✦ History

Explore February 26, 1885 – November 15, 1908

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
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 San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Battle of El Caney 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
Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
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
Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22
Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16
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
Zhennanguan Uprising 1907-12-01
Young Turk Revolution 1908-07-03 - 1908-07-24
Ford Model T 1908-10-01

People

Edward Carson age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 57
House of Representatives - United States
John W. Weeks age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 20
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 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Evans Hughes age 22
Governor of New York - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 38
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Stoneman age 62
Governor of California - United States
David B. Hill age 41
Governor of New York - United States
Jeff Davis age 22
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
Claude A. Swanson age 22
Governor of Virginia - United States
James P. Clarke age 30
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 29
Governor of Texas - United States
James Budd age 33
Governor of California - United States
Washington Bartlett age 61
Governor of California - United States
James Gillett age 24
Governor of California - United States
Henry Markham age 44
Governor of California - United States
William Meade Fishback age 53
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Winthrop M. Crane age 31
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William E. Russell age 28
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 34
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Jim Hogg age 33
Governor of Texas - United States
John Walter Smith age 40
Governor of Maryland - United States
George Pardee age 27
Governor of California - United States
Thomas Mitchell Campbell age 28
Governor of Texas - United States
Robert Waterman age 58
Governor of California - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 69
Governor of Maryland - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 54
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Q. A. Brackett age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Andrew L. Harris age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry T. Gage age 32
Governor of California - United States
S. W. T. Lanham age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
James Philip Eagle age 47
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James E. Campbell age 41
Governor of Ohio - United States
John S. Little age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William E. Cameron age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
Myron T. Herrick age 30
Governor of Ohio - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Lewis Douglas age 39
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Benjamin Odell age 31
Governor of New York - United States
John Ireland age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
George D. Robinson age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Andrew Jackson Montague age 22
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Hoge Tyler age 38
Governor of Virginia - United States
John P. Buchanan age 37
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Charles T. O'Ferrall age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
Austin Lane Crothers age 24
Governor of Maryland - United States
George K. Nash age 42
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frank S. Black age 31
Governor of New York - United States
Curtis Guild Jr. age 25
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John L. Bates age 25
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frank Hanly age 21
Governor of Indiana - United States
Frederic T. Greenhalge age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Alvin Peterson Hovey age 63
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Hoadly age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Frank W. Higgins age 28
Governor of New York - United States
Peter Turney age 57
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John I. Cox age 29
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John M. Pattison age 37
Governor of Ohio - United States
Philip W. McKinney age 52
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph D. Sayers age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
Franklin Murphy age 39
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Asa S. Bushnell age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Edwin Warfield age 36
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. age 40
Governor of Maryland - United States
Leon Abbett age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John Isaac Moore age 29
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Claude Matthews age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
Elihu Emory Jackson age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank Brown age 38
Governor of Maryland - United States
Edward C. Stokes age 24
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John Franklin Fort age 32
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Xenophon Overton Pindall age 11
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Winfield T. Durbin age 37
Governor of Indiana - United States
James A. Mount age 41
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry Lloyd age 33
Governor of Maryland - United States
David Ogden Watkins age 22
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George Theodore Werts age 38
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Foster McGowan Voorhees age 28
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ira Joy Chase age 50
Governor of Indiana - United States
Robert S. Green age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Calvin Coolidge age 12
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Warren G. Harding age 19
Ohio Senate - United States
William A. Wheeler age 65
New York State Senate - United States
George S. Boutwell age 67
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 6 months
New York State Senate - United States
Pius X age 49
Pope - Vatican City
Leo XIII age 75
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII born 1886-05-17
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 4
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 12
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 31
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 26
King - Sweden
Emilio Aguinaldo age 15
President - Philippines
Christian IX of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 27
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 41
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 45
King - Kingdom of Romania
William III of the Netherlands age 68
King - Netherlands
Abdur Rahman Khan age 45
Emir - Afghanistan
Sobhuza II born 1899-07-22
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 67
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 36
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 12
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 41
President - Argentina
Ugyen Wangchuck age 22
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 32
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
José Manuel Balmaceda age 44
President - Chile
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 7
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 28
President - Uruguay
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 49
President - Peru
Carlos Pellegrini age 38
President - Argentina
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 10
Sultan - Morocco
José Evaristo Uriburu age 53
President - Argentina
Eloy Alfaro age 42
President - Ecuador
Augusto Leguía age 22
President - Peru
Eduardo López de Romaña age 37
President - Peru
Luis Sáenz Peña age 62
President - Argentina
José Figueroa Alcorta age 24
President - Argentina
Manuel Quintana age 49
President - Argentina
Cipriano Castro age 26
President - Venezuela
Rafael Núñez age 59
President - Colombia
George Tupou II age 10
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 44
King - Cambodia
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 40
President - Argentina
Domingo Santa María age 59
President - Chile
Pedro Montt age 35
President - Chile
Germán Riesco age 30
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 21
President - Peru
Joaquín Crespo age 43
President - Venezuela
Emilio Aceval age 31
President - Paraguay
Serapio Calderón age 41
President - Peru
Bernardino Caballero age 45
President - Paraguay
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 34
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 20
Sultan - Oman
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 35
Viceroy - British Raj
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 39
Viceroy - British Raj
Miguel Antonio Caro age 42
President - Colombia
Jorge Montt age 39
President - Chile
Ulises Heureaux age 39
President - Dominican Republic
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 48
President - Peru
José Manuel Pando age 35
President - Bolivia
Rafael Reyes age 35
President - Colombia
Antonio Flores Jijón age 51
President - Ecuador
Luis Cordero Crespo age 51
President - Ecuador
Patricio Escobar age 41
President - Paraguay
Arthur Barclay age 30
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 31
President - Nicaragua
Walter Hauser age 47
President - Switzerland
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 23
President - Bolivia
José Manuel Marroquín age 57
President - Colombia
Marc-Emile Ruchet age 31
President - Switzerland
Ernst Brenner age 28
President - Switzerland
Josef Zemp age 50
President - Switzerland
Andrés Héctor Carvallo age 22
President - Paraguay
Emiliano González Navero age 23
President - Paraguay
Mariano Baptista age 52
President - Bolivia
Aniceto Arce age 60
President - Bolivia
Juan Gualberto González age 33
President - Paraguay
Juan Bautista Egusquiza age 39
President - Paraguay
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl age 58
President - Venezuela
Leónidas Plaza age 19
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 64
President - Haiti
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 64
Emir - Qatar
Adolf Deucher age 54
President - Switzerland
Eduard Müller age 36
President - Switzerland
Cecilio Báez age 23
President - Paraguay
Juan Antonio Escurra age 25
President - Paraguay
Benigno Ferreira age 39
President - Paraguay
Julio Herrera y Obes age 44
President - Uruguay
Duncan Stewart age 52
President - Uruguay
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 71
President - Colombia
Ramón Cáceres age 18
President - Dominican Republic
Tomás Regalado age 23
President - El Salvador