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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

José Miguel Gómez age 30
Mario García Menocal age 22
Alexandros Koryzis age 3
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 34
Tiburcio Carías age 12
Sándor Garbai age 9
István Friedrich age 5
Kálmán Darányi age 2
Erik Scavenius age 11
Edwin Barclay age 6
Antanas Merkys age 1
Peder Kolstad age 10
António José de Almeida age 22
Ion G. Duca age 9
Iuliu Maniu age 15
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 16
H. H. Kung age 7
Yen Hsi-shan age 5
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 4
José Félix Estigarribia age 10 months
Óscar R. Benavides age 12
Don Stephen Senanayake age 4
Diego Martínez Barrio age 5
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 12
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 47
Nicolás Salmerón age 50
Huang Xing age 14
Vladimir Purishkevich age 18
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 56
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 25
Taytu Betul age 37
Halil Kut age 6
Mario Roatta age 1
Nelson A. Miles age 49
Jubal Early age 72
Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia age 28
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia age 24
Mitsuru Ushijima age 1
Alexandrine of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 85
Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) age 4
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 16
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 4
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 43
José Joaquín Pérez age 87
Hiram Johnson age 22
Miriam A. Ferguson age 13
Doihara Kenji age 5
Harlan F. Stone age 16
Robert Bacon age 28
Philander C. Knox age 35
Omer Nishani age 1
Rudolf Ramek age 7
Andrey Lyapchev age 22
Antti Tulenheimo age 9
Rafael Erich age 9
Károly Huszár age 6
Gyula Károlyi age 17
Hannes Hafstein age 27
Alexander Bustamante age 4
Hendrikus Colijn age 19
Jens Hundseid age 5
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 2
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 35
Boris Stürmer age 40
Fredrik von Otter age 55
Giuseppe Motta age 16
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 1
George Tupou II age 14
Eleazar López Contreras age 5
Eusebio Ayala age 13
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 4
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 56
José Giral age 9
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas age 29
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 61
Sisowath of Cambodia age 48
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 37
Hisaichi Terauchi age 9
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 38
John Pope age 66
Vittorio Ambrosio age 9
Arthur Percival age 11 months
Iosif Gurko age 60
Max von Gallwitz age 36
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 13
John Monash age 23
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg age 50
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) age 25
Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia age 2
Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865–1927) age 23
Princess Anastasia of Montenegro age 20
Şehzade Ahmed Nihad age 5
Otto Ruge age 6
Alphonse Juin age 0 months
Frederick I of Anhalt age 57
Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia age 5
Todor Burmov age 54
Domingo Santa María age 63
James M. Cox age 18
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava age 62
Yoshijirō Umezu age 6
Cai E age 6
Francis Biddle age 2
Léon Delacroix age 20
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 19
Vasil Radoslavov age 34
Pedro Montt age 39
Germán Riesco age 34
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 29
Eduardo Santos age 3 months
Oskari Mantere age 14
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 2
Jón Þorláksson age 11
Jón Magnússon age 29
Carl Theodor Zahle age 22
Niels Neergaard age 34
Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics age 1
João do Canto e Castro age 26
Dimitrie Sturdza age 55
Patriarch Miron of Romania age 20
Gerhard Louis De Geer age 34
Christian Lundeberg age 46
Gustave Ador age 43
Juan Bautista Pérez age 19
Kazimierz Bartel age 6
José Pardo y Barreda age 24
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 28
Joseph Avenol age 9
William Gibbs McAdoo age 25
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 5
Koos de la Rey age 41
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 1
Kodama Gentarō age 36
Piet Joubert age 54
Christiaan de Wet age 34
Ian Hamilton age 35
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach age 70
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia age 19
Thomas Blamey age 4
Princess Anna of Prussia age 52
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau age 51
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria age 28
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 10
Elias, Duke of Parma age 8
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 19
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 16
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 49
Antonio Guzmán Blanco age 59
Joaquín Crespo age 47
John Bright age 77
François Georges-Picot age 18
Ahmed Vefik Pasha age 65
Arsenio Martínez Campos age 57
Shefqet Vërlaci age 11
Otto Ender age 12
Henri Carton de Wiart age 19
Jules Renkin age 26
Ramón Barros Luco age 53
Juan Antonio Rios age 1 month
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 2
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 9
Theodoros Deligiannis age 68
Dimitrios Gounaris age 22
Konstantinos Demertzis age 12
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 4
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 29
Gyula Peidl age 15
Móric Esterházy age 7
Sándor Wekerle age 40
Knud Kristensen age 8
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal age 11
Klaus Berntsen age 44
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 3
Jonas Staugaitis age 20
Eulalio Gutiérrez age 7
Richard Seddon age 43
Otto Bahr Halvorsen age 16
Otto Blehr age 41
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 28
Alexandru Marghiloman age 34
Johan Ramstedt age 36
Baltasar Brum age 5
Aleksander Skrzyński age 6
Emilio Aceval age 35
Federico Chávez age 7
Serapio Calderón age 45
Guillermo Billinghurst age 37
Francisco Silvela age 45
Segismundo Moret age 55
Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen age 15
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas age 28
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 40
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 22
Oliver O. Howard age 58
Orville Wright age 17
Edward Carson age 34
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 15
Karl Buresch age 10
Leo Amery age 15
Empress Dowager Longyu age 20