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Oscar Wilde

1854 CE – 1900 CE · 46 years

The most brilliant wit in the English language — playwright, poet, aesthete, and martyr to Victorian morality. From Dublin drawing rooms to the Old Bailey dock.

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Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

Conflict

Kokand Khanate Wars

1709 CE – 1876 CE

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Robert E. Lee

1807 CE – 1870 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Dutch East Indies

Attested 1650 CE – 1938 CE

Conflict

Russian Conquest of Central Asia

1839 CE – 1895 CE

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Abraham Lincoln

1809 CE – 1865 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1854 CE and 1900 CE.

1856 CE Second Opium War 1856 CE Panthay Rebellion 1857 CE Indian Rebellion of 1857 1858 CE Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 CE Sanctuary of Lourdes 1861 CE American Civil War

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Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Orongo Landmark · Americas 1400 CE – 1866 CE Algeria Polity · Africa Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE Tea Clipper Route Trade route · Europe 1850 CE – 1880 CE Argentine Civil Wars Conflict · Americas 1814 CE – 1880 CE Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area Landmark · Oceania 1788 CE – 1855 CE Greenland Polity · Americas 1880 CE – 2026 CE
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