✦ History

Explore October 15, 1894 – July 12, 1906

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
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
Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-03
Siege of Santiago 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-17
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
Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
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
Einstein's annus mirabilis papers 1905
Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16
Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22
Battle of Sandepu 1905-01-25 - 1905-01-29
Battle of Mukden 1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Battle of Tsushima 1905-05-27 - 1905-05-28
Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-09-05
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12
1906 San Francisco earthquake 1906-04-18

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 35
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 75
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 57
President - United States
William McKinley age 51
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 35
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 52
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 52
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 49
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 59
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 41
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 64
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 24
King - Italy
Umberto I of Italy age 50
King - Italy
Armand Fallières age 52
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 23
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 63
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 53
President - France
Émile Loubet age 55
President - France
Menelik II age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 46
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt age 20
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 42
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 55
President - Brazil
Prudente de Morais age 53
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 41
Shah - Iran
Rodrigues Alves age 46
President - Brazil
Campos Sales age 53
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 59
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 34
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 26
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 64
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 31
President - International Olympic Committee
Arthur Balfour age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 45
Chancellor - German Empire
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 63
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 46
Prime Minister - Japan
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 75
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 59
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 76
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 53
Acting Prime Minister - Japan
Saionji Kinmochi age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Sidney Sonnino age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Saracco age 73
Prime Minister - Italy
Alessandro Fortis age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Tommaso Tittoni age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Pelloux age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 69
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 63
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles W. Fairbanks age 42
Vice President - United States
Garret Hobart age 50
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 59
Vice President - United States
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 age 8
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 37
Secretary of War - United States
H. H. Asquith age 42
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 49
Secretary of State - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 58
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Hay age 56
Secretary of State - United States
John Sherman age 71
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 49
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Walter Q. Gresham age 62
Secretary of State - United States
William R. Day age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 41
Attorney General - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 38
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Russell A. Alger age 58
Secretary of War - United States
John G. Carlisle age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Adna Chaffee age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Joseph McKenna age 51
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 63
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 48
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Moody age 40
Attorney General - United States
L. M. Shaw age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 67
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 35
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 43
Secretary of War - United States
John W. Griggs age 45
Attorney General - United States
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John C. Bates age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Franklin Bell age 38
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Francis Butler Loomis age 33
Secretary of State - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 31
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 31
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 56
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 71
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 66
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton age 64
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 38
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Edward Martyn age 35
President - Sinn Féin
Redfield Proctor age 63
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 53
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 62
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 84
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 25
House of Representatives - United States
George Curzon age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 34
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 82
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery born 1895-07-08
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 75
House of Representatives - United States
George Barnes age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton age 70
Governor of New York - United States
Jeff Davis age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Claude A. Swanson age 32
Governor of Virginia - United States
James P. Clarke age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 39
Governor of Texas - United States
James Budd age 43
Governor of California - United States
Henry Markham age 53
Governor of California - United States
William Meade Fishback age 62
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Winthrop M. Crane age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Jim Hogg age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
John Walter Smith age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
George Pardee age 37
Governor of California - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 59
Governor of New York - United States
Andrew L. Harris age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry T. Gage age 41
Governor of California - United States
S. W. T. Lanham age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Myron T. Herrick age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 54
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Lewis Douglas age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Benjamin Odell age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Andrew Jackson Montague age 32
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Hoge Tyler age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Charles T. O'Ferrall age 54
Governor of Virginia - United States
George K. Nash age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frank S. Black age 41
Governor of New York - United States
Curtis Guild Jr. age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John L. Bates age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frank Hanly age 31
Governor of Indiana - United States
Frederic T. Greenhalge age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frank W. Higgins age 38
Governor of New York - United States
Peter Turney age 67
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John I. Cox age 38
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John M. Pattison age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joseph D. Sayers age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
Franklin Murphy age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Asa S. Bushnell age 60
Governor of Ohio - United States
Edwin Warfield age 46
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Claude Matthews age 48
Governor of Indiana - United States
Frank Brown age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Edward C. Stokes age 33
Governor of New Jersey - United States