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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Apache Wars 1849 - 1924
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Mahdist War 1881-06-29 - 1899-11-24
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Cuban War of Independence 1895-02-24 - 1898-08-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Philippine Revolution 1896 - 1898
First Chimurenga 1896-03 - 1897-10

People

Mikhail Alekseyev age 39
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria age 28
Archduke Otto Franz Joseph of Austria age 31
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 12
Prince Louis of Battenberg age 42
Milan Hodža age 18
Matthias Erzberger age 21
Raymond A. Spruance age 10
Tôn Đức Thắng age 8
Frank Forde age 6
Lauri Ingman age 28
Alexandros Papagos age 13
Zoltán Tildy age 7
Gyula Gömbös age 10
Johan Nygaardsvold age 17
Bernardino Machado age 45
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 7
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 30
Hamaguchi Osachi age 26
Luigi Luzzatti age 55
René Viviani age 33
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 27
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 27
Maria Pia of Savoy age 49
María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias age 16
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 13
Elisabeth of Romania age 2
Charles Tupper age 75
Émile Combes age 61
Ōyama Iwao age 54
Joseph Gallieni age 47
Christian Herter age 1
José Félix Uriburu age 28
Agustín Pedro Justo age 20
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 14
Döme Sztójay age 13
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 5
Yusef of Morocco age 15
Sidónio Pais age 24
Américo Tomás age 2
Li Zongren age 6
Christian Rakovsky age 23
Ho Chong age 8 months
Eduardo Dato age 40
Hugh Dowding age 14
Giuseppe Saracco age 75
Alessandro Fortis age 54
Louis Botha age 34
Fevzi Çakmak age 20
Charles Dupuy age 45
Nereu Ramos age 8
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 25
Nogi Maresuke age 47
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 64
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia age 38
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 66
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia age 25
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark age 24
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 20
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 11
Princess Louise of Prussia age 58
Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862) age 34
Mackenzie Bowell age 73
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 51
Ahmed Izzet Pasha age 33
Wilhelm Groener age 29
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 28
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 19
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 17
Otto Strandman age 21
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 10
Adone Zoli age 9
Gustavs Zemgals age 25
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 7
Francisco León de la Barra age 33
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 19
Oscar Torp age 3
Titu Maiorescu age 56
Rickard Sandler age 12
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 24
Felix Hamrin age 21
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 13
Arvid Lindman age 34
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 34
Shukri al-Quwatli age 5
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 40
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 7
John French age 44
Giovanni Messe age 13
Tommaso Tittoni age 41
José Linhares age 10
Carlos Luz age 2
William D. Leahy age 21
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 37
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 26
James Forrestal age 4
Keir Hardie age 40
Li Yuanhong age 32
Viktor Chernov age 23
Ugo Cavallero age 16
Lothar Rendulic age 9
Osman Nuri Pasha age 65
Radomir Putnik age 49
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 49
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 10
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 9
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia age 20
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 60
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 17
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau age 50
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 5
Julius Raab age 5
Laureano Gómez age 7
Gerardo Machado age 25
Jüri Uluots age 6
Juho Vennola age 24
Mauno Pekkala age 6
Kaarlo Castrén age 36
István Bethlen age 22
Nuri as-Said age 9
Alberts Kviesis age 15
Bechara El Khoury age 6
Augustinas Voldemaras age 13
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 26
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 32
Octavian Goga age 15
T. V. Soong age 5
Heungseon Daewongun age 75
Alexander von Kluck age 50
Pyotr Krasnov age 27
Joseph Stilwell age 13
J. G. Strijdom age 3
W. T. Cosgrave age 16
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 34
Feng Yuxiang age 14
Jisaburō Ozawa age 10
Enomoto Takeaki age 60
Kâzım Karabekir age 15
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 31
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia age 36
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia age 37
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 10
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 9
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 53
Kim Hyong-jik age 2
Carlos Pellegrini age 50
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 58
Iwane Matsui age 18
Frank Jack Fletcher age 11
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 9
Bogdan Filov age 13
Sisowath Monivong age 21
Norodom Suramarit age 10 months
Kaarel Eenpalu age 8
Juho Sunila age 21
Noe Zhordania age 28
Ferenc Münnich age 10
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 11
Joseph Bech age 9
Francisco S. Carvajal age 26
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 22
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 33
Carl Swartz age 38
Wincenty Witos age 22
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 10
Luigi Pelloux age 57
C. R. Swart age 2
Lij Iyasu age 1
Franz von Hipper age 33
Paul Blobel age 2
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 42
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 64
Husband E. Kimmel age 14
Svetozar Boroević age 40
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 40
Alfred von Waldersee age 64
Carlo Sforza age 24
Empress Shōken age 47
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark age 8
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 12
Eduard Dietl age 6
Frederick II of Baden age 39
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 30
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 13
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 29
Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont age 35
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 9
Alexandre Ribot age 54
Ferdinand IV of Tuscany age 61
Robert I of Parma age 48
Kimon Georgiev age 14
László Bárdossy age 6
Géza Lakatos age 6
Ólafur Thors age 4
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 2
Manuel de Arriaga age 56
Armand Călinescu age 3
Nils Edén age 25
Hsu Shih-chang age 41
Cao Kun age 34