✦ History

Explore November 27, 1892 – October 12, 1914

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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
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 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
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
Zhennanguan Uprising 1907-12-01
Young Turk Revolution 1908-07-03 - 1908-07-24
Ford Model T 1908-10-01
South Africa Act 1909 1910-05-31
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Second Guangzhou Uprising 1911-04-27
Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01
Sinking of the Titanic 1912-04-14 - 1912-04-15
First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30
Battle of Kirk Kilisse 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-24
Battle of Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23
Battle of Kumanovo 1912-10-23 - 1912-10-24
Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23
Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02
Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913) 1912-11-03 - 1913-03-26
Battle of Prilep 1912-11-03 - 1912-11-05
Battle of Monastir 1912-11-16 - 1912-11-19
First Battle of Çatalca 1912-11-17 - 1912-11-18
Battle of Elli 1912-12-16 - 1912-12-16
Battle of Bizani 1913-03-04 - 1913-03-06
Second Balkan War 1913-06-29 - 1913-08-10
Battle of Bregalnica 1913-06-30 - 1913-07-09
Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas 1913-07-02 - 1913-07-04
Battle of Kresna Gorge 1913-07-21 - 1913-07-31
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
East African campaign (World War I) 1914-08-03 - 1918-11-25
Battle of Liège 1914-08-05 - 1914-08-16
Battle of Lorraine 1914-08-14 - 1914-09-07
Opening of the Panama Canal 1914-08-15
Battle of Gumbinnen 1914-08-20 - 1914-08-20
Battle of Charleroi 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23
Battle of the Ardennes 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23
Battle of Mons 1914-08-23 - 1914-08-23
Battle of Galicia 1914-08-23 - 1914-09-11
Battle of Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26
Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) 1914-08-28 - 1914-08-28
Battle of Guise 1914-08-29 - 1914-08-30
First Battle of the Marne 1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes 1914-09-07 - 1914-09-14
First Battle of the Aisne 1914-09-13 - 1914-09-28
Siege of Przemyśl 1914-09-16 - 1915-03-22
Siege of Antwerp (1914) 1914-09-28 - 1914-10-10

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 34
President - United States
Woodrow Wilson age 35
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 73
Queen - United Kingdom
Sun Yat-sen age 26
Provisional President - Republic of China
William Howard Taft age 35
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 55
President - United States
William McKinley age 49
President - United States
Benjamin Harrison age 59
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 33
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 27
King - United Kingdom
Edward VII age 51
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 50
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 47
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 57
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 40
Emperor - Japan
Puyi born 1906-02-07
Emperor - Imperial China
Porfirio Díaz age 62
President - Mexico
Raymond Poincaré age 32
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 23
King - Italy
Umberto I of Italy age 48
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 13
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 48
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Albert I of Belgium age 17
King - Belgium
Francisco I. Madero age 19
President - Mexico
Yuan Shikai age 33
President - Republic of China
Armand Fallières age 51
President - France
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 55
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 21
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 61
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 51
President - France
Émile Loubet age 53
President - France
Menelik II age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 45
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt age 18
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar born 1898-01-21
Shah - Iran
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 20
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 40
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 53
President - Brazil
Victoriano Huerta age 41
President - Mexico
Prudente de Morais age 51
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 39
Shah - Iran
Nilo Peçanha age 25
President - Brazil
Rodrigues Alves age 44
President - Brazil
Afonso Pena age 45
President - Brazil
Pedro Lascuráin age 36
President - Mexico
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 18
Emperor - Korean Empire
Campos Sales age 51
President - Brazil
Hermes da Fonseca age 37
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 57
President - Cuba
Charles Dupuy age 41
President - France
Francisco León de la Barra age 29
President - Mexico
Francisco S. Carvajal age 21
President - Mexico
Lij Iyasu born 1895-02-04
Emperor - Ethiopia
José Miguel Gómez age 34
President - Cuba
Mario García Menocal age 25
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 33
President - Guatemala
Eulalio Gutiérrez age 11
President - Mexico
Nicholas II of Russia age 24
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 62
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 29
President - International Olympic Committee
Georges Clemenceau age 51
Prime Minister - France
William Ewart Gladstone age 82
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 40
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 36
Chancellor - German Empire
Bernhard von Bülow age 43
Chancellor - German Empire
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 61
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamagata Aritomo age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 73
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 57
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 74
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 52
Acting Prime Minister - Japan
Saionji Kinmochi age 43
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Salandra age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Sidney Sonnino age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 40
Prime Minister - Japan
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Luzzatti age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
René Viviani age 29
Prime Minister - France
Giuseppe Saracco age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Alessandro Fortis age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Louis Botha age 30
Prime Minister - South Africa
Tommaso Tittoni age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Pelloux age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Hsu Shih-chang age 37
Premier - Republic of China
Nubar Pasha age 67
Prime Minister - Egypt
Boutros Ghali age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 61
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Xiong Xiling age 22
Premier - Republic of China
Riyad Pasha age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Said Pasha age 29
Prime Minister - Egypt
Edward Douglass White age 47
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 59
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 38
Vice President - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 40
Vice President - United States
Garret Hobart age 48
Vice President - United States
Levi P. Morton age 68
Vice President - United States
James S. Sherman age 37
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 57
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 6
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
Winston Churchill age 18
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 29
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 47
Secretary of State - United States
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 42
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 32
Secretary of State - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 56
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry L. Stimson age 25
Secretary of War - United States
John Hay age 54
Secretary of State - United States
John Sherman age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 47
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John W. Foster age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 60
Secretary of State - United States
William R. Day age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Leonard Wood age 32
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Richard Olney age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Bacon age 32
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 39
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 41
Attorney General - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 29
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Reginald McKenna age 29
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 36
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Russell A. Alger age 56
Secretary of War - United States
George B. Cortelyou age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Charles Foster age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Adna Chaffee age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Joseph McKenna age 49
Attorney General - United States
Lindley Miller Garrison age 28
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 61
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 46
Attorney General - United States
William Henry Moody age 38
Attorney General - United States
L. M. Shaw age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Luke Edward Wright age 46
Secretary of War - United States
Lyman J. Gage age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 65
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jacob M. Dickinson age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Clark McReynolds age 30
Attorney General - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 33
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 41
Secretary of War - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 24
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Thomas Watt Gregory age 31
Attorney General - United States
William H. H. Miller age 52
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 43
Attorney General - United States
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John C. Bates age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Wallace Wotherspoon age 42
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Franklin Bell age 36
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Francis Butler Loomis age 31
Secretary of State - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 51
Secretary of State - United States
William F. Wharton age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 51
Secretary of War - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 29
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 26
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Andrew Bonar Law age 34
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 29
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 30
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 22
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 36
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
George Barnes age 33
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Langalibalele Dube age 21
President - African National Congress
Edward Martyn age 33
President - Sinn Féin
John Sweetman age 48
President - Sinn Féin
Arthur Griffith age 21
President - Sinn Féin
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 10
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles Curtis age 32
Senate - United States
John W. Weeks age 32
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 61
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 60
Senate - United States
Stanley Baldwin age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley age 15
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 24
House of Representatives - United States
George Curzon age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 10
House of Representatives - United States
James G. Blaine age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom