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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

Clara Barton age 66
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 40
Gustav Bauer age 18
Heinrich Brüning age 2
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 5 months
Peter I of Serbia age 43
Abbas II of Egypt age 13
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 26
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria age 29
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 2
Kyösti Kallio age 14
Billy Hughes age 25
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 13
Plutarco Elías Calles age 10
Gabriel Narutowicz age 22
Archibald Wavell age 4
Erich von Falkenhayn age 26
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 20
Isma'il Pasha age 57
Fuad I of Egypt age 19
August von Mackensen age 38
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg age 19
Marie of Romania age 12
Nicolae Iorga age 16
Rómulo Gallegos age 3
Maurice Gamelin age 15
Georg Michaelis age 30
Georg von Hertling age 44
Constantin Fehrenbach age 36
Giovanni Giolitti age 45
Jan Smuts age 17
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 15
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 1
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 46
Lew Wallace age 60
Chris Watson age 20
Lauri Kristian Relander age 4
Francisco Largo Caballero age 18
C. Rajagopalachari age 9
Günther von Kluge age 5
Yakov Sverdlov age 2
Djemal Pasha age 15
Wilhelm Cuno age 11
Yamagata Aritomo age 49
Ichirō Hatoyama age 5
Ivanoe Bonomi age 14
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 68
Zewditu age 11
Demetrios Vikelas age 53
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 6
Andrey Vyshinsky age 4
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia age 9
Alice Paul age 3
Ismail Kemal age 44
Andrew Fisher age 25
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 3
Nikolai Yudenich age 25
Terauchi Masatake age 36
Hara Takashi age 31
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 43
Bartolomé Mitre age 66
Wilfrid Laurier age 46
Nikola Pašić age 42
Wang Jingwei age 4
Matsukata Masayoshi age 53
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 32
Paul Reynaud age 9
Floriano Peixoto age 48
Jules Ferry age 55
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 36
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 23
Maria Christina of Austria age 29
Charlotte of Belgium age 47
Allan Octavian Hume age 58
Henry L. Stimson age 20
John Curtin age 3
Victoriano Huerta age 37
Ignacy Mościcki age 20
Sergio Osmeña age 9
Philip Henry Sheridan age 56
Rodolfo Graziani age 5
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 5
Victoria of Baden age 25
Gyula Andrássy age 64
Leland Stanford age 63
Spyridon Louis age 15
Charles Evans Hughes age 25
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 50
Louis St. Laurent age 6
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 6
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 47
Prudente de Morais age 46
Venceslau Brás age 19
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 34
Ludwig Beck age 7
Armando Diaz age 26
Ernest Bevin age 6
Otto, King of Bavaria age 39
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 29
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 30
Alexander Mackenzie age 66
Kate Sheppard age 40
James F. Byrnes age 5
Arthur Meighen age 13
Georgios Papandreou age 0 months
Robert Nivelle age 31
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 35
Maxime Weygand age 21
Kuniaki Koiso age 7
Kijūrō Shidehara age 15
Nilo Peçanha age 20
François Darlan age 6
Li Hongzhang age 65
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 2
Luigi Cadorna age 37
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 5
Sophia of Prussia age 17
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 41
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 24
Emilio De Bono age 21
George Reid age 43
Earle Page age 7
Pál Teleki age 8
Jānis Čakste age 28
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 70
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 39
Per Albin Hansson age 2
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 10
Saionji Kinmochi age 38
Antonio Salandra age 34
Luigi Facta age 26
Rodrigues Alves age 39
Afonso Pena age 40
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 4
Chen Duxiu age 8
Georgy Gapon age 18
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 17
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 3 months
John Abbott age 66
Carrie Chapman Catt age 29
Dadabhai Naoroji age 62
Habibullah Khan age 15
Julio Argentino Roca age 44
S. M. Bruce age 4
Ugyen Wangchuck age 25
Richard Bedford Bennett age 17
Abraham Kuyper age 50
Tanaka Giichi age 23
Tanzan Ishibashi age 3
Sidney Sonnino age 40
Washington Luís age 18
Claude Auchinleck age 3
Maximilian von Weichs age 6
Wilhelm List age 7
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia age 31
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 52
Thomas Andrews age 15
Johannes Blaskowitz age 4
Marie Henriette of Austria age 51
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 43
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 60
Joseph Cook age 27
Karl Seitz age 18
Michael Hainisch age 29
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 35
Pedro Lascuráin age 31
Wellington Koo age 0 months
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 13
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 35
Nobuyuki Abe age 12
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 2 months
Tetsu Katayama age 6 months
Hitoshi Ashida age 3 months
Campos Sales age 47
Artur Bernardes age 12
Avery Brundage age 4 months
Arthur Griffith age 16
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 8
Felix Yusupov age 11 months
Princess Margaret of Connaught age 6
Apolinario Mabini age 23
Fan S. Noli age 6
James Scullin age 11
Ben Chifley age 2
Joseph Lyons age 8
Theodor Körner age 14
Kazys Grinius age 21
Óscar Carmona age 18
Hugo Sperrle age 3
Katō Takaaki age 28
Saitō Makoto age 29
Kantarō Suzuki age 20
Paolo Boselli age 49
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 19
Dwight F. Davis age 8
Epitácio Pessoa age 22
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 34
Paul Hausser age 7
Emilio Mola age 8 months
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 76