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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Mahdist War 1881-06-29 - 1899-11-24
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-01-13 - 1896-10-23
Cuban War of Independence 1895-02-24 - 1898-08-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916

People

Queen Victoria age 76
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 58
President - United States
Nicholas II of Russia age 27
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm II age 36
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 65
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Leopold II of Belgium age 60
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 43
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 65
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 51
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 24
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 64
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 54
President - France
Menelik II age 51
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 21
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 43
King - Joseon
Prudente de Morais age 54
President - Brazil
José María Reina Barrios age 41
President - Guatemala
Itō Hirobumi age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Léon Bourgeois age 44
Prime Minister - France
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 76
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 77
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Adlai Stevenson I age 60
Vice President - United States
Halil Rifat Pasha age 69
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Dong Biwu age 9
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Joseph Chamberlain age 59
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 51
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Richard Olney age 60
Secretary of State - United States
John G. Carlisle age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 64
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 49
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 48
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 57
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 67
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Holmes Conrad age 55
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Sherman age 72
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 63
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 64
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 54
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 5
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 83
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 6 months
House of Representatives - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton age 71
Governor of New York - United States
James P. Clarke age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles A. Culberson age 40
Governor of Texas - United States
James Budd age 44
Governor of California - United States
Charles T. O'Ferrall age 55
Governor of Virginia - United States
Frederic T. Greenhalge age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Peter Turney age 68
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Asa S. Bushnell age 61
Governor of Ohio - United States
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. age 50
Governor of Maryland - United States
Claude Matthews age 50
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Theodore Werts age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William Yates Atkinson age 41
Governor of Georgia - United States
George S. Boutwell age 78
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 76
New York State Senate - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 11
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 85
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 9
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 15
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 42
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 77
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 67
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 56
King - Kingdom of Romania
Paul Kruger age 70
State President - South African Republic
Abdur Rahman Khan age 56
Emir - Afghanistan
Otto, King of Bavaria age 47
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 78
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 47
Prince - Monaco
Albert I of Saxony age 67
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 17
Sultan - Morocco
Sanford B. Dole age 51
President - Republic of Hawaii
José Evaristo Uriburu age 64
President - Argentina
Eloy Alfaro age 53
President - Ecuador
George Tupou II age 21
King - Tonga
Joaquín Crespo age 54
President - Venezuela
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 31
Sultan - Oman
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Miguel Antonio Caro age 53
President - Colombia
Jorge Montt age 50
President - Chile
Ulises Heureaux age 50
President - Dominican Republic
Hamad bin Thuwaini age 39
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
José Santos Zelayo age 42
President - Nicaragua
Mariano Baptista age 63
President - Bolivia
Juan Bautista Egusquiza age 50
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 75
Emir - Qatar
Mwanga II of Buganda age 28
Kabaka - Kingdom of Buganda
Florvil Hyppolite age 67
President - Haiti
Joseph James Cheeseman age 52
President - Liberia
Policarpo Bonilla age 37
President - Honduras
Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez age 50
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 48
Hakim - Bahrain
Prempeh I age 25
Asantehene - Asante Empire
Lerotholi age 60
King - Lesotho
Mwezi IV of Burundi age 56
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Mibambwe IV Rutarindwa
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Abdur Rahman Atiku age 68
Sultan of Sokoto - Sokoto Caliphate
Rafael Iglesias Castro age 34
President - Costa Rica
Abdallahi ibn Muhammad age 50
Khalifa - Mahdist State
Mahbub Ali Khan age 29
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Dinuzulu age 28
King of the Zulu - Zulu Kingdom
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 67
Prime Minister - Spain
Mackenzie Bowell age 72
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Theodoros Deligiannis age 76
Prime Minister - Greece
Richard Seddon age 50
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Konstantin Stoilov age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Jules de Burlet age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dezső Bánffy age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Francis Hagerup age 43
Prime Minister - Norway
Joan Röell age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 43
Prime Minister - Nepal
Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Siosateki Tonga age 43
Prime Minister - Tonga
David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Theodore Roosevelt age 37
President, New York City Board of Police Commissioners
Adolf Hitler age 6
Albert Einstein age 16
Vladimir Lenin age 25
Mahatma Gandhi age 26
Leo Tolstoy age 67
Joseph Stalin age 17
Pablo Picasso age 14
Charlie Chaplin age 6
Winston Churchill age 21
Friedrich Nietzsche age 51
Thomas Edison age 48
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 15
Sigmund Freud age 39
Marie Curie age 28
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 13
Rabindranath Tagore age 34
Mao Zedong age 2
Charles de Gaulle age 5
Otto von Bismarck age 80
Nikola Tesla age 39
Henry Ford age 32
Benito Mussolini age 12
Harry S. Truman age 11
Jawaharlal Nehru age 6
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 5
Woodrow Wilson age 39
Rosa Luxemburg age 24
John Maynard Keynes age 12
Niels Bohr age 10
Leon Trotsky age 16
Max Planck age 37
Dmitri Mendeleev age 61
Giuseppe Verdi age 82
Nikita Khrushchev age 1
Herbert Hoover age 21
Calvin Coolidge age 23
Alexander Graham Bell age 48
Claude Monet age 55
Ho Chi Minh age 5
Sun Yat-sen age 29
Florence Nightingale age 75
B. R. Ambedkar age 4
Eleanor Roosevelt age 11
William Howard Taft age 38
Konrad Adenauer age 20
William McKinley age 52
Warren G. Harding age 30
Chiang Kai-shek age 8