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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

People

Per Albin Hansson age 11
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 19
Saionji Kinmochi age 47
Antonio Salandra age 43
Luigi Facta age 35
Rodrigues Alves age 48
Afonso Pena age 49
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 13
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 5
Chen Duxiu age 17
Georgy Gapon age 27
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 27
Kurt Student age 6
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 9
Carrie Chapman Catt age 38
Dadabhai Naoroji age 71
Habibullah Khan age 24
Julio Argentino Roca age 53
S. M. Bruce age 14
Ugyen Wangchuck age 34
Richard Bedford Bennett age 26
Abraham Kuyper age 59
Anastasio Somoza García age 1
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 1
Tanaka Giichi age 32
Tanzan Ishibashi age 12
Sidney Sonnino age 50
Washington Luís age 27
Claude Auchinleck age 12
Maximilian von Weichs age 15
Wilhelm List age 16
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia age 40
Thomas Andrews age 24
Johannes Blaskowitz age 13
Marie Henriette of Austria age 60
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 52
Louise Mountbatten age 7
Joseph Cook age 36
Karl Seitz age 27
Michael Hainisch age 38
William Tubman age 1
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 45
Pedro Lascuráin age 40
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 2
Wellington Koo age 9
Carlos P. Garcia age 5 months
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 23
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 44
Nobuyuki Abe age 21
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 9
Tetsu Katayama age 9
Hitoshi Ashida age 9
Campos Sales age 56
Artur Bernardes age 21
Avery Brundage age 9
Arthur Griffith age 26
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 17
Felix Yusupov age 10
Princess Margaret of Connaught age 15
Apolinario Mabini age 32
Robert H. Jackson age 5
Fan S. Noli age 15
James Scullin age 20
Arthur Fadden age 3
Ben Chifley age 11
Joseph Lyons age 17
Adolf Schärf age 7
Theodor Körner age 24
Kazys Grinius age 30
Óscar Carmona age 27
Juan Negrín age 5
Hugo Sperrle age 12
Katō Takaaki age 37
Saitō Makoto age 38
Kantarō Suzuki age 29
Paolo Boselli age 58
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 28
Dwight F. Davis age 17
Mark W. Clark age 11 months
Epitácio Pessoa age 31
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 43
Wolfram von Richthofen age 1
Paul Hausser age 16
Emilio Mola age 9
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 22
Reinhard Scheer age 33
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse age 28
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 11 months
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 47
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium age 32
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 49
Louise, Princess Royal age 30
John Hay age 58
Robert Borden age 42
Jorge Alessandri age 11 months
Arturo Alessandri age 28
Saad Zaghloul age 40
Väinö Tanner age 16
Mihály Károlyi age 22
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 12
Adolfo de la Huerta age 15
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 6
Takahashi Korekiyo age 42
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 70
D. F. Malan age 22
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 9
Félix Gouin age 12
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 8
Albert I of Saxony age 69
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby age 36
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia age 39
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia age 43
Kōki Hirota age 19
Aimo Cajander age 18
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 26
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 37
Teófilo Braga age 54
Petru Groza age 12
Zhang Zuolin age 22
Juan Vicente Gómez age 39
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 12
James Longstreet age 76
Vasily Chapayev age 10
J. Sigfrid Edström age 26
Gotthard Heinrici age 10
Alexei Kuropatkin age 49
Georg I of Saxony age 64
Princess Charlotte of Prussia age 36
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom age 28
Al Smith age 23
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 29
Robert Lansing age 32
William, Prince of Albania age 21
István Tisza age 36
Thorvald Stauning age 23
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 4
Ali Fethi Okyar age 16
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 28
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 71
Katō Tomosaburō age 36
Hermes da Fonseca age 41
Stafford Cripps age 8
Emilio Castelar age 64
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 5
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 41
Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta age 28
Paul von Rennenkampf age 43
J. Bruce Ismay age 34
William Halsey Jr. age 14
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 29
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 4
Archduchess Gisela of Austria age 40
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 20
W. Averell Harriman age 5
Roque Sáenz Peña age 46
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 18
Tomás Estrada Palma age 61
Jaan Tõnisson age 28
Alexandros Zaimis age 41
Seán T. O'Kelly age 14
Emilio Portes Gil age 6
Alexandru Averescu age 38
Kiyoura Keigo age 47
Okada Keisuke age 29
Senjūrō Hayashi age 21
Mitsumasa Yonai age 17
Ferruccio Parri age 7
Robert Todd Lincoln age 53
Delfim Moreira age 28
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 21
Andrew Mellon age 42
Francesc Pi i Margall age 73
Otto Liman von Sanders age 42
Alexander Samsonov age 37
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 14
Mikhail Alekseyev age 39
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria age 29
Archduke Otto Franz Joseph of Austria age 32
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 12
Prince Louis of Battenberg age 42
Matthias Erzberger age 21
Raymond A. Spruance age 10
Tôn Đức Thắng age 8
Frank Forde age 6
Lauri Ingman age 28
Alexandros Papagos age 13
Zoltán Tildy age 7
Gyula Gömbös age 10
Johan Nygaardsvold age 17
Bernardino Machado age 46
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 8
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 31
Hamaguchi Osachi age 27
Luigi Luzzatti age 56
René Viviani age 33
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 27
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 27
Maria Pia of Savoy age 49
María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias age 16
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 14