✦ History

Explore June 29, 1881 – November 24, 1899

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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
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
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06
Anglo-Egyptian War 1882-07-11 - 1882-09-13
1883 eruption of Krakatoa 1883-08-26 - 1883-08-27
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
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Founding of the Indian National Congress 1885-12-28 - 1885-12-31
Haymarket affair 1886-05-04
Lei Áurea 1888-05-13
Meiji Constitution 1889-02-11
Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil) 1889-11-15
Wounded Knee Massacre 1890-12-29
Second Franco-Dahomean War 1892-07-04 - 1894-01-15
Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom 1893-01-17
Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893-09-19
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-01-13 - 1896-10-23
Cuban War of Independence 1895-02-24 - 1898-08-12
First Guangzhou Uprising 1895-10-26
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Battle of Adwa 1896-03-01
1896 Summer Olympics 1896-04-06 - 1896-04-15
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896-05-18
Sinking of the USS Maine 1898-02-15
Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Manila Bay 1898-05-01 - 1898-05-01
Bombardment of San Juan 1898-05-12 - 1898-05-12
Battle of Guantánamo Bay 1898-06-06 - 1898-06-14
Capture of Guam 1898-06-20 - 1898-06-21
Battle of Las Guasimas 1898-06-24 - 1898-06-24
Battle of El Caney 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Battle of San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Siege of Santiago 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-17
Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-03
Puerto Rico campaign 1898-07-25 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Manila (1898) 1898-08-13 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Omdurman 1898-09-02
Fashoda Incident 1898-09-18 - 1898-11-03
Wuxu Coup 1898-09-22
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05
Battle of Quingua 1899-04-23 - 1899-04-23
Hague Convention of 1899 1899-07-29
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Siege of Mafeking 1899-10-13 - 1900-05-17
Siege of Kimberley 1899-10-14 - 1900-02-15
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Siege of Ladysmith 1899-11-02 - 1900-02-28

People

Queen Victoria age 62
Queen - United Kingdom
James A. Garfield age 49
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 44
President - United States
William McKinley age 38
President - United States
Nicholas II of Russia age 13
Emperor - Russian Empire
Benjamin Harrison age 47
President - United States
Chester A. Arthur age 51
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 22
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 38
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 50
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Alexander III of Russia age 36
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 28
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 84
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 50
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 55
Emperor - Brazil
Frederick III, German Emperor age 49
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy age 37
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 73
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 43
President - France
Deodoro da Fonseca age 53
President - Brazil
Guangxu Emperor age 9
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 49
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 40
President - France
Émile Loubet age 42
President - France
Menelik II age 36
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 33
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt age 6
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 28
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 42
President - Brazil
Prudente de Morais age 39
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 28
Shah - Iran
Campos Sales age 40
President - Brazil
Tewfik Pasha age 28
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 43
Emperor - Ethiopia
Charles Dupuy age 29
President - France
Manuel González age 48
President - Mexico
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 21
President - Guatemala
Alejandro M. Sinibaldi age 56
President - Guatemala
José María Reina Barrios age 26
President - Guatemala
Justo Rufino Barrios age 45
President - Guatemala
Manuel Barillas age 36
President - Guatemala
Otto von Bismarck age 66
Chancellor - German Empire
Pierre de Coubertin age 18
President - International Olympic Committee
William Ewart Gladstone age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 39
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 51
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Léon Bourgeois age 30
Prime Minister - France
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 43
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 50
Chancellor - German Empire
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 34
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 43
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 62
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 46
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 46
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 40
Prime Minister - Japan
Agostino Depretis age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 42
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau age 34
Prime Minister - France
Sanjō Sanetomi age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Luigi Pelloux age 42
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexandre Ribot age 39
Prime Minister - France
Nubar Pasha age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Henri Brisson age 45
Prime Minister - France
Jules Méline age 43
Prime Minister - France
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 41
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 49
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 41
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 48
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Garret Hobart age 37
Vice President - United States
Levi P. Morton age 57
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 61
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 45
Vice President - United States
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 58
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kâmil Pasha age 49
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Said Pasha age 43
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Halil Rifat Pasha age 54
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Abdurrahman Nureddin Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Peng Dehuai born 1898-10-24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu born 1886-03-05
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long born 1896-03-22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
H. H. Asquith age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 36
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 44
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 45
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 51
Secretary of State - United States
John Hay age 42
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 37
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 36
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Thomas F. Bayard age 52
Secretary of State - United States
John W. Foster age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 49
Secretary of State - United States
William R. Day age 32
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 40
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 45
Secretary of State - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Windom age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 72
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Russell A. Alger age 45
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Foster age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 66
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire age 47
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles J. Folger age 63
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 35
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 37
Attorney General - United States
Redfield Proctor age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 49
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 35
Attorney General - United States
William Crowninshield Endicott age 54
Secretary of War - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 39
Secretary of War - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 66
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 64
Attorney General - United States
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 55
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 30
Secretary of War - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 48
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Smith age 56
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller age 40
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 31
Attorney General - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 39
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Edward Stanhope age 40
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby age 54
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford age 55
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 32
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 43
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 35
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Bright age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 62
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 62
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 40
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 36
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Howard Taft age 23
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles H. Aldrich age 30
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
George A. Jenks age 45
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Holmes Conrad age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Goode age 52
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John K. Richards age 25
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Lawrence Maxwell Jr. age 28
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Orlow W. Chapman age 50
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Samuel F. Phillips age 57
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt age 22
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles H. Allen age 33
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 29
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 57
Senate - United States
William M. Evarts age 63
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 49
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 54
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 21
House of Representatives - United States
William Jennings Bryan age 21
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 25
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Keir Hardie age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nathaniel P. Banks age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom