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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 70
Queen - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 56
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 30
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 47
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 37
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 59
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 63
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 45
King - Italy
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 52
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 18
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 58
Shah - Iran
Menelik II age 45
Emperor - Ethiopia
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 37
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 36
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 59
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 74
Chancellor - German Empire
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Francesco Crispi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Sanjō Sanetomi age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Riyad Pasha age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 56
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Levi P. Morton age 65
Vice President - United States
James G. Blaine age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
William Windom age 62
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Redfield Proctor age 58
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller age 49
Attorney General - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 79
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 46
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 53
Governor Of Virginia - United States
Leo XIII age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 3
King - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 36
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 71
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 60
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 50
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 49
Emir - Afghanistan
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 40
Prince - Monaco
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 44
Viceroy - British Raj
Isa I of Bahrain age 41
Hakim - Bahrain
Paul Eyschen age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 36
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Theodore Roosevelt age 31
Commissioner, United States Civil Service Commission
Adolf Hitler age 6 months
Albert Einstein age 10
Vladimir Lenin age 19
Mahatma Gandhi age 20
Leo Tolstoy age 61
Joseph Stalin age 10
Vincent van Gogh age 36
Pablo Picasso age 8
Charlie Chaplin age 6 months
Winston Churchill age 14
Friedrich Nietzsche age 45
Thomas Edison age 42
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 8
Sigmund Freud age 33
Marie Curie age 21
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 7
Rabindranath Tagore age 28
Nikola Tesla age 33
Louis Pasteur age 66
Henry Ford age 26
Benito Mussolini age 6
Friedrich Engels age 68
Harry S. Truman age 5
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 49
Woodrow Wilson age 32
John Maynard Keynes age 6
Niels Bohr age 4
Leon Trotsky age 9
Max Planck age 31
Dmitri Mendeleev age 55
Giuseppe Verdi age 76
Herbert Hoover age 15
Calvin Coolidge age 17
Alexander Graham Bell age 42
Claude Monet age 48
Sun Yat-sen age 22
Florence Nightingale age 69
William Howard Taft age 32
Konrad Adenauer age 13
Grover Cleveland age 52
Warren G. Harding age 23
Rutherford B. Hayes age 67
Chiang Kai-shek age 1
John XXIII age 7
Alexander Fleming age 8
David Ben-Gurion age 3
Guglielmo Marconi age 15
Pius XII age 13
Pius XI age 32
Neville Chamberlain age 20
Pius X age 54
Pierre de Coubertin age 26
Douglas MacArthur age 9
Benedict XV age 34
Carl Benz age 44
David Lloyd George age 26
Grigori Rasputin age 20
George V age 24
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 12
Paul von Hindenburg age 42
Edward VII age 47
Clement Attlee age 6
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 25
Harriet Tubman age 67
George C. Marshall age 8
Georges Clemenceau age 48
Empress Dowager Cixi age 53
Józef Piłsudski age 21
Philippe Pétain age 33
Emiliano Zapata age 10
Cecil Rhodes age 36
Ibn Saud age 13
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 224
Frederick Douglass age 71
António de Oliveira Salazar age 6 months
T. E. Lawrence age 1
Susan B. Anthony age 69
Arthur Balfour age 41
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 22
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 1
Syngman Rhee age 14
Jefferson Davis age 81
George S. Patton age 3
Hideki Tojo age 4
İsmet İnönü age 5
Bernard Montgomery age 1
Gustav Stresemann age 11
Reza Shah age 11
Rajendra Prasad age 4
Alexander Kerensky age 8
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 13
Getúlio Vargas age 7
Emmeline Pankhurst age 31
Mehmed VI age 28
Ferdinand Foch age 38
H. H. Asquith age 37
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 12
Raymond Poincaré age 29
Friedrich Ebert age 18
Pancho Villa age 11
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 74
Stanley Baldwin age 22
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 9
Patrice de MacMahon age 81
Isabella II age 59
Franz von Papen age 10
Ramsay MacDonald age 23
Celâl Bayar age 6
Nestor Makhno age 11 months
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 19
Isoroku Yamamoto age 5
Wilhelm Keitel age 7
Charles G. Dawes age 24
Éamon de Valera age 7
Alcide De Gasperi age 8
Alexander Kolchak age 14
Aristide Briand age 27
Léon Blum age 17
Robert Schuman age 3
Emperor Taishō age 10
Georgi Dimitrov age 7
Erich Ludendorff age 24
Kliment Voroshilov age 8
Mehmed V age 45
Itō Hirobumi age 48
Charles I of Austria age 2
Haakon VII of Norway age 17
Faisal I of Iraq age 4
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 89
Henry A. Wallace age 1
Abdullah I of Jordan age 7
Albert I of Belgium age 14
Erich von Manstein age 1
Chaim Weizmann age 14
Theodor Heuss age 5
Ion Antonescu age 7
Gustaf V of Sweden age 31
William Tecumseh Sherman age 69
Ernst Röhm age 1
Pyotr Stolypin age 27
Emilio Aguinaldo age 20
Pietro Badoglio age 18
Chester W. Nimitz age 4
Andrew Bonar Law age 31
Murad V age 49
Eleftherios Venizelos age 25
Christian X of Denmark age 19
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 32
Édouard Daladier age 5
Kurt von Schleicher age 7
Cordell Hull age 18