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Explore August 25, 1879

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

People

Paul Maistre age 21
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 73
Charles Townshend age 18
Taytu Betul age 28
Émile Fayolle age 27
Karl von Einem age 26
Mekonnen Welde Mikael age 27
Bruno von Mudra age 28
Oreste Baratieri age 37
Vittorio Dabormida age 36
Giuseppe Arimondi age 33
Sakallı Nureddin Paşa age 6
George Washington Goethals age 21
Edward Smith age 29
J. Bruce Ismay age 16
Thomas Andrews age 6
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 8
John Pope age 57
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 30
August von Mackensen age 29
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 18
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy age 16
William Pulteney age 18
Georg von der Marwitz age 23
José Miaja age 1
Otto von Moser age 19
Hugo von Kathen age 24
Karl von Bülow age 33
Max von Hausen age 32
Charles Lanrezac age 27
Ludwig von Benedek age 75
Vittorio Ambrosio age 0 months
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 53
Ntshingwayo Khoza age 70
Dabulamanzi kaMpande age 39
Arthur Currie age 3
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 13
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 10
Jules Ferry age 47
Amédée Courbet age 52
Sébastien Lespès age 51
Pan Dingxin age 51
Nikolay Ivanov age 28
Anton von Saltza age 35
Alexei Evert age 22
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 23
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik age 24
Robert Brooke-Popham age 11 months
Kuroki Tamemoto age 35
Oku Yasukata age 32
Nikolai Linevich age 40
Alexander von Kaulbars age 35
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson age 15
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 51
Anatoly Stessel age 31
Carlo Pellion di Persano age 73
Dewa Shigetō age 23
Joseph Vinoy age 79
Kamimura Hikonojō age 30
Kodama Gentarō age 27
Nikolai Nebogatov age 30
Nogi Maresuke age 29
Oskar Victorovich Stark age 33
Pavel Petrovich Ukhtomsky age 31
Silvestras Žukauskas age 18
Tōgō Heihachirō age 31
Wilgelm Vitgeft age 31
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 36
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 30
José Moscardó Ituarte age 10 months
Radomir Putnik age 32
Stepa Stepanović age 23
Zeki Kolaç age 17
Pierre Ruffey age 28
Fernand de Langle de Cary age 30
Jean-Marie Degoutte age 13
James Harbord age 13
Richard von Conta age 22
Nikolai Ruzsky age 25
Sergei Sheydeman age 22
Archibald James Murray age 19
Charles Macpherson Dobell age 10
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein age 9
Rüştü Sakarya age 2
Edhem Pasha age 28
Sefë Kosharja age 49
Mikhail Zasulich age 35
Nikolai Kashtalinsky age 30
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 56
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen age 16
Josias von Heeringen age 29
Augustin Dubail age 28
Édouard de Castelnau age 27
Denis Auguste Duchêne age 16
Nikolay Svyatopolk-Mirsky age 46
Iosif Gurko age 51
Fyodor Radetsky age 59
Mehmed Rauf Pasha age 47
Suleyman Husnu Pasha age 41
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 1
Shunroku Hata age 1 month
Hunter Liggett age 22
Joseph Theodore Dickman age 21
Max von Gallwitz age 27
Georg Fuchs age 22
Eduard von Below age 22
Herbert Lawrence age 18
Harry Chauvel age 14
Edward Chaytor age 11
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 22
Bryan Mahon age 17
Piet Cronjé age 42
Kootjie Snyman age 41
Petrus Johannes Liebenberg age 22
Hasan Riza Pasha age 8
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 37
Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro age 8
Radomir Vešović age 8
Nikola Ivanov age 18
Georgi Vazov age 19
Abdullah Kölemen age 33
Mehmed Şükrü Paşa age 23
Richard Lucian Page age 71
Petar Bojović age 21
Anastasios Papoulas age 22
Victor d'Urbal age 20
Oskar Gripenberg age 41
Oskar von Hutier age 22
Georg Bruchmüller age 15
Luigi Capello age 20
Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen age 34
Andrew Wauchope age 33
Ignatius Stephanus Ferreira age 35
Georgios Hatzianestis age 15
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 11
Kimon Digenis age 8
Mitrofan Nadein age 39
Alexander Fok age 35
Constantin Prezan age 18
George White age 44
Piet Joubert age 45
Christiaan de Wet age 24
Mahmud Muhtar Paşa age 11
Karl Jessen age 27
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 4
Nazim Pasha age 31
Constantine I of Greece age 11
Hasan Tahsin Pasha age 34
Konstantinos Sapountzakis age 33
Dimitrios Matthaiopoulos age 18
Mehmet Esat Bülkat age 16
Mehmet Vehip Kaçı age 4
John Monash age 14
Walter Braithwaite age 13
Hans Carl Adolph von Carlowitz age 21
Ildefonso Puigdengolas age 3
Konstantinos Pallis age 8
Ronglu age 43
Zaiyi age 23
Dong Fuxiang age 40
Elwell Stephen Otis age 41
Arthur MacArthur Jr. age 34
Thomas M. Anderson age 43
Georg von Stackelberg age 28
Pavel Mishchenko age 26
Aleksandr Gerngross age 28
Nathan Kimball age 56
Erastus B. Tyler age 57
August von Werder age 70
Wilhelm von Tümpling age 69
Eduard Clam-Gallas age 74
Nikolai Zarubaev age 36
Lew Wallace age 52
Truman Seymour age 54
Joseph Finegan age 64
William Rufus Shafter age 43
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 13
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 54
Edward Hobart Seymour age 39
Arthur Dorward age 31
Nie Shicheng age 43
William S. Harney age 79
Robert Lee Bullard age 18
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 14
Halil Sami Bey age 13
Ma Fulu age 25
Ma Fuxiang age 3
Iakov Apollonovitch Giltebrandt age 36
Christopher Cradock age 17
Hugo von Pohl age 24
John Reese Kenly age 61
Thomas T. Munford age 48
Alexander McDowell McCook age 48
Henry Glass age 35
Henry Ware Lawton age 36
Nelson A. Miles age 40
Wesley Merritt age 43
Frederick Stopford age 25
Thomas W. Sherman age 66
Thomas Drayton age 70