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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

Walter Short age 5
Arthur Currie age 9
Nikolay Ivanov age 33
Nikolai Nebogatov age 36
Wilgelm Vitgeft age 37
José Moscardó Ituarte age 6
Annibale Bergonzoli age 6 months
Augustin Dubail age 34
Nazim Pasha age 37
Rikichi Andō age 1
August von Werder age 76
Pascual Cervera y Topete age 46
Empress Dowager Eishō age 50
Hayranidil Kadın age 38
Ahmad Nami age 12
Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov age 47
Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria age 61
Mikhail Dragomirov age 54
Carl Gustav Fleischer age 1
Pak Yŏnghyo age 23
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1842–1906) age 43
Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau age 60
Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria age 17
Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria age 2
Princess Isabella of Croÿ age 29
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 10
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 1
Leonid Sobolev age 40
Dimitar Grekov age 37
József Szlávy age 66
Æneas Mackay Jr. age 46
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 65
István Bittó age 63
Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt age 68
Gijsbert van Tienhoven age 44
Sotirios Sotiropoulos age 65
Joan Röell age 40
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville age 70
John Burns age 26
James L. Kemper age 61
Frederick Low age 56
George C. Perkins age 45
Newton Booth age 59
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 66
James W. Marshall age 74
John Marshall Harlan age 51
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 32
Jose Gutierrez Guerra age 15
Eliodoro Villazón age 37
Petar Gudev age 21
Pencho Zlatev age 1
Dimitar Stanchov age 21
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 41
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 6
Ado Birk age 1
Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis age 36
Petros Voulgaris age 1
Ioannis Theotokis age 4
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos age 29
Lázaro Chacón González age 11
Stenio Vincent age 11
Tancrède Auguste age 29
Louis Borno age 19
Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer age 4
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani age 44
Jaber II Al-Sabah age 25
Pauls Kalniņš age 13
Charles Debbas age 1
Daniel Edward Howard age 23
Joseph Ward age 29
Carlos José Solórzano age 25
Domingos Oliveira age 11
Arthur Văitoianu age 21
Gheorghe Mironescu age 11
Jean-Marie Musy age 9
Camille Decoppet age 22
Walther Stampfli age 4 months
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 11
Gabino Bugallal y Araujo age 24
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 59
William W. Belknap age 55
John W. Weeks age 25
Botho zu Eulenburg age 53
Adna Chaffee age 43
Charles S. Fairchild age 43
Benjamin Bristow age 52
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol age 82
William Adamson age 22
Tang Jiyao age 2
Vasil Kutinchev age 26
Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten age 24
Mekonnen Welde Mikael age 33
Zeki Kolaç age 23
Edhem Pasha age 34
Anastasios Papoulas age 28
Oskar Gripenberg age 47
Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 28
Şehzade Mehmed Selim age 15
Bedrifelek Kadın age 34
Behice Hanım age 2
Mehmed Sabahaddin age 8
Friedrich von Scholtz age 34
Narciso Campero age 71
Yi Jun-yong age 14
Charlie Soong age 23
Princess Louise of Prussia (1829–1901) age 56
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel age 23
Archduke Ernest of Austria (1824–1899) age 60
Agustín de Iturbide y Green age 22
Prince Georg of Bavaria age 5
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 11
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood age 2
Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte age 63
Emmanuel Servais age 74
Frederick Whitaker age 73
Marcos Morínigo age 36
Romualdo Pacheco age 53
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian age 3
Vojislav Marinković age 8
Hursid Pasha
Ahmed Arifi Pasha age 55
Hubert Gough age 14
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 4 months
Carlos Blanco Galindo age 3
Felipe S. Guzmán age 6
Todor Ivanchov age 27
Elías Fernández Albano age 40
Alfredo González Flores age 7
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada age 13
Federico Páez age 8
Emilio Estrada Carmona age 29
Aly Maher Pasha age 3
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 44
Adli Yakan age 21
Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 14
Manuel Enrique Araujo age 19
Fernando Figueroa age 35
Pedro José Escalón age 38
Nikolaos Stratos age 12
Sotirios Krokidas age 33
Athanasios Eftaxias age 36
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam age 26
Cincinnatus Leconte age 30
François C. Antoine Simon age 41
Rafael López Gutiérrez age 30
Francisco Bertrand age 18
Miguel R. Dávila age 28
Manuel Bonilla age 35
Habib Pacha Es-Saad age 18
Victor Thorn age 41
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 23
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 32
Gordon Coates age 7
Domingos Leite Pereira age 2
Duarte Leite age 20
Faris al-Khoury age 7
Ata al-Ayyubi age 8
Rida al-Rikabi age 21
Antoni Ponikowski age 6
Pedro Peña age 20
Joseph Holt age 78
Redfield Proctor age 53
Lindley Miller Garrison age 20
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 20
Kingsley Wood age 3
Judson Harmon age 39
Vicente Cerna y Cerna age 70
Tasker H. Bliss age 31
L. M. Shaw age 36
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare age 70
Eugen von Knilling age 28
Leberecht Maass age 21
Charles Townshend age 24
Charles Lanrezac age 32
Alexander von Kaulbars age 40
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson age 21
Kamimura Hikonojō age 35
Jean-Marie Degoutte age 19
Toshizō Nishio age 3
Georgios Hatzianestis age 21
Edward Hobart Seymour age 45
William Thomas Sampson age 45
Ahmed Niyazi Bey age 12
Tokugawa Iesato age 21
Eugen Maximilianovich, 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg age 38
Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz age 25
Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg age 21
Duchess Elsa of Württemberg age 9
Countess Sophie of Merenberg age 16
Natalia Brasova age 4
Serfiraz Hanım age 48
Dürrinev Kadın age 50
Naime Sultan age 8
Bidar Kadın age 30
Fatma Pesend Hanım age 9
Hatice Sultan (daughter of Murad V) age 15
Resan Hanım age 25
Halil Rifat Pasha age 58
Shigeru Honjō age 8
Yixuan, Prince Chun age 44