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Events

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
Cuban War of Independence 1895-02-24 - 1898-08-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13

People

Georgi Vazov age 38
Mehmed Şükrü Paşa age 42
Victor d'Urbal age 39
Karl Jessen age 45
Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre age 16
Konstantinos Sapountzakis age 52
William Rufus Shafter age 62
Winfield Scott Schley age 58
Konstantine Bagration of Mukhrani (1889–1915) age 9
Şehzade Selim Süleyman age 37
Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri age 3
Gevherriz Hanım age 36
Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik age 23
Nemika Sultan age 10
Georgy Berkhman age 44
Luis Barceló age 1
Jirō Tamon age 19
Masaomi Yasuoka age 11
Keizō Komura age 1
Youlan age 14
Prince George of Prussia age 72
Archduke Franz Karl Salvator of Austria age 5
Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg age 2
Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz age 24
Alexander Ramsay (Royal Navy officer) age 16
Marcos Antonio Cabral age 56
George Washington Hays age 34
Homer Martin Adkins age 7
Benjamin T. Laney age 1
Tom Terral age 15
William Claflin age 80
John S. Battle age 7
Junius Marion Futrell age 27
Charles F. Hurley age 4
Eben Sumner Draper age 39
George Washington Donaghey age 41
Horace White age 32
George Hoadly age 71
Joseph B. Ely age 17
Dewitt Clinton Senter age 68
William M. Tuck age 1
Frank W. Higgins age 41
Henry Carter Stuart age 43
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 14
Emerson Harrington age 34
Peter Turney age 70
John I. Cox age 42
Martin H. Glynn age 26
John Lee Carroll age 67
John M. Pattison age 50
Alonzo B. Cornell age 66
Harvey Parnell age 18
Philip W. McKinney age 66
Joseph D. Sayers age 56
Martin L. Davey age 13
Franklin Murphy age 52
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 67
Ernest Brown age 16
Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun age 37
Albert H. Roberts age 29
Ben W. Hooper age 27
Prentice Cooper age 2
Francisco Ferreira do Amaral age 53
José Dias Ferreira age 60
José Bordas Valdés age 23
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 22
Imru Haile Selassie age 5
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 12
Naji al-Suwaidi age 16
Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein age 23
Lazar Mijušković age 30
Evgenije Popović age 56
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 13
Sebastián Uriza age 37
Marko Trifković age 33
Wang Zhengting age 16
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 0 months
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 48
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 42
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 29
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 17
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 21
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 32
William Wallace Wotherspoon age 47
J. Franklin Bell age 42
Seiichi Kita age 11
Marcello Soleri age 16
John Ernest Dahlquist age 2
Manuel Mondragón age 39
Edward P. King age 13
Oscar Griswold age 11
Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet age 28
Geoffrey Scoones age 5
Nikolay Svyatopolk-Mirsky age 64
Ivan Sorokin age 13
Robert Lee Bullard age 37
Alexander McDowell McCook age 67
Frederick Stopford age 44
Princess Olga Alexandrovna Yurievskaya age 24
Alexandra Zhukovskaya age 55
Remzşinas Hanım age 34
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülhalim age 3
David S. Stanley age 69
Kurt Wahle age 42
Nikolai Stoletov age 66
Zaitao age 10
Zaixun, Prince Rui age 12
Heinrich XXXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz age 18
Prince Pasquale, Count of Bari age 45
Fermín Palacios
Crescencio Gómez age 65
Edward H. East age 67
Samuel W. McCall age 47
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton age 68
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 15
Harry L. Davis age 20
William A. Newell age 80
William Kavanaugh Oldham age 32
Emmett Forest Branch age 23
Edwin Warfield age 50
William Preston Lane Jr. age 5
Charles Seymour Whitman age 29
Nathan L. Miller age 29
William Nelson Runyon age 27
Alfred A. Taylor age 49
John Alden Dix age 37
Paul V. McNutt age 6
John Isaac Moore age 42
Edward L. Jackson age 24
Claude Matthews age 52
James P. Goodrich age 34
Harold G. Hoffman age 2
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 26
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 57
William Graham age 10
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 49
Charles H. Allen age 50
Donald Maclean age 34
Hastings Lees-Smith age 20
Henry Billings Brown age 62
Mehmed Sadık Pasha age 73
Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson age 23
Jim Nance McCord age 19
Alfredo Navarro age 30
Ralph Austin Bard age 13
Venceslau de Lima age 39
Abd-al Karim age 1
Euclídes de Angulo age 56
Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 37
Baudilio Palma age 17
Juan Ángel Arias Boquín age 38
Salvador Aguirre age 35
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 4
Martial Merlin age 38
Jamtsangiin Damdinsüren age 4 months
Losolyn Laagan age 11
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 30
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 4
Rosendo Chamorro age 36
Solomone Ula Ata age 14
Mariano Holguín age 38
Rodolfo Llopis age 3
Edward Shortt age 36
Jim Griffiths age 7
John L. Hines age 29
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 72
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 30
Brian O'Higgins age 15
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 2
Liu Zhi age 6
Arthur Dewey Struble age 3
Friedrich Köchling age 4
Wacław Iwaszkiewicz-Rudoszański age 26
Friedrich Altrichter age 7
Roberto Brusati age 47
Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont age 43
Victor Deguise age 42
William Pulteney age 36
James Harbord age 32
Richard von Conta age 41
Joseph Theodore Dickman age 40
Radomir Vešović age 27
Seiichi Kuno age 11
Thomas M. Anderson age 62
Waichirō Sonobe age 15
Prince George Alexandrovich Yuryevsky age 26
Şehzade Mehmed Cemaleddin age 7
Adile Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Selaheddin) age 11
Nevil Macready age 36
Tom Prince age 32
Prince Imperial Heung age 52
Imperial Noble Consort Sunheon age 44
Alice Habsburg age 8
Irene Mountbatten, Marchioness of Carisbrooke age 7
Francisco de Aguilar age 88
Vicente Gómez
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice age 51
Elihu Emory Jackson age 60
Harry Nice age 20
Frank Brown age 51