✦ History

Explore August 26, 1914 – August 26, 1914

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Events

Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Battle of Lorraine 1914-08-14 - 1914-09-07
Battle of Galicia 1914-08-23 - 1914-09-11
Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
Battle of Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26

People

Woodrow Wilson age 57
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 55
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 49
King - United Kingdom
Raymond Poincaré age 54
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 44
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 35
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 69
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Albert I of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Yuan Shikai age 54
President - Republic of China
Abbas II of Egypt age 40
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 16
Shah - Iran
Hermes da Fonseca age 59
President - Brazil
Lij Iyasu age 19
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mario García Menocal age 47
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 54
President - Guatemala
Eulalio Gutiérrez age 33
President - Mexico
Nicholas II of Russia age 46
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 84
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 51
President - International Olympic Committee
H. H. Asquith age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 57
Chancellor - German Empire
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 76
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Salandra age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
René Viviani age 50
Prime Minister - France
Louis Botha age 51
Prime Minister - South Africa
Hsu Shih-chang age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Edward Douglass White age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 60
Vice President - United States
Winston Churchill age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 64
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 54
Secretary Of State - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 50
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Reginald McKenna age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Lindley Miller Garrison age 49
Secretary of War - United States
James Clark McReynolds age 52
Attorney General - United States
William Wallace Wotherspoon age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Andrew Bonar Law age 55
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 50
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 65
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Langalibalele Dube age 43
President - African National Congress
Arthur Griffith age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 32
Assistant Secretary Of The Navy - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 36
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Alfonso XIII age 28
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 34
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 42
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 43
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 75
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh age 33
King - Thailand
Sobhuza II age 15
King - Eswatini
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 20
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 65
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 42
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 52
King - Bhutan
William, Prince of Albania age 38
King - Albania
Yusef of Morocco age 32
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 58
President - Uruguay
Manuel de Arriaga age 74
President - Portugal
Victorino de la Plaza age 73
President - Argentina
Óscar R. Benavides age 38
President - Peru
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 28
Sultan - Oman
George Tupou II age 40
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 74
King - Cambodia
Ramón Barros Luco age 79
President - Chile
Adolfo Díaz age 39
President - Nicaragua
Eduardo Schaerer age 40
President - Paraguay
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 55
Provisional President - Venezuela
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 52
President - Bolivia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 59
Emir - Qatar
Leónidas Plaza age 49
President - Ecuador
José Vicente Concha age 47
President - Colombia
Arthur Hoffmann age 57
President - Switzerland
Daniel Edward Howard age 53
President - Liberia
Alfredo González Flores age 37
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Bertrand age 47
President - Honduras
Carlos Meléndez Ramírez age 53
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 66
Hakim - Bahrain
Oreste Zamor age 53
President - Haiti
José Bordas Valdés age 40
President - Dominican Republic
Charles Hardinge age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Eleftherios Venizelos age 50
Prime Minister - Greece
Joseph Cook age 53
Prime Minister - Australia
Robert Borden age 60
Prime Minister - Canada
István Tisza age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Eduardo Dato age 58
Prime Minister - Spain
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Gunnar Knudsen age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Ivan Goremykin age 74
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Vasil Radoslavov age 60
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Charles de Broqueville age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Sigurður Eggerz age 39
Prime Minister - Iceland
Turhan Përmeti age 67
Prime Minister - Albania
Pieter Cort van der Linden age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Paul Eyschen age 73
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Janko Vukotić age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Massey age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Risto Popović age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 54
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 25
Albert Einstein age 35
Ronald Reagan age 3
Vladimir Lenin age 44
Mahatma Gandhi age 44
Joseph Stalin age 35
Pablo Picasso age 32
Charlie Chaplin age 25
Thomas Edison age 67
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 33
Sigmund Freud age 58
Marie Curie age 46
Rabindranath Tagore age 53
Mao Zedong age 20
Charles de Gaulle age 23
Nikola Tesla age 58
Walt Disney age 12
George Orwell age 11
Ernest Hemingway age 15
Henry Ford age 51
Benito Mussolini age 31
Jean-Paul Sartre age 9
Mother Teresa age 4
Harry S. Truman age 30
Theodore Roosevelt age 55
Jawaharlal Nehru age 24
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 23
Richard Nixon age 1
Alan Turing age 2
John Maynard Keynes age 31
Simone de Beauvoir age 6
Niels Bohr age 28
Leon Trotsky age 34
Max Planck age 56
Lyndon B. Johnson age 6
Gerald Ford age 1
Enrico Fermi age 12
Nikita Khrushchev age 20
Herbert Hoover age 40
Calvin Coolidge age 42
Alexander Graham Bell age 67
Kwame Nkrumah age 4
Hirohito age 13
Claude Monet age 73
Ho Chi Minh age 24
Sun Yat-sen age 47
William Howard Taft age 56
Konrad Adenauer age 38
Georges Pompidou age 3
Warren G. Harding age 48
Joseph Goebbels age 16
Leonid Brezhnev age 7
Chiang Kai-shek age 26
Golda Meir age 16
John XXIII age 32
Deng Xiaoping age 10
Alexander Fleming age 33
Francisco Franco age 21
David Ben-Gurion age 27
Milton Friedman age 2
Ruhollah Khomeini age 11
Josip Broz Tito age 22
Guglielmo Marconi age 40
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 10
Rosa Parks age 1
Sukarno age 13
John Paul I age 1
Paul VI age 16
Willy Brandt age 8 months
Dag Hammarskjöld age 9
Salvador Allende age 6
Pius XII age 38
John von Neumann age 10
George VI age 18
Pius XI age 57
Heinrich Himmler age 13
Neville Chamberlain age 45
Haile Selassie age 22
Yuri Andropov age 2 months
Douglas MacArthur age 34
Benedict XV age 59
Erwin Rommel age 22
Carl Benz age 69
Hermann Göring age 21
Rachel Carson age 7
Grigori Rasputin age 45
Edward VIII age 20
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 37
Paul von Hindenburg age 66
Wernher von Braun age 2
Clement Attlee age 31
George C. Marshall age 33
Enver Hoxha age 5
Abdul Hamid II age 71
Georges Clemenceau age 72
Konstantin Chernenko age 2
Zhou Enlai age 16