✦ History

Explore January 9, 1900 – February 26, 1904

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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
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 Spion Kop 1900-01-23 - 1900-01-24
Battle of Paardeberg 1900-02-18 - 1900-02-27
Seymour Expedition 1900-06-10 - 1900-06-26
Battle of Diamond Hill 1900-06-11 - 1900-06-12
Battle of the Taku Forts (1900) 1900-06-16 - 1900-06-17
Siege of the International Legations 1900-06-20 - 1900-08-14
Battle of Tientsin 1900-07-13 - 1900-07-14
Battle of Peking (1900) 1900-08-14 - 1900-08-15
Battle of Bergendal 1900-08-21 - 1900-08-27
Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
Federation of Australia 1901-01-01
Balangiga massacre 1901-09-28 - 1901-09-28
First flight of the Wright Flyer 1903-12-17
Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 41
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 80
Queen - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 56
President - United States
Nicholas II of Russia age 31
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm II age 40
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 58
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 57
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 69
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Leopold II of Belgium age 64
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 47
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 69
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 30
King - Italy
Umberto I of Italy age 55
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 28
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 61
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
Rodrigues Alves age 51
President - Brazil
Campos Sales age 58
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 64
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 40
President - Guatemala
Pierre de Coubertin age 37
President - International Olympic Committee
Arthur Balfour age 51
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 50
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Giolitti age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 80
Chancellor - German Empire
Saionji Kinmochi age 50
Acting Prime Minister - Japan
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 73
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Saracco age 78
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Pelloux age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Mehmed Said Pasha age 62
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Halil Rifat Pasha age 73
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Peng Dehuai age 1
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 13
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi born 1901-08-26
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 3
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 0 months
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William Howard Taft age 42
Secretary of War - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
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 55
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Philander C. Knox age 46
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 68
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
L. M. Shaw age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
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
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John W. Griggs age 50
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 71
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles H. Allen age 51
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 47
Senate - United States
Russell A. Alger age 63
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 68
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 58
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Curtis age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sherman age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 9
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 87
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 4
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeff Davis age 37
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Winthrop M. Crane age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Walter Smith age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
George Pardee age 42
Governor of California - United States
Henry T. Gage age 47
Governor of California - United States
S. W. T. Lanham age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
Myron T. Herrick age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 60
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Benjamin Odell age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Andrew Jackson Montague age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Hoge Tyler age 53
Governor of Virginia - United States
George K. Nash age 57
Governor of Ohio - United States
John L. Bates age 40
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Joseph D. Sayers age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
Franklin Murphy age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Edwin Warfield age 51
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
Winfield T. Durbin age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
James A. Mount age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Foster McGowan Voorhees age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Warren G. Harding age 34
Ohio Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 64
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 82
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 80
New York State Senate - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 15
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 52
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Pius X age 64
Pope - Vatican City
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 71
King - Sweden
George Curzon age 41
Viceroy - British Raj
Carol I of Romania age 60
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 60
Emir - Afghanistan
Sobhuza II age 5 months
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 82
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 51
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 27
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 56
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 21
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 43
President - Uruguay
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
Germán Riesco age 45
President - Chile
Emilio Aceval age 46
President - Paraguay
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 49
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 35
Sultan - Oman
José Manuel Pando age 50
President - Bolivia
Arthur Barclay age 45
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 46
President - Nicaragua
Walter Hauser age 62
President - Switzerland
José Manuel Marroquín age 72
President - Colombia
Ernst Brenner age 43
President - Switzerland
Josef Zemp age 65
President - Switzerland
Andrés Héctor Carvallo age 37
President - Paraguay
Leónidas Plaza age 34
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 79
President - Haiti
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 79
Emir - Qatar
Adolf Deucher age 68
President - Switzerland
Juan Antonio Escurra age 40
President - Paraguay
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 86
President - Colombia
Tomás Regalado age 38
President - El Salvador
William D. Coleman age 57
President - Liberia
Garretson W. Gibson age 67
President - Liberia
Robert Comtesse age 52
President - Switzerland
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 55
President - Costa Rica
Pedro José Escalón age 52
President - El Salvador
Manuel Bonilla age 50
President - Honduras
Aníbal Zañartu age 52
President - Chile
Isa I of Bahrain age 52
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 64
President - Haiti
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 67
President - Haiti
Terencio Sierra age 60
President - Honduras
Demetrio H. Brid age 40
President - Panama
Lerotholi age 64
King - Lesotho
Juan Ángel Arias Boquín age 40
President - Honduras
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 47
Emir - Qatar
Edmund Barton age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Alfred Deakin age 43
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 58
Prime Minister - Canada
Abraham Kuyper age 62
Prime Minister - Netherlands
István Tisza age 38
Prime Minister - Hungary
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 74
Prime Minister - Spain
Erik Gustaf Boström age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Antonio Maura age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Hannes Hafstein age 38
Prime Minister - Iceland
Fredrik von Otter age 66
Prime Minister - Sweden
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 67
Prime Minister - Spain
Dimitrie Sturdza age 66
Prime Minister - Romania
José Pardo y Barreda age 35
Prime Minister - Peru