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Events

Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31

People

Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 37
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 22
Salman II of Bahrain age 3
Sisowath Watchayavong age 6
Pedro Opaso age 21
Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra age 50
Andrés F. Córdova age 5
Julio Enrique Moreno age 18
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 22
Pío Romero Bosque age 37
Oreste Zamor age 36
Miguel Paz Barahona age 33
Clifford Campbell age 5
Adolph Bowler age 8
Arturs Alberings age 20
Pēteris Juraševskis age 25
Jānis Pauļuks age 31
Ayoub Tabet age 23
Josef Hoop age 1
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 7
Joseph Howard age 34
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 11
Francis Bell age 46
Francisco Cunha Leal age 9
António Maria Baptista age 34
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 25
José Relvas age 39
Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar age 31
António Granjo age 15
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 33
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 4
Tahar Ben Ammar age 7
Federico Boyd age 45
John Strachey age 74
John Alexander McClernand age 85
Fu Zuoyi age 2
Jacob M. Dickinson age 46
Franklin MacVeagh age 59
David F. Houston age 31
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 82
Arthur W. Radford age 1
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 3
William H. Woodin age 29
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 43
James Clark McReynolds age 35
Manny Shinwell age 12
A. Mitchell Palmer age 25
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 50
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 4
Bill McKell age 5
Hamad I of Bahrain age 25
ʿAbd al-Khaliq Tharwat age 24
Husayn Rushdi age 34
Yusef Wahba age 45
José María Reyna Andrade age 36
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 65
Joseph Davilmar Théodore age 50
Terencio Sierra age 57
Hikmat Sulayman age 8
Hamdi Pachachi age 11
Voldemārs Zāmuēls age 25
Gustav Schädler age 13
Léon Kauffman age 28
Mitar Martinović age 26
Thomas Mackenzie age 43
William Hall-Jones age 46
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 24
José Madriz age 37
Juan José Estrada Morales age 25
Francisco José Fernandes age 30
Vitorino Guimarães age 20
Joaquim Pimenta de Castro age 50
Jamil al-Elshi age 14
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 8 months
Rodolfo Chiari age 27
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 9
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 22
Demetrio H. Brid age 37
Du Xigui age 21
Thomas James Churchill age 73
Stephen D. Lee age 63
Edward Almond age 4
John Wesley Snyder age 2
J. R. Clynes age 28
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 37
Peyton C. March age 32
Naoki Hoshino age 5
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 11 months
Gonzalo Güell age 2
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 1
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 3
Vicente Tosta age 16
Muzahim Pachachi age 6
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 1
Rashid Tali’a age 20
Letsie II Lerotholi age 30
Khatanbaatar Magsarjav age 19
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 2
Andrija Radović age 25
Bartolomé Martínez age 24
José Domingues dos Santos age 10
José de Castro age 29
António Ginestal Machado age 23
Tomé de Barros Queirós age 25
Martín Echegoyen age 6
Huynh Thuc Khang age 21
Daniel S. Lamont age 46
Gwilym Lloyd George age 2
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 25
John G. Sargent age 36
Malin Craig age 22
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 32
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 74
William D. Mitchell age 22
Wayne MacVeagh age 64
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 26
James P. McGranery age 2
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 29
Hugh L. Scott age 43
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 10
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 23
Khim Tit age 1
Chan Nak age 5
Pedro Dartnell age 23
Ramón Zaydín age 2
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 22
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 5
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 20
Makonnen Endelkachew age 7
Manuel María Orellana Contreras age 26
Francisco Bográn age 45
Naji Shawkat age 4
Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi age 24
Dambyn Chagdarjav age 17
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 15
Anto Gvozdenović age 44
Jovan Plamenac age 24
Lazar Tomanović age 52
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 32
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 22
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 8
Liberato Pinto age 16
Petar Velimirović age 49
Haqqi al-Azm age 32
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 16
Lutfi al-Haffar age 9
Weng Wenhao age 8
Li Jingxi age 38
Pedro Beltrán age 6 months
Wei Lihuang age 6 months
Frank Polk age 25
Charles Pelot Summerall age 30
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 6
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 15
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 21
Thomas Watt Gregory age 35
William H. H. Miller age 57
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 91
John W. Griggs age 48
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 17
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 27
Emilio Bello Codesido age 29
Jorge García Montes age 10 months
Raúl López del Castillo age 4
Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha age 23
Ahmad Ziwar age 33
Muhammad Said Pasha age 34
Miguel Oquelí Bustillo age 41
Mohammed al-Sadr age 15
Arshad al-Umari age 9
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 13
Marko Radulović age 30
José Ramos Preto age 26
Carlos Maia Pinto age 31
Husni al-Barazi age 2
Hassan al-Hakim age 11
Wang Yun-wu age 9
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 9
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 4
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma age 12
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 58
John C. Bates age 55
Laming Worthington-Evans age 29
José Bordas Valdés age 23
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 21
Imru Haile Selassie age 4
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 11
Naji al-Suwaidi age 15
Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein age 22
Lazar Mijušković age 29
Evgenije Popović age 55
Carlos Alberto Brenes age 12
Sebastián Uriza age 36
Marko Trifković age 32
Wang Zhengting age 15
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 48
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 41
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 28
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 16
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 20