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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

People

Emmeline Pankhurst age 27
Mehmed VI age 24
Ferdinand Foch age 34
H. H. Asquith age 33
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 8
Raymond Poincaré age 25
Friedrich Ebert age 14
Pancho Villa age 7
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 70
Stanley Baldwin age 18
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 5
Patrice de MacMahon age 77
Isabella II age 55
Franz von Papen age 6
Ramsay MacDonald age 19
Celâl Bayar age 2
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 16
Frederick III, German Emperor age 54
Isoroku Yamamoto age 1
Wilhelm Keitel age 3
Charles G. Dawes age 20
Éamon de Valera age 3
Alcide De Gasperi age 4
Alexander Kolchak age 11
Aristide Briand age 23
Léon Blum age 13
Emperor Taishō age 6
Georgi Dimitrov age 3
Erich Ludendorff age 20
Kliment Voroshilov age 4
Mehmed V age 41
Itō Hirobumi age 44
Haakon VII of Norway age 13
Faisal I of Iraq age 7 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 85
Abdullah I of Jordan age 3
Albert I of Belgium age 10
Chaim Weizmann age 11
Theodor Heuss age 1
Ion Antonescu age 3
Gustaf V of Sweden age 27
William Tecumseh Sherman age 65
Pyotr Stolypin age 23
Emilio Aguinaldo age 16
Pietro Badoglio age 14
Chester W. Nimitz age 9 months
Andrew Bonar Law age 27
Murad V age 45
Eleftherios Venizelos age 21
Christian X of Denmark age 15
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 29
Édouard Daladier age 1
Kurt von Schleicher age 3
Cordell Hull age 14
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 15
Hjalmar Branting age 25
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 3
Manuel Azaña age 5
Alben W. Barkley age 8
Gerd von Rundstedt age 10
Francisco I. Madero age 12
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 15
Alexandra of Denmark age 41
Lajos Kossuth age 83
John Nance Garner age 17
Alexandre Millerand age 26
Vincent Auriol age 1
Karl Renner age 15
Pierre Laval age 2
Amadeo I of Spain age 40
George Curzon age 26
Yuan Shikai age 26
Joseph Joffre age 33
Paul Doumer age 28
Luigi Einaudi age 11
Enrico de Nicola age 8
Anton Denikin age 13
Armand Fallières age 44
Gaston Doumergue age 22
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 25
Semyon Budyonny age 2
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 48
Deodoro da Fonseca age 58
Erich Raeder age 9
Julius Streicher age 10 months
John J. Pershing age 25
René Coty age 3
Elihu Root age 40
Edmund Barton age 36
Mikhail Frunze age 10 months
Mary of Teck age 18
Bernhard von Bülow age 36
Hjalmar Schacht age 8
Charles Curtis age 25
Thomas R. Marshall age 31
Hannibal Hamlin age 76
Frank B. Kellogg age 29
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 42
Ferdinand I of Romania age 20
Pyotr Wrangel age 7
Alexei Rykov age 4
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 25
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 21
Wilhelm Frick age 8
Alfred Deakin age 29
Konstantin Päts age 11
Lavr Kornilov age 15
Félix Faure age 44
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 20
Sergei Witte age 36
Vajiravudh age 4
Manuel L. Quezon age 7
Fedor von Bock age 5
Émile Loubet age 47
Menelik II age 41
Antanas Smetona age 11
Georgy Lvov age 24
Jean Casimir-Perier age 38
Arthur Henderson age 22
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 35
Charles W. Fairbanks age 33
Paul Deschanel age 30
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 24
Douglas Hyde age 25
Álvaro Obregón age 5
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 47
Shigeru Yoshida age 7
Talaat Pasha age 11
Garret Hobart age 41
Levi P. Morton age 61
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 37
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 9
Albert Kesselring age 0 months
Joseph Wirth age 6
Wilhelm Marx age 22
Hans Luther age 6
Édouard Herriot age 13
Leo von Caprivi age 54
Philipp Scheidemann age 20
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 74
William Jennings Bryan age 25
Sveinn Björnsson age 4
Christian Michelsen age 28
Władysław Sikorski age 4
Franz Halder age 1
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 9
Katsura Tarō age 37
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 35
Ioannis Metaxas age 14
Kārlis Ulmanis age 8
Clara Barton age 64
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 38
Gustav Bauer age 15
Heinrich Brüning age 0 months
Peter I of Serbia age 41
Abbas II of Egypt age 11
Kyösti Kallio age 12
James S. Sherman age 30
Billy Hughes age 23
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 11
Plutarco Elías Calles age 8
Gabriel Narutowicz age 20
Erich von Falkenhayn age 24
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 18
Fuad I of Egypt age 17
Nicolae Iorga age 14
Rómulo Gallegos age 1
Maurice Gamelin age 13
Georg Michaelis age 28
Georg von Hertling age 42
Constantin Fehrenbach age 33
Giovanni Giolitti age 43
Jan Smuts age 15
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 13
Chris Watson age 18
Lauri Kristian Relander age 2
Francisco Largo Caballero age 16
C. Rajagopalachari age 7
Günther von Kluge age 3
Yakov Sverdlov age 6 months
Djemal Pasha age 13
Wilhelm Cuno age 9
Yamagata Aritomo age 47
Ichirō Hatoyama age 2
Ivanoe Bonomi age 12
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 66
Zewditu age 9
Demetrios Vikelas age 50
Ismail Kemal age 41
Andrew Fisher age 23
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 1
Nikolai Yudenich age 23
Terauchi Masatake age 33
Hara Takashi age 29
Francesco Crispi age 67
Bartolomé Mitre age 64
Wilfrid Laurier age 44
Nikola Pašić age 40
Wang Jingwei age 2
Matsukata Masayoshi age 50