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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 1877-04-24 - 1878-03-03
Battle of Shipka Pass 1877-07-17 - 1878-01-09
Siege of Plevna 1877-07-20 - 1877-12-10

People

Queen Victoria age 58
Queen - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 55
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 59
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 35
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 42
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 25
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 80
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 47
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 57
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 52
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 69
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 6
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 46
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 25
King - Joseon
Yohannes IV age 40
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 47
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 46
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 62
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 73
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
Morrison Waite age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William A. Wheeler age 58
Vice President - United States
John Sherman age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William M. Evarts age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 42
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 57
Attorney General - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thomas Edward Taylor age 66
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 89
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 68
Senate - United States
James G. Blaine age 47
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 53
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 49
Senate - United States
William Windom age 50
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 45
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 45
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 46
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 34
House of Representatives - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 19
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 34
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 23
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James L. Kemper age 54
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Irwin age 50
Governor of California - United States
William Read Miller age 54
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas L. Young age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 59
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Lee Carroll age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lucius Robinson age 67
Governor of New York - United States
James D. Williams age 69
Governor of Indiana - United States
Joseph D. Bedle age 56
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard Olney age 42
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 61
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 59
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 59
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 58
New York State Senate - United States
Chulalongkorn age 24
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 59
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 20
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 48
King - Sweden
Nicolás Avellaneda age 40
President - Argentina
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Aníbal Pinto age 52
President - Chile
James Spriggs Payne age 58
President - Liberia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 51
President - Peru
Marco Aurelio Soto age 31
President - Honduras
Higinio Uriarte age 34
President - Paraguay
Lorenzo Latorre age 33
President - Uruguay
Francisco Linares Alcántara age 52
President - Venezuela
Rafael Zaldívar age 43
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 29
Hakim - Bahrain
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 45
President - Haiti
William III of the Netherlands age 60
King - Netherlands
Hilarión Daza age 37
President - Bolivia
Alexander Mackenzie age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
George Grey age 65
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 49
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Jules Malou age 67
Prime Minister - Belgium
Frederik Stang age 69
Prime Minister - Norway
Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Félix de Blochausen age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama age 71
Prime Minister - Portugal
Tēvita ʻUnga age 53
Prime Minister - Tonga
George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby age 58
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 42
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 40
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 59
Vladimir Lenin age 7
Mahatma Gandhi age 8
Leo Tolstoy age 49
Charles Darwin age 68
Vincent van Gogh age 24
Winston Churchill age 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 56
Friedrich Nietzsche age 33
Thomas Edison age 30
Sigmund Freud age 21
Marie Curie age 10
Rabindranath Tagore age 16
Nikola Tesla age 21
Louis Pasteur age 54
Richard Wagner age 64
Henry Ford age 14
Friedrich Engels age 57
Theodore Roosevelt age 19
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 37
Woodrow Wilson age 20
Max Planck age 19
Dmitri Mendeleev age 43
Giuseppe Verdi age 64
Herbert Hoover age 3
James Clerk Maxwell age 46
Calvin Coolidge age 5
Alexander Graham Bell age 30
Ulysses S. Grant age 55
Claude Monet age 37
Sun Yat-sen age 11
Florence Nightingale age 57
William Howard Taft age 20
Konrad Adenauer age 1
Grover Cleveland age 40
Warren G. Harding age 12
Benjamin Harrison age 44
Gregor Mendel age 55
Chester A. Arthur age 48
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 70
Wilhelm II age 18
Guglielmo Marconi age 3
Pius XII age 1
Pius XI age 20
Neville Chamberlain age 8
Pius X age 42
Leo XIII age 67
Pierre de Coubertin age 14
Benedict XV age 23
Carl Benz age 33
David Lloyd George age 14
Grigori Rasputin age 8
George V age 12
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 11 months
Paul von Hindenburg age 30
Edward VII age 36
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 13
Harriet Tubman age 55
Georges Clemenceau age 36
Alexander III of Russia age 32
Józef Piłsudski age 10
Philippe Pétain age 21
Cecil Rhodes age 24
Ibn Saud age 1
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 212
Frederick Douglass age 59
Susan B. Anthony age 57
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 10
Syngman Rhee age 2
Jefferson Davis age 69
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 2
Emmeline Pankhurst age 19
Mehmed VI age 16
Ferdinand Foch age 26
H. H. Asquith age 25
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 2 months
Raymond Poincaré age 17
Friedrich Ebert age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 62
Stanley Baldwin age 10
Isabella II age 47