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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

People

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 31
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 53
Husband E. Kimmel age 3
Svetozar Boroević age 29
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 29
Alfred von Waldersee age 53
Carlo Sforza age 13
Empress Shōken age 36
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 1
Frederick II of Baden age 28
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 19
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 2
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 18
Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont age 24
José Evaristo Uriburu age 54
Hamilton Fish age 77
Kimon Georgiev age 3
Eloy Alfaro age 43
Manuel de Arriaga age 45
Nils Edén age 14
Hsu Shih-chang age 30
Cao Kun age 23
Feng Guozhang age 26
Ignacy Daszyński age 19
Augusto Leguía age 22
Eduardo López de Romaña age 38
José Canalejas age 31
Alejandro Lerroux age 21
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 40
Rauf Orbay age 4
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 39
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 13
Karl von Bülow age 39
Stepa Stepanović age 29
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia age 25
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia age 19
Frederick Francis III age 34
Princess Viktoria of Prussia age 19
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 13
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 61
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 43
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 7
Luis Sáenz Peña age 63
Charilaos Trikoupis age 53
Samuel J. Tilden age 71
Mahmud Shevket Pasha age 29
Seishirō Itagaki age 11 months
Thomas Gage age 167
Essad Toptani age 22
José Figueroa Alcorta age 25
Victorino de la Plaza age 45
Manuel Quintana age 50
Johann Schober age 11
Ignaz Seipel age 9
Hubert Pierlot age 1
Camille Huysmans age 14
Jorge Ubico age 7
Gunnar Knudsen age 37
Oscar von Sydow age 12
Ernst Trygger age 28
Karl Staaff age 25
Hashim al-Atassi age 10
Cipriano Castro age 27
Władysław Grabski age 11
Antonio Maura age 32
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 54
Winfield Scott Hancock age 61
J. B. M. Hertzog age 19
Dušan Simović age 3
Anton Korošec age 13
Ahmad Qavam age 9
Katsu Kaishū age 62
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 68
Hermann von Eichhorn age 37
Lucjan Żeligowski age 20
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 37
Shunroku Hata age 6
Empress Teimei age 1
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892) age 63
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia age 35
Princess Milica of Montenegro age 19
Frederick Francis IV age 3
Princess Helen of Serbia age 1
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia age 25
Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg age 33
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria age 36
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal age 30
José María Iglesias age 62
Arvid Posse age 65
Carl Johan Thyselius age 74
Cyrus West Field age 66
Mark Sykes age 6
Said Halim Pasha age 21
Edward Douglass White age 40
John W. Foster age 49
Walter Q. Gresham age 53
William R. Day age 36
Bainbridge Colby age 16
Nasrullah Khan age 11
Ramón Castillo age 12
Boutros Ghali age 39
Ants Piip age 1
Theodoros Pangalos age 7
Nikolaos Plastiras age 2
Georgios Kondylis age 6
Spyridon Lambros age 34
Dirk Jan de Geer age 15
Charles D. B. King age 10
Jørgen Løvland age 37
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 2
Nicholas Golitsyn age 35
Ivan Goremykin age 46
Maciej Rataj age 1
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 22
Leonard Wood age 25
Prince Gong age 52
Yakov Yurovsky age 7
George Dewey age 48
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 37
Damat Ferid Pasha age 32
Nikola Zhekov age 20
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu age 43
Sergey Kamenev age 4
Marie of Prussia age 60
George II of Saxe-Meiningen age 59
Prince Arthur of Connaught age 2
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria age 54
Princess Louise of Belgium age 27
Infanta María Teresa of Spain age 3
Prince Henry of Battenberg age 27
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 11
Rafael Núñez age 60
John Ballance age 46
Slobodan Jovanović age 16
Elihu B. Washburne age 69
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 1
Michael Mayr age 21
Georges Theunis age 12
Aleksandar Tsankov age 6
José Miguel Gómez age 27
Mario García Menocal age 19
Alexandros Koryzis age 11 months
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 31
Tiburcio Carías age 9
Sándor Garbai age 6
István Friedrich age 2
Erik Scavenius age 8
Edwin Barclay age 3
Peder Kolstad age 7
António José de Almeida age 19
Ion G. Duca age 6
Iuliu Maniu age 12
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 13
H. H. Kung age 4
Yen Hsi-shan age 2
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 1
Óscar R. Benavides age 9
Don Stephen Senanayake age 1
Diego Martínez Barrio age 2
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 9
Nicolás Salmerón age 47
Huang Xing age 11
Vladimir Purishkevich age 15
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 53
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 22
Taytu Betul age 34
Halil Kut age 3
Nelson A. Miles age 46
Jubal Early age 69
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia age 25
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia age 21
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 82
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) age 1
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 13
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 1
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 40
José Joaquín Pérez age 84
Hiram Johnson age 19
Miriam A. Ferguson age 10
Doihara Kenji age 2
Harlan F. Stone age 13
Robert Bacon age 25
Philander C. Knox age 32
Rudolf Ramek age 4
Andrey Lyapchev age 19
Antti Tulenheimo age 6
Rafael Erich age 6
Károly Huszár age 3
Gyula Károlyi age 14
Hannes Hafstein age 24
Alexander Bustamante age 1
Hendrikus Colijn age 16
Jens Hundseid age 2
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 32
Boris Stürmer age 37
Fredrik von Otter age 52
Giuseppe Motta age 13
George Tupou II age 11
Eleazar López Contreras age 2
Eusebio Ayala age 10