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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Siege of Belfort 1870-11-03 - 1871-02-18

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 18
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 73
Emperor - German Empire
Benito Juárez age 64
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 50
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 45
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 41
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 56
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 74
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 40
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 40
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 55
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
William Ewart Gladstone age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Lanza age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 63
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 53
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
Robert Lowe age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 66
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 59
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 47
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 42
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 60
Senate - United States
Lyman Trumbull age 57
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 50
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 25
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 17
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
Hugh Childers age 43
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 45
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 55
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
Amadeo I of Spain age 25
King - Spain
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 60
President - Argentina
Gabriel García Moreno age 49
President - Ecuador
José Joaquín Pérez age 69
President - Chile
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 41
President - Venezuela
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 60
President - Uruguay
Edward James Roye age 56
President - Liberia
José Balta age 56
President - Peru
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Agustín Morales age 62
President - Bolivia
José María Medina age 44
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 23
Hakim - Bahrain
Eustorgio Salgar age 39
President - Colombia
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget age 60
President - Haiti
Francisco Dueñas age 60
President - El Salvador
William III of the Netherlands age 53
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 56
Prime Minister - Canada
Gyula Andrássy age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 73
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Rainilaiarivony age 43
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
William Fox age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jules d'Anethan age 67
Prime Minister - Belgium
Emmanuel Servais age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama age 64
Prime Minister - Portugal
George Bowen age 49
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 35
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 33
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 52
Vladimir Lenin age 9 months
Mahatma Gandhi age 1
Leo Tolstoy age 42
Charles Darwin age 62
Vincent van Gogh age 17
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 49
Friedrich Nietzsche age 26
Thomas Edison age 24
Sigmund Freud age 14
Marie Curie age 3
Rabindranath Tagore age 9
Nikola Tesla age 14
Louis Pasteur age 48
Richard Wagner age 57
Henry Ford age 7
Friedrich Engels age 50
Theodore Roosevelt age 12
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 30
Woodrow Wilson age 14
Max Planck age 12
Dmitri Mendeleev age 37
Giuseppe Verdi age 57
James Clerk Maxwell age 39
Alexander Graham Bell age 23
Claude Monet age 30
Sun Yat-sen age 4
Florence Nightingale age 50
William Howard Taft age 13
Grover Cleveland age 33
Andrew Johnson age 62
William McKinley age 28
Warren G. Harding age 5
Millard Fillmore age 71
Benjamin Harrison age 37
Gregor Mendel age 48
Chester A. Arthur age 41
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 63
Wilhelm II age 12
Napoleon III age 62
Pius XI age 13
Neville Chamberlain age 1
Pius X age 35
Leo XIII age 60
Pierre de Coubertin age 8
Charles Babbage age 79
Benedict XV age 16
Carl Benz age 26
David Lloyd George age 8
Grigori Rasputin age 2
George V age 5
Paul von Hindenburg age 23
Edward VII age 29
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 7
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 3
Philippe Pétain age 14
Cecil Rhodes age 17
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 206
Frederick Douglass age 53
Susan B. Anthony age 51
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 10
Ferdinand Foch age 19
Porfirio Díaz age 40
H. H. Asquith age 18
Raymond Poincaré age 10
Friedrich Ebert age 0 months
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 55
Stanley Baldwin age 3
Patrice de MacMahon age 62
Isabella II age 40
Ramsay MacDonald age 4
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 1
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