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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

People

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 60
Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen age 27
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe age 19
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 46
Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria age 8
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 62
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 68
Bernardino Caballero age 39
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 45
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 71
Ferdinand Sarrien age 38
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 18
Heinrich Lammasch age 25
Charles de Broqueville age 18
Petko Karavelov age 35
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 28
Emiliano Figueroa age 12
Alexandros Diomidis age 3
Ioannis Rallis age 1
Stylianos Gonatas age 2
Dimitrios Rallis age 35
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 29
Sigurður Eggerz age 4
Jens Christian Christensen age 22
Michael Joseph Savage age 6
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 4
Wollert Konow age 33
Christopher Hornsrud age 19
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 14
Alexander Trepov age 16
Feliciano Viera age 7
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 9
Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias age 4
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 46
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 29
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 33
Charles Hardinge age 20
William S. Rosecrans age 59
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 39
Petar Živković age 2 months
Józef Haller age 5
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg age 21
Oreste Baratieri age 37
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy age 16
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 35
Josias von Heeringen age 29
Petar Bojović age 20
Oskar von Hutier age 21
Constantin Prezan age 18
Mehmet Vehip Kaçı age 4
Charles Warren age 39
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia age 17
Rahime Perestu Sultan age 53
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet age 14
August Karl von Goeben age 62
Dudley Pound age 1
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1845–1927) age 33
Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 32
Duke Philipp of Württemberg age 40
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 8
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein age 48
Miguel Antonio Caro age 36
Jorge Montt age 33
Thrasyvoulos Zaimis age 56
Epameinondas Deligeorgis age 50
Ditlev Gothard Monrad age 67
Ulises Heureaux age 33
Carl Christian Hall age 67
Christen Andreas Fonnesbech age 61
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 63
James Spriggs Payne age 59
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 42
José Rufino Echenique age 70
Joseph B. Foraker age 32
Stojan Protić age 22
Ljubomir Davidović age 15
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha age 23
José Serrato age 10
Juan Campisteguy age 19
Hamad bin Thuwaini age 22
Hovhannes Katchaznouni age 11
Henri Jaspar age 8
Bautista Saavedra age 8
José Manuel Pando age 29
Aleksandar Malinov age 11
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 18
Petros Protopapadakis age 19
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos age 27
Georgios Theotokis age 35
Stefanos Dragoumis age 37
Alexandros Papanastasiou age 2
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 33
Theo Heemskerk age 26
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 5
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 41
Adolfo Díaz age 3
Ivar Lykke age 7
Jens Bratlie age 23
Abraham Berge age 27
Petre P. Carp age 41
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 46
Nicolae Rădescu age 4
José Sánchez Guerra age 19
José López Domínguez age 49
Manuel Portela Valladares age 12
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 54
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 10
Simon Cameron age 80
Rafael Reyes age 29
Radko Dimitriev age 19
François Certain de Canrobert age 69
Karl von Einem age 26
Max von Hausen age 32
Oku Yasukata age 32
Nikola Ivanov age 17
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 11
Princess Olga Paley age 13
Princess Marie of the Netherlands age 37
Prince Albert of Prussia (1837–1906) age 41
Princess Marie of Prussia (1855–1888) age 23
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia age 13
Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta age 37
Princess Maria Immacolata of the Two Sicilies age 34
Princess Januária of Brazil age 57
Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria age 8
Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria age 10
Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 11
Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria age 12
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein age 11
Prince Aribert of Anhalt age 14
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb age 73
Konstantin Stoilov age 25
Dragan Tsankov age 50
Antonio Flores Jijón age 45
Jan Heemskerk age 60
Luis Cordero Crespo age 45
Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ age 66
James Skivring Smith age 54
Alfred Domett age 67
Emil Stang age 44
Patricio Escobar age 35
Edwin Montagu age 0 months
Horatio Seymour age 68
Kâmil Pasha age 47
José Posada Herrera age 64
John Schofield age 47
Fejzi Alizoti age 4
Turhan Përmeti age 32
Mehdi Frashëri age 7
Alexander Khatisian age 5
Carl Vaugoin age 5
Frans Schollaert age 27
Paul-Émile Janson age 6
Ivan Evstratiev Geshov age 30
Racho Petrov age 18
Stoyan Danev age 21
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez age 20
Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados age 10
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 19
Andreas Michalakopoulos age 3
Stefanos Skouloudis age 40
Panagis Tsaldaris age 10
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam age 14
Dénes Berinkey age 7
Björn Þórðarson age 0 months
Hannibal Sehested age 36
Hugo Egmont Hørring age 36
Otto Liebe age 18
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 39
Nicolaas Pierson age 40
Pieter Cort van der Linden age 32
Arthur Barclay age 24
Paul Eyschen age 37
José Santos Zelayo age 25
João Pinheiro Chagas age 15
António Maria da Silva age 6
Constantin Angelescu age 9
Edmund Schulthess age 11
Walter Hauser age 41
Manuel Gondra age 7
Eduardo Schaerer age 5
Alphonso Taft age 68
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 20
John Langalibalele Dube age 8
Otto von Emmich age 30
Alexander von Krobatin age 29
Don Carlos Buell age 60
Friedrich Sixt von Armin age 27
Ludwig von Benedek age 74
Alexei Evert age 22
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik age 24
Kuroki Tamemoto age 34