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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

People

Queen Victoria age 67
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 49
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 43
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 41
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 51
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 33
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 89
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 56
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 60
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 42
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 79
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 15
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 55
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 34
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 33
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 56
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 71
Chancellor - German Empire
Itō Hirobumi age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 73
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dong Biwu age 6 months
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Thomas F. Bayard age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Augustus H. Garland age 54
Attorney General - United States
William Crowninshield Endicott age 59
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 76
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 67
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 53
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 63
Senate - United States
William M. Evarts age 68
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 59
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 79
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John G. Carlisle age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 43
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 32
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Stoneman age 64
Governor of California - United States
David B. Hill age 43
Governor of New York - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 56
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Ireland age 59
Governor of Texas - United States
George D. Robinson age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Leon Abbett age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry Lloyd age 34
Governor of Maryland - United States
William A. Wheeler age 67
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 51
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 70
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 68
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 2
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 66
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 3 months
King - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 32
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 68
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 57
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 47
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 46
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 43
President - Argentina
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 50
President - Peru
Rafael Núñez age 60
President - Colombia
Domingo Santa María age 61
President - Chile
Joaquín Crespo age 45
President - Venezuela
Bernardino Caballero age 47
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 65
Emir - Qatar
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 49
President - Liberia
Gregorio Pacheco age 63
President - Bolivia
Lysius Salomon age 71
President - Haiti
Francisco Menéndez age 55
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 38
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 37
President - Honduras
Bernardo Soto Alfaro age 32
President - Costa Rica
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 60
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 69
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 71
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Charilaos Trikoupis age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Robert Themptander age 42
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 61
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Vasil Radoslavov age 32
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Rainilaiarivony age 58
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Johan Sverdrup age 70
Prime Minister - Norway
Jan Heemskerk age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 33
Prime Minister - Nepal
Édouard Thilges age 69
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Milutin Garašanin age 43
Prime Minister - Serbia
Robert Stout age 41
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 40
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Pedro Alejandrino del Solar age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
William Jervois age 65
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 50
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 7
Vladimir Lenin age 16
Mahatma Gandhi age 16
Leo Tolstoy age 58
Joseph Stalin age 7
Vincent van Gogh age 33
Pablo Picasso age 4
Winston Churchill age 11
Friedrich Nietzsche age 41
Thomas Edison age 39
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 5
Sigmund Freud age 30
Marie Curie age 18
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 4
Rabindranath Tagore age 25
Nikola Tesla age 30
Louis Pasteur age 63
Henry Ford age 23
Benito Mussolini age 3
Friedrich Engels age 65
Harry S. Truman age 2
Theodore Roosevelt age 27
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 46
Woodrow Wilson age 29
John Maynard Keynes age 3
Niels Bohr age 11 months
Leon Trotsky age 6
Max Planck age 28
Dmitri Mendeleev age 52
Giuseppe Verdi age 72
Herbert Hoover age 12
Calvin Coolidge age 14
Alexander Graham Bell age 39
Claude Monet age 45
Sun Yat-sen age 19
Florence Nightingale age 66
William Howard Taft age 28
Konrad Adenauer age 10
Warren G. Harding age 20
Rutherford B. Hayes age 63
John XXIII age 4
Alexander Fleming age 5
Chester A. Arthur age 56
Wilhelm II age 27
Guglielmo Marconi age 12
Pius XII age 10
Pius XI age 29
Neville Chamberlain age 17
Pius X age 51
Pierre de Coubertin age 23
Douglas MacArthur age 6
Benedict XV age 31
Carl Benz age 41
David Lloyd George age 23
Grigori Rasputin age 17
George V age 21
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 9
Paul von Hindenburg age 38
Edward VII age 44
Clement Attlee age 3
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 22
Harriet Tubman age 64
George C. Marshall age 5
Georges Clemenceau age 44
Józef Piłsudski age 18
Philippe Pétain age 30
Emiliano Zapata age 7
Cecil Rhodes age 33
Ibn Saud age 10
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 221
Frederick Douglass age 68
Susan B. Anthony age 66
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 19
Syngman Rhee age 11
Jefferson Davis age 78
George S. Patton age 9 months