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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

People

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 14
Maria Christina of Austria age 20
Charlotte of Belgium age 39
Allan Octavian Hume age 50
Henry L. Stimson age 11
Victoriano Huerta age 28
Ignacy Mościcki age 11
Sergio Osmeña age 9 months
Philip Henry Sheridan age 48
Lucretia Mott age 86
Victoria of Baden age 16
Gyula Andrássy age 56
Leland Stanford age 55
Spyridon Louis age 6
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
Armando Diaz age 17
Otto, King of Bavaria age 31
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 20
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 22
Alexander Mackenzie age 57
Kate Sheppard age 32
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
Li Hongzhang age 56
Luigi Cadorna age 28
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) age 54
Sophia of Prussia age 9
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 33
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 16
Emilio De Bono age 13
George Reid age 34
Jānis Čakste age 19
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 61
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 30
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 1
Saionji Kinmochi age 29
Bettino Ricasoli age 70
Antonio Salandra age 25
Luigi Facta age 17
Rodrigues Alves age 31
Afonso Pena age 31
Georgy Gapon age 9
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 9
John Abbott age 58
Carrie Chapman Catt age 20
Dadabhai Naoroji age 53
Habibullah Khan age 7
Julio Argentino Roca age 35
Ugyen Wangchuck age 17
Richard Bedford Bennett age 9
Abraham Kuyper age 41
Tanaka Giichi age 15
Sidney Sonnino age 32
Washington Luís age 9
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia age 22
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 43
Thomas Andrews age 6
Marie Henriette of Austria age 42
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 34
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
Arthur Griffith age 8
Mikhail Skobelev age 35
Apolinario Mabini age 14
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 10
Epitácio Pessoa age 14
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 25
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 67
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 4
Reinhard Scheer age 15
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse age 11
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 29
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria age 45
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium age 15
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 31
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale age 15
Louise, Princess Royal age 12
John Hay age 40
Robert Borden age 25
Arturo Alessandri age 10
Saad Zaghloul age 22
Mihály Károlyi age 4
Takahashi Korekiyo age 24
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 52
D. F. Malan age 5
Louis-Jules Trochu age 64
Albert I of Saxony age 51
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby age 18
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia age 51
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia age 22
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia age 25
Kōki Hirota age 1
Aimo Cajander age 2 months
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 8
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 19
Teófilo Braga age 36
Zhang Zuolin age 4
Juan Vicente Gómez age 21
James Longstreet age 58
J. Sigfrid Edström age 8
Alexei Kuropatkin age 31
Georg I of Saxony age 46
Louis IV of Hesse age 41
Princess Charlotte of Prussia age 18
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom age 10
John Sparrow David Thompson age 33
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 61
Al Smith age 5
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 11
Robert Lansing age 14
William, Prince of Albania age 3
István Tisza age 18
Thorvald Stauning age 5
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 10
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 53
P. G. T. Beauregard age 61
Katō Tomosaburō age 18
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 69
Hermes da Fonseca age 24
Emilio Castelar age 46
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 23
Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta age 10
Paul von Rennenkampf age 25
J. Bruce Ismay age 16
Charles I of Württemberg age 56
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 11
Archduchess Gisela of Austria age 22
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany age 26
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 2
José Manuel Balmaceda age 38
Midhat Pasha age 56
Roque Sáenz Peña age 28
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 4 months
Tomás Estrada Palma age 44
Jaan Tõnisson age 10
Alexandros Zaimis age 23
Alexandru Averescu age 20
Kiyoura Keigo age 29
Okada Keisuke age 11
Senjūrō Hayashi age 3
Robert Todd Lincoln age 35
Delfim Moreira age 10
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 56
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 3
Andrew Mellon age 24
Francesc Pi i Margall age 55
Otto Liman von Sanders age 24
Alexander Samsonov age 19
Mikhail Alekseyev age 21
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria age 11
Archduke Otto Franz Joseph of Austria age 14
Prince Louis of Battenberg age 25
Matthias Erzberger age 3
Lauri Ingman age 11
Bernardino Machado age 28
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 13
Hamaguchi Osachi age 9
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 40
Luigi Luzzatti age 38
René Viviani age 15
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 10
Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark age 8
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 10
Empress Myeongseong age 27
Maria Anna of Savoy age 75
Maria Pia of Savoy age 31
Charles Tupper age 58
Ōyama Iwao age 36
Joseph Gallieni age 30
José Félix Uriburu age 10
Agustín Pedro Justo age 3
Sidónio Pais age 7
Christian Rakovsky age 5
Eduardo Dato age 22
Marco Minghetti age 60