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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

People

Prince Henry of Battenberg age 20
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 4
Rafael Núñez age 53
John Ballance age 39
Slobodan Jovanović age 9
Elihu B. Washburne age 62
Michael Mayr age 14
Georges Theunis age 5
José Miguel Gómez age 20
Mario García Menocal age 12
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 25
Tiburcio Carías age 2
Erik Scavenius age 1
Peder Kolstad age 3 months
António José de Almeida age 12
Iuliu Maniu age 6
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 7
Óscar R. Benavides age 2
Irvin McDowell age 60
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 2
Nicolás Salmerón age 40
Francisco Serrano age 68
Huang Xing age 5
Vladimir Purishkevich age 8
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 46
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 15
Taytu Betul age 28
Nelson A. Miles age 39
Jubal Early age 62
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia age 18
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia age 15
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias age 75
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 76
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 6
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 33
José Joaquín Pérez age 77
Hiram Johnson age 12
Miriam A. Ferguson age 3
John Sutter age 76
Harlan F. Stone age 6
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 61
Robert Bacon age 18
Philander C. Knox age 25
Andrey Lyapchev age 12
Gyula Károlyi age 7
Hannes Hafstein age 17
Hendrikus Colijn age 9
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 25
Boris Stürmer age 30
Fredrik von Otter age 45
Giuseppe Motta age 7
George Tupou II age 4
Eusebio Ayala age 3
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 46
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas age 19
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 51
Sisowath of Cambodia age 38
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 27
Zuo Zongtang age 66
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 28
John Pope age 56
Iosif Gurko age 50
Max von Gallwitz age 26
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 4
John Monash age 13
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 40
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) age 15
Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865–1927) age 14
Princess Anastasia of Montenegro age 11
Pertevniyal Sultan age 67
Frederick I of Anhalt age 47
Archduchess Clementina of Austria age 81
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 34
Todor Burmov age 45
Domingo Santa María age 53
James M. Cox age 8
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 52
Jeremiah S. Black age 69
Léon Delacroix age 11
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 9
Vasil Radoslavov age 24
Pedro Montt age 29
Germán Riesco age 24
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 20
Oskari Mantere age 4
Jón Þorláksson age 1
Jón Magnússon age 20
Carl Theodor Zahle age 13
Niels Neergaard age 24
João do Canto e Castro age 16
Dimitrie Sturdza age 46
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 10
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 24
Christian Lundeberg age 36
Gustave Ador age 33
Juan Bautista Pérez age 9
José Pardo y Barreda age 15
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 18
John Adams Dix age 80
William Gibbs McAdoo age 15
Koos de la Rey age 31
Kodama Gentarō age 26
Piet Joubert age 45
Christiaan de Wet age 24
Ian Hamilton age 26
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 60
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia age 9
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 63
Princess Anna of Prussia age 42
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 41
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria age 18
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 7 months
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 9
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 6
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 39
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 63
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 50
Joaquín Crespo age 37
Gillis Bildt age 58
John Bright age 67
François Georges-Picot age 8
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 55
John Bell Hood age 47
Melville Fuller age 46
Shefqet Vërlaci age 1
Otto Ender age 3
Henri Carton de Wiart age 10
Jules Renkin age 16
Ramón Barros Luco age 43
Theodoros Deligiannis age 59
Dimitrios Gounaris age 13
Konstantinos Demertzis age 2
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 19
Gyula Peidl age 5
Sándor Wekerle age 30
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 2
Klaus Berntsen age 34
Jonas Staugaitis age 10
Richard Seddon age 33
Otto Bahr Halvorsen age 6
Otto Blehr age 32
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 18
Alexandru Marghiloman age 25
Johan Ramstedt age 26
Emilio Aceval age 25
Serapio Calderón age 35
Guillermo Billinghurst age 27
Francisco Silvela age 35
Segismundo Moret age 45
Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen age 5
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas age 18
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 31
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 12
Oliver O. Howard age 48
Orville Wright age 7
Edward Carson age 25
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 5
Karl Buresch age 4 months
Leo Amery age 5
Empress Dowager Longyu age 11
José Miaja age 10 months
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein age 8
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 55
Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro age 7
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 54
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia age 51
Catherine Dolgorukova age 31
Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia age 29
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia age 25
Şevkefza Sultan age 58
Louis Faidherbe age 60
Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen age 27
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe age 19
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 46
Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria age 8
Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria age 2
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 4
Alfred Francis Russell age 61
Lascăr Catargiu age 55
Johan Sverdrup age 62
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 68
Bernardino Caballero age 39
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 45
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 71
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 18
Heinrich Lammasch age 25
Charles de Broqueville age 18
Petko Karavelov age 35
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 28
Emiliano Figueroa age 12
Alexandros Diomidis age 3
Ioannis Rallis age 1
Stylianos Gonatas age 2
Dimitrios Rallis age 35
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 29
Sigurður Eggerz age 3
Jens Christian Christensen age 22
Michael Joseph Savage age 6
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 4
Wollert Konow age 33