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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

Daniel Sickles age 67
Henry W. Slocum age 59
Oliver O. Howard age 56
William Buel Franklin age 64
Thomas Armstrong Morris age 75
George Alexander Porterfield age 64
William S. Rosecrans age 68
William Booth Taliaferro age 64
Alfred Howe Terry age 59
Philip Henry Sheridan age 56
Horatio Gouverneur Wright age 67
Hugh Dowding age 5
Stephen B. Elkins age 45
D. F. Malan age 13
Isma'il Pasha age 56
Chūichi Nagumo age 5 months
Rafael Reyes age 37
Louis-Jules Trochu age 72
Francesc Pi i Margall age 63
Nicolás Salmerón age 49
Emilio Castelar age 54
Karl Buresch age 8
Austen Chamberlain age 23
Keir Hardie age 31
George Barnes age 28
William Adamson age 24
George Lansbury age 28
Clement Davies age 3
John Langalibalele Dube age 16
Sefako Makgatho age 26
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 6
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 19
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 6
Edward Martyn age 28
John Sweetman age 43
Arthur Griffith age 16
John J. O'Kelly age 15
Brian O'Higgins age 5
Michael O'Flanagan age 11
Cathal Ó Murchadha age 7
Margaret Buckley age 8
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 5
Otozō Yamada age 5
Seiichi Kita age 8 months
Masakazu Kawabe age 8 months
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 42
Franz von Hipper age 23
Rosa Luxemburg age 16
Karl Liebknecht age 16
Lyman Trumbull age 73
Empress Dowager Longyu age 19
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 4
Huang Xing age 13
Li Yuanhong age 22
Li Hongzhang age 64
Prince Gong age 54
Ernst Pöhner age 17
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter age 3
Eugen von Knilling age 31
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 24
Marcello Soleri age 5
Michele Bianchi age 4
Ludwig Beck age 7
Komura Jutarō age 31
Takahira Kogorō age 33
Roman Rosen age 40
Kurt Eberhard age 12
Ebrahim Hakimi age 16
Ahmad Qavam age 11
Alexander Vandegrift age 5 months
Robert L. Ghormley age 3
Nobutake Kondō age 11 months
Tang Jiyao age 4
Lu Rongting age 27
Zhang Jingyao age 6
Feng Yuxiang age 4
Heisuke Yanagawa age 7
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 33
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 54
Paul Kruger age 61
Koos de la Rey age 39
Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss age 23
Ramón Corral age 33
Manuel Mondragón age 28
Pascual Orozco age 5
Bernardo Reyes age 38
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 1
Marc Mitscher age 6 months
Jisaburō Ozawa age 10 months
Chen Duxiu age 7
Georgy Gapon age 17
Dmitri Trepov age 31
Viktor Chernov age 13
Vladimir Purishkevich age 17
Alexander Kutepov age 4
Sergey Khabalov age 29
Yury Lomonosov age 11
Aleksandr Krymov age 15
Yakov Yurovsky age 9
Gotthard Heinrici age 8 months
He Jian age 4 months
Auda ibu Tayi age 13
Arthur Wauchope age 13
Harold MacMichael age 5
Claude Auchinleck age 3
Ugo Cavallero age 6
Paul Hausser age 6
Prince Komatsu Akihito age 41
Prince Arisugawa Taruhito age 52
Katsu Kaishū age 64
Enomoto Takeaki age 50
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 1
Jonathan M. Wainwright age 4
Edward P. King age 3
Oscar Griswold age 10 months
Walther von Brauchitsch age 5
Alexei Kuropatkin age 39
Maximilian von Weichs age 5
Wilhelm List age 7
Roman Kondratenko age 29
Danilo Kalafatović age 11
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 5 months
Milorad Petrović age 5
Ludwig von Falkenhausen age 42
Otto von Emmich age 39
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia age 30
Gérard Leman age 36
Radko Dimitriev age 27
François Certain de Canrobert age 78
Hisaichi Terauchi age 8
Husband E. Kimmel age 5
Walter Short age 7
Wacław Iwaszkiewicz-Rudoszański age 16
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 1
Edward Bulfin age 24
Philip Chetwode age 17
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 54
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 41
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 31
Felix Graf von Bothmer age 34
Armando Diaz age 25
Osman Nuri Pasha age 55
Svetozar Boroević age 30
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 15
Alexander von Krobatin age 37
Józef Haller age 14
Franciszek Latinik age 23
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 26
Mihail Savov age 29
Vasil Kutinchev age 28
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen age 70
Albert I of Saxony age 59
George Dewey age 49
Horace Smith-Dorrien age 29
Luigi Cadorna age 36
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer age 30
Pietro Frugoni age 36
Don Carlos Buell age 69
Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta age 18
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 24
Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten age 26
Andrey Selivanov age 40
Roberto Brusati age 37
Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi age 31
Nicolae Macici age 9 months
Roy Geiger age 2
Hermann von Eichhorn age 39
Sadae Inoue age 9 months
Otto Liman von Sanders age 32
Adam Nieniewski age 1
Cevat Çobanlı age 16
Lucjan Żeligowski age 21
Francis II of the Two Sicilies age 51
Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet age 17
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 14
John Lorimer Worden age 69
Leberecht Maass age 23
Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges age 33
Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont age 32
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 37
Paul von Rennenkampf age 33
Eleanor Roosevelt age 2
Victor Deguise age 31
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby age 26
René Cassin age 6 months
Friedrich Sixt von Armin age 35
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg age 30
Paul Maistre age 29
Ferdinand de Lesseps age 81
Charles Townshend age 26
Taytu Betul age 36
Émile Fayolle age 35
Karl von Einem age 34
Mekonnen Welde Mikael age 35
Bruno von Mudra age 36
Oreste Baratieri age 45
Vittorio Dabormida age 44
Giuseppe Arimondi age 41
Sakallı Nureddin Paşa age 14
George Washington Goethals age 29