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Date |
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| 1 | 1760 | - 25 Oct 1760—29 Jan 1820: Reign of George III
King of Great Britain and Ireland * King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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| 2 | 1797 | - 16 Nov 1797—7 Jun 1840: Reign of Frederick William III
King of Prussia
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| 3 | 1801 | - 4 Mar 1801—4 Mar 1809: Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the USA
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| 4 | 1809 | - 4 Mar 1809—4 Mar 1817: Presidency of James Madison
4th President of the USA
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| 5 | 1812 | - 18 Jun 1812—18 Feb 1815: War of 1812
War of 1812
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| 6 | 1817 | - 4 Mar 1817—4 Mar 1825: Presidency of James Monroe
5th President of the USA
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| 7 | 1820 | - 29 Jan 1820—26 Jun 1830: Reign of George IV
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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| 8 | 1825 | - 4 Mar 1825—4 Mar 1829: Presidency of John Quincy Adams
6th President of the USA
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| 9 | 1829 | - 4 Mar 1829—4 Mar 1837: Presidency of Andrew Jackson
7th President of the USA
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| 10 | 1830 | - 26 Jun 1830—20 Jun 1837: Reign of William IV
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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| 11 | 1837 | - 4 Mar 1837—4 Mar 1841: Presidency of Martin Van Buren
8th President of the USA
- 20 Jun 1837—20 Jan 1901: Reign of Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland * Empress of India
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| 12 | 1840 | - 7 Jun 1840—2 Jan 1861: Reign of Frederick William IV
King of Prussia
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| 13 | 1841 | - 4 Mar 1841—4 Apr 1841: Presidency of William Henry Harrison
9th President of the USA
- 4 Apr 1841—4 Mar 1845: Presidency of John Tyler
10th President of the USA
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| 14 | 1845 | - 1845—1852: Irish Potato Famine
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Famine (mostly within Ireland) or the Irish Potato Famine (mostly outside Ireland), was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland, with the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was dominant. During the Great Hunger, about 1 million people died and more than a million fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20%–25%.
- 4 Mar 1845—4 Mar 1849: Presidency of James K. Polk
11th President of the USA
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| 15 | 1849 | - 4 Mar 1849—9 Jul 1850: Presidency of Zachary Taylor
12th President of the USA
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| 16 | 1850 | - 9 Jul 1850—4 Mar 1853: Presidency of Millard Fillmore
13th President of the USA
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| 17 | 1853 | - 4 Mar 1853—4 Mar 1857: Presidency of Franklin Pierce
14th President of the USA
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| 18 | 1857 | - 4 Mar 1857—4 Mar 1861: Presidency of James Buchanan
15th President of the USA
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| 19 | 1861 | - 4 Mar 1861—15 Apr 1865: Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the USA
- 12 Apr 1861—9 Apr 1865: American Civil War
Civil war in the United States fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America.
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| 20 | 1865 | - 15 Apr 1865—4 Mar 1869: Presidency of Andew Johnson
17th President of the USA
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| 21 | 1867 | - 1 Jul 1867: Canadian Confederation
The Confederation of the Dominion of Canada was the process by which the British colonies of the Province of Canada (Ontario & Quebec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into one federation.
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| 22 | 1869 | - 4 Mar 1869—4 Mar 1877: Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
18th President of the USA
- 16 Oct 1869—10 Feb 1870: Red River Resistance
The Red River Rebellion, also known as the Red River Resistance, Red River uprising, or First Riel Rebellion, was the sequence of events that led to the establishment of a provisional government by the Métis at the Red River Colony, in what was the early stages of establishing the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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| 23 | 1871 | - 18 Jan 1871—9 Mar 1888: Reign of Wilhelm I
King of Prussia * German Emperor
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| 24 | 1877 | - 4 Mar 1877—4 Mar 1881: Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
19th President of the USA
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| 25 | 1881 | - 4 Mar 1881—19 Sep 1881: Presidency of James A. Garfield
20th President of the USA
- 19 Sep 1881—4 Mar 1885: Presidency of Chester A. Arthur
21st President of the USA
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| 26 | 1885 | - 4 Mar 1885—4 Mar 1889: Presidency of Grover Cleveland
22nd President of the USA
- 26 Mar 1885—12 May 1885: North-West Resistance
The North-West Resistance or Rebellion, was a rebellion by the Métis people and associated First Nations of the District of Saskatchewan against the Canadian government.
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| 27 | 1888 | - 15 Jan 1888—9 Nov 1918: Reign of Wilhelm II
King of Prussia * German Emperor
- 9 Mar 1888—15 Jan 1888: Reign of Frederick III
King of Prussia * German Emperor
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| 28 | 1889 | - 4 Mar 1889—4 Mar 1893: Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the USA
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| 29 | 1893 | - 4 Mar 1893—4 Mar 1897: Presidency of Grover Cleveland
24th President of the USA
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| 30 | 1896 | - 1896—1899: Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River in Yukon, Canada. During the Klondike Gold Rush from 1897 to 1899 at least 100,000 people stampeded to the gold fields.
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| 31 | 1897 | - 4 Mar 1897—14 Sep 1901: Presidency of William McKinley
25th President of the USA
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| 32 | 1901 | - 1 Jan 1901: Federation of Australia
The Federation of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The process by which six separate British self-governing colonies (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia) agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.
- 22 Jan 1901—6 May 1910: Reign of Edward VII
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India
- 14 Sep 1901—4 Mar 1909: Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the USA
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| 33 | 1907 | - 26 Sep 1907: Dominion of New Zealand
The Dominion of New Zealand was formed when it was chosen not to take part in the Federation of Australia.
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| 34 | 1909 | - 4 Mar 1909—4 Mar 1913: Presidency of William Howard Taft
27th President of the USA
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| 35 | 1910 | - 6 May 1910—20 Jan 1936: Reign of George V
King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
- 31 May 1910—31 May 1961: Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa came into being with the unification of the Cape Colony, the Natal Colony, the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony. It included the territories that were formerly a part of the South African Republic (1852 to 1902) and the Orange Free State (1854-1902).
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| 36 | 1913 | - 4 Mar 1913—4 Mar 1921: Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the USA
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| 37 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
WWI also known as the Great War
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| 38 | 1916 | - 24 Apr 1916: Easter Rising
An armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic
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| 39 | 1917 | - 8 Mar 1917—16 Jun 1923: Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire, commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1917 and concluding in 1922 with the Bolshevik establishment of the Soviet Union at the end of the Civil War.
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| 40 | 1918 | - Feb 1918—Apr 1920: Spanish Flu
The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 influenza pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, infecting 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time – in four successive waves. The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 20 million and 50 million, making it one of the most deadliest pandemics in world history.
- 9 Nov 1918: Monarchy of Germany Abolished
Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, abdicated and went into exile in the Netherlands upon Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918.
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