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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04
Berlin Conference 1884-11-15 - 1885-02-26

People

Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 17
Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont age 23
José Evaristo Uriburu age 53
Hamilton Fish age 76
Kimon Georgiev age 2
Eloy Alfaro age 42
Manuel de Arriaga age 44
Nils Edén age 13
Hsu Shih-chang age 29
Cao Kun age 22
Feng Guozhang age 26
Ignacy Daszyński age 18
Augusto Leguía age 21
Eduardo López de Romaña age 37
José Canalejas age 30
Alejandro Lerroux age 20
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 40
Rauf Orbay age 3
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 38
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 12
Karl von Bülow age 38
Stepa Stepanović age 28
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia age 24
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia age 18
Frederick Francis III age 33
Princess Viktoria of Prussia age 18
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 12
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 60
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 42
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 6
Luis Sáenz Peña age 62
Samuel J. Tilden age 70
Mahmud Shevket Pasha age 29
Thomas Gage age 166
Essad Toptani age 22
José Figueroa Alcorta age 24
Victorino de la Plaza age 44
Manuel Quintana age 49
Johann Schober age 10
Ignaz Seipel age 8
Hubert Pierlot age 1
Camille Huysmans age 13
Jorge Ubico age 6
Gunnar Knudsen age 36
Oscar von Sydow age 11
Ernst Trygger age 27
Karl Staaff age 25
Hashim al-Atassi age 9
Cipriano Castro age 26
Władysław Grabski age 10
Antonio Maura age 31
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 53
Winfield Scott Hancock age 60
J. B. M. Hertzog age 18
Dušan Simović age 2
Anton Korošec age 12
Ahmad Qavam age 9
Katsu Kaishū age 61
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 67
Hermann von Eichhorn age 36
Lucjan Żeligowski age 19
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 36
Shunroku Hata age 5
Empress Teimei age 6 months
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 62
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia age 35
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 18
Frederick Francis IV age 2
Princess Helen of Serbia age 2 months
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia age 24
Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg age 32
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria age 35
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 29
Charles Rogier age 84
José María Iglesias age 62
Arvid Posse age 64
Carl Johan Thyselius age 73
Cyrus West Field age 65
Mark Sykes age 5
Said Halim Pasha age 20
Edward Douglass White age 39
William M. Evarts age 66
John W. Foster age 48
Walter Q. Gresham age 52
William R. Day age 35
Bainbridge Colby age 15
Nasrullah Khan age 11
Ramón Castillo age 11
Boutros Ghali age 39
Ants Piip age 10 months
Theodoros Pangalos age 7
Nikolaos Plastiras age 1
Georgios Kondylis age 5
Spyridon Lambros age 33
Dirk Jan de Geer age 14
Charles D. B. King age 9
Jørgen Løvland age 36
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 1
Nicholas Golitsyn age 34
Ivan Goremykin age 45
Maciej Rataj age 11 months
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 21
Leonard Wood age 24
Prince Gong age 52
Yakov Yurovsky age 6
George Dewey age 47
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 36
Damat Ferid Pasha age 32
Nikola Zhekov age 20
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 42
Sergey Kamenev age 3
Marie of Prussia age 59
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 58
Prince Arthur of Connaught age 2
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 54
Princess Louise of Belgium age 26
Infanta María Teresa of Spain age 2
Prince Henry of Battenberg age 26
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 10
Rafael Núñez age 59
John Ballance age 45
Slobodan Jovanović age 15
Elihu B. Washburne age 68
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 11 months
Michael Mayr age 20
Georges Theunis age 11
Aleksandar Tsankov age 5
José Miguel Gómez age 26
Mario García Menocal age 18
Alexandros Koryzis age 0 months
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 31
Tiburcio Carías age 8
Sándor Garbai age 5
István Friedrich age 1
Erik Scavenius age 7
Edwin Barclay age 3
Peder Kolstad age 6
António José de Almeida age 18
Ion G. Duca age 5
Iuliu Maniu age 12
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 12
H. H. Kung age 3
Yen Hsi-shan age 1
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 6 months
Óscar R. Benavides age 8
Don Stephen Senanayake age 2 months
Diego Martínez Barrio age 1
Irvin McDowell age 66
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 8
Nicolás Salmerón age 46
Francisco Serrano age 74
Huang Xing age 11
Vladimir Purishkevich age 14
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 52
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 21
Taytu Betul age 34
Halil Kut age 3
Nelson A. Miles age 45
Jubal Early age 68
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia age 24
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia age 21
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 81
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) age 6 months
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 12
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 9 months
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 39
José Joaquín Pérez age 83
Hiram Johnson age 18
Miriam A. Ferguson age 9
Doihara Kenji age 1
Harlan F. Stone age 12
Robert Bacon age 24
Philander C. Knox age 31
Rudolf Ramek age 3
Andrey Lyapchev age 18
Antti Tulenheimo age 5
Rafael Erich age 5
Károly Huszár age 2
Gyula Károlyi age 13
Hannes Hafstein age 23
Alexander Bustamante age 10 months
Hendrikus Colijn age 15
Jens Hundseid age 1
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 31
Boris Stürmer age 36
Fredrik von Otter age 51
Giuseppe Motta age 13
George Tupou II age 10
Eleazar López Contreras age 1
Eusebio Ayala age 9
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 8 months
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 52
José Giral age 5
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas age 25
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 57
Sisowath of Cambodia age 44
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 33
Zuo Zongtang age 72
Hisaichi Terauchi age 5
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 34