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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 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
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
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
Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02
Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23
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
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24
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 Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
Battle of Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26
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
Battle of the Yser 1914-10-16 - 1914-10-31
First Battle of Ypres 1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30
Battle of Tanga 1914-11-02 - 1914-11-05
Battle of Łódź (1914) 1914-11-11 - 1914-12-06
Battle of Sarikamish 1914-12-22 - 1915-01-17
Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) 1915-01-24 - 1915-01-24
Gallipoli campaign 1915-02-19 - 1916-01-09
Battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915-03-10 - 1915-03-13
Second Battle of Ypres 1915-04-22 - 1915-05-25
Armenian genocide 1915-04-24 - 1917
Landing at Anzac Cove 1915-04-25 - 1915-05-03
Landing at Cape Helles 1915-04-25 - 1915-04-26
Gorlice–Tarnów offensive 1915-05-02 - 1915-06-22
First Battle of the Isonzo 1915-06-23 - 1915-07-07
Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15
Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
Macedonian front 1915-10-21 - 1918-09-30
Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) 1915-11-22 - 1915-11-25
Siege of Kut 1915-12-07 - 1916-04-29
National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Erzurum offensive 1916-01-10 - 1916-02-16
Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Lake Naroch offensive 1916-03-18 - 1916-04-14
Easter Rising 1916-04-24 - 1916-04-29
Battle of Asiago 1916-05-15 - 1916-06-10
Sykes–Picot Agreement 1916-05-16
Battle of Jutland 1916-05-31 - 1916-06-01
Brusilov Offensive 1916-06-04 - 1916-09-20
Arab Revolt 1916-06-10 - 1918-10-25
Battle of the Somme 1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Battle of Erzincan 1916-07-02 - 1916-07-25
Battle of Romani 1916-08-03 - 1916-08-05
Battle of Gorizia (1916) 1916-08-06 - 1916-08-17
Battle of Bucharest 1916-11-25 - 1916-12-03
Assassination of Grigori Rasputin 1916-12-30 - 1916-12-30
February Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
First Battle of Gaza 1917-03-26 - 1917-03-26
Battle of Vimy Ridge 1917-04-09 - 1917-04-12
Battle of Arras (1917) 1917-04-09 - 1917-05-16
Nivelle offensive 1917-04-16 - 1917-05-09
Battle of Messines (1917) 1917-06-07 - 1917-06-14
Kerensky offensive 1917-07-01 - 1917-07-19
Battle of Aqaba 1917-07-06 - 1917-07-06
Battle of Passchendaele 1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo 1917-08-18 - 1917-09-12
Riga offensive (1917) 1917-09-01 - 1917-09-03
Kornilov affair 1917-09-10 - 1917-09-13
Battle of Caporetto 1917-10-24 - 1917-11-19
Battle of Beersheba (1917) 1917-10-31 - 1917-10-31
Third Battle of Gaza 1917-11-01 - 1917-11-02
Balfour Declaration 1917-11-02 - 1917-11-02
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
October Revolution 1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08
Battle of Jerusalem (1917) 1917-11-17 - 1917-12-30
Battle of Cambrai (1917) 1917-11-20 - 1917-12-07
Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly 1918-01-19 - 1918-01-19
Representation of the People Act 1918 1918-02-06
Ice March 1918-02-22 - 1918-05-13
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918-03-03 - 1918-03-03
Spanish flu 1918-03-04 - 1920-04-30
Operation Michael 1918-03-21 - 1918-04-05
Battle of the Lys (1918) 1918-04-09 - 1918-04-29

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 35
President - United States
Woodrow Wilson age 37
President - United States
Queen Victoria age 75
Queen - United Kingdom
Sun Yat-sen age 27
Provisional President - Republic of China
William Howard Taft age 36
President - United States
Grover Cleveland age 57
President - United States
William McKinley age 51
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 35
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 29
King - United Kingdom
Edward VII age 52
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 51
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
Puyi born 1906-02-07
Emperor - Imperial China
Porfirio Díaz age 63
President - Mexico
Raymond Poincaré age 33
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 24
King - Italy
Umberto I of Italy age 50
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 14
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 49
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Charles I of Austria age 6
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Albert I of Belgium age 19
King - Belgium
Francisco I. Madero age 20
President - Mexico
Yuan Shikai age 34
President - Republic of China
Armand Fallières age 52
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 22
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 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 46
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt age 20
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar born 1898-01-21
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 26
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 22
Shah - Iran
Zewditu age 18
Empress - Ethiopia
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 41
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 55
President - Brazil
Victoriano Huerta age 43
President - Mexico
Prudente de Morais age 52
President - Brazil
Venceslau Brás age 26
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 41
Shah - Iran
Nilo Peçanha age 26
President - Brazil
Rodrigues Alves age 46
President - Brazil
Afonso Pena age 46
President - Brazil
Pedro Lascuráin age 38
President - Mexico
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 20
Emperor - Korean Empire
Campos Sales age 53
President - Brazil
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 40
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Hermes da Fonseca age 39
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 59
President - Cuba
Francisco León de la Barra age 31
President - Mexico
Francisco S. Carvajal age 23
President - Mexico
Lij Iyasu born 1895-02-04
Emperor - Ethiopia
Feng Guozhang age 35
President - Republic of China
José Miguel Gómez age 36
President - Cuba
Mario García Menocal age 27
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 34
President - Guatemala
Eulalio Gutiérrez age 13
President - Mexico
Nicholas II of Russia age 26
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 63
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Venustiano Carranza age 34
President - Mexico
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia age 15
Emperor - Russian Empire
Vladimir Lenin age 24
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Pierre de Coubertin age 31
President - International Olympic Committee
David Lloyd George age 31
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Georges Clemenceau age 52
Prime Minister - France
Arthur Balfour age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 41
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aristide Briand age 32
Prime Minister - France
Itō Hirobumi age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 37
Chancellor - German Empire
Bernhard von Bülow age 45
Chancellor - German Empire
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 34
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 57
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
Georg Michaelis age 36
Chancellor - German Empire
Georg von Hertling age 50
Chancellor - German Empire
Giovanni Giolitti age 51
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
Terauchi Masatake age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Francesco Crispi age 75
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
Antonio Salandra age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Sidney Sonnino age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 41
Prime Minister - Japan
Paolo Boselli age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Luzzatti age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
René Viviani age 30
Prime Minister - France
Giuseppe Saracco age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Alessandro Fortis age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Louis Botha age 31
Prime Minister - South Africa
Tommaso Tittoni age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Pelloux age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Hsu Shih-chang age 38
Premier - Republic of China
Nubar Pasha age 69
Prime Minister - Egypt
Boutros Ghali age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Botho zu Eulenburg age 63
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Xiong Xiling age 24
Premier - Republic of China
Li Jingxi age 35
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Said Pasha age 31
Prime Minister - Egypt
Edward Douglass White age 48
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 40
Vice President - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 42
Vice President - United States
Garret Hobart age 50
Vice President - United States
James S. Sherman age 38
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 58
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
Winston Churchill age 19
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 35
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 49
Secretary of State - United States
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 44
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 58
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry L. Stimson age 26
Secretary of War - United States
John Hay age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Lansing age 29
Secretary of State - United States
John Sherman age 71
Secretary of State - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 23
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
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
Leonard Wood age 33
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Richard Olney age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Bacon age 34
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 41
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 43
Attorney General - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Carson age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 21
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Newton D. Baker age 22
Secretary of War - United States
Reginald McKenna age 31
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 38
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Russell A. Alger age 58
Secretary of War - United States
George B. Cortelyou age 32
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John G. Carlisle age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Adna Chaffee age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Joseph McKenna age 50
Attorney General - United States
Lindley Miller Garrison age 29
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 29
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
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
Tasker H. Bliss age 40
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
L. M. Shaw age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Luke Edward Wright age 47
Secretary of War - United States
Eric Geddes age 18
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Lyman J. Gage age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 66
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jacob M. Dickinson age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Clark McReynolds age 32
Attorney General - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 34
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 43
Secretary of War - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 26
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Hugh L. Scott age 40
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Thomas Watt Gregory age 32
Attorney General - United States
John W. Griggs age 45
Attorney General - 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 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Wallace Wotherspoon age 43
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
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 42
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin F. Uhl age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 30
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 27
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 11
President - Sinn Féin
Arthur Henderson age 30
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 32
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 71
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 37
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
George Barnes age 35
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William Adamson age 31
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Langalibalele Dube age 23
President - African National Congress
Sefako Makgatho age 33
President - African National Congress
Edward Martyn age 35
President - Sinn Féin