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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 49
Queen - United Kingdom
Andrew Johnson age 59
President - United States
Napoleon III age 60
Emperor of the French - France
Alexander II of Russia age 50
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 33
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 15
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 71
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Benito Juárez age 62
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 48
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 12
Emperor - Imperial China
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 53
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Benjamin Disraeli age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Ulysses S. Grant age 46
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William H. Seward age 67
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
Henry Stanbery age 65
Attorney General - United States
George Ward Hunt age 42
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 75
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 45
Governor Of Ohio - United States
Isabella II age 37
Queen - Spain
Charles XV age 42
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 50
King - Denmark
John Lawrence age 57
Viceroy - British Raj
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
Rabindranath Tagore age 7
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
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
Empress Dowager Cixi age 32
William Ewart Gladstone age 58
Alexander III of Russia age 23
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
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 11 months
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
Chulalongkorn age 14
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 67
Gustaf V of Sweden age 9
William Tecumseh Sherman age 48
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 38
Pyotr Stolypin age 6
Andrew Bonar Law age 9
Murad V age 27
Ferdinand I of Austria age 75
Eleftherios Venizelos age 3
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 11
Hjalmar Branting age 7
Alfonso XII age 10
Oscar II of Sweden age 39
Alexandra of Denmark age 23
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 74
Alexandre Millerand age 9
Amadeo I of Spain age 22
George Curzon age 9
Yuan Shikai age 8
Joseph Joffre age 16
Paul Doumer age 11
Armand Fallières age 26
Gaston Doumergue age 4
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 7
Jules Grévy age 60
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 30
Deodoro da Fonseca age 40
John J. Pershing age 7
Elihu Root age 23
Edmund Barton age 19
Mary of Teck age 11 months
Bernhard von Bülow age 19
Charles Curtis age 8
Thomas R. Marshall age 14
Hannibal Hamlin age 58
Frank B. Kellogg age 11
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 24
Carol I of Romania age 29
Ferdinand I of Romania age 2
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 7
Alfred Deakin age 11
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 31
Félix Faure age 27
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 3
Sergei Witte age 18
Émile Loubet age 29
Menelik II age 23
John C. Breckinridge age 47
Henry Wilson age 56
Georgy Lvov age 6
Jean Casimir-Perier age 20
Arthur Henderson age 4
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 17
Charles W. Fairbanks age 16
Paul Deschanel age 13
Abdur Rahman Khan age 28
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 6
Douglas Hyde age 8
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
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 19
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
Christian Michelsen age 11
Katsura Tarō age 20
Saigō Takamori age 40
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 17
Clara Barton age 46
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 21