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Progressive era
1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Russo-Japanese War
1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Battle of Mukden
1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Treaty of Portsmouth
1905-09-05
Zhennanguan Uprising
1907-12-01
Mexican Revolution
1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Second Guangzhou Uprising
1911-04-27
Xinhai Revolution
1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Wuchang Uprising
1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
Republic of China proclaimed
1912-01-01
July Crisis
1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I
1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
First Battle of the Marne
1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of Ypres
1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Armenian genocide
1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
Third Battle of Artois
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
Second Battle of Champagne
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
National Protection War
1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Battle of Verdun
1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Battle of the Somme
1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Russian Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War
1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Second Battle of the Marne
1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Meuse–Argonne offensive
1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
German Revolution
1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11
Polish–Ukrainian War
1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18
Armistice of 11 November 1918
1918-11-11
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
1918-11-12 - 1918-09-15
Biennio Rosso
1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War
1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War
1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles
1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
March on Rome
1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR
1922-12-30
Beer Hall Putsch
1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published
1925-07-18
Northern Expedition
1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
Reichstag fire
1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree
1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933
1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives
1934-07-02 - 1934-07-05
Nuremberg Laws enacted
1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1936-03-07
Spanish Civil War
1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Nanking
1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre
1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss
1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Munich Agreement
1938-09-30
Kristallnacht
1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Battle of France
1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk
1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain
1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia
1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Babi Yar massacre
1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow
1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
Solomon Islands campaign
1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan
1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference
1942-01-20
Bataan Death March
1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre
1942-06-10
Battle of Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord
1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot
1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Battle of Metz
1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution
1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen
1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge
1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945)
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War
1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Iran crisis of 1946
1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials
1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
People
Nicholas II of Russia
age 35
Emperor
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Russia
Hirohito
age 2
Emperor
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Japan
Winston Churchill
age 28
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
age 14
Führer
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Germany
Calvin Coolidge
age 31
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
age 13
President
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Vietnam
Mehmed V
age 58
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed VI
age 42
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Clement Attlee
age 20
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 21
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 24
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
William Howard Taft
age 46
President
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United States
Harry S. Truman
age 19
President
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United States
David Lloyd George
age 40
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith
age 51
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Georges Clemenceau
age 62
Prime Minister
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France
Raymond Poincaré
age 43
President
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France
Charles I of Austria
age 16
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Wilhelm II
age 44
Emperor
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German Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 73
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Warren G. Harding
age 37
President
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United States
Theodore Roosevelt
age 44
President
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United States
Woodrow Wilson
age 46
President
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United States
Emperor Taishō
age 24
Emperor
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Japan
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
Herbert Hoover
age 29
President
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United States
Guangxu Emperor
age 32
Emperor
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Imperial China
Mao Zedong
age 9
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Neville Chamberlain
age 34
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Emperor Meiji
age 50
Emperor
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Japan
Józef Piłsudski
age 35
Prime Minister
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Poland
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 51
Vice President
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United States
George V
age 38
King
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United Kingdom
Joseph Goebbels
age 5
Chancellor
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Germany
Kurt von Schleicher
age 21
Chancellor
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Germany
Thomas R. Marshall
age 49
Vice President
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United States
George VI
age 7
King
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United Kingdom
Edward VIII
age 9
King
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United Kingdom
Charles G. Dawes
age 38
Vice President
-
United States
James S. Sherman
age 47
Vice President
-
United States
Charles Curtis
age 43
Vice President
-
United States
Edward VII
age 61
King
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United Kingdom
John Nance Garner
age 34
Vice President
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United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 14
Vice President
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 25
Senate
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 10
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Lyndon B. Johnson
born 1908-08-27
House of Representatives
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United States
Fred M. Vinson
age 13
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 30
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Edward Douglass White
age 57
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Douglas MacArthur
age 23
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 12
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 22
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Vladimir Lenin
age 33
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Earl Warren
age 12
Governor of California
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United States
Charles Evans Hughes
age 41
Governor of New York
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United States
John J. Pershing
age 43
United States Army
Daniel Inouye
born 1924-09-07
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
born 1928-10-20
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 9
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
born 1904-03-07
Nazi Party
Martin Bormann
age 3
Nazi Party
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
born 1923-05-27
United States Army
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
born 1911-02-06
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
born 1924-06-12
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
born 1904-08-22
Communist Party of China
Iwane Matsui
age 25
Imperial Japanese Army
Lee Teng-hui
born 1923-01-15
Imperial Japanese Army
Heinrich Himmler
age 2
Nazi Party
Richard Nixon
born 1913-01-09
United States Navy
William Rehnquist
born 1924-10-01
United States Air Force
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
Zhou Enlai
age 5
Communist Party of China
Kurt Daluege
age 6
Nazi Party
George S. Patton
age 17
United States Army
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
born 1909-06-23
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
born 1907-08-03
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
age 17
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
born 1919-10-17
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
born 1915-11-20
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
born 1921-02-16
Communist Party of China
Lee Yuan-tsu
born 1923-09-24
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Kuomintang
John Foster Dulles
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
born 1920-04-20
United States Navy
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Robert A. Lovett
age 8
United States Navy
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
born 1907-09-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
born 1908-07-02
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
born 1912-05-17
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 8
Republican Party (United States)
Franz von Papen
age 23
Imperial German Army
William H. Webster
born 1924-03-06
Republican Party (United States)
George Wallace
born 1919-08-25
United States Army
Arthur Goldberg
born 1908-08-08
Democratic Party (United States)
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
born 1915-01-23
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 12
Nazi Party
William J. Brennan Jr.
born 1906-04-25
United States Army
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 15
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
born 1906-12-25
United States Navy
Melvin Laird
born 1922-09-01
United States Navy
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
age 26
Nazi Party
Wang Zhen (general)
born 1908-04-11
Communist Party of China
Byron White
born 1917-06-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yat-sen
age 36
Kuomintang
Grover Cleveland
age 66
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
born 1910-04-27
Kuomintang
Liu Shaoqi
age 4
Communist Party of China
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Democratic Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
Democratic Party (United States)
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 21
Imperial Japanese Army
Levi P. Morton
age 79
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 16
United States Army
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
Democratic Party (United States)
Raymond A. Spruance
age 17
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 18
United States Navy
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
born 1916-05-01
Communist Party of China
Jimmy Carter
born 1924-10-01
United States Navy
Sun Yun-suan
born 1913-11-10
Kuomintang
Charles de Gaulle
age 12
French Army
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
born 1903-10-04
Hubert Gough
age 33
Francisco Franco
age 10
Wilhelm Keitel
age 21
Walther Funk
age 13
Hans Fritzsche
age 3
Wilhelm Groener
age 35
Erich Ludendorff
age 38
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Naoki Hoshino
age 11
Kōki Hirota
age 25
Doihara Kenji
age 20
Manuel Azaña
age 23
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
Akira Mutō
age 10
Lê Duẩn
born 1907-04-07
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 8
Kliment Voroshilov
age 22
Semyon Timoshenko
age 8
He Yingqin
age 13
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 19
Yuan Shikai
age 44
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
Claus von Stauffenberg
born 1907-11-15
Hideki Tōjō
age 18
Rosa Parks
born 1913-02-04
Seishirō Itagaki
age 18
Chiang Kai-shek
age 15
Nikita Khrushchev
age 9
Robert F. Kennedy
born 1925-11-20
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 13
Heitarō Kimura
age 15
Rodion Malinovsky
age 4
Leonid Brezhnev
born 1906-12-19
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 36
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 1
Kim Il-sung
born 1912-04-15
Souphanouvong
born 1909-07-13
Pol Pot
born 1925-05-19
Benito Mussolini
age 20
Kyösti Kallio
age 30
Hjalmar Schacht
age 26
Paul von Hindenburg
age 56
Baldur von Schirach
born 1907-05-09
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 11
Fritz Sauckel
age 8
Alfred Rosenberg
age 10
Erich Raeder
age 27
Chester W. Nimitz
age 18
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela
born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi
age 34
Albert Einstein
age 24
John Marshall Harlan II
age 4
Abe Fortas
born 1910-06-19
Clarence M. Kelley
born 1911-10-24
Antonin Scalia
born 1936-03-11
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat
born 1929-08-24
Gamal Abdel Nasser
born 1918-01-15
Joseph Gallieni
age 54
Ramsey Clark
born 1927-12-18
Nicholas Katzenbach
born 1922-01-17
Warren Christopher
born 1925-10-27
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
John Connally
born 1917-02-27
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
born 1918-07-17
Gennady Yanayev
born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko
born 1911-09-24
John Major
born 1943-03-29
David M. Kennedy (politician)
born 1905-07-21
Carlos Castillo Armas
born 1914-11-04
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
born 1915-11-23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
born 1908-06-17
Jacobo Árbenz
born 1913-09-14
Juan José Arévalo
born 1904-09-10
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
age 65
Thomas Gage
age 185
Malcolm X
born 1925-05-19
Jo Ann Robinson
born 1912-04-17
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Konrad Adenauer
age 27
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
Nikola Tesla
age 47
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
Peng Dehuai
age 4
Warren E. Burger
born 1907-09-17
Joseph Joffre
age 51
Anthony Eden
age 6
Emilio De Bono
age 37
Albert Speer
born 1905-03-19
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Gerald Ford
born 1913-07-14
Yuri Andropov
born 1914-06-15
Julius Streicher
age 18
Alfred Jodl
age 13
Otto Hofmann
age 7
Fritz Todt
age 12
Otto Rasch
age 11
Hans Frank
age 3
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
George Shultz
born 1920-12-13
Souvanna Phouma
age 1
Margaret Thatcher
born 1925-10-13
John Schofield
age 72
Eva Braun
born 1912-02-06
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Soong Ching-ling
age 10
Zhu De
age 16
Empress Dowager Cixi
age 67
Nelson Rockefeller
born 1908-07-08
Matthias Erzberger
age 28
Ferdinand Foch
age 52
Joseph Chamberlain
age 67
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 23
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 27
Omar Bradley
age 10
Erich von Manstein
age 15
Ōyama Iwao
age 60
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
age 39
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
born 1906-04-10
Robert McNamara
born 1916-06-09
Fidel Castro
born 1926-08-13
Cai E
age 20
Hubert Humphrey
born 1911-05-27
Spiro Agnew
born 1918-11-09
Leon Trotsky
age 23
Ernst Röhm
age 15