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Events

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Siege of Mafeking 1899-10-13 - 1900-05-17
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Siege of Ladysmith 1899-11-02 - 1900-02-28

People

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 7
Archduchess Gisela of Austria age 43
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 23
W. Averell Harriman age 8
Roque Sáenz Peña age 48
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 20
Tomás Estrada Palma age 64
Jaan Tõnisson age 31
Alexandros Zaimis age 44
Seán T. O'Kelly age 17
Emilio Portes Gil age 9
Alexandru Averescu age 40
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 11 months
Kiyoura Keigo age 50
Okada Keisuke age 32
Senjūrō Hayashi age 24
Mitsumasa Yonai age 19
Ferruccio Parri age 10
Robert Todd Lincoln age 56
Delfim Moreira age 31
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 23
Andrew Mellon age 44
Francesc Pi i Margall age 75
Otto Liman von Sanders age 45
Alexander Samsonov age 40
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 17
Mikhail Alekseyev age 42
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria age 31
Archduke Otto Franz Joseph of Austria age 34
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 15
Prince Louis of Battenberg age 45
Kurt Daluege age 2
Matthias Erzberger age 24
Raymond A. Spruance age 13
Tôn Đức Thắng age 11
Frank Forde age 9
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 1
Lauri Ingman age 31
Alexandros Papagos age 16
Zoltán Tildy age 10
Gyula Gömbös age 13
Johan Nygaardsvold age 20
Bernardino Machado age 48
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 10
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 33
Hamaguchi Osachi age 29
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 60
Luigi Luzzatti age 58
René Viviani age 36
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 30
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 30
Maria Pia of Savoy age 52
María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias age 19
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 16
Elisabeth of Romania age 5
Charles Tupper age 78
Émile Combes age 64
Ōyama Iwao age 57
Joseph Gallieni age 50
Christian Herter age 4
José Félix Uriburu age 31
Agustín Pedro Justo age 23
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 17
Döme Sztójay age 17
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 8
Yusef of Morocco age 18
Sidónio Pais age 27
Américo Tomás age 5
Li Zongren age 9
Christian Rakovsky age 26
Ho Chong age 3
Eduardo Dato age 43
Hugh Dowding age 17
Giuseppe Saracco age 78
Alessandro Fortis age 57
Louis Botha age 37
Fevzi Çakmak age 24
Charles Dupuy age 48
Nereu Ramos age 11
Matvei Zakharov age 1
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 29
Nogi Maresuke age 50
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 67
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia age 41
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 69
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark age 28
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 23
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 15
Princess Louise of Prussia age 61
Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862) age 37
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 73
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse age 31
Mackenzie Bowell age 76
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 55
Ahmed Izzet Pasha age 36
Wilhelm Groener age 32
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 31
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 22
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 21
Otto Strandman age 24
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 13
Adone Zoli age 12
Gustavs Zemgals age 28
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 10
Francisco León de la Barra age 36
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 22
Oscar Torp age 6
Titu Maiorescu age 60
Rickard Sandler age 16
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 27
Felix Hamrin age 25
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 16
Arvid Lindman age 37
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 38
Shukri al-Quwatli age 8
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 43
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 10
John French age 47
Giovanni Messe age 16
Tommaso Tittoni age 44
José Linhares age 14
Carlos Luz age 5
William D. Leahy age 24
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 40
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 29
James Forrestal age 8
Keir Hardie age 43
Li Yuanhong age 35
Viktor Chernov age 26
Ugo Cavallero age 19
Lothar Rendulic age 12
Osman Nuri Pasha age 68
Radomir Putnik age 53
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 52
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 13
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 12
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia age 23
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 64
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 20
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 8
Julius Raab age 8
Achille Van Acker age 1
Laureano Gómez age 10
Gerardo Machado age 28
Jüri Uluots age 10
Juho Vennola age 27
Mauno Pekkala age 10
Kaarlo Castrén age 39
István Bethlen age 25
Nuri as-Said age 12
Alberts Kviesis age 18
Bechara El Khoury age 9
Augustinas Voldemaras age 16
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 29
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 35
Octavian Goga age 18
T. V. Soong age 8
Alexander von Kluck age 53
Pyotr Krasnov age 30
Joseph Stilwell age 16
J. G. Strijdom age 6
W. T. Cosgrave age 19
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 37
Feng Yuxiang age 17
Jisaburō Ozawa age 13
Enomoto Takeaki age 63
Kâzım Karabekir age 18
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 34
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia age 39
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia age 40
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 13
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 12
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 57
Kim Hyong-jik age 5
Carlos Pellegrini age 53
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 61
Sanford B. Dole age 55
Iwane Matsui age 21
Frank Jack Fletcher age 14
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 13
Bogdan Filov age 16
Sisowath Monivong age 24
Norodom Suramarit age 3
Kaarel Eenpalu age 11
Juho Sunila age 24
Noe Zhordania age 32
István Dobi age 1
Ferenc Münnich age 13
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 14
Joseph Bech age 13
Francisco S. Carvajal age 29
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 25
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 37
Carl Swartz age 41
Chen Cheng age 3
Wincenty Witos age 26
Manuel Odría age 2
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 13
C. R. Swart age 5
Lij Iyasu age 5