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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

People

Sidónio Pais age 7
Christian Rakovsky age 6
Eduardo Dato age 23
Marco Minghetti age 60
Giuseppe Saracco age 57
Alessandro Fortis age 37
Louis Botha age 16
François Achille Bazaine age 68
Fevzi Çakmak age 3
Charles Dupuy age 27
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 8
Nogi Maresuke age 29
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 46
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia age 21
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 49
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia age 8
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark age 7
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 3
Princess Louise of Prussia age 40
Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862) age 17
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 53
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse age 10
Mackenzie Bowell age 55
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 34
Ahmed Izzet Pasha age 15
Wilhelm Groener age 11
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 10
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 1
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 7 months
Otto Strandman age 3
Gustavs Zemgals age 8
Francisco León de la Barra age 16
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 2
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 1
Titu Maiorescu age 39
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 6
Felix Hamrin age 4
Erik Gustaf Boström age 37
Arvid Lindman age 16
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 17
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 23
John French age 26
Giovanni Lanza age 69
Tommaso Tittoni age 23
William D. Leahy age 4
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 20
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 8
Keir Hardie age 23
Li Yuanhong age 14
Viktor Chernov age 5
Osman Nuri Pasha age 47
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 51
Radomir Putnik age 32
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 54
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 32
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia age 2
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 43
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 3 months
Gerardo Machado age 7
Juho Vennola age 7
Kaarlo Castrén age 19
István Bethlen age 4
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 8
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 15
Heungseon Daewongun age 58
Alexander von Kluck age 33
Pyotr Krasnov age 9
Manuel González age 46
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 16
Enomoto Takeaki age 42
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 13
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 48
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia age 18
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia age 20
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 40
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 36
Stefan Stambolov age 25
Carlos Pellegrini age 32
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 41
Sanford B. Dole age 35
Iwane Matsui age 1
Sisowath Monivong age 3
Juho Sunila age 4
Noe Zhordania age 11
Francisco S. Carvajal age 8
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 4
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 16
Carl Swartz age 21
Wincenty Witos age 5
Joseph Hooker age 64
Sanjō Sanetomi age 42
Luigi Pelloux age 40
Franz von Hipper age 16
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 25
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 46
Svetozar Boroević age 22
Cetshwayo kaMpande age 53
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 23
Alfred von Waldersee age 47
Carlo Sforza age 7
Empress Shōken age 30
Frederick II of Baden age 22
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 13
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 12
Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont age 18
José Evaristo Uriburu age 47
Hamilton Fish age 71
Eloy Alfaro age 37
Manuel de Arriaga age 39
Nils Edén age 8
Hsu Shih-chang age 23
Cao Kun age 16
Feng Guozhang age 20
Ignacy Daszyński age 12
Augusto Leguía age 16
Eduardo López de Romaña age 32
José Canalejas age 25
Alejandro Lerroux age 15
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 34
Nubar Pasha age 54
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 33
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 7
Frederick Francis II age 56
Karl von Bülow age 33
Stepa Stepanović age 23
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia age 19
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia age 13
Frederick Francis III age 28
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands age 82
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands age 69
Princess Viktoria of Prussia age 13
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 7
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 55
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 37
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 1
Luis Sáenz Peña age 57
Charilaos Trikoupis age 47
Robert Themptander age 35
Samuel J. Tilden age 65
Mahmud Shevket Pasha age 23
Thomas Gage age 161
Essad Toptani age 16
José Figueroa Alcorta age 18
Victorino de la Plaza age 38
Manuel Quintana age 43
Johann Schober age 4
Ignaz Seipel age 3
Camille Huysmans age 8
Jorge Ubico age 10 months
Gunnar Knudsen age 30
Oscar von Sydow age 6
Ernst Trygger age 21
Karl Staaff age 19
Hashim al-Atassi age 3
Cipriano Castro age 20
Władysław Grabski age 5
Antonio Maura age 26
Winfield Scott Hancock age 55
J. B. M. Hertzog age 13
Anton Korošec age 7
Estanislao Figueras age 59
Ahmad Qavam age 3
Katsu Kaishū age 56
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 62
Hermann von Eichhorn age 31
Lucjan Żeligowski age 13
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 30
Shunroku Hata age 1 month
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 57
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia age 29
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 13
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia age 19
Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg age 26
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria age 30
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 24
Charles Rogier age 79
José María Iglesias age 56
Manuel Montt age 70
Arvid Posse age 59
Carl Johan Thyselius age 68
Cyrus West Field age 59
Mark Sykes age 5 months
Said Halim Pasha age 15
Edward Douglass White age 33
John W. Foster age 43
Walter Q. Gresham age 47
William R. Day age 30
Bainbridge Colby age 9
Nasrullah Khan age 5
Ramón Castillo age 5
Boutros Ghali age 33
Theodoros Pangalos age 1
Georgios Kondylis age 0 months
Spyridon Lambros age 28
Dirk Jan de Geer age 8
Charles D. B. King age 4
Jørgen Løvland age 31
Nicholas Golitsyn age 29
Ivan Goremykin age 39
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 16