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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

Christian Michelsen age 33
Władysław Sikorski age 9
Franz Halder age 6
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 14
Katsura Tarō age 43
Tōgō Heihachirō age 43
Konstantin von Neurath age 18
Zhu De age 4
Adlai Stevenson I age 55
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 40
Ioannis Metaxas age 19
Kārlis Ulmanis age 13
Venustiano Carranza age 31
Clara Barton age 69
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 43
Gustav Bauer age 21
Heinrich Brüning age 5
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 3
Peter I of Serbia age 46
Abbas II of Egypt age 16
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 29
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 5
Walther Funk age 6 months
Kyösti Kallio age 17
Billy Hughes age 28
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 16
Plutarco Elías Calles age 13
Gabriel Narutowicz age 25
Archibald Wavell age 7
Erich von Falkenhayn age 29
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 23
Vasily Blyukher age 1
Isma'il Pasha age 60
Fuad I of Egypt age 22
August von Mackensen age 41
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg age 22
Marie of Romania age 15
Nicolae Iorga age 19
Rómulo Gallegos age 6
Maurice Gamelin age 18
Georg Michaelis age 33
Georg von Hertling age 47
Constantin Fehrenbach age 39
Giovanni Giolitti age 48
Jan Smuts age 20
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 18
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 4
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 49
Lew Wallace age 63
Chris Watson age 23
Lauri Kristian Relander age 7
Francisco Largo Caballero age 21
C. Rajagopalachari age 12
Günther von Kluge age 8
Yakov Sverdlov age 5
Djemal Pasha age 18
Wilhelm Cuno age 14
Ichirō Hatoyama age 8
Ivanoe Bonomi age 17
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 71
Zewditu age 14
Demetrios Vikelas age 56
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 9
Andrey Vyshinsky age 7
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia age 12
Alice Paul age 6
Ismail Kemal age 47
Andrew Fisher age 28
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 6
Nikolai Yudenich age 28
Terauchi Masatake age 39
Hara Takashi age 34
Francesco Crispi age 72
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 46
Bartolomé Mitre age 69
Wilfrid Laurier age 49
Nikola Pašić age 45
Wang Jingwei age 7
Matsukata Masayoshi age 56
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 35
Paul Reynaud age 12
Floriano Peixoto age 51
Jules Ferry age 58
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 39
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 26
Maria Christina of Austria age 32
Charlotte of Belgium age 50
Allan Octavian Hume age 61
Henry L. Stimson age 23
John Curtin age 6
Victoriano Huerta age 40
Ignacy Mościcki age 23
Sergio Osmeña age 12
Rodolfo Graziani age 8
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 8
Victoria of Baden age 28
Leland Stanford age 66
Spyridon Louis age 18
Charles Evans Hughes age 28
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 53
Louis St. Laurent age 9
Elpidio Quirino age 3 months
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 9
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 50
Prudente de Morais age 49
Venceslau Brás age 22
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 37
Ludwig Beck age 10
Armando Diaz age 29
Ernest Bevin age 9
Otto, King of Bavaria age 42
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 32
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 33
Alexander Mackenzie age 69
Kate Sheppard age 43
James F. Byrnes age 8
Arthur Meighen age 16
Georgios Papandreou age 3
Zalman Shazar age 1
Robert Nivelle age 34
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 38
Maxime Weygand age 24
Kuniaki Koiso age 10
Kijūrō Shidehara age 18
Nilo Peçanha age 23
François Darlan age 9
Li Hongzhang age 68
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 5
Luigi Cadorna age 40
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 8
Sophia of Prussia age 20
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 44
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 27
Emilio De Bono age 24
George Reid age 46
Earle Page age 10
Pál Teleki age 11
Jānis Čakste age 31
Per Albin Hansson age 5
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 13
Saionji Kinmochi age 41
Antonio Salandra age 37
Luigi Facta age 29
Rodrigues Alves age 42
Afonso Pena age 43
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 7
Chen Duxiu age 11
Georgy Gapon age 21
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 20
Kurt Student age 9 months
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 3
John Abbott age 69
Carrie Chapman Catt age 32
Dadabhai Naoroji age 65
Habibullah Khan age 18
Julio Argentino Roca age 47
S. M. Bruce age 7
Ugyen Wangchuck age 28
Richard Bedford Bennett age 20
Abraham Kuyper age 53
Tanaka Giichi age 26
Tanzan Ishibashi age 6
Sidney Sonnino age 43
Washington Luís age 21
Claude Auchinleck age 6
Maximilian von Weichs age 9
Wilhelm List age 10
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia age 34
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 55
Thomas Andrews age 18
Johannes Blaskowitz age 7
Marie Henriette of Austria age 54
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 46
Louise Mountbatten age 1
Joseph Cook age 30
Karl Seitz age 21
Michael Hainisch age 32
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 38
Pedro Lascuráin age 34
Wellington Koo age 3
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 16
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 38
Nobuyuki Abe age 15
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 3
Tetsu Katayama age 3
Hitoshi Ashida age 3
Campos Sales age 50
Artur Bernardes age 15
Avery Brundage age 3
Arthur Griffith age 19
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 11
Felix Yusupov age 3
Princess Margaret of Connaught age 9
Apolinario Mabini age 26
Fan S. Noli age 9
James Scullin age 14
Ben Chifley age 5
Joseph Lyons age 11
Adolf Schärf age 10 months
Theodor Körner age 17