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Self-Strengthening Movement
1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age
1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
First Sino-Japanese War
1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
First Guangzhou Uprising
1895-10-26
Progressive era
1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Spanish-American War
1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13
Wuxu Coup
1898-09-22
Philippine-American War
1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War
1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Boxer Rebellion
1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Huizhou Uprising
1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
Russo-Japanese War
1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Russian Revolution of 1905
1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16
Bloody Sunday
1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22
Battle of Mukden
1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Treaty of Portsmouth
1905-09-05
Partition of Bengal
1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12
Zhennanguan Uprising
1907-12-01
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
First Balkan War
1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914-06-28
July Crisis
1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I
1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Battle of Tannenberg
1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
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
Gallipoli campaign
1915-02-19 - 1916-01-09
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 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
Assassination of Grigori Rasputin
1916-12-30 - 1916-12-30
Russian Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
February Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16
Battle of Aqaba
1917-07-06 - 1917-07-06
Battle of Passchendaele
1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10
Kornilov affair
1917-09-10 - 1917-09-13
Battle of Caporetto
1917-10-24 - 1917-11-19
Balfour Declaration
1917-11-02 - 1917-11-02
October Revolution
1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08
Russian Civil War
1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly
1918-01-19 - 1918-01-19
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918-03-03 - 1918-03-03
Battle of Tsaritsyn
1918-07-01 - 1920-01-01
Second Battle of the Marne
1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Execution of the Romanov family
1918-07-17 - 1918-07-17
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
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
1919-04-13 - 1919-04-13
Polish–Lithuanian War
1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles
1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Battle of Warsaw (1920)
1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25
Tambov Rebellion
1920-08-19
Non-cooperation movement
1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12
Siege of Perekop (1920)
1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17
Kronstadt rebellion
1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18
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
Shanghai massacre
1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12
Nanchang Uprising
1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Autumn Harvest Uprising
1927-09-07
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
Salt March
1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
Encirclement Campaigns
1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident
1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power
1933-01-30
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
Long March
1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference
1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
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
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine
1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War
1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Xi'an Incident
1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Bombing of Guernica
1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Shanghai
1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Nanking
1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre
1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss
1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Battle of Wuhan
1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro
1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement
1938-09-30
Kristallnacht
1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
1939-08-23
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
Battle of the Atlantic
1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung
1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
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
Operation Compass
1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia
1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk
1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete
1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad
1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
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
Burma campaign
1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
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 Stalingrad
1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign
1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign
1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement
1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Operation Torch
1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign
1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Battle of Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Battle of Tarawa
1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Battle of Monte Cassino
1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio
1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Ichi-Go
1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord
1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan
1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration
1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
20 July plot
1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising
1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon
1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Operation Market Garden
1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
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
Manila massacre
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945)
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Battle of Okinawa
1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Battle of Berlin
1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War
1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Surrender of Japan
1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
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
Direct Action Day
1946-08-16
First Indochina War
1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act
1947-07-18
Partition of India
1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948
1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
UN Partition Plan for Palestine
1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Marshall Plan
1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
People
Adolf Hitler
age 2
Führer
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Germany
Mao Zedong
born 1893-12-26
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 9
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 12
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Harry S. Truman
age 7
President
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United States
Emperor Meiji
age 38
Emperor
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Japan
Nicholas II of Russia
age 23
Emperor
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Russia
Wilhelm II
age 32
Emperor
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German Empire
Hirohito
born 1901-04-29
Emperor
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Japan
Ho Chi Minh
age 1
President
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Vietnam
George V
age 26
King
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United Kingdom
Woodrow Wilson
age 34
President
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United States
Sun Yat-sen
age 24
Kuomintang
Yuan Shikai
age 32
President
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Republic of China
George VI
born 1895-12-14
King
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United Kingdom
Theodore Roosevelt
age 32
President
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United States
Emperor Taishō
age 12
Emperor
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Japan
Grover Cleveland
age 54
President
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United States
Benjamin Harrison
age 58
President
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United States
William McKinley
age 48
President
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United States
William Howard Taft
age 34
President
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United States
Warren G. Harding
age 25
President
-
United States
Calvin Coolidge
age 19
President
-
United States
Herbert Hoover
age 17
President
-
United States
Mehmed V
age 46
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed VI
age 30
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Queen Victoria
age 72
Queen
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United Kingdom
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 61
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Charles I of Austria
age 4
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Raymond Poincaré
age 31
President
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France
Guangxu Emperor
age 20
Emperor
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Imperial China
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
Edward VII
age 49
King
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United Kingdom
Edward VIII
born 1894-06-23
King
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United Kingdom
Juan José Arévalo
born 1904-09-10
President
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Guatemala
Paul Deschanel
age 36
President
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France
Alexandre Millerand
age 32
President
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France
Gaston Doumergue
age 28
President
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France
Paul Doumer
age 34
President
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France
Albert Lebrun
age 20
President
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France
Vincent Auriol
age 7
President
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France
Manuel Ávila Camacho
born 1897-04-24
President
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Mexico
Lázaro Cárdenas
born 1895-05-21
President
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Mexico
Gerardo Machado
age 19
President
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Cuba
José Miguel Gómez
age 33
President
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Cuba
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
age 20
President
-
Cuba
Tomás Estrada Palma
age 56
President
-
Cuba
Mario García Menocal
age 24
President
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Cuba
Miguel Mariano Gómez
age 1
President
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Cuba
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso
age 30
President
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Cuba
Jorge Ubico
age 12
President
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Guatemala
Lázaro Chacón González
age 18
President
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Guatemala
Carlos Herrera y Luna
age 34
President
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Guatemala
José María Reyna Andrade
age 30
President
-
Guatemala
Francisco Javier Arana
born 1905-12-05
President
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Guatemala
Jorge Toriello Garrido
born 1908-04-23
President
-
Guatemala
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides
age 2
President
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Guatemala
José María Orellana
age 19
President
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Guatemala
Manuel María Orellana Contreras
age 20
President
-
Guatemala
Baudilio Palma
age 11
President
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Guatemala
Manuel Estrada Cabrera
age 31
President
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Guatemala
Abelardo L. Rodríguez
age 2
President
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Mexico
Adolfo de la Huerta
age 10
President
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Mexico
Porfirio Díaz
age 61
President
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Mexico
Francisco León de la Barra
age 28
President
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Mexico
Francisco S. Carvajal
age 20
President
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Mexico
Emilio Portes Gil
age 11 months
President
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Mexico
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
age 14
President
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Mexico
Eulalio Gutiérrez
age 10
President
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Mexico
Francisco I. Madero
age 17
President
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Mexico
Álvaro Obregón
age 11
President
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Mexico
Victoriano Huerta
age 40
President
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Mexico
Venustiano Carranza
age 31
President
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Mexico
Plutarco Elías Calles
age 13
President
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Mexico
Miguel Alemán Valdés
born 1900-09-29
President
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Mexico
Pedro Lascuráin
age 35
President
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Mexico
Shukri al-Quwatli
born 1891-10-21
President
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Syria
Bahij al-Khatib
born 1895-01-01
President
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Syria
Wang Jingwei
age 8
Premier
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Republic of China
Hsu Shih-chang
age 35
Premier
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Republic of China
Zhang Zuolin
age 16
President
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Republic of China
Cao Kun
age 28
President
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Republic of China
Feng Guozhang
age 32
President
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Republic of China
Alexander III of Russia
age 46
Emperor
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Russia
Du Xigui
age 15
Acting
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Republic of China
Huang Fu
age 8
Acting
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Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek
age 3
Premier
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Republic of China
Vladimir Lenin
age 21
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Benito Mussolini
age 8
Prime Minister
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Italy
Winston Churchill
age 16
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Joseph Goebbels
born 1897-10-29
Chancellor
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Germany
Kurt von Schleicher
age 9
Chancellor
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Germany
Józef Piłsudski
age 23
Prime Minister
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Poland
Neville Chamberlain
age 22
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Clement Attlee
age 8
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Georges Clemenceau
age 49
Prime Minister
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France
David Lloyd George
age 28
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law
age 33
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin
age 24
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald
age 24
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru
age 1
President
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Indian National Congress
Carlos Prío Socarrás
born 1903-07-14
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Félix Lancís Sánchez
born 1900-11-20
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
born 1900-10-13
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Ramón Zaydín
born 1895-01-01
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Raúl López del Castillo
born 1893-01-01
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Aly Maher Pasha
age 9
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa
age 51
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Mustafa al-Nahhas
age 12
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha
age 17
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Ahmad Ziwar
age 27
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha
age 15
Prime Minister
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Egypt
ʿAbd al-Khaliq Tharwat
age 18
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Hussein Sirri Pasha
born 1892-01-01
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi
age 3
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Husayn Rushdi
age 28
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Saad Zaghloul
age 34
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Adli Yakan
age 27
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Ismaʿil Sidqi
age 16
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Yusef Wahba
age 39
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Yahya Ibrahim Pasha
age 30
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Muhammad Said Pasha
age 28
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
age 14
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Alcide De Gasperi
age 10
Prime Minister
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Italy
Hashim al-Atassi
age 15
Prime Minister
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Syria
Faris al-Khoury
age 13
Prime Minister
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Syria
Jamil al-Elshi
age 8
Prime Minister
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Syria
Ata al-Ayyubi
age 14
Prime Minister
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Syria
Husni al-Barazi
born 1895-01-01
Prime Minister
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Syria
Rida al-Rikabi
age 27
Prime Minister
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Syria
Hassan al-Hakim
age 5
Prime Minister
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Syria
Haqqi al-Azm
age 26
Prime Minister
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Syria
Saadallah al-Jabiri
born 1892-10-14
Prime Minister
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Syria
Jamil Mardam Bey
born 1893-01-01
Prime Minister
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Syria
Khalid al-Azm
born 1895-01-01
Prime Minister
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Syria
Taj al-Din al-Hasani
age 6
Prime Minister
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Syria
Nasuhi al-Bukhari
age 10
Prime Minister
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Syria
Lutfi al-Haffar
age 3
Prime Minister
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Syria
Subhi Bey Barakat
age 2
Prime Minister
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Syria
H. H. Kung
age 10
Premier
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Republic of China
Wang Zhengting
age 9
Premier
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Republic of China
Xiong Xiling
age 21
Premier
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Republic of China
Wellington Koo
age 3
Premier
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Republic of China
Li Jingxi
age 32
Premier
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Republic of China
Sun Fo
born 1891-10-21
Premier
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Republic of China
Zhang Qun
age 2
Premier
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Republic of China
Tan Yankai
age 11
Premier
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Republic of China
T. V. Soong
born 1891-12-04
Premier
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Republic of China
Huynh Thuc Khang
age 15
Prime Minister
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Vietnam
Aleksander Prystor
age 17
Prime Minister
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Poland
Julian Nowak
age 26
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Antoni Ponikowski
age 13
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Kazimierz Bartel
age 9
Prime Minister
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Poland
Artur Śliwiński
age 14
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Leopold Skulski
age 13
Prime Minister
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Poland
Janusz Jędrzejewicz
age 6
Prime Minister
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Poland
Józef Cyrankiewicz
born 1911-04-23
Prime Minister
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Poland
Jędrzej Moraczewski
age 21
Prime Minister
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Poland
Władysław Grabski
age 17
Prime Minister
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Poland
Stanisław Mikołajczyk
born 1901-07-18
Prime Minister
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Poland
Wincenty Witos
age 17
Prime Minister
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Poland
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
born 1895-06-01
Prime Minister
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Poland
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
age 30
Prime Minister
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Poland
Kazimierz Świtalski
age 5
Prime Minister
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Poland
Walery Sławek
age 11
Prime Minister
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Poland
Ignacy Daszyński
age 24
Prime Minister
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Poland
Władysław Sikorski
age 10
Prime Minister
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Poland
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski
born 1892-03-16
Prime Minister
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Poland
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski
age 6
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Aleksander Skrzyński
age 9
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Hideki Tojo
age 6
Prime Minister
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Japan
Edward Douglass White
age 45
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Charles Evans Hughes
age 29
Governor of New York
-
United States
Harlan F. Stone
age 18
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 1
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Melville Fuller
age 58
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace
age 2
Vice President
-
United States
John Nance Garner
age 22
Vice President
-
United States
Charles Curtis
age 31
Vice President
-
United States
Charles G. Dawes
age 26
Vice President
-
United States
Thomas R. Marshall
age 37
Vice President
-
United States
James S. Sherman
age 35
Vice President
-
United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 39
Vice President
-
United States
Garret Hobart
age 47
Vice President
-
United States
Levi P. Morton
age 67
Vice President
-
United States
Adlai Stevenson I
age 55
Vice President
-
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 11 months
Chief of Staff of the Army
-
United States
Hermann Göring
born 1893-01-12
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Heinrich Himmler
born 1900-10-07
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
born 1894-04-26
Nazi Party
Douglas MacArthur
age 11
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 10
Secretary Of State
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United States
Omar Bradley
born 1893-02-12
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
A. Mitchell Palmer
age 19
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Robert H. Jackson
born 1892-02-13
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Francis Biddle
age 5
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Tom C. Clark
born 1899-09-23
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
James G. Blaine
age 61
Secretary Of State
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United States
John W. Foster
age 55
Secretary Of State
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United States
Walter Q. Gresham
age 59
Secretary Of State
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United States
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