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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Apache Wars 1849 - 1924
Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Dervish War 1900 - 1920
French conquest of Morocco 1907 - 1937
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Rif War 1911-06-08 - 1927-07-08
U-boat campaign 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I 1914-08 - 1918-11-11
East African campaign (World War I) 1914-08-03 - 1918-11-25
Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30
Mesopotamian campaign 1914-11-06 - 1918-11-14
Battles of the Isonzo 1915-05-23 - 1917-10-27
Macedonian front 1915-10-21 - 1918-09-30
Arab Revolt 1916-06-10 - 1918-10-25
German occupation of Estonia during World War I 1917 - 1918
Ukrainian–Soviet War 1917 - 1921
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Battle of Passchendaele 1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10

People

Woodrow Wilson age 60
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 58
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 52
King - United Kingdom
Raymond Poincaré age 57
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 47
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 38
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 72
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Charles I of Austria age 30
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Albert I of Belgium age 42
King - Belgium
Venustiano Carranza age 57
President - Mexico
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 19
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 49
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Zewditu age 41
Empress - Ethiopia
Venceslau Brás age 49
President - Brazil
Feng Guozhang age 58
President - Republic of China
Mario García Menocal age 50
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 57
President - Guatemala
Pierre de Coubertin age 54
President - International Olympic Committee
David Lloyd George age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Georg Michaelis age 60
Chancellor - German Empire
Terauchi Masatake age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Paolo Boselli age 79
Prime Minister - Italy
Louis Botha age 55
Prime Minister - South Africa
Edward Douglass White age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 63
Vice President - United States
Talaat Pasha age 43
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Deng Xiaoping age 13
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 18
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 31
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 16
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 21
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 17
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Andrew Bonar Law age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert Lansing age 53
Secretary of State - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Newton D. Baker age 45
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 52
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Tasker H. Bliss age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Eric Geddes age 42
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 63
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Thomas Watt Gregory age 55
Attorney General - United States
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Winston Churchill age 42
Minister of Munitions - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 65
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 54
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Arthur Griffith age 46
President - Sinn Féin
William R. Day age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sefako Makgatho age 56
President - African National Congress
Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley age 67
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John W. Davis age 44
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 35
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Warren G. Harding age 51
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 57
Senate - United States
Frank B. Kellogg age 60
Senate - United States
Philander C. Knox age 64
Senate - United States
John W. Weeks age 57
Senate - United States
Arthur Balfour age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley age 39
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 35
House of Representatives - United States
George Reid age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
W. T. Cosgrave age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 22
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Shortt age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James M. Cox age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Stephens age 57
Governor of California - United States
Charles Hillman Brough age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Walter E. Edge age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William P. Hobby age 39
Governor of Texas - United States
Henry Carter Stuart age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Emerson Harrington age 53
Governor of Maryland - United States
Samuel W. McCall age 66
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Charles Seymour Whitman age 49
Governor of New York - United States
James P. Goodrich age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Thomas Clarke Rye age 54
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Hugh Dorsey age 46
Governor of Georgia - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 33
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 70
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Benedict XV age 62
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 31
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 37
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 45
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 59
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 47
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 52
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh age 36
King - Thailand
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 67
President - Argentina
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 72
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Sobhuza II age 18
King - Eswatini
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 23
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 68
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 45
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 55
King - Bhutan
Frederick Augustus III of Saxony age 52
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
William, Prince of Albania age 41
King - Albania
Bernardino Machado age 66
President - Portugal
Yusef of Morocco age 35
Sultan - Morocco
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse age 48
Grand Duke of Hesse - Grand Duchy of Hesse
Frederick II of Baden age 60
Grand Duke of Baden - Grand Duchy of Baden
Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg age 64
Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Oldenburg
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 31
Sultan - Oman
George Tupou II age 43
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 77
King - Cambodia
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 58
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 53
President - Peru
Feliciano Viera age 45
President - Uruguay
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 5
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados age 48
President - Costa Rica
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 58
President - Ecuador
Edmund Schulthess age 49
President - Switzerland
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 58
Provisional President - Venezuela
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 46
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 62
Emir - Qatar
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 54
President - Haiti
Manuel Franco age 46
President - Paraguay
Khalifa bin Harub age 38
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
José Vicente Concha age 50
President - Colombia
Jose Gutierrez Guerra age 48
President - Bolivia
Daniel Edward Howard age 56
President - Liberia
Francisco Bertrand age 51
President - Honduras
Carlos Meléndez Ramírez age 56
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 69
Hakim - Bahrain
Yuhi V Musinga age 34
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 31
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Hussein bin Ali age 64
King of Hejaz - Kingdom of Hejaz
Alexander Kerensky age 36
Minister-Chairman - Russian Provisional Government
Eleftherios Venizelos age 53
Prime Minister - Greece
Billy Hughes age 55
Prime Minister - Australia
Robert Borden age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Eduardo Dato age 61
Prime Minister - Spain
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Carl Swartz age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Gunnar Knudsen age 69
Prime Minister - Norway
Vasil Radoslavov age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jón Magnússon age 58
Prime Minister - Iceland
Sándor Wekerle age 68
Prime Minister - Hungary
Charles de Broqueville age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pieter Cort van der Linden age 71
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Afonso Costa age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
William Massey age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Léon Kauffman age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Evgenije Popović age 75
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Francisco Tudela y Varela age 40
Prime Minister - Peru
Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 54
Prime Minister - Nepal
Tevita Tuʻivakano age 47
Prime Minister - Tonga
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 57
Governor-General - Australia
Martial Merlin age 57
Governor-General - Madagascar
Adolf Hitler age 28
Albert Einstein age 38
Ronald Reagan age 6
Vladimir Lenin age 47
Mahatma Gandhi age 48
Joseph Stalin age 38
Pablo Picasso age 35
Charlie Chaplin age 28
Thomas Edison age 70
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 36
Sigmund Freud age 61
John F. Kennedy age 4 months
Marie Curie age 49
Rabindranath Tagore age 56
Mao Zedong age 23
Charles de Gaulle age 26
Nikola Tesla age 61
Walt Disney age 15
George Orwell age 14
Ernest Hemingway age 18
Henry Ford age 54
Benito Mussolini age 34