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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

Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen age 37
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe age 28
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria age 55
Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria age 18
Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria age 11
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 13
Walthère Frère-Orban age 76
George Grey age 76
Lascăr Catargiu age 64
Bernardino Caballero age 49
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 54
Peter Hardeman Burnett age 80
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow age 27
Heinrich Lammasch age 35
Charles de Broqueville age 27
Joseph Pholien age 3
Petko Karavelov age 45
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 37
Emiliano Figueroa age 21
Antti Hackzell age 6
Alexandros Diomidis age 12
Ioannis Rallis age 10
Stylianos Gonatas age 11
Dimitrios Rallis age 44
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 39
Sigurður Eggerz age 13
Jens Christian Christensen age 31
Vilhelm Buhl age 6
Enrico Mizzi age 2
Michael Joseph Savage age 16
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 13
Wollert Konow age 42
Christopher Hornsrud age 28
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 23
Constantin Sănătescu age 3
Alexander Trepov age 25
Şemsettin Günaltay age 4
Feliciano Viera age 16
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 18
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 2
José Patricio Guggiari age 4
Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias age 13
Eugenio Montero Ríos age 55
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 39
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 42
Charles Hardinge age 29
William S. Rosecrans age 68
Yasuji Okamura age 4
Joseph Grew age 7
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 48
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 8
Petar Živković age 9
Herbert Morrison age 4 months
Marc Mitscher age 1
Harry Crerar age 0 months
Józef Haller age 14
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg age 30
Oreste Baratieri age 46
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy age 25
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 45
Josias von Heeringen age 38
Petar Bojović age 29
Oskar von Hutier age 30
Constantin Prezan age 27
Mehmet Vehip Kaçı age 13
Charles Warren age 48
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia age 26
Rahime Perestu Sultan age 62
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet age 24
Dudley Pound age 10
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1845–1927) age 42
Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 41
Duke Philipp of Württemberg age 49
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 18
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein age 57
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 1
Miguel Antonio Caro age 45
Jorge Montt age 43
Carl Christian Hall age 76
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg age 72
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 51
Stojan Protić age 31
Ljubomir Davidović age 24
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha age 33
Arturo Rawson age 2
Hovhannes Katchaznouni age 20
Henri Jaspar age 17
Bautista Saavedra age 17
Hernando Siles Reyes age 5
José Manuel Pando age 38
Aleksandar Malinov age 21
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso age 27
Isidro Ayora age 8
Petros Protopapadakis age 28
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos age 36
Georgios Theotokis age 44
Stefanos Dragoumis age 46
Alexandros Papanastasiou age 11
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 43
Theo Heemskerk age 35
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck age 14
Mubarak Al-Sabah age 50
Pierre Dupong age 3
Adolfo Díaz age 12
Ivar Lykke age 16
Jens Bratlie age 32
Abraham Berge age 36
Petre P. Carp age 50
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 55
Nicolae Rădescu age 14
Refik Saydam age 6
Alfredo Baldomir age 3
Juan José de Amézaga age 7
Eligio Ayala age 8
José Sánchez Guerra age 28
José López Domínguez age 58
Manuel Portela Valladares age 21
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo age 63
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 19
Simon Cameron age 89
Rafael Reyes age 38
Jonathan M. Wainwright age 4
Radko Dimitriev age 28
François Certain de Canrobert age 78
Karl von Einem age 35
Max von Hausen age 41
Oku Yasukata age 41
Walter Krueger age 7
Nikola Ivanov age 27
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 20
Princess Olga Paley age 22
Hilarión Daza age 48
Princess Marie of the Netherlands age 46
Prince Albert of Prussia (1837–1906) age 51
Princess Marie of Prussia (1855–1888) age 32
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia age 22
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 1
Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta age 47
Princess Maria Immacolata of the Two Sicilies age 44
Princess Januária of Brazil age 66
Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria age 17
Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria age 19
Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 21
Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria age 21
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein age 21
Prince Aribert of Anhalt age 23
Konstantin Stoilov age 34
Dragan Tsankov age 59
Antonio Flores Jijón age 54
Jan Heemskerk age 69
Luis Cordero Crespo age 55
Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ age 75
James Skivring Smith age 63
Emil Stang age 53
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 61
Edwin Montagu age 9
John Schofield age 56
Fejzi Alizoti age 13
Turhan Përmeti age 41
Mehdi Frashëri age 16
Simon Vratsian age 6
Alexander Khatisian age 14
Carl Vaugoin age 14
Frans Schollaert age 36
Paul-Émile Janson age 15
Ivan Evstratiev Geshov age 39
Racho Petrov age 27
Stoyan Danev age 30
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez age 29
Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados age 19
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 28
Urho Castrén age 1
Andreas Michalakopoulos age 13
Stefanos Skouloudis age 49
Panagis Tsaldaris age 20
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam age 24
Dénes Berinkey age 16
Björn Þórðarson age 9
Hannibal Sehested age 45
Hugo Egmont Hørring age 45
Otto Liebe age 28
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg age 48
Nicolaas Pierson age 49
Pieter Cort van der Linden age 42
Arthur Barclay age 33
Paul Eyschen age 46
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 2
Peter Fraser age 3
José Santos Zelayo age 34
João Pinheiro Chagas age 24
António Maria da Silva age 15
Constantin Angelescu age 18
Edmund Schulthess age 20
Walter Hauser age 51
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 4
Walery Sławek age 8
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 1
Manuel Gondra age 16
Eduardo Schaerer age 14
Gustavo Jiménez age 2