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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04

People

Vladan Đorđević age 34
Karl Scheurer age 6
Robert Haab age 13
Ernest Chuard age 21
Robert Comtesse age 31
Ludwig Forrer age 34
Felix Calonder age 15
Arthur Hoffmann age 21
Aleksander Prystor age 5
Julian Nowak age 13
Juan Bautista Gaona age 33
Albino Jara age 1
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 68
John Lawrence age 67
Alexander Ramsey age 63
Russell A. Alger age 42
Wilbur Wright age 11
George B. Cortelyou age 16
Charles Foster age 50
Harry M. Daugherty age 19
Komura Jutarō age 23
Prince Komatsu Akihito age 33
Roman Kondratenko age 21
Ludwig von Falkenhausen age 34
Arthur Currie age 3
Nikolay Ivanov age 27
Carlo Pellion di Persano age 72
Nikolai Nebogatov age 29
Wilgelm Vitgeft age 31
José Moscardó Ituarte age 3 months
Augustin Dubail age 27
Nazim Pasha age 31
August von Werder age 70
Richard Taylor age 53
Pascual Cervera y Topete age 40
Empress Dowager Eishō age 44
Hayranidil Kadın age 32
Ahmad Nami age 6
Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov age 41
Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria age 55
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen age 63
Mikhail Dragomirov age 48
Pak Yŏnghyo age 17
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1842–1906) age 37
Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau age 54
Prince Waldemar of Prussia (born 1868) age 11
Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria age 11
Princess Isabella of Croÿ age 22
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 3
Leonid Sobolev age 34
Dimitar Grekov age 31
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez age 73
Francisco Javier Zaldúa age 67
József Szlávy age 60
Æneas Mackay Jr. age 40
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 59
István Bittó age 56
Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 62
Gijsbert van Tienhoven age 38
Sotirios Sotiropoulos age 59
Joan Röell age 34
Pieter Philip van Bosse age 69
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 41
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 63
John Burns age 20
James L. Kemper age 55
Frederick Low age 50
George C. Perkins age 39
Newton Booth age 53
William Allen age 75
David B. Hill age 35
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 60
James W. Marshall age 68
John Marshall Harlan age 45
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire age 45
Antonio Borrero age 51
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 26
Jose Gutierrez Guerra age 9
Eliodoro Villazón age 31
Petar Gudev age 15
Dimitar Stanchov age 15
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 34
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 0 months
Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis age 30
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos age 23
Lázaro Chacón González age 5
Stenio Vincent age 4
Tancrède Auguste age 22
Louis Borno age 13
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani age 38
Jaber II Al-Sabah age 19
Pauls Kalniņš age 6
Daniel Edward Howard age 17
Joseph Ward age 22
Carlos José Solórzano age 19
Domingos Oliveira age 5
Arthur Văitoianu age 14
Gheorghe Mironescu age 5
Jean-Marie Musy age 2
Camille Decoppet age 16
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 4
Gabino Bugallal y Araujo age 17
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 53
William Mahone age 52
Gouverneur Kemble Warren age 49
William W. Belknap age 49
John W. Weeks age 18
Botho zu Eulenburg age 47
Adna Chaffee age 36
Charles S. Fairchild age 36
Benjamin Bristow age 46
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 76
William Adamson age 15
Vasil Kutinchev age 19
Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten age 18
Mekonnen Welde Mikael age 26
Zeki Kolaç age 17
Edhem Pasha age 28
Anastasios Papoulas age 22
Oskar Gripenberg age 41
Grand Duke Vyacheslav Konstantinovich of Russia age 16
Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 22
Şehzade Mehmed Selim age 9
Bedrifelek Kadın age 28
Mehmed Sabahaddin age 1
Friedrich von Scholtz age 27
Gustav von Alvensleben age 75
Antoine Chanzy age 55
Narciso Campero age 65
Yi Jun-yong age 8
Charlie Soong age 17
Princess Louise of Prussia (1829–1901) age 49
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel age 17
Archduke Ernest of Austria (1824–1899) age 54
Agustín de Iturbide y Green age 15
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 5
Próspero Fernández Oreamuno age 44
José María Rojas Garrido age 54
Gregorio Pacheco age 55
Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte age 56
Emmanuel Servais age 67
Frederick Whitaker age 66
Marcos Morínigo age 30
Romualdo Pacheco age 47
Edwin D. Morgan age 68
Vojislav Marinković age 2
Hursid Pasha
Saffet Pasha age 65
Ahmed Arifi Pasha age 49
Hubert Gough age 8
Felipe S. Guzmán age 0 months
Todor Ivanchov age 21
Elías Fernández Albano age 34
Alfredo González Flores age 1
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada age 7
Federico Páez age 2
Emilio Estrada Carmona age 23
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 38
Adli Yakan age 15
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 7
Manuel Enrique Araujo age 13
Fernando Figueroa age 29
Pedro José Escalón age 31
Nikolaos Stratos age 6
Sotirios Krokidas age 27
Athanasios Eftaxias age 30
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam age 19
Cincinnatus Leconte age 24
François C. Antoine Simon age 35
Rafael López Gutiérrez age 23
Francisco Bertrand age 12
Miguel R. Dávila age 22
Manuel Bonilla age 29
Habib Pacha Es-Saad age 12
Victor Thorn age 35
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 17
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 26
Gordon Coates age 1
Duarte Leite age 14
Faris al-Khoury age 1
Ata al-Ayyubi age 1
Rida al-Rikabi age 15
Antoni Ponikowski age 8 months
Pedro Peña age 14
Richard Herron Anderson age 57
Joseph Holt age 72
Redfield Proctor age 47
Lindley Miller Garrison age 14
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 13
Judson Harmon age 33
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 64
Tasker H. Bliss age 25
L. M. Shaw age 30
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 63
Eugen von Knilling age 22
Leberecht Maass age 15
Charles Townshend age 17
Charles Lanrezac age 26
Alexander von Kaulbars age 34
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson age 14