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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

People

Antonio Maura age 35
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 56
J. B. M. Hertzog age 22
Dušan Simović age 5
Anton Korošec age 16
Edward Douglass White age 42
Courtney Hodges age 1
William M. Evarts age 70
John W. Foster age 52
Walter Q. Gresham age 56
William R. Day age 39
Bainbridge Colby age 18
Nasrullah Khan age 14
Ramón Castillo age 14
Boutros Ghali age 42
Ants Piip age 4
Theodoros Pangalos age 10
Nikolaos Plastiras age 4
Georgios Kondylis age 8
Spyridon Lambros age 37
Miklós Kállay age 1
Dirk Jan de Geer age 17
Charles D. B. King age 13
Jørgen Løvland age 40
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 4
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 1
Nicholas Golitsyn age 38
Ivan Goremykin age 48
Maciej Rataj age 4
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 25
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 7 months
Georg Stumme age 1
Leonard Wood age 27
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 4
Michael Mayr age 24
Georges Theunis age 15
Aleksandar Tsankov age 8
José Miguel Gómez age 29
Mario García Menocal age 21
Alexandros Koryzis age 3
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 34
Tiburcio Carías age 12
Sándor Garbai age 9
István Friedrich age 4
Kálmán Darányi age 2
Erik Scavenius age 10
Edwin Barclay age 6
Antanas Merkys age 1
Peder Kolstad age 9
António José de Almeida age 21
Ion G. Duca age 8
Iuliu Maniu age 15
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 16
H. H. Kung age 6
Yen Hsi-shan age 4
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 3
José Félix Estigarribia age 2 months
Óscar R. Benavides age 12
Don Stephen Senanayake age 3
Diego Martínez Barrio age 4
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 11
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 47
Doihara Kenji age 4
Harlan F. Stone age 15
Richard Olney age 52
Robert Bacon age 27
Philander C. Knox age 35
Omer Nishani age 1
Rudolf Ramek age 7
Andrey Lyapchev age 21
Antti Tulenheimo age 8
Rafael Erich age 8
Károly Huszár age 5
Gyula Károlyi age 17
Hannes Hafstein age 26
Alexander Bustamante age 4
Hendrikus Colijn age 18
Jens Hundseid age 5
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 2
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 35
Boris Stürmer age 39
Fredrik von Otter age 55
Giuseppe Motta age 16
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 1
George Tupou II age 13
Eleazar López Contreras age 5
Eusebio Ayala age 12
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 4
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 55
José Giral age 8
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas age 28
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 60
Sisowath of Cambodia age 47
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 36
Yoshijirō Umezu age 6
Cai E age 5
Francis Biddle age 2
Léon Delacroix age 20
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 18
Vasil Radoslavov age 33
Pedro Montt age 38
Germán Riesco age 33
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 29
Oskari Mantere age 13
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 2
Jón Þorláksson age 11
Jón Magnússon age 29
Carl Theodor Zahle age 22
Niels Neergaard age 33
Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics age 1
João do Canto e Castro age 26
Dimitrie Sturdza age 55
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 19
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 33
Christian Lundeberg age 45
Gustave Ador age 42
Juan Bautista Pérez age 18
Kazimierz Bartel age 6
José Pardo y Barreda age 24
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 27
Joseph Avenol age 8
William Gibbs McAdoo age 24
Melville Fuller age 55
Shefqet Vërlaci age 10
Otto Ender age 12
Henri Carton de Wiart age 19
Jules Renkin age 25
Ramón Barros Luco age 52
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 2
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 8
Theodoros Deligiannis age 68
Dimitrios Gounaris age 22
Konstantinos Demertzis age 11
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 4
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 28
Gyula Peidl age 15
Móric Esterházy age 7
Sándor Wekerle age 39
Knud Kristensen age 7
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 11
Klaus Berntsen age 43
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 3
Jonas Staugaitis age 20
Eulalio Gutiérrez age 7
Richard Seddon age 42
Otto Bahr Halvorsen age 15
Otto Blehr age 41
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 27
Alexandru Marghiloman age 34
Johan Ramstedt age 35
Baltasar Brum age 4
Aleksander Skrzyński age 6
Emilio Aceval age 34
Federico Chávez age 7
Serapio Calderón age 44
Guillermo Billinghurst age 36
Francisco Silvela age 44
Segismundo Moret age 54
Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen age 14
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas age 27
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 40
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 21
Nathaniel P. Banks age 72
Orville Wright age 16
Edward Carson age 34
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 15
Leo Amery age 14
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 27
Heinrich Lammasch age 35
Charles de Broqueville age 27
Joseph Pholien age 3
Petko Karavelov age 45
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 37
Emiliano Figueroa age 21
Antti Hackzell age 6
Alexandros Diomidis age 12
Ioannis Rallis age 10
Stylianos Gonatas age 11
Dimitrios Rallis age 44
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 39
Sigurður Eggerz age 13
Jens Christian Christensen age 31
Vilhelm Buhl age 6
Enrico Mizzi age 2
Michael Joseph Savage age 16
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 13
Wollert Konow age 42
Christopher Hornsrud age 28
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 23
Constantin Sănătescu age 3
Alexander Trepov age 25
Şemsettin Günaltay age 4
Feliciano Viera age 16
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 18
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 2
José Patricio Guggiari age 4
Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias age 13
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 55
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 39
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 42