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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04
Berlin Conference 1884-11-15 - 1885-02-26

People

Zhang Zuolin age 9
Juan Vicente Gómez age 27
James Longstreet age 64
J. Sigfrid Edström age 14
Alexei Kuropatkin age 36
Georg I of Saxony age 52
Louis IV of Hesse age 47
Princess Charlotte of Prussia age 24
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom age 16
John Sparrow David Thompson age 39
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 67
Al Smith age 11
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 17
Robert Lansing age 20
William, Prince of Albania age 8
István Tisza age 23
Thorvald Stauning age 11
Ali Fethi Okyar age 4
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 15
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 59
P. G. T. Beauregard age 66
Katō Tomosaburō age 23
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 75
Hermes da Fonseca age 29
Emilio Castelar age 52
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 28
Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta age 16
Paul von Rennenkampf age 30
J. Bruce Ismay age 22
William Halsey Jr. age 2
Charles I of Württemberg age 61
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 16
Archduchess Gisela of Austria age 28
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 8
José Manuel Balmaceda age 44
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 66
Roque Sáenz Peña age 33
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 5
Tomás Estrada Palma age 49
Jaan Tõnisson age 16
Alexandros Zaimis age 29
Seán T. O'Kelly age 2
Alexandru Averescu age 25
Kiyoura Keigo age 34
Okada Keisuke age 17
Senjūrō Hayashi age 8
Mitsumasa Yonai age 4
Delfim Moreira age 16
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada age 61
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 8
Andrew Mellon age 29
Francesc Pi i Margall age 60
Otto Liman von Sanders age 29
Alexander Samsonov age 25
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 2
Mikhail Alekseyev age 27
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria age 16
Archduke Otto Franz Joseph of Austria age 19
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 6 months
Prince Louis of Battenberg age 30
Nicolás Avellaneda age 47
Matthias Erzberger age 9
Lauri Ingman age 16
Alexandros Papagos age 1
Johan Nygaardsvold age 5
Bernardino Machado age 33
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 18
Hamaguchi Osachi age 14
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 45
Luigi Luzzatti age 43
René Viviani age 21
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 15
Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark age 14
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 15
Empress Myeongseong age 33
Maria Pia of Savoy age 37
María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias age 4
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 1
Charles Tupper age 63
Ōyama Iwao age 42
Joseph Gallieni age 35
José Félix Uriburu age 16
Agustín Pedro Justo age 8
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 2
Döme Sztójay age 2
Yusef of Morocco age 3
Sidónio Pais age 12
Christian Rakovsky age 11
Eduardo Dato age 28
Hugh Dowding age 2
Marco Minghetti age 66
Giuseppe Saracco age 63
Alessandro Fortis age 42
Louis Botha age 22
François Achille Bazaine age 73
Fevzi Çakmak age 9
Charles Dupuy age 33
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 14
Nogi Maresuke age 35
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 52
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia age 26
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 54
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia age 13
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark age 13
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 8
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 0 months
Princess Louise of Prussia age 46
Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862) age 22
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 58
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse age 16
Mackenzie Bowell age 61
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 39
Ahmed Izzet Pasha age 21
Wilhelm Groener age 17
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 16
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 7
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 5
Otto Strandman age 9
Gustavs Zemgals age 13
Francisco León de la Barra age 21
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 7
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 6
Titu Maiorescu age 44
Rickard Sandler age 11 months
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 12
Felix Hamrin age 10
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 1
Erik Gustaf Boström age 42
Arvid Lindman age 22
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 22
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 28
John French age 32
Giovanni Messe age 1
Tommaso Tittoni age 29
William D. Leahy age 9
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 25
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 14
Keir Hardie age 28
Li Yuanhong age 20
Viktor Chernov age 11
Ugo Cavallero age 4
Osman Nuri Pasha age 53
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia age 56
Radomir Putnik age 38
Mikhail Loris-Melikov age 60
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 37
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia age 8
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 48
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 5
Gerardo Machado age 13
Juho Vennola age 12
Kaarlo Castrén age 24
István Bethlen age 10
Alberts Kviesis age 3
Augustinas Voldemaras age 1
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 14
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 20
Octavian Goga age 3
Heungseon Daewongun age 64
Alexander von Kluck age 38
Benedetto Cairoli age 60
Pyotr Krasnov age 15
Joseph Stilwell age 1
Manuel González age 51
W. T. Cosgrave age 4
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 22
Feng Yuxiang age 2
Enomoto Takeaki age 48
Kâzım Karabekir age 3
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 19
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1831) age 53
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia age 24
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia age 25
Princess Cecilie of Baden age 45
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 41
Stefan Stambolov age 30
Carlos Pellegrini age 38
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 46
Sanford B. Dole age 40
Iwane Matsui age 6
Bogdan Filov age 1
Sisowath Monivong age 9
Juho Sunila age 9
Noe Zhordania age 17
Francisco S. Carvajal age 14
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 10
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 22
Carl Swartz age 26
Wincenty Witos age 11
Sanjō Sanetomi age 47
Luigi Pelloux age 45
Franz von Hipper age 21
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 30
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 52
Husband E. Kimmel age 2
Svetozar Boroević age 28
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 28
Alfred von Waldersee age 52
Carlo Sforza age 12
Empress Shōken age 35