✦ History

Explore March 13, 1884 – January 26, 1885

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Mahdist War 1881-06-29 - 1899-11-24
Franco-Hova Wars 1883-12 - 1895-09-30
Siege of Khartoum 1884-03-13 - 1885-01-26
Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04
Berlin Conference 1884-11-15 - 1885-02-26

People

Queen Victoria age 64
Queen - United Kingdom
Chester A. Arthur age 54
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 41
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 53
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Alexander III of Russia age 39
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 48
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 31
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 87
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 53
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 58
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 40
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 76
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 12
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 52
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 31
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 31
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 46
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 50
President - Mexico
Justo Rufino Barrios age 48
President - Guatemala
Otto von Bismarck age 68
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 74
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Mehmed Said Pasha age 46
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Robert Todd Lincoln age 40
Secretary of War - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 75
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire age 50
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles J. Folger age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 67
Attorney General - United States
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby age 57
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 47
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 65
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Samuel F. Phillips age 60
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Benjamin Harrison age 50
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 60
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 55
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 57
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 51
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 26
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 40
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 47
Governor of New York - United States
George Stoneman age 61
Governor of California - United States
David B. Hill age 40
Governor of New York - United States
James H. Berry age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 68
Governor of Maryland - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 53
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William E. Cameron age 41
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Ireland age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
George D. Robinson age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Hoadly age 57
Governor of Ohio - United States
Albert G. Porter age 59
Governor of Indiana - United States
Leon Abbett age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry Dickerson McDaniel age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
William A. Wheeler age 64
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 68
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 66
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 64
New York State Senate - United States
Ogden L. Mills born 1884-08-23
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 30
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 65
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 26
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 55
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 44
King - Kingdom of Romania
William III of the Netherlands age 67
King - Netherlands
Abdur Rahman Khan age 44
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 40
President - Argentina
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Domingo Santa María age 58
President - Chile
Joaquín Crespo age 42
President - Venezuela
Bernardino Caballero age 44
President - Paraguay
Ulises Heureaux age 38
President - Dominican Republic
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 63
Emir - Qatar
José Eusebio Otalora age 57
President - Colombia
Rafael Zaldívar age 50
President - El Salvador
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 46
President - Liberia
Narciso Campero age 70
President - Bolivia
Próspero Fernández Oreamuno age 49
President - Costa Rica
Gregorio Pacheco age 60
President - Bolivia
José Plácido Caamaño age 46
President - Ecuador
Lysius Salomon age 68
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 36
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 34
President - Honduras
Ezequiel Hurtado age 58
President - Colombia
Francisco Gregorio Billini age 39
President - Dominican Republic
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 57
Viceroy - British Raj
John A. Macdonald age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 56
Prime Minister - Spain
Charilaos Trikoupis age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Robert Themptander age 40
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Johan Thyselius age 72
Prime Minister - Sweden
Kálmán Tisza age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Walthère Frère-Orban age 71
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 56
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Johan Sverdrup age 67
Prime Minister - Norway
Petko Karavelov age 40
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Dragan Tsankov age 55
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jan Heemskerk age 65
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jules Malou age 73
Prime Minister - Belgium
Harry Atkinson age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Félix de Blochausen age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Christian Homann Schweigaard age 45
Prime Minister - Norway
Milutin Garašanin age 41
Prime Minister - Serbia
Robert Stout age 39
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 38
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ranodip Singh Kunwar age 58
Prime Minister - Nepal
Shirley Waldemar Baker age 48
Prime Minister - Tonga
William Jervois age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 48
Regent - Imperial China
Theodore Roosevelt age 25
New York State Assembly
Albert Einstein age 5
Vladimir Lenin age 13
Mahatma Gandhi age 14
Leo Tolstoy age 55
Joseph Stalin age 5
Vincent van Gogh age 30
Pablo Picasso age 2
Winston Churchill age 9
Friedrich Nietzsche age 39
Thomas Edison age 37
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 3
Sigmund Freud age 27
Marie Curie age 16
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 2
Rabindranath Tagore age 22
Nikola Tesla age 27
Louis Pasteur age 61
Henry Ford age 20
Benito Mussolini age 7 months
Friedrich Engels age 63
Harry S. Truman born 1884-05-08
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 43
Woodrow Wilson age 27
Rosa Luxemburg age 13
John Maynard Keynes age 9 months
Leon Trotsky age 4
Max Planck age 25
Dmitri Mendeleev age 50
Giuseppe Verdi age 70
Herbert Hoover age 9
Calvin Coolidge age 11
Alexander Graham Bell age 37
Ulysses S. Grant age 61
Claude Monet age 43
Sun Yat-sen age 17
Florence Nightingale age 63
Eleanor Roosevelt born 1884-10-11
William Howard Taft age 26
Konrad Adenauer age 8
Warren G. Harding age 18
Rutherford B. Hayes age 61
Nicholas II of Russia age 15
John XXIII age 2
Alexander Fleming age 2
Wilhelm II age 25
Guglielmo Marconi age 9
Pius XII age 8
Pius XI age 26
Neville Chamberlain age 14
Pius X age 48
Pierre de Coubertin age 21
Douglas MacArthur age 4