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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

People

Joseph Theodore Dickman age 50
Max von Gallwitz age 56
Georg Fuchs age 51
Eduard von Below age 51
Kim Chaek age 4
Herbert Lawrence age 47
Harry Chauvel age 43
Edward Chaytor age 40
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 51
Bryan Mahon age 46
Piet Cronjé age 71
Kootjie Snyman age 70
Petrus Johannes Liebenberg age 51
Francisco García-Escámez age 15
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 11
Hasan Riza Pasha age 37
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 66
Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro age 37
Radomir Vešović age 37
Nikola Ivanov age 47
Georgi Vazov age 48
Abdullah Kölemen age 62
Mehmed Şükrü Paşa age 52
Petar Bojović age 50
Anastasios Papoulas age 51
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 26
Victor d'Urbal age 49
Oskar Gripenberg age 70
Oskar von Hutier age 50
Georg Bruchmüller age 44
Luigi Capello age 49
Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen age 62
Georgios Hatzianestis age 44
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 40
Kimon Digenis age 37
Alexander Fok age 64
Constantin Prezan age 47
George White age 73
Christiaan de Wet age 53
Mahmud Muhtar Paşa age 40
Karl Jessen age 56
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 33
Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre age 26
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 12
Juan Vigón age 27
Nazim Pasha age 60
Constantine I of Greece age 40
Hasan Tahsin Pasha age 63
Konstantinos Sapountzakis age 62
Dimitrios Matthaiopoulos age 47
Mehmet Esat Bülkat age 45
Mehmet Vehip Kaçı age 33
Jacques Massu age 2 months
John Monash age 43
Walter Braithwaite age 42
Hans Carl Adolph von Carlowitz age 50
Ildefonso Puigdengolas age 32
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 1 month
Rikichi Andō age 24
Seiichi Kuno age 21
Ptolemaios Sarigiannis age 26
Konstantinos Pallis age 37
Zaiyi age 51
Elwell Stephen Otis age 70
Arthur MacArthur Jr. age 63
Thomas M. Anderson age 72
Georg von Stackelberg age 57
Pavel Mishchenko age 55
Aleksandr Gerngross age 57
Ivan Sorokin age 23
Alexei Ivanovich Avtonomov age 18
Rudolf Sivers age 15
Emilio Mola age 21
José Solchaga age 26
Zhang Zizhong age 16
Waichirō Sonobe age 25
Nikolai Zarubaev age 65
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 42
Edward Hobart Seymour age 68
Arthur Dorward age 60
Robert Lee Bullard age 47
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 43
Halil Sami Bey age 42
Moshe Mann age 1
Ma Fuxiang age 32
Iakov Apollonovitch Giltebrandt age 65
Christopher Cradock age 46
Hugo von Pohl age 52
Thomas T. Munford age 77
Henry Glass age 64
Nelson A. Miles age 69
Wesley Merritt age 72
Frederick Stopford age 54
Ian Hamilton age 55
Alexander Cobbe age 38
Malik Yaqo age 14
İsmail Hakkı Okday age 27
Bowman H. McCalla age 64
Cornelius Hermanus Wessels age 57
Abdul-Ali Malik age 1
Irving Hale age 46
Sher Jung Thapa age 1
Winfield Scott Schley age 68
Pascual Cervera y Topete age 69
Charles Warren age 68
Schalk Willem Burger age 55
Claude Maxwell MacDonald age 56
Nikolai Yezhov age 12
Genrikh Yagoda age 16
Andrey Vyshinsky age 24
Lazar Kaganovich age 14
Lavrentiy Beria age 9
Yves Congar age 4
Karl Rahner age 4
Marcel Lefebvre age 2
Ahmed Niyazi Bey age 35
Henry Rathbone age 71
Konstantin von Neurath age 35
Ernest Bevin age 27
Carlo Sforza age 36
Halvard Lange age 5
Heinrich Müller age 8
Roland Freisler age 14
Wilhelm Stuckart age 5
Tokugawa Iesato age 44
Princess Masako Takeda age 19
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 18
Princess Nobuko Asaka age 16
Toshiko Higashikuni age 12
Empress Shōken age 59
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu age 6
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu age 3
Empress Teimei age 24
Prince Tsunehisa Takeda age 25
Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa age 21
Empress Nagako age 5
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 75
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 61
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia age 58
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia age 47
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia age 54
Prince George Alexandrovich Yuryevsky age 36
Princess Olga Alexandrovna Yurievskaya age 34
Princess Catherine Yurievskaya age 29
Catherine Dolgorukova age 60
Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg age 66
Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg age 63
George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg age 56
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 56
Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia age 58
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia age 54
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia age 49
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia age 48
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 78
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia age 44
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia age 49
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia age 48
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia age 46
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) age 44
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia age 42
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia age 38
Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 51
Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 49
Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg age 45
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 33
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia age 29
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 26
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 60
Aleksey Belevsky-Zhukovsky age 36
Alexandra Zhukovskaya age 65
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 43
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 18
Vladimir Paley age 11
Irina Paley age 4
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 2
Princess Olga Paley age 42
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 39
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark age 36
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 32
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark age 19
George I of Greece age 62
Duchess Elsa of Württemberg age 32
Duchess Olga of Württemberg age 32
Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia age 15
Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia age 17
Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia age 14
Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia age 22
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 2
Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia age 21
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 18
Prince Georgy Konstantinovich of Russia age 5
Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865–1927) age 43
Princess Anastasia of Montenegro age 40
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 10
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 16
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 11
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 42
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 28
Frederick Francis IV age 26
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 21