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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

People

Queen Victoria age 69
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 51
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 45
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 43
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 53
Monarch - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 35
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 57
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 62
Emperor - Brazil
Frederick III, German Emperor age 56
Emperor - German Empire
Umberto I of Italy age 44
King - Italy
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 50
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 73
Chancellor - German Empire
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Francesco Crispi age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 47
Prime Minister - Japan
Nubar Pasha age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Thomas F. Bayard age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 46
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 42
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
William Ewart Gladstone age 78
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 45
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 52
Governor Of Virginia - United States
Leo XIII age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 2
Monarch - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 34
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 70
Monarch - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 59
Monarch - Norway
Carol I of Romania age 49
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 48
Emir - Afghanistan
Isa I of Bahrain age 40
Monarch - Bahrain
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 61
Viceroy - British Raj
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 35
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Albert Einstein age 9
Vladimir Lenin age 18
Mahatma Gandhi age 18
Leo Tolstoy age 59
Joseph Stalin age 9
Vincent van Gogh age 35
Pablo Picasso age 6
Winston Churchill age 13
Friedrich Nietzsche age 43
Thomas Edison age 41
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 7
Sigmund Freud age 32
Marie Curie age 20
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 6
Rabindranath Tagore age 27
Nikola Tesla age 31
Louis Pasteur age 65
Henry Ford age 24
Benito Mussolini age 4
Friedrich Engels age 67
Harry S. Truman age 4
Theodore Roosevelt age 29
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 48
Woodrow Wilson age 31
John Maynard Keynes age 4
Niels Bohr age 2
Leon Trotsky age 8
Max Planck age 30
Dmitri Mendeleev age 54
Giuseppe Verdi age 74
Herbert Hoover age 13
Calvin Coolidge age 15
Alexander Graham Bell age 41
Claude Monet age 47
Sun Yat-sen age 21
Florence Nightingale age 68
William Howard Taft age 30
Konrad Adenauer age 12
Warren G. Harding age 22
Rutherford B. Hayes age 65
Chiang Kai-shek age 6 months
John XXIII age 6
Benjamin Harrison age 54
Alexander Fleming age 6
David Ben-Gurion age 1
Wilhelm II age 29
Guglielmo Marconi age 14
Pius XII age 12
Pius XI age 30
Neville Chamberlain age 19
Pius X age 52
Pierre de Coubertin age 25
Douglas MacArthur age 8
Benedict XV age 33
Carl Benz age 43
David Lloyd George age 25
Grigori Rasputin age 19
George V age 22
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 11
Paul von Hindenburg age 40
Edward VII age 46
Clement Attlee age 5
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 24
Harriet Tubman age 66
George C. Marshall age 7
Georges Clemenceau age 46
Empress Dowager Cixi age 52
Józef Piłsudski age 20
Philippe Pétain age 32
Emiliano Zapata age 8
Cecil Rhodes age 34
Ibn Saud age 12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 223
Frederick Douglass age 70
Susan B. Anthony age 68
Arthur Balfour age 39
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 20
Syngman Rhee age 13
Jefferson Davis age 80
George S. Patton age 2
Hideki Tojo age 3
İsmet İnönü age 3
Bernard Montgomery age 6 months
Gustav Stresemann age 10
Reza Shah age 10
Rajendra Prasad age 3
Alexander Kerensky age 7
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 12
Getúlio Vargas age 6
Emmeline Pankhurst age 29
Mehmed VI age 27
Ferdinand Foch age 36
H. H. Asquith age 35
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 10
Raymond Poincaré age 27
Friedrich Ebert age 17
Pancho Villa age 9
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 72
Stanley Baldwin age 20
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 7
Patrice de MacMahon age 79
Isabella II age 57
Franz von Papen age 8
Ramsay MacDonald age 21
Celâl Bayar age 5
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 18
Isoroku Yamamoto age 4
Wilhelm Keitel age 5
Charles G. Dawes age 22
Éamon de Valera age 5
Alcide De Gasperi age 7
Alexander Kolchak age 13
Aristide Briand age 26
Léon Blum age 16
Robert Schuman age 1
Emperor Taishō age 8
Georgi Dimitrov age 5
Erich Ludendorff age 23
Kliment Voroshilov age 7
Mehmed V age 43
Itō Hirobumi age 46
Charles I of Austria age 9 months
Haakon VII of Norway age 15
Faisal I of Iraq age 2
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 87
Abdullah I of Jordan age 6
Albert I of Belgium age 13
Erich von Manstein age 5 months
Chaim Weizmann age 13
Theodor Heuss age 4
Ion Antonescu age 5
Gustaf V of Sweden age 29
William Tecumseh Sherman age 68
Ernst Röhm age 5 months
Pyotr Stolypin age 26
Emilio Aguinaldo age 19
Pietro Badoglio age 16
Chester W. Nimitz age 3
Andrew Bonar Law age 29
Murad V age 47
Eleftherios Venizelos age 23
Christian X of Denmark age 17
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 31
Édouard Daladier age 3
Kurt von Schleicher age 6
Cordell Hull age 16
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 17
Hjalmar Branting age 27
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 5
Manuel Azaña age 8
Alben W. Barkley age 10
Gerd von Rundstedt age 12
Francisco I. Madero age 14
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 18
Alexandra of Denmark age 43
John Nance Garner age 19
Alexandre Millerand age 29