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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 73
Queen - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 58
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 33
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 49
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 47
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 57
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 39
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 61
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 48
King - Italy
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 54
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 20
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 60
Shah - Iran
Menelik II age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 17
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 39
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 53
President - Brazil
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 61
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Émile Loubet age 53
Prime Minister - France
Leo von Caprivi age 61
Chancellor - German Empire
Giovanni Giolitti age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Matsukata Masayoshi age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Botho zu Eulenburg age 60
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 59
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Levi P. Morton age 68
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu age 6
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
James G. Blaine age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Foster age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller age 51
Attorney General - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 66
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Stephen B. Elkins age 50
Secretary of War - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 82
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 73
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 54
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Sherman age 69
Senate - United States
Edward Douglass White age 46
Senate - United States
John G. Carlisle age 57
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 61
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 60
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 48
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 38
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 55
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry Markham age 51
Governor of California - United States
William E. Russell age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim Hogg age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 56
Governor of New York - United States
James Philip Eagle age 54
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John P. Buchanan age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Philip W. McKinney age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
Leon Abbett age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Frank Brown age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
Ira Joy Chase age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
Richard Olney age 56
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 76
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 74
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 7
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 44
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 72
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 82
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 6
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 11
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 38
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 74
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 63
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 53
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 52
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 74
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 43
Prince - Monaco
Carlos Pellegrini age 45
President - Argentina
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Rafael Núñez age 66
President - Colombia
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 27
Sultan - Oman
Jorge Montt age 47
President - Chile
Ulises Heureaux age 46
President - Dominican Republic
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 55
President - Peru
Antonio Flores Jijón age 58
President - Ecuador
Aniceto Arce age 68
President - Bolivia
Juan Gualberto González age 40
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 71
Emir - Qatar
Julio Herrera y Obes age 51
President - Uruguay
Florvil Hyppolite age 64
President - Haiti
Joseph James Cheeseman age 49
President - Liberia
Isa I of Bahrain age 44
Hakim - Bahrain
Carlos Ezeta age 39
President - El Salvador
José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón age 55
President - Costa Rica
Ponciano Leiva age 70
President - Honduras
Lerotholi age 56
King - Lesotho
Auguste Beernaert age 62
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nikola Pašić age 46
Prime Minister - Serbia
John Abbott age 71
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 50
Prime Minister - Sweden
Stefan Stambolov age 38
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Ballance age 53
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 64
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Paul Eyschen age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gyula Szapáry age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos age 60
Prime Minister - Greece
Johannes Steen age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Gijsbert van Tienhoven age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 39
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Theodore Roosevelt age 33
Commissioner, United States Civil Service Commission
Adolf Hitler age 3
Albert Einstein age 13
Vladimir Lenin age 22
Mahatma Gandhi age 22
Leo Tolstoy age 63
Joseph Stalin age 13
Pablo Picasso age 10
Charlie Chaplin age 3
Winston Churchill age 17
Friedrich Nietzsche age 47
Thomas Edison age 45
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 11
Sigmund Freud age 36
Marie Curie age 24
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 10
Rabindranath Tagore age 31
Charles de Gaulle age 1
Otto von Bismarck age 77
Nikola Tesla age 35
Louis Pasteur age 69
Henry Ford age 28
Benito Mussolini age 8
Friedrich Engels age 71
Harry S. Truman age 8
Jawaharlal Nehru age 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 52
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 1
Woodrow Wilson age 35
John Maynard Keynes age 8
Niels Bohr age 6
Leon Trotsky age 12
Max Planck age 34
Dmitri Mendeleev age 58
Giuseppe Verdi age 78
Herbert Hoover age 17
Calvin Coolidge age 19
Alexander Graham Bell age 45
Claude Monet age 51
Ho Chi Minh age 1
Sun Yat-sen age 25
Florence Nightingale age 72
William Howard Taft age 34
Konrad Adenauer age 16
Grover Cleveland age 55
Warren G. Harding age 26
Rutherford B. Hayes age 69
Chiang Kai-shek age 4
John XXIII age 10
Alexander Fleming age 10
David Ben-Gurion age 5
Josip Broz Tito age 0 months
Guglielmo Marconi age 18
Pius XII age 16
Pius XI age 34
Neville Chamberlain age 23
Pius X age 56
Pierre de Coubertin age 29
Douglas MacArthur age 12
Benedict XV age 37
Erwin Rommel age 6 months
Carl Benz age 47
Grigori Rasputin age 23
George V age 26
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 15
Paul von Hindenburg age 44
Edward VII age 50
Clement Attlee age 9
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 28
Harriet Tubman age 70