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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 68
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 50
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 45
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 42
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 52
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 35
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 90
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 57
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 62
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 43
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 80
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 16
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 56
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 35
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 35
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 57
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 72
Chancellor - German Empire
Itō Hirobumi age 46
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Francesco Crispi age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dong Biwu age 1
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Thomas F. Bayard age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Augustus H. Garland age 55
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 61
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 77
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 46
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Sherman age 64
Senate - United States
William M. Evarts age 69
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John G. Carlisle age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 44
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 33
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 41
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 52
Governor of Virginia - United States
David B. Hill age 44
Governor of New York - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 37
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Robert Waterman age 60
Governor of California - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 57
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 56
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 59
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry Lloyd age 35
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert S. Green age 56
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John B. Gordon age 55
Governor of Georgia - United States
Richard Olney age 52
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 71
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 69
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 3
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 40
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 68
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 1
King - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 34
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 58
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 48
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 47
Emir - Afghanistan
José Manuel Balmaceda age 47
President - Chile
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 51
President - Peru
Rafael Núñez age 62
President - Colombia
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 43
President - Argentina
Ulises Heureaux age 42
President - Dominican Republic
Patricio Escobar age 44
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 66
Emir - Qatar
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 50
President - Liberia
Gregorio Pacheco age 64
President - Bolivia
Hermógenes López age 57
President - Venezuela
Lysius Salomon age 72
President - Haiti
Francisco Menéndez age 57
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 39
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 38
President - Honduras
Bernardo Soto Alfaro age 33
President - Costa Rica
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 61
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 70
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 72
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Stefan Stambolov age 33
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Charilaos Trikoupis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Robert Themptander age 43
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 62
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Rainilaiarivony age 59
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Johan Sverdrup age 71
Prime Minister - Norway
Jan Heemskerk age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Harry Atkinson age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 34
Prime Minister - Nepal
Édouard Thilges age 70
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 41
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Jervois age 66
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 52
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 8
Vladimir Lenin age 17
Mahatma Gandhi age 18
Leo Tolstoy age 59
Joseph Stalin age 8
Vincent van Gogh age 34
Pablo Picasso age 6
Winston Churchill age 13
Friedrich Nietzsche age 43
Thomas Edison age 40
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 6
Sigmund Freud age 31
Marie Curie age 20
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 5
Rabindranath Tagore age 26
Nikola Tesla age 31
Louis Pasteur age 64
Henry Ford age 24
Benito Mussolini age 4
Friedrich Engels age 67
Harry S. Truman age 3
Theodore Roosevelt age 29
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 47
Woodrow Wilson age 30
John Maynard Keynes age 4
Niels Bohr age 2
Leon Trotsky age 8
Max Planck age 29
Dmitri Mendeleev age 53
Giuseppe Verdi age 74
Herbert Hoover age 13
Calvin Coolidge age 15
Alexander Graham Bell age 40
Claude Monet age 47
Sun Yat-sen age 21
Florence Nightingale age 67
William Howard Taft age 30
Konrad Adenauer age 11
Warren G. Harding age 22
Rutherford B. Hayes age 65
Chiang Kai-shek age 0 months
John XXIII age 6
Benjamin Harrison age 54
Alexander Fleming age 6
David Ben-Gurion age 1
Wilhelm II age 28
Guglielmo Marconi age 13
Pius XII age 11
Pius XI age 30
Neville Chamberlain age 18
Pius X age 52
Pierre de Coubertin age 24
Douglas MacArthur age 7
Benedict XV age 33
Carl Benz age 43
David Lloyd George age 24
Grigori Rasputin age 18
George V age 22
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 10
Paul von Hindenburg age 40
Edward VII age 46
Clement Attlee age 4
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 23
Harriet Tubman age 65
George C. Marshall age 6
Georges Clemenceau age 46
Józef Piłsudski age 19
Philippe Pétain age 31
Emiliano Zapata age 8
Cecil Rhodes age 34
Ibn Saud age 11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 222
Frederick Douglass age 69
Susan B. Anthony age 67
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 20
Syngman Rhee age 12