✦ History

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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
Assassination of Alexander II of Russia 1881-03-13
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06
1883 eruption of Krakatoa 1883-08-26 - 1883-08-27
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
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
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
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
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
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
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09
Battle of the Yalu River 1904-04-30 - 1904-05-01
Battle of Nanshan 1904-05-24 - 1904-05-26
Battle of Te-li-ssu 1904-06-14 - 1904-06-15
Battle of Tashihchiao 1904-07-24 - 1904-07-25
Siege of Port Arthur 1904-08-01 - 1905-01-02
Battle of the Yellow Sea 1904-08-10 - 1904-08-10
Battle off Ulsan 1904-08-14 - 1904-08-14
Battle of Liaoyang 1904-08-25 - 1904-09-05
Battle of Shaho 1904-10-05 - 1904-10-17

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 21
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 61
Queen - United Kingdom
James A. Garfield age 48
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 43
President - United States
William McKinley age 37
President - United States
Rutherford B. Hayes age 57
President - United States
Nicholas II of Russia age 12
Emperor - Russian Empire
Benjamin Harrison age 47
President - United States
Chester A. Arthur age 50
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 21
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 38
King - United Kingdom
Alexander II of Russia age 62
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 38
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 50
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Alexander III of Russia age 35
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 27
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 83
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 50
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 54
Emperor - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 10
King - Italy
Frederick III, German Emperor age 48
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy age 36
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 39
President - France
Émile Loubet age 41
President - France
Menelik II age 36
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 32
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt age 6
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 28
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 41
President - Brazil
Prudente de Morais age 38
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 27
Shah - Iran
Rodrigues Alves age 32
President - Brazil
Campos Sales age 39
President - Brazil
Tewfik Pasha age 27
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Tomás Estrada Palma age 45
President - Cuba
Yohannes IV age 43
Emperor - Ethiopia
Charles Dupuy age 28
President - France
Manuel González age 47
President - Mexico
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 20
President - Guatemala
Otto von Bismarck age 65
Chancellor - German Empire
Pierre de Coubertin age 17
President - International Olympic Committee
William Ewart Gladstone age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 32
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 31
Chancellor - German Empire
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 49
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 32
Prime Minister - Japan
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 33
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 61
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 45
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 45
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 39
Prime Minister - Japan
Saionji Kinmochi age 30
Acting Prime Minister - Japan
Agostino Depretis age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Saracco age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Benedetto Cairoli age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Sanjō Sanetomi age 43
Prime Minister - Japan
Luigi Pelloux age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 40
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 49
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 40
Prime Minister - Egypt
Riyad Pasha age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Raghib Pasha age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 47
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Morrison Waite age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Garret Hobart age 36
Vice President - United States
Levi P. Morton age 56
Vice President - United States
William A. Wheeler age 61
Vice President - United States
Thomas A. Hendricks age 61
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 44
Vice President - United States
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 57
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kâmil Pasha age 48
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Said Pasha age 42
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Halil Rifat Pasha age 53
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kadri Pasha age 48
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Abdurrahman Nureddin Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Deng Xiaoping born 1904-08-22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
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
Chen Yi born 1901-08-26
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
Nie Rongzhen born 1899-12-29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William Howard Taft age 23
Secretary of War - United States
H. H. Asquith age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 16
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 35
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 44
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 44
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 50
Secretary of State - United States
John Hay age 41
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 37
Secretary of War - United States
John Sherman age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 35
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William M. Evarts age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 51
Secretary of State - United States
John W. Foster age 44
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 48
Secretary of State - United States
William R. Day age 31
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 39
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
Philander C. Knox age 27
Attorney General - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 52
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Windom age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Hugh McCulloch age 71
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 65
Secretary of War - United States
Russell A. Alger age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Foster age 52
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 54
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Adna Chaffee age 38
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles J. Folger age 62
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 34
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 37
Attorney General - United States
Redfield Proctor age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 48
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 34
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Moody age 26
Attorney General - United States
L. M. Shaw age 31
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Crowninshield Endicott age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 60
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 42
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 63
Attorney General - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 20
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 29
Secretary of War - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Wayne MacVeagh age 47
Attorney General - United States
William H. H. Miller age 40
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 31
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young age 40
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 39
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 33
Secretary of State - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 75
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 34
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Bright age 68
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 61
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 61
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 65
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 51
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 39
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage age 40
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles H. Allen age 32
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 71
Senate - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 28
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 56
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 48
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 53
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 11
House of Representatives - United States
George Curzon age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 20
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 61
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
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom