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Explore July 29, 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

Alben W. Barkley age 1
Gerd von Rundstedt age 3
Francisco I. Madero age 5
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 9
Alexandra of Denmark age 34
John Nance Garner age 10
Alexandre Millerand age 20
Karl Renner age 8
Amadeo I of Spain age 34
George Curzon age 20
Yuan Shikai age 19
Joseph Joffre age 27
Paul Doumer age 22
Luigi Einaudi age 5
Enrico de Nicola age 1
Anton Denikin age 6
Armand Fallières age 37
Gaston Doumergue age 16
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 18
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 41
Deodoro da Fonseca age 52
Erich Raeder age 3
John J. Pershing age 18
Elihu Root age 34
Edmund Barton age 30
Mary of Teck age 12
Bernhard von Bülow age 30
Hjalmar Schacht age 2
Charles Curtis age 19
Thomas R. Marshall age 25
Frank B. Kellogg age 22
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 36
Carol I of Romania age 40
Ferdinand I of Romania age 13
Pyotr Wrangel age 11 months
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 19
Wilhelm Frick age 2
Alfred Deakin age 23
Konstantin Päts age 5
Lavr Kornilov age 8
Félix Faure age 38
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 14
Sergei Witte age 30
Manuel L. Quezon age 11 months
Émile Loubet age 40
Menelik II age 34
Antanas Smetona age 4
Georgy Lvov age 17
Jean Casimir-Perier age 31
Arthur Henderson age 15
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 29
Charles W. Fairbanks age 27
Paul Deschanel age 24
Abdur Rahman Khan age 39
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 17
Douglas Hyde age 19
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 41
Shigeru Yoshida age 10 months
Talaat Pasha age 4
Garret Hobart age 35
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 31
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 2
Wilhelm Marx age 16
Hans Luther age 4 months
Édouard Herriot age 7
Leo von Caprivi age 48
Philipp Scheidemann age 14
Schuyler Colfax age 56
Thomas A. Hendricks age 59
William Jennings Bryan age 19
Christian Michelsen age 22
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 3
Katsura Tarō age 31
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 29
Ioannis Metaxas age 8
Kārlis Ulmanis age 1
Clara Barton age 57
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 32
Gustav Bauer age 9
Peter I of Serbia age 35
Abbas II of Egypt age 5
Kyösti Kallio age 6
James S. Sherman age 23
Billy Hughes age 16
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 4
Plutarco Elías Calles age 1
Gabriel Narutowicz age 14
Erich von Falkenhayn age 17
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 12
Fuad I of Egypt age 11
Nicolae Iorga age 8
Maurice Gamelin age 6
Georg Michaelis age 21
Georg von Hertling age 35
Constantin Fehrenbach age 27
Giovanni Giolitti age 36
Jan Smuts age 9
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 7
Chris Watson age 12
Francisco Largo Caballero age 9
C. Rajagopalachari age 7 months
Djemal Pasha age 7
Wilhelm Cuno age 3
Yamagata Aritomo age 41
Ivanoe Bonomi age 5
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 60
Zewditu age 3
Demetrios Vikelas age 44
Ismail Kemal age 35
Andrew Fisher age 16
Nikolai Yudenich age 17
Terauchi Masatake age 27
Hara Takashi age 23
Francesco Crispi age 60
Wilfrid Laurier age 37
Nikola Pašić age 33
Matsukata Masayoshi age 44
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 24
Paul Reynaud age 9 months
Floriano Peixoto age 40
Henry L. Stimson age 11
Victoriano Huerta age 28
Ignacy Mościcki age 11
Sergio Osmeña age 10 months
Charles Evans Hughes age 17
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 41
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 38
Prudente de Morais age 37
Venceslau Brás age 11
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 26
Arthur Meighen age 5
Robert Nivelle age 22
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 26
Maxime Weygand age 12
Kijūrō Shidehara age 6
Nilo Peçanha age 11
Emilio De Bono age 13
George Reid age 34
Jānis Čakste age 19
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 62
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 30
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 2
Saionji Kinmochi age 29
Bettino Ricasoli age 70
Antonio Salandra age 25
Luigi Facta age 17
Rodrigues Alves age 31
Afonso Pena age 31
Habibullah Khan age 7
Julio Argentino Roca age 36
Ugyen Wangchuck age 17
Richard Bedford Bennett age 9
Abraham Kuyper age 41
Tanaka Giichi age 15
Agostino Depretis age 66
Sidney Sonnino age 32
Washington Luís age 9
Joseph Cook age 18
Karl Seitz age 9
Michael Hainisch age 20
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 27
Pedro Lascuráin age 23
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 5
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 26
Nobuyuki Abe age 3
Campos Sales age 38
Artur Bernardes age 3
James Scullin age 2
Theodor Körner age 6
Kazys Grinius age 12
Óscar Carmona age 9
Katō Takaaki age 19
Saitō Makoto age 20
Kantarō Suzuki age 11
Paolo Boselli age 41
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 11
Dwight F. Davis age 0 months
Epitácio Pessoa age 14
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 25
John Hay age 40
Robert Borden age 25
Arturo Alessandri age 10
Saad Zaghloul age 22
Mihály Károlyi age 4
Takahashi Korekiyo age 25
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 52
Kōki Hirota age 1
Aimo Cajander age 3 months
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 9
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 19
Teófilo Braga age 36
Zhang Zuolin age 4
Juan Vicente Gómez age 22
James Longstreet age 58
J. Sigfrid Edström age 8
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 11
Robert Lansing age 14
William, Prince of Albania age 3
István Tisza age 18
Thorvald Stauning age 5