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Events

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Siege of Mafeking 1899-10-13 - 1900-05-17
Siege of Kimberley 1899-10-14 - 1900-02-15
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Siege of Ladysmith 1899-11-02 - 1900-02-28

People

Thomas R. Marshall age 45
Frank B. Kellogg age 43
Lázaro Cárdenas age 4
Gulzarilal Nanda age 1
Moshe Sharett age 5
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 56
Ferdinand I of Romania age 34
Pyotr Wrangel age 21
Alexei Rykov age 18
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 39
Nikolai Yezhov age 3
Lazar Kaganovich age 6
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 35
Wilhelm Frick age 22
Semyon Timoshenko age 4
Alfred Deakin age 43
Paul-Henri Spaak age 11 months
Konstantin Päts age 25
Willem Drees age 13
Jozef Tiso age 12
Prajadhipok age 6
Lavr Kornilov age 29
Nikolai Bulganin age 4
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 11
Jean Monnet age 11
Paul Kruger age 74
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 52
Soong Mei-ling age 1
John Foster Dulles age 11
Ferhat Abbas age 4 months
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 34
Giuseppe Saragat age 1
Sergei Witte age 50
Vajiravudh age 19
Manuel L. Quezon age 21
Fedor von Bock age 19
Risto Ryti age 10
Giovanni Gronchi age 12
Antanas Smetona age 25
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 1 month
Georgy Lvov age 38
Bolesław Bierut age 7
Jean Casimir-Perier age 52
Arthur Henderson age 36
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 49
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 5
Paul Deschanel age 44
Dean Acheson age 6
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 38
Douglas Hyde age 39
Álvaro Obregón age 19
Walter Model age 8
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 61
Shigeru Yoshida age 21
Talaat Pasha age 25
Walther von Brauchitsch age 18
René Cassin age 12
Edward Smith age 49
Victoria, Princess Royal age 59
Maud of Wales age 30
Levi P. Morton age 75
Kurt Schuschnigg age 2
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia age 4
Maria Nikolaevna of Russia age 6 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 51
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 23
Albert Kesselring age 14
Joseph Wirth age 20
Wilhelm Marx age 36
Hans Luther age 20
Édouard Herriot age 27
Philipp Scheidemann age 34
Alexander of Greece age 6
William Jennings Bryan age 39
Sveinn Björnsson age 18
Christian Michelsen age 42
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 2
Władysław Sikorski age 18
Franz Halder age 15
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 23
Katsura Tarō age 52
Nobusuke Kishi age 3
Tōgō Heihachirō age 51
Konstantin von Neurath age 26
Zhu De age 13
Adlai Stevenson I age 64
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 49
John Diefenbaker age 4
Ioannis Metaxas age 28
Kārlis Ulmanis age 22
Venustiano Carranza age 40
Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia age 2
Clara Barton age 78
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 52
Gustav Bauer age 30
Heinrich Brüning age 14
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 12
Peter I of Serbia age 55
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 38
Genrikh Yagoda age 8
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 14
Walther Funk age 9
Fritz Sauckel age 5
Kyösti Kallio age 26
Billy Hughes age 37
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 25
Plutarco Elías Calles age 22
Gabriel Narutowicz age 34
Carol II of Romania age 6
Archibald Wavell age 16
Erich von Falkenhayn age 38
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 32
Fumimaro Konoe age 8
Vasily Blyukher age 10
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 2
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 1
Fuad I of Egypt age 31
August von Mackensen age 50
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg age 31
Marie of Romania age 24
Nicolae Iorga age 28
Rómulo Gallegos age 15
Maurice Gamelin age 27
Georg Michaelis age 42
Georg von Hertling age 56
Constantin Fehrenbach age 48
Hayato Ikeda age 1 month
Giovanni Giolitti age 57
Jan Smuts age 29
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 27
Kirill Meretskov age 2
Italo Balbo age 3
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 13
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 58
Lew Wallace age 72
Oswald Mosley age 3
Chris Watson age 32
Robert Menzies age 5
Lauri Kristian Relander age 16
Francisco Largo Caballero age 30
C. Rajagopalachari age 21
Günther von Kluge age 17
Yakov Sverdlov age 14
Djemal Pasha age 27
Wilhelm Cuno age 23
Ichirō Hatoyama age 17
Ivanoe Bonomi age 26
Zewditu age 23
Demetrios Vikelas age 64
Allen Dulles age 6
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 17
Andrey Vyshinsky age 16
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia age 21
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 7
Alice Paul age 14
Fritz Todt age 8
Ismail Kemal age 56
Andrew Fisher age 37
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 15
Manuel Roxas age 8
Nikolai Yudenich age 37
Terauchi Masatake age 47
Hara Takashi age 43
Francesco Crispi age 81
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 55
Bartolomé Mitre age 78
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 2
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 3
Nikola Pašić age 54
Wang Jingwei age 16
Matsukata Masayoshi age 64
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 44
Paul Reynaud age 21
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 48
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 35
Maria Christina of Austria age 41
Charlotte of Belgium age 59
Allan Octavian Hume age 70
Henry L. Stimson age 32
John Curtin age 15
Franz Jonas age 3 months
Ferenc Szálasi age 2
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 5
Victoriano Huerta age 49
Einar Gerhardsen age 2
Ignacy Mościcki age 32
José Paciano Laurel age 8
Sergio Osmeña age 21
Harold Alexander age 8
Rodolfo Graziani age 17
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 17
Roland Freisler age 6
Victoria of Baden age 37
Spyridon Louis age 26
Charles Evans Hughes age 37
Earl Warren age 8
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 62
Louis St. Laurent age 17
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 5
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 4