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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
Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13

People

Taj al-Din al-Hasani age 13
Xiong Xiling age 28
Tan Yankai age 18
Luis Giannattasio age 3
Artur Śliwiński age 20
Giuliano Gozi age 3
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier age 78
William Crowninshield Endicott age 71
Luke Edward Wright age 51
Patrick J. Hurley age 15
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 3
Hu Zongnan age 1
Ramón González Valencia age 46
Eric Geddes age 22
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 13
George M. Humphrey age 8
Homer Stille Cummings age 28
William Harcourt age 70
Riyad Pasha age 64
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 15
Kostaq Kota age 9
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 38
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 23
Salman II of Bahrain age 4
Sisowath Watchayavong age 6
Pedro Opaso age 21
Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra age 51
Andrés F. Córdova age 6
Antonio Pons age 5 months
Julio Enrique Moreno age 19
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 22
Pío Romero Bosque age 38
Oreste Zamor age 37
Miguel Paz Barahona age 34
Clifford Campbell age 5
Adolph Bowler age 8
Arturs Alberings age 21
Pēteris Juraševskis age 26
Jānis Pauļuks age 32
Ayoub Tabet age 24
Josef Hoop age 2
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud age 8
Joseph Howard age 35
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 12
Francis Bell age 47
Francisco Cunha Leal age 9
António Maria Baptista age 35
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 26
José Relvas age 40
Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar age 32
António Granjo age 16
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 33
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 5
Tahar Ben Ammar age 8
Federico Boyd age 46
John Strachey age 74
John Alexander McClernand age 85
Fu Zuoyi age 2
Jacob M. Dickinson age 47
Franklin MacVeagh age 60
David F. Houston age 32
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook age 83
Arthur W. Radford age 2
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 4
William H. Woodin age 29
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 43
James Clark McReynolds age 36
Manny Shinwell age 13
A. Mitchell Palmer age 26
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 51
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 4
Bill McKell age 6
Hamad I of Bahrain age 26
Grantley Herbert Adams age 0 months
ʿAbd al-Khaliq Tharwat age 25
Husayn Rushdi age 35
Yusef Wahba age 46
José María Reyna Andrade age 37
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 65
Joseph Davilmar Théodore age 51
Terencio Sierra age 58
Hikmat Sulayman age 9
Hamdi Pachachi age 12
Voldemārs Zāmuēls age 25
Gustav Schädler age 14
Léon Kauffman age 28
Mitar Martinović age 27
Thomas Mackenzie age 44
William Hall-Jones age 47
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 25
José Madriz age 37
Juan José Estrada Morales age 26
Francisco José Fernandes age 31
Vitorino Guimarães age 21
Joaquim Pimenta de Castro age 51
Jamil al-Elshi age 15
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 1
Rodolfo Chiari age 28
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 10
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 22
Demetrio H. Brid age 38
Du Xigui age 22
Thomas James Churchill age 74
Stephen D. Lee age 64
Edward Almond age 5
John Wesley Snyder age 2
J. R. Clynes age 29
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 38
Peyton C. March age 33
Naoki Hoshino age 6
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 1
Gonzalo Güell age 3
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 2
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 3
Vicente Tosta age 17
Muzahim Pachachi age 7
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 2
Rashid Tali’a age 21
Letsie II Lerotholi age 31
Khatanbaatar Magsarjav age 19
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 2
Andrija Radović age 26
Bartolomé Martínez age 24
José Domingues dos Santos age 11
José de Castro age 30
António Ginestal Machado age 24
Tomé de Barros Queirós age 26
Martín Echegoyen age 7
Huynh Thuc Khang age 22
Daniel S. Lamont age 47
Gwilym Lloyd George age 3
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 26
John G. Sargent age 37
Malin Craig age 22
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 33
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 74
William D. Mitchell age 23
Wayne MacVeagh age 65
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 27
James P. McGranery age 2
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 29
Hugh L. Scott age 44
Prince Shah Mahmud Khan of Afghanistan age 10
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 24
Khim Tit age 1
Chan Nak age 5
Pedro Dartnell age 24
Ramón Zaydín age 3
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 23
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 6
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 21
Makonnen Endelkachew age 8
Manuel María Orellana Contreras age 27
Francisco Bográn age 46
Naji Shawkat age 5
Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi age 25
Dambyn Chagdarjav age 18
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 16
Anto Gvozdenović age 45
Jovan Plamenac age 25
Lazar Tomanović age 52
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet age 33
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 22
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 9
Liberato Pinto age 17
Petar Velimirović age 50
Haqqi al-Azm age 33
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 17
Lutfi al-Haffar age 10
Weng Wenhao age 8
Li Jingxi age 39
Yu Hung-chun age 4 months
Pedro Beltrán age 1
Wei Lihuang age 1
Frank Polk age 26
Charles Pelot Summerall age 31
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 7
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 16
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 21
Thomas Watt Gregory age 36
William H. H. Miller age 57
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 91
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 18
Sargis Hаmbardzumyan age 28
Emilio Bello Codesido age 29
Jorge García Montes age 1
Raúl López del Castillo age 5
Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha age 23
Ahmad Ziwar age 34
Muhammad Said Pasha age 35
Miguel Oquelí Bustillo age 42
Mohammed al-Sadr age 16
Arshad al-Umari age 10
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 14
Marko Radulović age 31
José Ramos Preto age 27
Carlos Maia Pinto age 31
Husni al-Barazi age 3
Hassan al-Hakim age 12
Wang Yun-wu age 9