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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

People

Yakov Yurovsky age 1
George Dewey age 41
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 30
Damat Ferid Pasha age 26
Nikola Zhekov age 14
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 37
Prince Charles of Prussia age 78
Marie of Prussia age 53
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 53
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 48
Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies age 30
Princess Louise of Belgium age 21
Prince Henry of Battenberg age 20
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 5
Rafael Núñez age 53
John Ballance age 40
Slobodan Jovanović age 9
Elihu B. Washburne age 62
Michael Mayr age 15
Georges Theunis age 6
Aleksandar Tsankov age 1 month
José Miguel Gómez age 21
Mario García Menocal age 12
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 25
Tiburcio Carías age 3
Sándor Garbai age 4 months
Erik Scavenius age 2
Peder Kolstad age 8 months
António José de Almeida age 13
Iuliu Maniu age 6
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 7
Óscar R. Benavides age 3
Irvin McDowell age 60
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 2
Nicolás Salmerón age 41
Francisco Serrano age 68
Huang Xing age 5
Vladimir Purishkevich age 8
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 46
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 16
Taytu Betul age 28
Nelson A. Miles age 40
Jubal Early age 62
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia age 19
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 7
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 34
José Joaquín Pérez age 78
Hiram Johnson age 12
Miriam A. Ferguson age 4
John Sutter age 76
Harlan F. Stone age 6
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 62
Robert Bacon age 19
Philander C. Knox age 26
Andrey Lyapchev age 12
Rafael Erich age 1 month
Gyula Károlyi age 8
Hannes Hafstein age 17
Hendrikus Colijn age 10
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 26
Boris Stürmer age 31
Fredrik von Otter age 46
Giuseppe Motta age 7
George Tupou II age 5
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 28
Zuo Zongtang age 66
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 29
John Pope age 57
Vittorio Ambrosio age 0 months
Iosif Gurko age 51
Max von Gallwitz age 27
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 4
John Monash age 14
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 41
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 48
Archduchess Clementina of Austria age 81
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 34
Domingo Santa María age 54
James M. Cox age 9
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 53
Jeremiah S. Black age 69
Léon Delacroix age 11
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 10
Vasil Radoslavov age 25
Pedro Montt age 30
Germán Riesco age 25
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 20
Oskari Mantere age 4
Jón Þorláksson age 2
Jón Magnússon age 20
Carl Theodor Zahle age 13
Niels Neergaard age 25
João do Canto e Castro age 17
Dimitrie Sturdza age 46
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 11
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 24
Christian Lundeberg age 37
Gustave Ador age 33
Juan Bautista Pérez age 9
José Pardo y Barreda age 15
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 18
Joseph Avenol age 1 month
William Gibbs McAdoo age 15
Koos de la Rey age 31
Kodama Gentarō age 27
Piet Joubert age 45
Christiaan de Wet age 24
Ian Hamilton age 26
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 61
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia age 9
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 64
Princess Anna of Prussia age 43
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 41
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria age 18
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 1
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 10
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 6
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 40
Daniel Bashiel Warner age 64
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 56
John Bell Hood age 48
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 44
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 1 month
Theodoros Deligiannis age 59
Dimitrios Gounaris age 13
Konstantinos Demertzis age 2
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 19
Gyula Peidl age 6
Sándor Wekerle age 30
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 2
Klaus Berntsen age 35
Jonas Staugaitis age 11
Richard Seddon age 34
Otto Bahr Halvorsen age 7
Otto Blehr age 32
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 19
Alexandru Marghiloman age 25
Johan Ramstedt age 26
Emilio Aceval age 25
Serapio Calderón age 35
Guillermo Billinghurst age 28
Francisco Silvela age 35
Segismundo Moret age 46
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 6
Karl Buresch age 9 months
Leo Amery age 5
Empress Dowager Longyu age 11
José Miaja age 1
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein age 9
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 56
Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro age 8
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 55
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 61
Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen age 28
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe age 20
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 46
Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria age 9
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 63
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 69
Bernardino Caballero age 40
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 46
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 71