✦ History

Explore October 14, 1899 – February 15, 1900

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Events

Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
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 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
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
Battle of Tirad Pass 1899-12-02 - 1899-12-02
Battle of Magersfontein 1899-12-11 - 1899-12-11
Second Battle of Colenso 1899-12-15 - 1899-12-15
Battle of Spion Kop 1900-01-23 - 1900-01-24

People

Queen Victoria age 80
Queen - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 56
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 40
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 57
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 64
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 46
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 69
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 55
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 28
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 60
President - France
Menelik II age 55
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 25
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 47
Emperor - Korean Empire
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 46
Shah - Iran
Campos Sales age 58
President - Brazil
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 39
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 31
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 69
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 36
President - International Olympic Committee
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Yamagata Aritomo age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 80
Chancellor - German Empire
Luigi Pelloux age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Garret Hobart age 55
Vice President - United States
Elihu Root age 54
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 63
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Hay age 61
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 54
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 68
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Lyman J. Gage age 63
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 62
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John W. Griggs age 50
Attorney General - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles W. Fairbanks age 47
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 36
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 39
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Theodore Roosevelt age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Warren G. Harding age 33
Ohio Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 89
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 13
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 19
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 46
King - Thailand
Emilio Aguinaldo age 30
President - Philippines
Christian IX of Denmark age 81
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 70
King - Sweden
George Curzon age 40
Viceroy - British Raj
Carol I of Romania age 60
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 59
Emir - Afghanistan
Sobhuza II age 2 months
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 82
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 50
Prince - Monaco
Julio Argentino Roca age 56
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 21
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 57
President - Ecuador
Eduardo López de Romaña age 52
President - Peru
Cipriano Castro age 41
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 25
King - Tonga
Emilio Aceval age 46
President - Paraguay
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 48
President - Chile
José Manuel Pando age 49
President - Bolivia
José Santos Zelayo age 45
President - Nicaragua
Walter Hauser age 62
President - Switzerland
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 86
President - Colombia
Tomás Regalado age 37
President - El Salvador
William D. Coleman age 57
President - Liberia
Isa I of Bahrain age 51
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 64
President - Haiti
Terencio Sierra age 59
President - Honduras
Lerotholi age 63
King - Lesotho
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 46
Emir - Qatar
Wilfrid Laurier age 57
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Richard Seddon age 54
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Francisco Silvela age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
Georgios Theotokis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 67
Prime Minister - Romania
Hugo Egmont Hørring age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Nicolaas Pierson age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Paul Eyschen age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Kálmán Széll age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Johannes Steen age 72
Prime Minister - Norway
Vladan Đorđević age 54
Prime Minister - Serbia
Todor Ivanchov age 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 46
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 53
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Enrique de la Riva Agüero Riglos age 42
Prime Minister - Peru
Adolf Hitler age 10
Albert Einstein age 20
Vladimir Lenin age 29
Mahatma Gandhi age 30
Leo Tolstoy age 71
Joseph Stalin age 20
Pablo Picasso age 17
Charlie Chaplin age 10
Winston Churchill age 24
Friedrich Nietzsche age 55
Thomas Edison age 52
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 18
Sigmund Freud age 43
Marie Curie age 31
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 17
Rabindranath Tagore age 38
Mao Zedong age 5
Charles de Gaulle age 8
Nikola Tesla age 43
Ernest Hemingway age 2 months
Henry Ford age 36
Benito Mussolini age 16
Harry S. Truman age 15
Jawaharlal Nehru age 9
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 9
Woodrow Wilson age 42
John Maynard Keynes age 16
Niels Bohr age 14
Leon Trotsky age 19
Max Planck age 41
Dmitri Mendeleev age 65
Giuseppe Verdi age 86
Nikita Khrushchev age 5
Herbert Hoover age 25
Calvin Coolidge age 27
Alexander Graham Bell age 52
Claude Monet age 58
Ho Chi Minh age 9
Sun Yat-sen age 32
Florence Nightingale age 79
William Howard Taft age 42
Konrad Adenauer age 23
Grover Cleveland age 62
Joseph Goebbels age 1
Chiang Kai-shek age 11
Golda Meir age 1
John XXIII age 17
Benjamin Harrison age 66
Alexander Fleming age 18
Francisco Franco age 6
David Ben-Gurion age 13
Josip Broz Tito age 7
Guglielmo Marconi age 25
Paul VI age 2
Pius XII age 23
George VI age 3
Pius XI age 42
Neville Chamberlain age 30
Pius X age 64
Haile Selassie age 7
Douglas MacArthur age 19
Benedict XV age 44
Erwin Rommel age 7
Carl Benz age 54
Hermann Göring age 6
Grigori Rasputin age 30
George V age 34
Edward VIII age 5
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 22
Paul von Hindenburg age 52
Edward VII age 57
Clement Attlee age 16
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 35
Harriet Tubman age 77
George C. Marshall age 18
Georges Clemenceau age 58
Empress Dowager Cixi age 63
Zhou Enlai age 1
Vyacheslav Molotov age 9
Józef Piłsudski age 31
Anthony Eden age 2
Philippe Pétain age 43
Emiliano Zapata age 20
Harold Macmillan age 5
Cecil Rhodes age 46
Ibn Saud age 23
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 234
António de Oliveira Salazar age 10
Juan Perón age 4
T. E. Lawrence age 11
Susan B. Anthony age 79
Ludwig Erhard age 2
Jomo Kenyatta age 5
Arthur Balfour age 51
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 6
Karl Dönitz age 8
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 32
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 11
Syngman Rhee age 24
Rudolf Hess age 5
George S. Patton age 13
Hideki Tojo age 14
İsmet İnönü age 15
Bernard Montgomery age 11
Gustav Stresemann age 21
Reza Shah age 21
Rajendra Prasad age 14
Alexander Kerensky age 18