✦ History

Explore June 6, 1898 – June 14, 1898

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Events

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Guantánamo Bay 1898-06-06 - 1898-06-14

People

Queen Victoria age 79
Queen - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 55
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 39
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 55
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 63
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 45
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 67
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 54
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 26
Emperor - Imperial China
Félix Faure age 57
President - France
Menelik II age 53
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 23
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 45
Emperor - Korean Empire
Prudente de Morais age 56
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 45
Shah - Iran
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 38
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 30
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 67
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 35
President - International Olympic Committee
Itō Hirobumi age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 79
Chancellor - German Empire
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Garret Hobart age 54
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu age 12
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 2
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Joseph Chamberlain age 61
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 53
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William R. Day age 49
Secretary of State - United States
Russell A. Alger age 62
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 66
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Lyman J. Gage age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John W. Griggs age 48
Attorney General - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Harcourt age 70
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 59
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Charles W. Fairbanks age 46
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 67
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 56
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 42
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 8
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 86
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 61
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Olney age 62
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 80
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 13
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 50
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 78
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 88
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 12
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 17
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 44
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 80
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 69
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 59
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 58
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 80
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 49
Prince - Monaco
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 20
Sultan - Morocco
José Evaristo Uriburu age 66
President - Argentina
Eloy Alfaro age 55
President - Ecuador
George Tupou II age 23
King - Tonga
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 47
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 34
Sultan - Oman
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Miguel Antonio Caro age 55
President - Colombia
Ulises Heureaux age 52
President - Dominican Republic
José Santos Zelayo age 44
President - Nicaragua
Juan Bautista Egusquiza age 52
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 77
Emir - Qatar
William D. Coleman age 55
President - Liberia
Severo Fernández age 48
President - Bolivia
Policarpo Bonilla age 40
President - Honduras
Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez age 52
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 50
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 63
President - Haiti
Lerotholi age 62
King - Lesotho
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 45
Emir - Qatar
Wilfrid Laurier age 56
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dimitrie Sturdza age 65
Prime Minister - Romania
Richard Seddon age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Konstantin Stoilov age 44
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Hugo Egmont Hørring age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Nicolaas Pierson age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Paul Eyschen age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Dezső Bánffy age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 55
Prime Minister - Belgium
Johannes Steen age 70
Prime Minister - Norway
Vladan Đorđević age 53
Prime Minister - Serbia
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 45
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 52
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolf Hitler age 9
Albert Einstein age 19
Vladimir Lenin age 28
Mahatma Gandhi age 28
Leo Tolstoy age 69
Joseph Stalin age 19
Pablo Picasso age 16
Charlie Chaplin age 9
Winston Churchill age 23
Friedrich Nietzsche age 53
Thomas Edison age 51
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 17
Sigmund Freud age 42
Marie Curie age 30
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 16
Rabindranath Tagore age 37
Mao Zedong age 4
Charles de Gaulle age 7
Otto von Bismarck age 83
Nikola Tesla age 41
Henry Ford age 34
Benito Mussolini age 14
Harry S. Truman age 14
Theodore Roosevelt age 39
Jawaharlal Nehru age 8
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 7
Woodrow Wilson age 41
John Maynard Keynes age 15
Niels Bohr age 12
Leon Trotsky age 18
Max Planck age 40
Dmitri Mendeleev age 64
Giuseppe Verdi age 84
Nikita Khrushchev age 4
Herbert Hoover age 23
Calvin Coolidge age 25
Alexander Graham Bell age 51
Claude Monet age 57
Ho Chi Minh age 8
Sun Yat-sen age 31
Florence Nightingale age 78
William Howard Taft age 40
Konrad Adenauer age 22
Grover Cleveland age 61
Warren G. Harding age 32
Joseph Goebbels age 7 months
Chiang Kai-shek age 10
Golda Meir age 1 month
John XXIII age 16
Benjamin Harrison age 64
Alexander Fleming age 16
Francisco Franco age 5
David Ben-Gurion age 11
Josip Broz Tito age 6
Guglielmo Marconi age 24
Paul VI age 8 months
Pius XII age 22
George VI age 2
Pius XI age 41
Neville Chamberlain age 29
Pius X age 63
Haile Selassie age 5
Douglas MacArthur age 18
Benedict XV age 43
Erwin Rommel age 6
Carl Benz age 53
Hermann Göring age 5
Grigori Rasputin age 29
George V age 33
Edward VIII age 3
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 21
Paul von Hindenburg age 50
Edward VII age 56
Clement Attlee age 15
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 34
Harriet Tubman age 76
George C. Marshall age 17
Georges Clemenceau age 56
Empress Dowager Cixi age 62
Zhou Enlai age 3 months
Vyacheslav Molotov age 8