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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

People

William Howard Taft age 52
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 50
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 67
King - United Kingdom
Leopold II of Belgium age 74
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 56
Emperor - Japan
Puyi age 3
Emperor - Imperial China
Porfirio Díaz age 79
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 39
King - Italy
Mehmed V age 64
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Armand Fallières age 67
President - France
Menelik II age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 35
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 11
Shah - Iran
Nilo Peçanha age 42
President - Brazil
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 35
Emperor - Korean Empire
José Miguel Gómez age 51
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 49
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 41
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 79
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 46
President - International Olympic Committee
H. H. Asquith age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 52
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Giolitti age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Boutros Ghali age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
James S. Sherman age 53
Vice President - United States
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha age 54
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Deng Xiaoping age 5
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 10
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 23
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 8
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 13
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 9
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
David Lloyd George age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Philander C. Knox age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Reginald McKenna age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 53
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Jacob M. Dickinson age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 71
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
J. Franklin Bell age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Winston Churchill age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 61
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 46
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 38
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Henry Moody age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Sweetman age 65
President - Sinn Féin
Elihu Root age 64
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 49
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 68
Senate - United States
Stanley Baldwin age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. Mitchell Palmer age 37
House of Representatives - United States
J. R. Clynes age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 14
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas R. Marshall age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Charles Evans Hughes age 47
Governor of New York - United States
Judson Harmon age 63
Governor of Ohio - United States
Claude A. Swanson age 47
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Gillett age 49
Governor of California - United States
Thomas Mitchell Campbell age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
Austin Lane Crothers age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Eben Sumner Draper age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Washington Donaghey age 53
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Franklin Fort age 57
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard Olney age 74
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 25
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 62
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 90
New York State Senate - United States
Pius X age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 23
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 29
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 37
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 56
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 51
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 70
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 10
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 60
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 37
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 47
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 57
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Juan Vicente Gómez age 52
President - Venezuela
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 34
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 67
President - Ecuador
Augusto Leguía age 46
President - Peru
José Figueroa Alcorta age 48
President - Argentina
George Tupou II age 35
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 69
King - Cambodia
Pedro Montt age 60
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 45
Sultan - Oman
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 64
Viceroy - British Raj
Arthur Barclay age 55
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 55
President - Nicaragua
Emiliano González Navero age 48
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 88
Emir - Qatar
Adolf Deucher age 78
President - Switzerland
Ramón Cáceres age 42
President - Dominican Republic
Eliodoro Villazón age 61
President - Bolivia
Fernando Figueroa age 60
President - El Salvador
François C. Antoine Simon age 66
President - Haiti
Miguel R. Dávila age 53
President - Honduras
Cleto González Víquez age 51
President - Costa Rica
Ramón González Valencia age 58
President - Colombia
Isa I of Bahrain age 61
Hakim - Bahrain
Pyotr Stolypin age 47
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Alfred Deakin age 53
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
Arvid Lindman age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 45
Prime Minister - Romania
Gunnar Knudsen age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Antonio Maura age 56
Prime Minister - Spain
Sándor Wekerle age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Aleksandar Malinov age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Theo Heemskerk age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Frans Schollaert age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 70
Prime Minister - Denmark
Paul Eyschen age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Björn Jónsson age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis age 60
Prime Minister - Greece
Joseph Ward age 53
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lazar Tomanović age 64
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 42
Governor-General - Australia
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 26
Prince Regent - Imperial China
Adolf Hitler age 20
Albert Einstein age 30
Vladimir Lenin age 39
Mahatma Gandhi age 40
Leo Tolstoy age 81
Joseph Stalin age 30
Pablo Picasso age 27
Charlie Chaplin age 20
Thomas Edison age 62
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 28
Sigmund Freud age 53
Marie Curie age 41
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 27
Rabindranath Tagore age 48
Mao Zedong age 15
Charles de Gaulle age 18
Nikola Tesla age 53
Walt Disney age 7
George Orwell age 6
Ernest Hemingway age 10
Henry Ford age 46
Benito Mussolini age 26
Jean-Paul Sartre age 4
Harry S. Truman age 25
Theodore Roosevelt age 50
Jawaharlal Nehru age 19
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 18
Woodrow Wilson age 52
John Maynard Keynes age 26
Simone de Beauvoir age 1
Niels Bohr age 24
Leon Trotsky age 29
Max Planck age 51
Lyndon B. Johnson age 1
Enrico Fermi age 8
Nikita Khrushchev age 15
Herbert Hoover age 35
Calvin Coolidge age 37
Alexander Graham Bell age 62
Kwame Nkrumah age 0 months
Hirohito age 8
Claude Monet age 68
Ho Chi Minh age 19
Sun Yat-sen age 42
Florence Nightingale age 89
Konrad Adenauer age 33
Warren G. Harding age 43
Joseph Goebbels age 11