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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

People

Queen Victoria age 64
Queen - United Kingdom
Chester A. Arthur age 54
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 41
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 53
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Alexander III of Russia age 38
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 48
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 31
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 86
Emperor - German Empire
Pedro II of Brazil age 58
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 39
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 76
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 12
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 52
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 31
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 31
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 46
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 50
President - Mexico
Otto von Bismarck age 68
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 74
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Mehmed Said Pasha age 45
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Robert Todd Lincoln age 40
Secretary of War - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 57
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles J. Folger age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 67
Attorney General - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 47
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 65
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 50
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 60
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 55
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 57
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 51
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William S. Rosecrans age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 25
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 40
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 47
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 46
Governor of New York - United States
George Stoneman age 61
Governor of California - United States
Charles Foster age 55
Governor of Ohio - United States
James H. Berry age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William T. Hamilton age 63
Governor of Maryland - United States
William E. Cameron age 41
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Ireland age 56
Governor of Texas - United States
Albert G. Porter age 59
Governor of Indiana - United States
George C. Ludlow age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William A. Wheeler age 64
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 67
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 65
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 64
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 30
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 65
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 26
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 54
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 44
King - Kingdom of Romania
William III of the Netherlands age 66
King - Netherlands
Abdur Rahman Khan age 43
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 40
President - Argentina
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Domingo Santa María age 58
President - Chile
Alfred Francis Russell age 66
President - Liberia
Bernardino Caballero age 44
President - Paraguay
Ulises Heureaux age 38
President - Dominican Republic
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 62
Emir - Qatar
José Eusebio Otalora age 57
President - Colombia
Rafael Zaldívar age 49
President - El Salvador
Narciso Campero age 70
President - Bolivia
Próspero Fernández Oreamuno age 49
President - Costa Rica
Lysius Salomon age 68
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 35
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 34
President - Honduras
John A. Macdonald age 68
Prime Minister - Canada
Charilaos Trikoupis age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Johan Thyselius age 72
Prime Minister - Sweden
Kálmán Tisza age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Walthère Frère-Orban age 71
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 55
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Dragan Tsankov age 55
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jan Heemskerk age 65
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Harry Atkinson age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Félix de Blochausen age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Christian August Selmer age 67
Prime Minister - Norway
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 37
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Jervois age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 48
Regent - Imperial China
Theodore Roosevelt age 25
New York State Assembly
Albert Einstein age 4
Vladimir Lenin age 13
Mahatma Gandhi age 14
Leo Tolstoy age 55
Joseph Stalin age 4
Vincent van Gogh age 30
Pablo Picasso age 2
Winston Churchill age 9
Friedrich Nietzsche age 39
Thomas Edison age 36
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 2
Sigmund Freud age 27
Marie Curie age 16
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 1
Rabindranath Tagore age 22
Nikola Tesla age 27
Louis Pasteur age 61
Henry Ford age 20
Benito Mussolini age 4 months
Friedrich Engels age 63
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 43
Woodrow Wilson age 26
Rosa Luxemburg age 12
John Maynard Keynes age 6 months
Leon Trotsky age 4
Max Planck age 25
Dmitri Mendeleev age 49
Giuseppe Verdi age 70
Herbert Hoover age 9
Calvin Coolidge age 11
Alexander Graham Bell age 36
Ulysses S. Grant age 61
Claude Monet age 43
Sun Yat-sen age 17
Florence Nightingale age 63
William Howard Taft age 26
Konrad Adenauer age 7
Warren G. Harding age 18
Rutherford B. Hayes age 61
Nicholas II of Russia age 15
John XXIII age 2
Alexander Fleming age 2
Gregor Mendel age 61
Wilhelm II age 24
Guglielmo Marconi age 9
Pius XII age 7
Pius XI age 26
Neville Chamberlain age 14
Pius X age 48
Pierre de Coubertin age 20
Douglas MacArthur age 3
Benedict XV age 29
Carl Benz age 39
David Lloyd George age 20
Grigori Rasputin age 14
George V age 18
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 6
Paul von Hindenburg age 36
Edward VII age 42
Clement Attlee age 11 months
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 20
Henry Dunant age 55
Harriet Tubman age 61
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 26
George C. Marshall age 2
Georges Clemenceau age 42
Lord Kelvin age 59
Józef Piłsudski age 16
Philippe Pétain age 27
Emiliano Zapata age 4
Cecil Rhodes age 30
Ibn Saud age 7
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 218
Frederick Douglass age 65
Susan B. Anthony age 63
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 16
Syngman Rhee age 8
Jefferson Davis age 75
Gustav Stresemann age 5
Reza Shah age 5
Empress Elisabeth of Austria age 46
Alexander Kerensky age 2
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 8