28
Woodrow Wilson age 11
Max Planck age 10
Dmitri Mendeleev age 34
Giuseppe Verdi age 54
James Clerk Maxwell age 36
Alexander Graham Bell age 21
Claude Monet age 27
Sun Yat-sen age 1
Florence Nightingale age 48
James A. Garfield age 36
William Howard Taft age 10
Grover Cleveland age 31
James Buchanan age 77
William McKinley age 25
Warren G. Harding age 2
Millard Fillmore age 68
Rutherford B. Hayes age 45
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
Charles Babbage age 76
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
Empress Dowager Cixi age 32
William Ewart Gladstone age 58
Giuseppe Mazzini age 62
Józef Piłsudski age 5 months
Philippe Pétain age 12
Cecil Rhodes age 14
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 203
Frederick Douglass age 50
Susan B. Anthony age 48
Arthur Balfour age 19
Jefferson Davis age 59
Adolphe Thiers age 71
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
Stanley Baldwin age 9 months
Patrice de MacMahon age 59
Ramsay MacDonald age 1
Frederick III, German Emperor age 36
Umberto I of Italy age 24
Charles G. Dawes age 2
Aristide Briand age 6
Erich Ludendorff age 3
Mehmed V age 23
Itō Hirobumi age 26
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 67
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 38
Andrew Bonar Law age 9
Murad V age 27
Ferdinand I of Austria age 75
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 11
Alfonso XII age 10
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 74
Alexandre Millerand age 9
Amadeo I of Spain age 22
Yuan Shikai age 8
Joseph Joffre age 16
Paul Doumer age 11
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 75
Armand Fallières age 26
Gaston Doumergue age 4
Jules Grévy age 60
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 30
Deodoro da Fonseca age 40
John J. Pershing age 7
Elihu Root age 23
Bernhard von Bülow age 19
Charles Curtis age 8
Thomas R. Marshall age 14
Hannibal Hamlin age 58
Frank B. Kellogg age 11
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 7
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 31
Félix Faure age 27
Émile Loubet age 29
Menelik II age 23
John C. Breckinridge age 47
Henry Wilson age 56
Jean Casimir-Perier age 20
Charles W. Fairbanks age 16
Paul Deschanel age 13
Abdur Rahman Khan age 28
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 69
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 30
Garret Hobart age 23
Levi P. Morton age 44
William A. Wheeler age 48
Wilhelm Marx age 5
Leo von Caprivi age 37
Philipp Scheidemann age 2
Schuyler Colfax age 45
Thomas A. Hendricks age 48
William Jennings Bryan age 8
Katsura Tarō age 20
Saigō Takamori age 40
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 21
Peter I of Serbia age 23
James S. Sherman age 12
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 10 months
Fuad I of Egypt age 1 month
Georg Michaelis age 10
Georg von Hertling age 24
Constantin Fehrenbach age 16
Giovanni Giolitti age 25
Yamagata Aritomo age 29
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 49
Joseph Chamberlain age 31
Terauchi Masatake age 16
Hara Takashi age 12
Francesco Crispi age 49
George B. McClellan age 41
Matsukata Masayoshi age 33
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 12
Floriano Peixoto age 29
Henry L. Stimson age 7 months
Charles Evans Hughes age 6
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 30
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 27
Prudente de Morais age 26
Venceslau Brás age 2 months
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 15
Nilo Peçanha age 7 months
George Meade age 52
Emilio De Bono age 2
Saionji Kinmochi age 18
Bettino Ricasoli age 59
Antonio Salandra age 14
Luigi Facta age 6
Rodrigues Alves age 19
Afonso Pena age 20
Tanaka Giichi age 3
Agostino Depretis age 55
Sidney Sonnino age 21
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 15
Urbano Rattazzi age 59
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 63
Campos Sales age 27
James G. Blaine age 38