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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

Hugh McCulloch age 76
George Lansbury age 26
Cevat Çobanlı age 14
Sakallı Nureddin Paşa age 12
Georg von der Marwitz age 28
Fernand de Langle de Cary age 35
Luigi Capello age 26
Adile Sultan (daughter of Mahmud II) age 58
Georgi Todorov age 26
Charles Denis Bourbaki age 69
Leonhard Kaupisch age 6
Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1854–1898) age 30
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg age 19
Archduke Rainer of Austria (1827–1913) age 58
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1882) age 3
Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 16
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 35
Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich age 13
Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 21
Henri de Brouckère age 84
Jules Vandenpeereboom age 42
Mariano Baptista age 52
Aniceto Arce age 61
Nikolaos Deligiannis age 44
Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello age 62
Dezső Bánffy age 41
Nicolae Kretzulescu age 73
José Eugenio Ellauri age 50
Juan Gualberto González age 33
Juan Bautista Egusquiza age 39
Lorenzo Latorre age 40
Pedro Paterno age 28
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl age 58
Joseph T. Robinson age 12
Félix María Zuloaga age 72
Pandeli Evangjeli age 26
Xhafer Bej Ypi age 5
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 13
Prosper Poullet age 17
Gérard Cooreman age 33
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 41
Jules de Trooz age 28
Tomás Monje age 3 months
Nikola Mushanov age 12
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 1
Julio Acosta García age 12
Leónidas Plaza age 19
Gonzalo Córdova age 21
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 25
Georgios Kafantaris age 11
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 3
Anastasios Charalambis age 22
Alexandros Othonaios age 6
Pierre Nord Alexis age 64
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 22
Géza Fejérváry age 52
János Hadik age 21
Björn Jónsson age 38
Kristján Jónsson age 33
Michael Pedersen Friis age 27
Theo de Meester age 33
Salim I of Kuwait age 21
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 2
Émile Reuter age 10
Afonso Costa age 14
Constantin Argetoianu age 14
Vintilă Brătianu age 17
Constantin Coandă age 28
Gheorghe Argeșanu age 2
Ernst Wetter age 7
Adolf Deucher age 54
Eduard Müller age 36
José Gil Fortoul age 23
Pablo Arosemena age 48
Juan Manuel Frutos age 5
Cecilio Báez age 23
Félix Paiva age 8
Juan Antonio Escurra age 25
Benigno Ferreira age 39
Manuel Franco age 13
David Samanez Ocampo age 18
Huang Fu age 2
George Dern age 12
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford age 57
Eugene Meyer age 9
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo age 17
George Henry Williams age 62
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 59
Reginald McKenna age 21
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 28
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 20
Pascual Orozco age 3
Alexander Kutepov age 2
Gérard Leman age 34
Felix Graf von Bothmer age 32
Mihail Savov age 27
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer age 28
Émile Fayolle age 32
George Washington Goethals age 26
Amédée Courbet age 57
Anatoly Stessel age 36
Silvestras Žukauskas age 24
Archibald James Murray age 24
Édouard de Castelnau age 33
Suleyman Husnu Pasha age 47
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 6
Piet Cronjé age 48
Ronglu age 49
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 19
Nakayama Yoshiko age 49
Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg age 40
George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg age 33
Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin age 27
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir age 7
Nazikeda Kadın (wife of Mehmed VI) age 18
Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia age 28
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 6
Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria age 58
Prince Louis, Count of Trani age 46
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 5
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1862–1933) age 22
Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans age 15
Johan Ehrnrooth age 51
Jules d'Anethan age 82
Kliment of Tarnovo age 44
Zinovios Valvis age 85
Gyula Szapáry age 52
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos age 53
Ioan Emanoil Florescu age 65
Theodor Rosetti age 47
Harry Atkinson age 53
C. A. Rosetti age 68
Julio Herrera y Obes age 44
Duncan Stewart age 52
Tomás Gomensoro Albín age 75
Guillermo Tell Villegas age 62
Francisco García Calderón age 51
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Ali Rıza Pasha age 25
Sulejman Delvina age 6 months
Isaac Isaacs age 29
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 12
Andrei Toshev age 17
Dimitar Petkov age 26
Dobry Bozhilov age 9 months
Juan Esteban Montero age 6
Enrique Olaya Herrera age 4
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 71
José Vicente Concha age 18
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 26
León Cortés Castro age 2
Ramón Cáceres age 18
Horacio Vásquez age 24
Tomás Regalado age 23
Noe Ramishvili age 4
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 6
Carlos Herrera y Luna age 28
Louis Eugene Roy age 24
Élie Lescot age 1
Julio Lozano Díaz age 0 months
Yasin Hashimi age 3
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun age 6
Hugo Celmiņš age 7
William D. Coleman age 42
Garretson W. Gibson age 52
Janko Vukotić age 19
Walter Nash age 3
George Forbes age 16
William Massey age 29
Johannes Steen age 57
Francis Hagerup age 32
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 17
Vladan Đorđević age 40
Rudolf Minger age 3
Karl Scheurer age 12
Robert Haab age 19
Ernest Chuard age 27
Robert Comtesse age 37
Eduard von Steiger age 3
Ludwig Forrer age 40
Felix Calonder age 21
Arthur Hoffmann age 27
Aleksander Prystor age 11
Julian Nowak age 20
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 2
Juan Bautista Gaona age 39
Albino Jara age 8
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala age 74
Alexander Ramsey age 69
Russell A. Alger age 49
Wilbur Wright age 17
George B. Cortelyou age 22
Charles Foster age 57
Harry M. Daugherty age 25
Michele Bianchi age 1
Komura Jutarō age 29
Prince Komatsu Akihito age 39
Roman Kondratenko age 27
Ludwig von Falkenhausen age 40
Walter Short age 5