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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Reconstruction era 1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31

People

Queen Victoria age 52
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 49
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 53
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 36
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 19
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 74
Emperor - German Empire
Benito Juárez age 65
President - Mexico
Adolphe Thiers age 74
President - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 52
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 46
Emperor - Brazil
Abdulaziz age 42
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 40
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 19
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 15
Emperor - Imperial China
Yohannes IV age 34
Emperor - Ethiopia
Yohannes III age 75
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 41
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 41
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 56
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Lanza age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Salmon P. Chase age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Schuyler Colfax age 48
Vice President - United States
Hamilton Fish age 63
Secretary Of State - United States
George S. Boutwell age 54
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Henry Williams age 48
Attorney General - United States
William W. Belknap age 42
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 67
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Chulalongkorn age 18
King - Thailand
Charles XV age 45
King - Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark age 53
King - Denmark
Amadeo I of Spain age 26
King - Spain
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Isa I of Bahrain age 24
Hakim - Bahrain
Karl Marx age 53
Vladimir Lenin age 1
Mahatma Gandhi age 2
Leo Tolstoy age 43
Charles Darwin age 63
Vincent van Gogh age 18
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 50
Friedrich Nietzsche age 27
Thomas Edison age 25
Sigmund Freud age 15
Marie Curie age 4
Rabindranath Tagore age 10
Nikola Tesla age 15
Louis Pasteur age 49
Richard Wagner age 58
Henry Ford age 8
Friedrich Engels age 51
Theodore Roosevelt age 13
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 31
Woodrow Wilson age 15
Max Planck age 13
Dmitri Mendeleev age 38
Giuseppe Verdi age 58
James Clerk Maxwell age 40
Alexander Graham Bell age 25
Claude Monet age 31
Sun Yat-sen age 5
Florence Nightingale age 51
James A. Garfield age 40
William Howard Taft age 14
Grover Cleveland age 34
Andrew Johnson age 63
William McKinley age 29
Warren G. Harding age 6
Millard Fillmore age 72
Rutherford B. Hayes age 49
Benjamin Harrison age 38
Gregor Mendel age 49
Chester A. Arthur age 42
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 64
Wilhelm II age 13
Napoleon III age 63
Pius XI age 14
Neville Chamberlain age 2
Pius X age 36
Leo XIII age 62
Pierre de Coubertin age 9
Benedict XV age 17
Carl Benz age 27
David Lloyd George age 9
Grigori Rasputin age 3
George V age 6
Paul von Hindenburg age 24
Edward VII age 30
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 8
Harriet Tubman age 50
Abdul Hamid II age 29
Georges Clemenceau age 30
Empress Dowager Cixi age 36
Alexander III of Russia age 26
Giuseppe Mazzini age 66
Józef Piłsudski age 4
Philippe Pétain age 15
Cecil Rhodes age 18
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 207
Frederick Douglass age 54
Susan B. Anthony age 52
Arthur Balfour age 23
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 4
Jefferson Davis age 63
Emmeline Pankhurst age 13
Mehmed VI age 11
Ferdinand Foch age 20
Porfirio Díaz age 41
H. H. Asquith age 19
Raymond Poincaré age 11
Friedrich Ebert age 1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 56
Stanley Baldwin age 4
Patrice de MacMahon age 63
Isabella II age 41
Ramsay MacDonald age 5
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 2
Frederick III, German Emperor age 40
Umberto I of Italy age 27
Charles G. Dawes age 6
Aristide Briand age 9
Erich Ludendorff age 6
Mehmed V age 27
Itō Hirobumi age 30
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 71
Gustaf V of Sweden age 13
William Tecumseh Sherman age 52
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 42
Pyotr Stolypin age 9
Emilio Aguinaldo age 2
Pietro Badoglio age 5 months
Andrew Bonar Law age 13
Murad V age 31
Ferdinand I of Austria age 78
Eleftherios Venizelos age 7
Christian X of Denmark age 1
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 15
Cordell Hull age 5 months
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 1
Hjalmar Branting age 11
Alfonso XII age 14
Oscar II of Sweden age 43
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 2
Alexandra of Denmark age 27
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 78
John Nance Garner age 3
Alexandre Millerand age 13
Karl Renner age 1
George Curzon age 13
Yuan Shikai age 12
Joseph Joffre age 20
Paul Doumer age 14
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 79
Armand Fallières age 30
Gaston Doumergue age 8
William H. Seward age 70
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 11
Jules Grévy age 64
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 34
Deodoro da Fonseca age 44
John J. Pershing age 11
Guangxu Emperor age 6 months
Elihu Root age 27
Edmund Barton age 23
Mary of Teck age 4
Bernhard von Bülow age 22
Charles Curtis age 12
Thomas R. Marshall age 17
Hannibal Hamlin age 62
Frank B. Kellogg age 15
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 28
Carol I of Romania age 32
Ferdinand I of Romania age 6
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 11
Alfred Deakin age 15
Lavr Kornilov age 1
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 35
Félix Faure age 31
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 7
Sergei Witte age 22
Émile Loubet age 33
Menelik II age 27
John C. Breckinridge age 51
Henry Wilson age 60
Georgy Lvov age 10
Jean Casimir-Perier age 24
Arthur Henderson age 8
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 21
Charles W. Fairbanks age 19
Paul Deschanel age 17
Abdur Rahman Khan age 32
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 10
Douglas Hyde age 12
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 33
Garret Hobart age 27
Levi P. Morton age 47
William A. Wheeler age 52