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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 55
Queen - United Kingdom
Ulysses S. Grant age 52
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 56
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 22
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 77
Emperor - German Empire
Victor Emmanuel II age 54
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 48
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 66
President - France
Abdulaziz age 44
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 43
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 22
King - Joseon
Tongzhi Emperor age 18
Emperor - Imperial China
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 51
President - Mexico
Yohannes IV age 37
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 44
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 43
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 59
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Marco Minghetti age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Morrison Waite age 58
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry Wilson age 62
Vice President - United States
Hamilton Fish age 66
Secretary Of State - United States
George Henry Williams age 51
Attorney General - United States
William W. Belknap age 45
Secretary of War - United States
Benjamin Bristow age 42
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Thomas A. Hendricks age 55
Governor Of Indiana - United States
Chulalongkorn age 21
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 56
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 45
King - Sweden
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Isa I of Bahrain age 26
Hakim - Bahrain
Francisco Serrano age 63
Head of State - Spain
Karl Marx age 56
Vladimir Lenin age 4
Mahatma Gandhi age 5
Leo Tolstoy age 46
Charles Darwin age 65
Vincent van Gogh age 21
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 53
Friedrich Nietzsche age 30
Thomas Edison age 27
Sigmund Freud age 18
Marie Curie age 7
Rabindranath Tagore age 13
Nikola Tesla age 18
Louis Pasteur age 51
Richard Wagner age 61
Henry Ford age 11
Friedrich Engels age 54
Theodore Roosevelt age 16
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 34
Woodrow Wilson age 17
Max Planck age 16
Dmitri Mendeleev age 40
Giuseppe Verdi age 61
Herbert Hoover age 3 months
James Clerk Maxwell age 43
Calvin Coolidge age 2
Alexander Graham Bell age 27
Claude Monet age 34
Sun Yat-sen age 8
Florence Nightingale age 54
James A. Garfield age 43
William Howard Taft age 17
Grover Cleveland age 37
Andrew Johnson age 65
William McKinley age 31
Warren G. Harding age 9
Rutherford B. Hayes age 52
Benjamin Harrison age 41
Gregor Mendel age 52
Chester A. Arthur age 45
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 67
Wilhelm II age 15
Guglielmo Marconi age 6 months
Pius XI age 17
Neville Chamberlain age 5
Pius X age 39
Leo XIII age 64
Pierre de Coubertin age 11
Benedict XV age 20
Carl Benz age 29
David Lloyd George age 11
Grigori Rasputin age 5
George V age 9
Paul von Hindenburg age 27
Edward VII age 33
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 10
Harriet Tubman age 52
Abdul Hamid II age 32
Georges Clemenceau age 33
Empress Dowager Cixi age 38
William Ewart Gladstone age 64
Alexander III of Russia age 29
Józef Piłsudski age 6
Philippe Pétain age 18
Cecil Rhodes age 21
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 209
Frederick Douglass age 56
Susan B. Anthony age 54
Arthur Balfour age 26
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 7
Jefferson Davis age 66
Adolphe Thiers age 77
Emmeline Pankhurst age 16
Mehmed VI age 13
Ferdinand Foch age 23
Porfirio Díaz age 44
H. H. Asquith age 22
Raymond Poincaré age 14
Friedrich Ebert age 3
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 59
Stanley Baldwin age 7
Isabella II age 44
Ramsay MacDonald age 8
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 5
Frederick III, German Emperor age 43
Umberto I of Italy age 30
Charles G. Dawes age 9
Alexander Kolchak age 0 months
Aristide Briand age 12
Léon Blum age 2
Erich Ludendorff age 9
Mehmed V age 30
Itō Hirobumi age 33
Haakon VII of Norway age 2
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 74
Gustaf V of Sweden age 16
William Tecumseh Sherman age 54
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 44
Pyotr Stolypin age 12
Emilio Aguinaldo age 5
Pietro Badoglio age 3
Andrew Bonar Law age 16
Murad V age 34
Ferdinand I of Austria age 81
Eleftherios Venizelos age 10
Christian X of Denmark age 4
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 17
Cordell Hull age 3
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 3
Hjalmar Branting age 13
Alfonso XII age 16
Francisco I. Madero age 1
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 4
Alexandra of Denmark age 29
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 80
John Nance Garner age 5
Alexandre Millerand age 15
Karl Renner age 3
Amadeo I of Spain age 29
George Curzon age 15
Yuan Shikai age 15
Joseph Joffre age 22
Paul Doumer age 17
Luigi Einaudi age 7 months
Anton Denikin age 1
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 82
Armand Fallières age 33
Gaston Doumergue age 11
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 14
Jules Grévy age 67
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 37
Deodoro da Fonseca age 47
John J. Pershing age 14
Guangxu Emperor age 3
Elihu Root age 29
Edmund Barton age 25
Mary of Teck age 7
Bernhard von Bülow age 25
Charles Curtis age 14
Thomas R. Marshall age 20
Hannibal Hamlin age 65
Frank B. Kellogg age 17
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 31
Carol I of Romania age 35
Ferdinand I of Romania age 9
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 14
Alfred Deakin age 18
Konstantin Päts age 8 months
Lavr Kornilov age 4
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 38
Félix Faure age 33
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 9
Sergei Witte age 25
Émile Loubet age 35
Menelik II age 30
John C. Breckinridge age 53
Antanas Smetona age 3 months
Georgy Lvov age 13
Jean Casimir-Perier age 27
Arthur Henderson age 11
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 24
Charles W. Fairbanks age 22
Paul Deschanel age 19
Abdur Rahman Khan age 34
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 12