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Events

Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Franco-Prussian War 1870-07-19 - 1871-01-28
Siege of Metz 1870-08-20 - 1870-10-27
Siege of Paris (1870–1871) 1870-09-19 - 1871-01-28

People

Queen Victoria age 51
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 48
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 52
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 35
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 17
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 73
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Benito Juárez age 64
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 50
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 44
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 40
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 39
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 18
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 14
Emperor - Imperial China
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 55
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 73
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 40
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 39
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Louis-Jules Trochu age 55
President - France
Otto von Bismarck age 55
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
William Ewart Gladstone age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Lanza age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Schuyler Colfax age 47
Vice President - United States
Hamilton Fish age 62
Secretary of State - United States
George S. Boutwell age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William W. Belknap age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Ebenezer R. Hoar age 54
Attorney General - United States
Robert Lowe age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 65
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Nathan Clifford age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Benjamin Bristow age 38
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
James Alexander Hamilton age 82
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 61
Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 58
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 47
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 41
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 71
Senate - United States
William Windom age 43
Senate - United States
George Henry Williams age 47
Senate - United States
Lot M. Morrill age 57
Senate - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 55
Senate - United States
Charles Sumner age 59
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 57
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 49
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 27
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 58
House of Representatives - United States
George W. McCrary age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 34
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 48
Governor of Ohio - United States
William H. Seward age 69
New York State Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 51
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 54
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 52
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 23
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 51
New York State Senate - United States
Chulalongkorn age 17
King - Thailand
Charles XV age 44
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 52
King - Denmark
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 59
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 48
President - Ecuador
José Joaquín Pérez age 69
President - Chile
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 41
President - Venezuela
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 60
President - Uruguay
Mariano Melgarejo age 50
President - Bolivia
Edward James Roye age 55
President - Liberia
José Balta age 56
President - Peru
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
José María Medina age 44
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 22
Hakim - Bahrain
Eustorgio Salgar age 38
President - Colombia
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget age 60
President - Haiti
Francisco Dueñas age 59
President - El Salvador
Francisco Serrano age 59
Head of State - Spain
William III of the Netherlands age 53
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Gyula Andrássy age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Rainilaiarivony age 42
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Epameinondas Deligeorgis age 41
Prime Minister - Greece
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
William Fox age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jules d'Anethan age 67
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pieter Philip van Bosse age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Emmanuel Servais age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
George Bowen age 48
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 34
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 33
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 52
Vladimir Lenin age 5 months
Mahatma Gandhi age 1
Leo Tolstoy age 42
Charles Darwin age 61
Vincent van Gogh age 17
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 48
Friedrich Nietzsche age 26
Thomas Edison age 23
Sigmund Freud age 14
Marie Curie age 2
Rabindranath Tagore age 9
Nikola Tesla age 14
Louis Pasteur age 47
Richard Wagner age 57
Henry Ford age 7
Friedrich Engels age 49
Theodore Roosevelt age 11
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 30
Woodrow Wilson age 13
Max Planck age 12
Dmitri Mendeleev age 36
Giuseppe Verdi age 57
James Clerk Maxwell age 39
Alexander Graham Bell age 23
Claude Monet age 29
Sun Yat-sen age 3
Florence Nightingale age 50
William Howard Taft age 13
Grover Cleveland age 33
Andrew Johnson age 61
William McKinley age 27
Warren G. Harding age 4
Millard Fillmore age 70
Benjamin Harrison age 37
Gregor Mendel age 48
Chester A. Arthur age 41
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 63
Wilhelm II age 11
Napoleon III age 62
Pius XI age 13
Neville Chamberlain age 1
Pius X age 35
Leo XIII age 60
Pierre de Coubertin age 7
Charles Babbage age 78
Benedict XV age 15
Carl Benz age 25
David Lloyd George age 7
Grigori Rasputin age 1
George V age 5
Paul von Hindenburg age 23
Edward VII age 28
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 6
Harriet Tubman age 48
Abdul Hamid II age 28
Georges Clemenceau age 29
Alexander III of Russia age 25
Giuseppe Mazzini age 65
Józef Piłsudski age 2
Philippe Pétain age 14
Cecil Rhodes age 17
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 205
Frederick Douglass age 52
Susan B. Anthony age 50
Arthur Balfour age 22
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 3
Jefferson Davis age 62
Adolphe Thiers age 73
Emmeline Pankhurst age 12
Mehmed VI age 9
Ferdinand Foch age 19
Porfirio Díaz age 40
H. H. Asquith age 18
Raymond Poincaré age 10
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 54
Stanley Baldwin age 3
Patrice de MacMahon age 62
Isabella II age 40
Ramsay MacDonald age 4
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 11 months
Frederick III, German Emperor age 39
Umberto I of Italy age 26
Charles G. Dawes age 5
Aristide Briand age 8
Erich Ludendorff age 5