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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
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

People

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
John Pope age 63
Vittorio Ambrosio age 5
Iosif Gurko age 56
Max von Gallwitz age 32
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 10
John Monash age 19
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 46
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) age 21
Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865–1927) age 20
Princess Anastasia of Montenegro age 17
Şehzade Ahmed Nihad age 1
Otto Ruge age 3
Frederick I of Anhalt age 53
Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia age 1
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 40
Todor Burmov age 51
James M. Cox age 14
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 58
Yoshijirō Umezu age 3
Cai E age 2
Léon Delacroix age 17
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 15
Vasil Radoslavov age 30
Pedro Montt age 35
Germán Riesco age 30
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 26
Oskari Mantere age 10
Jón Þorláksson age 8
Jón Magnússon age 26
Carl Theodor Zahle age 19
Niels Neergaard age 30
João do Canto e Castro age 22
Dimitrie Sturdza age 52
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 16
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 30
Christian Lundeberg age 42
Gustave Ador age 39
Juan Bautista Pérez age 15
Kazimierz Bartel age 3
José Pardo y Barreda age 21
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 24
Joseph Avenol age 5
William Gibbs McAdoo age 21
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 2
Koos de la Rey age 37
Kodama Gentarō age 33
Piet Joubert age 51
Christiaan de Wet age 30
Ian Hamilton age 32
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 66
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia age 15
Thomas Blamey age 1
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia age 69
Princess Anna of Prussia age 48
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 47
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria age 24
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 6
Elias, Duke of Parma age 4
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 15
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 12
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 46
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 56
Gillis Bildt age 64
John Bright age 73
François Georges-Picot age 14
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 61
Melville Fuller age 52
Shefqet Vërlaci age 7
Otto Ender age 9
Henri Carton de Wiart age 16
Jules Renkin age 22
Ramón Barros Luco age 49
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 5
Theodoros Deligiannis age 65
Dimitrios Gounaris age 19
Konstantinos Demertzis age 8
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 11 months
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 25
Gyula Peidl age 11
Móric Esterházy age 3
Sándor Wekerle age 36
Knud Kristensen age 4
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 8
Klaus Berntsen age 40
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 2 months
Jonas Staugaitis age 16
Eulalio Gutiérrez age 4
Richard Seddon age 39
Otto Bahr Halvorsen age 12
Otto Blehr age 38
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 24
Alexandru Marghiloman age 31
Johan Ramstedt age 32
Baltasar Brum age 1
Aleksander Skrzyński age 2
Emilio Aceval age 31
Federico Chávez age 4
Serapio Calderón age 41
Guillermo Billinghurst age 33
Francisco Silvela age 41
Segismundo Moret age 51
Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen age 11
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas age 24
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 37
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 18
Oliver O. Howard age 54
Orville Wright age 13
Edward Carson age 31
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 12
Karl Buresch age 6
Leo Amery age 11
Empress Dowager Longyu age 17
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter age 1
José Miaja age 6
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein age 14
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 62
Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro age 13
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands age 60
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia age 57
Catherine Dolgorukova age 37
Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia age 35
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia age 31
Şevkefza Sultan age 64
Louis Faidherbe age 66
Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen age 33
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe age 25
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 52
Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria age 14
Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria age 8
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 10
Walthère Frère-Orban age 72
George Grey age 72
Lascăr Catargiu age 61
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau age 74
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 51
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 77
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 24
Heinrich Lammasch age 31
Charles de Broqueville age 24
Joseph Pholien age 2 months
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 34
Emiliano Figueroa age 18
Antti Hackzell age 3
Alexandros Diomidis age 9
Ioannis Rallis age 7
Stylianos Gonatas age 8
Dimitrios Rallis age 41
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 35
Sigurður Eggerz age 10
Jens Christian Christensen age 28
Vilhelm Buhl age 3
Michael Joseph Savage age 12
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 10
Wollert Konow age 39
Christopher Hornsrud age 25
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 20
Constantin Sănătescu age 2 months
Alexander Trepov age 22
Şemsettin Günaltay age 1
Feliciano Viera age 13
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 15
José Patricio Guggiari age 12 months
Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias age 10
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 52
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 35
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 39
Charles Hardinge age 26
William S. Rosecrans age 65
Yasuji Okamura age 10 months
Joseph Grew age 4
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 45
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 5
Petar Živković age 6
Józef Haller age 11
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg age 27
Oreste Baratieri age 43
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy age 22
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 41
Josias von Heeringen age 35
Petar Bojović age 26
Oskar von Hutier age 27
Constantin Prezan age 24
Mehmet Vehip Kaçı age 10
Charles Warren age 45
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia age 23
Rahime Perestu Sultan age 59
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet age 20
Dudley Pound age 7
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1845–1927) age 39
Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 38
Duke Philipp of Württemberg age 46
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 14
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein age 54
Miguel Antonio Caro age 42