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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
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 49
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 46
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 16
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 72
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Benito Juárez age 63
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 49
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 43
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 39
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 37
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 16
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 12
Emperor - Imperial China
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 54
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 72
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 38
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 38
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 54
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
William Ewart Gladstone age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Schuyler Colfax age 46
Vice President - United States
Hamilton Fish age 60
Secretary of State - United States
George S. Boutwell age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 53
Attorney General - United States
Robert Lowe age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 64
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Nathan Clifford age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 80
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 59
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 57
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 45
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 40
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 70
Senate - United States
George Henry Williams age 46
Senate - United States
William P. Fessenden age 62
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 55
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 53
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 58
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 55
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 48
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 25
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 56
House of Representatives - United States
George W. McCrary age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 32
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
William H. Seward age 67
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 49
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 33
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 53
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 50
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 21
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 49
New York State Senate - United States
Chulalongkorn age 15
King - Thailand
Charles XV age 42
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 50
King - Denmark
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 58
President - Argentina
José Joaquín Pérez age 67
President - Chile
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 58
President - Uruguay
Mariano Melgarejo age 48
President - Bolivia
James Spriggs Payne age 49
President - Liberia
José Balta age 54
President - Peru
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
José María Medina age 43
President - Honduras
Sylvain Salnave age 43
President - Haiti
Santos Gutiérrez age 48
President - Colombia
Francisco Dueñas age 58
President - El Salvador
Francisco Serrano age 58
Head of State - Spain
William III of the Netherlands age 52
King - Netherlands
Francisco Solano López age 42
President - Paraguay
John A. Macdonald age 54
Prime Minister - Canada
Gyula Andrássy age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Walthère Frère-Orban age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 41
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Thrasyvoulos Zaimis age 46
Prime Minister - Greece
Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Pieter Philip van Bosse age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Emmanuel Servais age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Edward Stafford age 49
Prime Minister - New Zealand
George Bowen age 47
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 33
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 31
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 50
Leo Tolstoy age 40
Charles Darwin age 60
Vincent van Gogh age 15
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 47
Friedrich Nietzsche age 24
Thomas Edison age 22
Sigmund Freud age 12
Charles Dickens age 57
Marie Curie age 1
Rabindranath Tagore age 7
Nikola Tesla age 12
Louis Pasteur age 46
Richard Wagner age 55
Henry Ford age 5
Friedrich Engels age 48
Theodore Roosevelt age 10
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 28
Woodrow Wilson age 12
Max Planck age 10
Dmitri Mendeleev age 35
Giuseppe Verdi age 55
James Clerk Maxwell age 37
Alexander Graham Bell age 22
Claude Monet age 28
Sun Yat-sen age 2
Florence Nightingale age 48
William Howard Taft age 11
Grover Cleveland age 32
Andrew Johnson age 60
William McKinley age 26
Warren G. Harding age 3
Millard Fillmore age 69
Franklin Pierce age 64
Benjamin Harrison age 35
Gregor Mendel age 46
Chester A. Arthur age 39
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 61
Wilhelm II age 10
Pius XI age 11
Neville Chamberlain age 0 months
Pius X age 33
Leo XIII age 59
Pierre de Coubertin age 6
Charles Babbage age 77
Benedict XV age 14
Carl Benz age 24
David Lloyd George age 6
Grigori Rasputin age 2 months
George V age 3
Paul von Hindenburg age 21
Edward VII age 27
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 5
Harriet Tubman age 47
Abdul Hamid II age 26
Robert E. Lee age 62
Georges Clemenceau age 27
Alexander III of Russia age 24
Giuseppe Mazzini age 63
Józef Piłsudski age 1
Philippe Pétain age 12
Cecil Rhodes age 15
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 204
Frederick Douglass age 51
Susan B. Anthony age 49
Arthur Balfour age 20
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 1
Jefferson Davis age 60
Adolphe Thiers age 71
Emmeline Pankhurst age 10
Mehmed VI age 8
Ferdinand Foch age 17
Porfirio Díaz age 38
H. H. Asquith age 16
Raymond Poincaré age 8
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 53
Stanley Baldwin age 1
Patrice de MacMahon age 60
Isabella II age 38
Ramsay MacDonald age 2
Frederick III, German Emperor age 37
Umberto I of Italy age 25
Charles G. Dawes age 3
Aristide Briand age 6
Erich Ludendorff age 3
Mehmed V age 24
Itō Hirobumi age 27
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 68
Gustaf V of Sweden age 10
William Tecumseh Sherman age 49