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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
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Siege of Mafeking 1899-10-13 - 1900-05-17
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07

People

Elpidio Quirino age 9
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 18
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 59
Prudente de Morais age 58
Venceslau Brás age 32
Georges Bidault age 6 months
Ludwig Beck age 19
Vasily Sokolovsky age 2
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 5
Armando Diaz age 38
Ernest Bevin age 19
Otto, King of Bavaria age 51
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 41
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 43
Kate Sheppard age 53
James F. Byrnes age 17
Arthur Meighen age 25
Georgios Papandreou age 12
Zalman Shazar age 10
Robert Nivelle age 43
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 47
Maxime Weygand age 33
Kuniaki Koiso age 20
Kijūrō Shidehara age 27
Nilo Peçanha age 32
François Darlan age 18
Li Hongzhang age 77
Ferdinand Schörner age 7
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 14
Luigi Cadorna age 49
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 17
Sophia of Prussia age 29
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 53
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 37
Emilio De Bono age 34
George Reid age 55
Earle Page age 19
Pál Teleki age 20
Jānis Čakste age 40
Per Albin Hansson age 14
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 22
Saionji Kinmochi age 50
Antonio Salandra age 46
Luigi Facta age 38
Rodrigues Alves age 51
Afonso Pena age 52
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 16
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 8
Chen Duxiu age 20
Georgy Gapon age 30
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 30
Kurt Student age 9
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 12
Carrie Chapman Catt age 41
Dadabhai Naoroji age 74
Habibullah Khan age 27
S. M. Bruce age 16
Ugyen Wangchuck age 37
Richard Bedford Bennett age 29
Abraham Kuyper age 62
Anastasio Somoza García age 4
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 4
Tanaka Giichi age 35
Tanzan Ishibashi age 15
Sidney Sonnino age 53
Washington Luís age 30
Claude Auchinleck age 15
Maximilian von Weichs age 18
Wilhelm List age 19
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia age 43
Thomas Andrews age 27
Johannes Blaskowitz age 16
Marie Henriette of Austria age 63
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 55
Louise Mountbatten age 10
Joseph Cook age 39
Karl Seitz age 30
Michael Hainisch age 41
William Tubman age 4
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 47
Pedro Lascuráin age 43
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 5
Wellington Koo age 12
Carlos P. Garcia age 3
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 1
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 26
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 47
Nobuyuki Abe age 24
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 12
Tetsu Katayama age 12
Hitoshi Ashida age 12
Artur Bernardes age 24
Avery Brundage age 12
Arthur Griffith age 29
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 20
Felix Yusupov age 13
Princess Margaret of Connaught age 18
Maria of Yugoslavia age 3 months
Apolinario Mabini age 35
Robert H. Jackson age 8
Fan S. Noli age 18
James Scullin age 23
Arthur Fadden age 5
Ben Chifley age 14
Joseph Lyons age 20
Adolf Schärf age 9
Theodor Körner age 26
Kazys Grinius age 33
Óscar Carmona age 30
Juan Negrín age 8
Hugo Sperrle age 15
Katō Takaaki age 40
Saitō Makoto age 41
Kantarō Suzuki age 32
Paolo Boselli age 61
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 31
Dwight F. Davis age 20
Mark W. Clark age 3
Epitácio Pessoa age 34
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 46
Wolfram von Richthofen age 4
Paul Hausser age 19
Emilio Mola age 12
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 25
Reinhard Scheer age 36
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse age 31
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 3
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn age 49
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium age 35
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 52
Louise, Princess Royal age 33
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 2
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 0 months
Robert Borden age 45
Jorge Alessandri age 3
Arturo Alessandri age 31
Saad Zaghloul age 43
Väinö Tanner age 19
Mihály Károlyi age 25
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 15
Adolfo de la Huerta age 18
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 9
Takahashi Korekiyo age 45
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 73
D. F. Malan age 25
Café Filho age 1
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 12
Félix Gouin age 15
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 11
Albert I of Saxony age 72
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby age 38
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia age 42
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia age 46
Kōki Hirota age 22
Aimo Cajander age 21
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 29
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 40
Teófilo Braga age 57
Petru Groza age 15
Zhang Zuolin age 25
Juan Vicente Gómez age 42
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 15
James Longstreet age 79
Vasily Chapayev age 13
Ye Jianying age 2
Artur da Costa e Silva age 6 months
J. Sigfrid Edström age 29
Karl Hermann Frank age 2
Gotthard Heinrici age 13
Alexei Kuropatkin age 52
Georg I of Saxony age 67
Princess Charlotte of Prussia age 39
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom age 31
Al Smith age 26
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 32
Robert Lansing age 35
William, Prince of Albania age 24
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 8 months
István Tisza age 38
Thorvald Stauning age 26
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 7
Ali Fethi Okyar age 19
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 31
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 74
Katō Tomosaburō age 39
Hermes da Fonseca age 44
Stafford Cripps age 10
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 8
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 44
Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta age 31
Paul von Rennenkampf age 45
J. Bruce Ismay age 37
William Halsey Jr. age 17
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 7
Archduchess Gisela of Austria age 43
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 23
Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta age 1 month
W. Averell Harriman age 8
Roque Sáenz Peña age 49
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 21