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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

Heungseon Daewongun age 64
Alexander von Kluck age 39
Benedetto Cairoli age 60
Pyotr Krasnov age 16
Joseph Stilwell age 2
Manuel González age 52
W. T. Cosgrave age 5
Stefan Stambolov age 31
Carlos Pellegrini age 39
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 47
Iwane Matsui age 7
Frank Jack Fletcher age 7 months
Bogdan Filov age 2
Sisowath Monivong age 9
Juho Sunila age 10
Noe Zhordania age 17
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 8 months
Francisco S. Carvajal age 15
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 10
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 22
Carl Swartz age 27
Sanjō Sanetomi age 48
Luigi Pelloux age 46
José Evaristo Uriburu age 54
Hamilton Fish age 77
Kimon Georgiev age 3
Eloy Alfaro age 43
Manuel de Arriaga age 45
Nils Edén age 14
Hsu Shih-chang age 30
Cao Kun age 23
Feng Guozhang age 26
Ignacy Daszyński age 19
Augusto Leguía age 22
Eduardo López de Romaña age 38
José Canalejas age 31
Alejandro Lerroux age 21
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 40
Rauf Orbay age 4
Luis Sáenz Peña age 63
Charilaos Trikoupis age 53
Samuel J. Tilden age 71
Seishirō Itagaki age 11 months
Thomas Gage age 167
Essad Toptani age 22
José Figueroa Alcorta age 25
Victorino de la Plaza age 45
Manuel Quintana age 50
Johann Schober age 11
Ignaz Seipel age 9
Hubert Pierlot age 1
Camille Huysmans age 14
Jorge Ubico age 7
Gunnar Knudsen age 37
Oscar von Sydow age 12
Ernst Trygger age 28
Karl Staaff age 25
Hashim al-Atassi age 10
Cipriano Castro age 27
Władysław Grabski age 11
Antonio Maura age 32
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 54
Winfield Scott Hancock age 61
J. B. M. Hertzog age 19
Dušan Simović age 3
Anton Korošec age 13
José María Iglesias age 62
Arvid Posse age 65
Carl Johan Thyselius age 74
Edward Douglass White age 40
John W. Foster age 49
Walter Q. Gresham age 53
William R. Day age 36
Bainbridge Colby age 16
Nasrullah Khan age 11
Ramón Castillo age 12
Boutros Ghali age 39
Ants Piip age 1
Theodoros Pangalos age 7
Nikolaos Plastiras age 2
Georgios Kondylis age 6
Spyridon Lambros age 34
Dirk Jan de Geer age 15
Charles D. B. King age 10
Jørgen Løvland age 37
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 2
Nicholas Golitsyn age 35
Ivan Goremykin age 46
Maciej Rataj age 1
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 22
Leonard Wood age 25
Rafael Núñez age 60
John Ballance age 46
Elihu B. Washburne age 69
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 1
Michael Mayr age 21
Georges Theunis age 12
Aleksandar Tsankov age 6
José Miguel Gómez age 27
Mario García Menocal age 19
Alexandros Koryzis age 11 months
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 31
Tiburcio Carías age 9
Sándor Garbai age 6
István Friedrich age 2
Erik Scavenius age 8
Edwin Barclay age 3
Peder Kolstad age 7
António José de Almeida age 19
Ion G. Duca age 6
Iuliu Maniu age 12
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 13
H. H. Kung age 4
Yen Hsi-shan age 2
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 1
Óscar R. Benavides age 9
Don Stephen Senanayake age 1
Diego Martínez Barrio age 2
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 9
José Joaquín Pérez age 84
Hiram Johnson age 19
Miriam A. Ferguson age 10
Doihara Kenji age 2
Harlan F. Stone age 13
Robert Bacon age 25
Philander C. Knox age 32
Rudolf Ramek age 4
Andrey Lyapchev age 19
Antti Tulenheimo age 6
Rafael Erich age 6
Károly Huszár age 3
Gyula Károlyi age 14
Hannes Hafstein age 24
Alexander Bustamante age 1
Hendrikus Colijn age 16
Jens Hundseid age 2
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 32
Boris Stürmer age 37
Fredrik von Otter age 52
Giuseppe Motta age 13
George Tupou II age 11
Eleazar López Contreras age 2
Eusebio Ayala age 10
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 1
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 53
José Giral age 6
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas age 26
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 58
Sisowath of Cambodia age 45
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 34
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 41
Todor Burmov age 51
James M. Cox age 15
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 59
Yoshijirō Umezu age 3
Cai E age 3
Léon Delacroix age 17
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 16
Vasil Radoslavov age 31
Pedro Montt age 36
Germán Riesco age 31
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 26
Oskari Mantere age 11
Jón Þorláksson age 8
Jón Magnússon age 26
Carl Theodor Zahle age 19
Niels Neergaard age 31
João do Canto e Castro age 23
Dimitrie Sturdza age 52
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 17
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 31
Christian Lundeberg age 43
Gustave Ador age 40
Juan Bautista Pérez age 16
Kazimierz Bartel age 3
José Pardo y Barreda age 21
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 25
Joseph Avenol age 6
William Gibbs McAdoo age 22
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 46
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 56
Gillis Bildt age 65
John Bright age 74
Melville Fuller age 52
Shefqet Vërlaci age 8
Otto Ender age 9
Henri Carton de Wiart age 16
Jules Renkin age 23
Ramón Barros Luco age 50
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 6
Dimitrios Gounaris age 19
Konstantinos Demertzis age 9
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 1
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 26
Gyula Peidl age 12
Móric Esterházy age 4
Sándor Wekerle age 37
Knud Kristensen age 5
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 8
Klaus Berntsen age 41