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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

Cecil Rhodes age 34
Ibn Saud age 11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 223
Frederick Douglass age 69
Susan B. Anthony age 67
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 20
Syngman Rhee age 12
Jefferson Davis age 79
George S. Patton age 2
Hideki Tojo age 2
İsmet İnönü age 3
Bernard Montgomery age 0 months
Gustav Stresemann age 9
Reza Shah age 9
Empress Elisabeth of Austria age 50
Rajendra Prasad age 3
Alexander Kerensky age 6
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 12
Getúlio Vargas age 5
Karl Liebknecht age 16
Emmeline Pankhurst age 29
Mehmed VI age 26
Ferdinand Foch age 36
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 10
Raymond Poincaré age 27
Friedrich Ebert age 16
Pancho Villa age 9
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 72
Stanley Baldwin age 20
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 7
Patrice de MacMahon age 79
Isabella II age 57
Franz von Papen age 8
Ramsay MacDonald age 21
Celâl Bayar age 4
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 18
Frederick III, German Emperor age 56
Isoroku Yamamoto age 3
Wilhelm Keitel age 5
Charles G. Dawes age 22
Éamon de Valera age 5
Alcide De Gasperi age 6
Alexander Kolchak age 13
Aristide Briand age 25
Léon Blum age 15
Robert Schuman age 1
Emperor Taishō age 8
Georgi Dimitrov age 5
Erich Ludendorff age 22
Kliment Voroshilov age 6
Mehmed V age 43
Charles I of Austria age 4 months
Haakon VII of Norway age 15
Faisal I of Iraq age 2
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 87
Abdullah I of Jordan age 5
Albert I of Belgium age 12
Erich von Manstein age 0 months
Chaim Weizmann age 13
Theodor Heuss age 3
Liliʻuokalani age 49
Ion Antonescu age 5
Gustaf V of Sweden age 29
Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia age 15
William Tecumseh Sherman age 67
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 5
Ernst Röhm age 0 months
Pyotr Stolypin age 25
Emilio Aguinaldo age 18
Pietro Badoglio age 16
Sarojini Naidu age 8
Chester W. Nimitz age 2
Andrew Bonar Law age 29
Enver Pasha age 6
Murad V age 47
Austen Chamberlain age 24
Albert Lebrun age 16
Eleftherios Venizelos age 23
Christian X of Denmark age 17
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 31
Édouard Daladier age 3
George I of Greece age 42
Kurt von Schleicher age 5
Cordell Hull age 16
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 17
Hjalmar Branting age 27
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 5
Manuel Azaña age 7
Alben W. Barkley age 10
Gerd von Rundstedt age 12
Francisco I. Madero age 14
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 17
Alexandra of Denmark age 43
Lajos Kossuth age 85
John Nance Garner age 19
Alexandre Millerand age 28
Vincent Auriol age 3
Karl Renner age 17
Pierre Laval age 4
Amadeo I of Spain age 42
Yuan Shikai age 28
Joseph Joffre age 35
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 26
Paul Doumer age 30
Luigi Einaudi age 13
Enrico de Nicola age 10
Anton Denikin age 15
Armand Fallières age 46
Gaston Doumergue age 24
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 27
Semyon Budyonny age 4
Jules Grévy age 80
Deodoro da Fonseca age 60
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 82
Constantine I of Greece age 19
Abdülmecid II age 19
Erich Raeder age 11
Julius Streicher age 2
John J. Pershing age 27
René Coty age 5
Elihu Root age 42
Edmund Barton age 38
Mikhail Frunze age 2
Mary of Teck age 20
Bernhard von Bülow age 38
Aleksey Brusilov age 34
Hjalmar Schacht age 10
Charles Curtis age 27
Thomas R. Marshall age 33
Hannibal Hamlin age 78
Frank B. Kellogg age 31
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 44
Ferdinand I of Romania age 22
Pyotr Wrangel age 9
Alexei Rykov age 6
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 27
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 23
Wilhelm Frick age 10
Alfred Deakin age 31
Konstantin Päts age 13
Willem Drees age 1
Jozef Tiso age 2 months
Lavr Kornilov age 17
Félix Faure age 46
Paul Kruger age 62
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 40
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 22
Sergei Witte age 38
Vajiravudh age 6
Manuel L. Quezon age 9
Fedor von Bock age 7
Émile Loubet age 48
Menelik II age 43
Giovanni Gronchi age 3 months
Antanas Smetona age 13
Georgy Lvov age 26
Jean Casimir-Perier age 40
Arthur Henderson age 24
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 37
Charles W. Fairbanks age 35
Paul Deschanel age 32
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 26
Douglas Hyde age 27
Álvaro Obregón age 7
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 49
Shigeru Yoshida age 9
Talaat Pasha age 13
Walther von Brauchitsch age 6
René Cassin age 10 months
Edward Smith age 37
Victoria, Princess Royal age 47
Maud of Wales age 18
Garret Hobart age 43
Levi P. Morton age 63
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 39
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 11
Albert Kesselring age 2
Joseph Wirth age 8
Wilhelm Marx age 24
Hans Luther age 8
Édouard Herriot age 15
Leo von Caprivi age 56
Philipp Scheidemann age 22
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 76
William Jennings Bryan age 27
Sveinn Björnsson age 6
Christian Michelsen age 30
Władysław Sikorski age 6
Franz Halder age 3
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 11
Katsura Tarō age 39
Tōgō Heihachirō age 39
Konstantin von Neurath age 14
Zhu De age 1
Adlai Stevenson I age 52
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 37
Ioannis Metaxas age 16
Kārlis Ulmanis age 10
Venustiano Carranza age 27
Clara Barton age 66