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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 71
Queen - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 57
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 32
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 48
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 46
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 55
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 38
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 60
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 47
King - Italy
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 53
President - France
Deodoro da Fonseca age 63
President - Brazil
Guangxu Emperor age 19
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 59
Shah - Iran
Menelik II age 46
Emperor - Ethiopia
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 38
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 38
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 60
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Leo von Caprivi age 60
Chancellor - German Empire
Yamagata Aritomo age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Riyad Pasha age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 58
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Levi P. Morton age 66
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu age 5
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
James G. Blaine age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Foster age 62
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Redfield Proctor age 59
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller age 50
Attorney General - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 65
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 81
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 72
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 53
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
William Howard Taft age 33
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Sherman age 67
Senate - United States
Edward Douglass White age 45
Senate - United States
John G. Carlisle age 56
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 59
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 84
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 47
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 37
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 78
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 54
House of Representatives - United States
David B. Hill age 47
Governor of New York - United States
Henry Markham age 50
Governor of California - United States
William E. Russell age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim Hogg age 40
Governor of Texas - United States
James Philip Eagle age 53
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James E. Campbell age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
John P. Buchanan age 43
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Alvin Peterson Hovey age 69
Governor of Indiana - United States
Philip W. McKinney age 59
Governor of Virginia - United States
Leon Abbett age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Elihu Emory Jackson age 53
Governor of Maryland - United States
Richard Olney age 55
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 75
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 73
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 6
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 43
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 71
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 81
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 4
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 10
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 37
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 72
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 62
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 51
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 51
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 73
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 42
Prince - Monaco
José Manuel Balmaceda age 50
President - Chile
Carlos Pellegrini age 44
President - Argentina
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Rafael Núñez age 65
President - Colombia
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 26
Sultan - Oman
Ulises Heureaux age 45
President - Dominican Republic
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 54
President - Peru
Antonio Flores Jijón age 57
President - Ecuador
Aniceto Arce age 66
President - Bolivia
Juan Gualberto González age 39
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 70
Emir - Qatar
Julio Herrera y Obes age 50
President - Uruguay
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 53
President - Liberia
Florvil Hyppolite age 62
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 43
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 41
President - Honduras
Carlos Ezeta age 38
President - El Salvador
José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón age 54
President - Costa Rica
John A. Macdonald age 76
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 61
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nikola Pašić age 45
Prime Minister - Serbia
Stefan Stambolov age 37
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 65
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Ballance age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Theodoros Deligiannis age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
Rainilaiarivony age 63
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Paul Eyschen age 49
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gyula Szapáry age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johannes Steen age 63
Prime Minister - Norway
Æneas Mackay Jr. age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 38
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
João Crisóstomo de Abreu e Sousa age 79
Prime Minister - Portugal
Theodore Roosevelt age 32
Commissioner, United States Civil Service Commission
Adolf Hitler age 1
Albert Einstein age 12
Vladimir Lenin age 20
Mahatma Gandhi age 21
Leo Tolstoy age 62
Joseph Stalin age 12
Pablo Picasso age 9
Charlie Chaplin age 1
Winston Churchill age 16
Friedrich Nietzsche age 46
Thomas Edison age 44
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 10
Sigmund Freud age 34
Marie Curie age 23
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 9
Rabindranath Tagore age 29
Charles de Gaulle age 3 months
Otto von Bismarck age 76
Nikola Tesla age 34
Louis Pasteur age 68
Henry Ford age 27
Benito Mussolini age 7
Friedrich Engels age 70
Harry S. Truman age 6
Jawaharlal Nehru age 1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 50
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 5 months
Woodrow Wilson age 34
John Maynard Keynes age 7
Niels Bohr age 5
Leon Trotsky age 11
Max Planck age 32
Dmitri Mendeleev age 57
Giuseppe Verdi age 77
Herbert Hoover age 16
Calvin Coolidge age 18
Alexander Graham Bell age 44
Claude Monet age 50
Ho Chi Minh age 10 months
Sun Yat-sen age 24
Florence Nightingale age 70
Konrad Adenauer age 15
Grover Cleveland age 54
William McKinley age 48
Warren G. Harding age 25
Rutherford B. Hayes age 68
Chiang Kai-shek age 3
John XXIII age 9
Alexander Fleming age 9
David Ben-Gurion age 4
Guglielmo Marconi age 16
Pius XII age 15
Pius XI age 33
Neville Chamberlain age 22
Pius X age 55
Pierre de Coubertin age 28
Douglas MacArthur age 11
Benedict XV age 36
Carl Benz age 46
Grigori Rasputin age 22
George V age 25
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 14
Paul von Hindenburg age 43
Edward VII age 49
Clement Attlee age 8
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 27
Harriet Tubman age 69
George C. Marshall age 10
Georges Clemenceau age 49
Empress Dowager Cixi age 55
Vyacheslav Molotov age 1