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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04

People

Queen Victoria age 65
Queen - United Kingdom
Chester A. Arthur age 54
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 41
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 39
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 31
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 87
Emperor - German Empire
Pedro II of Brazil age 58
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 40
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 77
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 13
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 53
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 31
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 31
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 51
President - Mexico
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 54
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 69
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 74
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Robert Todd Lincoln age 41
Secretary of War - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles J. Folger age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 67
Attorney General - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 48
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 65
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 51
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 61
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 55
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 57
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 52
Senate - United States
Arthur Balfour age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 26
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 41
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 72
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 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 61
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 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 56
House of Representatives - United States
William S. Rosecrans age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Grover Cleveland age 47
Governor of New York - United States
William A. Wheeler age 65
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 68
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 66
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills born 1884-08-23
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 37
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 64
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 30
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 26
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 55
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 45
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 44
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 41
President - Argentina
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Domingo Santa María age 59
President - Chile
Joaquín Crespo age 43
President - Venezuela
Bernardino Caballero age 45
President - Paraguay
Ulises Heureaux age 38
President - Dominican Republic
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 63
Emir - Qatar
Rafael Zaldívar age 50
President - El Salvador
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 47
President - Liberia
Próspero Fernández Oreamuno age 50
President - Costa Rica
Lysius Salomon age 69
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 36
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 35
President - Honduras
William III of the Netherlands age 67
King - Netherlands
Narciso Campero age 70
President - Bolivia
John A. Macdonald age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
Charilaos Trikoupis age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Robert Themptander age 40
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Rainilaiarivony age 56
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Johan Sverdrup age 68
Prime Minister - Norway
Petko Karavelov age 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jan Heemskerk age 66
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jules Malou age 73
Prime Minister - Belgium
Félix de Blochausen age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Milutin Garašanin age 41
Prime Minister - Serbia
Robert Stout age 39
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 38
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 5
Vladimir Lenin age 14
Mahatma Gandhi age 14
Leo Tolstoy age 55
Joseph Stalin age 5
Vincent van Gogh age 31
Pablo Picasso age 2
Winston Churchill age 9
Friedrich Nietzsche age 39
Thomas Edison age 37
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 3
Sigmund Freud age 28
Marie Curie age 16
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 2
Rabindranath Tagore age 23
Nikola Tesla age 28
Louis Pasteur age 61
Henry Ford age 21
Benito Mussolini age 1
Friedrich Engels age 63
Harry S. Truman age 3 months
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 44
Woodrow Wilson age 27
John Maynard Keynes age 1
Leon Trotsky age 4
Max Planck age 26
Dmitri Mendeleev age 50
Giuseppe Verdi age 70
Herbert Hoover age 10
Calvin Coolidge age 12
Alexander Graham Bell age 37
Ulysses S. Grant age 62
Claude Monet age 43
Sun Yat-sen age 17
Florence Nightingale age 64
William Howard Taft age 26
Konrad Adenauer age 8
William McKinley age 41
Warren G. Harding age 18
Rutherford B. Hayes age 61
John XXIII age 2
Alexander Fleming age 3
Wilhelm II age 25
Guglielmo Marconi age 10
Pius XII age 8
Pius XI age 27
Neville Chamberlain age 15
Pius X age 49
Pierre de Coubertin age 21
Douglas MacArthur age 4
Benedict XV age 29
Carl Benz age 39
David Lloyd George age 21
Grigori Rasputin age 15
George V age 19
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 7
Paul von Hindenburg age 36
Edward VII age 42
Clement Attlee age 1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 20
Harriet Tubman age 62
George C. Marshall age 3
Georges Clemenceau age 42
Józef Piłsudski age 16
Philippe Pétain age 28
Emiliano Zapata age 5
Cecil Rhodes age 31
Ibn Saud age 8
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 219
Frederick Douglass age 66
Susan B. Anthony age 64
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 17
Syngman Rhee age 9
Jefferson Davis age 76
Gustav Stresemann age 6
Reza Shah age 6
Alexander Kerensky age 3
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 8
Getúlio Vargas age 2
Emmeline Pankhurst age 26
Mehmed VI age 23
Ferdinand Foch age 32
Porfirio Díaz age 53
H. H. Asquith age 31
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 6
Raymond Poincaré age 24
Friedrich Ebert age 13
Pancho Villa age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 68
Stanley Baldwin age 17
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 3