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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 74
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 57
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 35
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 51
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 49
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 59
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 41
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 63
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 50
King - Italy
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 56
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 22
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 62
Shah - Iran
Menelik II age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 19
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 41
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 54
President - Brazil
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 63
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Itō Hirobumi age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 63
Chancellor - German Empire
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Francesco Crispi age 75
Prime Minister - Italy
Botho zu Eulenburg age 62
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Riyad Pasha age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Adlai Stevenson I age 58
Vice President - United States
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Dong Biwu age 8
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
H. H. Asquith age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 57
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Walter Q. Gresham age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 58
Attorney General - United States
John G. Carlisle age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 66
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Arthur Balfour age 45
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 64
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Sherman age 70
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 62
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 62
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 84
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 34
House of Representatives - United States
William Jennings Bryan age 34
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 81
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 57
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
Henry Markham age 53
Governor of California - United States
William Meade Fishback age 62
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jim Hogg age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
Roswell P. Flower age 58
Governor of New York - United States
Charles T. O'Ferrall age 53
Governor of Virginia - United States
Frederic T. Greenhalge age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Peter Turney age 66
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Claude Matthews age 48
Governor of Indiana - United States
Frank Brown age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
George Theodore Werts age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 78
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 76
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 9
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 46
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 84
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 7
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 13
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 40
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 76
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 65
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 55
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 54
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 76
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 45
Prince - Monaco
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 16
Sultan - Morocco
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Luis Sáenz Peña age 72
President - Argentina
Rafael Núñez age 68
President - Colombia
George Tupou II age 19
King - Tonga
Joaquín Crespo age 52
President - Venezuela
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 29
Sultan - Oman
Miguel Antonio Caro age 51
President - Colombia
Jorge Montt age 48
President - Chile
Ulises Heureaux age 48
President - Dominican Republic
Luis Cordero Crespo age 61
President - Ecuador
José Santos Zelayo age 40
President - Nicaragua
Mariano Baptista age 61
President - Bolivia
Juan Gualberto González age 42
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 73
Emir - Qatar
Florvil Hyppolite age 65
President - Haiti
Joseph James Cheeseman age 51
President - Liberia
Policarpo Bonilla age 36
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 46
Hakim - Bahrain
Carlos Ezeta age 41
President - El Salvador
José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón age 57
President - Costa Rica
Lerotholi age 58
King - Lesotho
John Sparrow David Thompson age 48
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Stefan Stambolov age 40
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Charilaos Trikoupis age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 69
Prime Minister - Denmark
Sándor Wekerle age 45
Prime Minister - Hungary
Richard Seddon age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 66
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Emil Stang age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Paul Eyschen age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Jules de Burlet age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 41
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Theodore Roosevelt age 35
Commissioner, United States Civil Service Commission
Adolf Hitler age 4
Albert Einstein age 15
Vladimir Lenin age 23
Mahatma Gandhi age 24
Leo Tolstoy age 65
Joseph Stalin age 15
Pablo Picasso age 12
Charlie Chaplin age 4
Winston Churchill age 19
Friedrich Nietzsche age 49
Thomas Edison age 47
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 13
Sigmund Freud age 37
Marie Curie age 26
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 12
Rabindranath Tagore age 32
Mao Zedong age 3 months
Charles de Gaulle age 3
Otto von Bismarck age 79
Nikola Tesla age 37
Louis Pasteur age 71
Henry Ford age 30
Benito Mussolini age 10
Friedrich Engels age 73
Harry S. Truman age 9
Jawaharlal Nehru age 4
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 3
Woodrow Wilson age 37
John Maynard Keynes age 10
Niels Bohr age 8
Leon Trotsky age 14
Max Planck age 35
Dmitri Mendeleev age 60
Giuseppe Verdi age 80
Herbert Hoover age 19
Calvin Coolidge age 21
Alexander Graham Bell age 47
Claude Monet age 53
Ho Chi Minh age 3
Sun Yat-sen age 27
Florence Nightingale age 73
William Howard Taft age 36
Konrad Adenauer age 18
Warren G. Harding age 28
Chiang Kai-shek age 6
John XXIII age 12
Benjamin Harrison age 60
Alexander Fleming age 12
Francisco Franco age 1
David Ben-Gurion age 7
Josip Broz Tito age 1
Guglielmo Marconi age 19
Pius XII age 18
Pius XI age 36
Neville Chamberlain age 25
Pius X age 58
Haile Selassie age 1
Pierre de Coubertin age 31
Douglas MacArthur age 14
Benedict XV age 39
Erwin Rommel age 2
Carl Benz age 49
Hermann Göring age 1
Grigori Rasputin age 25
George V age 28