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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 1877-04-24 - 1878-03-03

People

Queen Victoria age 58
Queen - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 54
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 59
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 34
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 42
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 24
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 80
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 46
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel II age 57
King - Italy
Pedro II of Brazil age 51
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 68
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 5
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 45
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 24
King - Joseon
Yohannes IV age 39
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 46
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 46
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 62
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 72
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
Morrison Waite age 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William A. Wheeler age 57
Vice President - United States
John Sherman age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William M. Evarts age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 57
Attorney General - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
George Ward Hunt age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 73
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 89
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 67
Senate - United States
James G. Blaine age 47
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 53
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 48
Senate - United States
William Windom age 50
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 44
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 45
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 45
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 34
House of Representatives - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Caleb Cushing age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 19
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 33
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 23
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 40
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Olney age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 61
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 59
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 59
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 29
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 57
New York State Senate - United States
Chulalongkorn age 23
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 59
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 19
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 48
King - Sweden
Nicolás Avellaneda age 39
President - Argentina
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Aníbal Pinto age 52
President - Chile
James Spriggs Payne age 57
President - Liberia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 50
President - Peru
Marco Aurelio Soto age 30
President - Honduras
Higinio Uriarte age 34
President - Paraguay
Lorenzo Latorre age 32
President - Uruguay
Francisco Linares Alcántara age 52
President - Venezuela
Rafael Zaldívar age 43
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 29
Hakim - Bahrain
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 44
President - Haiti
William III of the Netherlands age 60
King - Netherlands
Hilarión Daza age 37
President - Bolivia
Alexander Mackenzie age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 58
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 46
Prime Minister - Hungary
Rainilaiarivony age 49
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Epameinondas Deligeorgis age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Jan Heemskerk age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jules Malou age 66
Prime Minister - Belgium
Frederik Stang age 69
Prime Minister - Norway
Harry Atkinson age 45
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Félix de Blochausen age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama age 71
Prime Minister - Portugal
Tēvita ʻUnga age 53
Prime Minister - Tonga
George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby age 57
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 41
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 39
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 59
Vladimir Lenin age 7
Mahatma Gandhi age 7
Leo Tolstoy age 48
Charles Darwin age 68
Vincent van Gogh age 24
Winston Churchill age 2
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 55
Friedrich Nietzsche age 32
Thomas Edison age 30
Sigmund Freud age 21
Marie Curie age 9
Rabindranath Tagore age 16
Nikola Tesla age 20
Louis Pasteur age 54
Richard Wagner age 64
Henry Ford age 13
Friedrich Engels age 56
Theodore Roosevelt age 18
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 37
Woodrow Wilson age 20
Max Planck age 19
Dmitri Mendeleev age 43
Giuseppe Verdi age 63
Herbert Hoover age 2
James Clerk Maxwell age 45
Calvin Coolidge age 4
Alexander Graham Bell age 30
Ulysses S. Grant age 55
Claude Monet age 36
Sun Yat-sen age 10
Florence Nightingale age 57
William Howard Taft age 19
Konrad Adenauer age 1
Grover Cleveland age 40
Warren G. Harding age 11
Benjamin Harrison age 43
Gregor Mendel age 54
Chester A. Arthur age 47
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 69
Wilhelm II age 18
Guglielmo Marconi age 3
Pius XII age 1
Pius XI age 19
Neville Chamberlain age 8
Pius X age 41
Leo XIII age 67
Pierre de Coubertin age 14
Benedict XV age 22
Carl Benz age 32
David Lloyd George age 14
Grigori Rasputin age 8
George V age 11
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 4 months
Paul von Hindenburg age 29
Edward VII age 35
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 13
Harriet Tubman age 55
Georges Clemenceau age 35
Alexander III of Russia age 32
Józef Piłsudski age 9
Philippe Pétain age 21
Cecil Rhodes age 23
Ibn Saud age 1
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 212
Frederick Douglass age 59
Susan B. Anthony age 57
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 9
Syngman Rhee age 2
Jefferson Davis age 68
Adolphe Thiers age 80
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 1
Emmeline Pankhurst age 18
Mehmed VI age 16
Ferdinand Foch age 25
H. H. Asquith age 24
Raymond Poincaré age 16
Friedrich Ebert age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 61
Stanley Baldwin age 9
Isabella II age 46
Ramsay MacDonald age 10
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 7
Frederick III, German Emperor age 45
Umberto I of Italy age 33
Charles G. Dawes age 11
Alexander Kolchak age 2
Aristide Briand age 15
Léon Blum age 5
Erich Ludendorff age 12
Mehmed V age 32