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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

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 32
William Wallace Wotherspoon age 46
J. Franklin Bell age 41
Abd-al Karim age 7 months
Euclídes de Angulo age 55
Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 36
Baudilio Palma age 17
Juan Ángel Arias Boquín age 38
Salvador Aguirre age 35
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 3
Martial Merlin age 37
Losolyn Laagan age 10
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 29
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 4
Rosendo Chamorro age 35
Solomone Ula Ata age 14
Mariano Holguín age 37
Rodolfo Llopis age 2
Edward Shortt age 35
Jim Griffiths age 6
John L. Hines age 29
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 71
Sardar Shir Ahmad age 12
Francisco Bueso age 37
Gonchigjalzangiin Badamdorj age 47
Archibald Currie age 9
Luis Gallo Porras age 2
Francis Butler Loomis age 36
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 45
James Chuter Ede age 14
Miloš Trifunović age 25
Alfons Feger age 41
Da Lam Tserenchimed age 28
Milutin Vučinić age 28
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 16
Paek Nak-chun age 2
Enrique de la Riva Agüero Riglos age 39
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 8
Abraham Schrameck age 29
Milo Matanović age 27
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 44
Jacques Drielsma age 10
Adriaan Alberga age 10
Gwak Sanghun age 10 months
Edwin F. Uhl age 56
William F. Wharton age 50
Abraham Guloyan age 4
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 16
Roque A. Saldías age 5
William Lamb age 62
Germán Schreiber age 35
Grigory Semyonov age 6
Albert Lebrun age 26
Adlai Stevenson I age 61
Gonzalo Córdova age 34
Morarji Desai age 1
Léon Réallon age 14
Auguste Brunet age 19
Henri Cor age 33
Léon Cayla age 15
Marcel Olivier age 17
Robert Boudry age 4
Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié age 44
Hugues Jean Berthier age 28
Venustiano Carranza age 37
Dogsomyn Bodoo age 12
Risto Popović age 26
Mirko M. Mijušković age 22
Julián Irías Sandres age 17
José Dolores Estrada age 28
Manuel Maria Coelho age 40
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 29
Leopold Skulski age 19
Wincenty Witos age 23
Alvaro Casali age 1
Francesco Balsimelli age 3
Javier Prado age 25
Jorge Prado Ugarteche age 10
Manuel Ugarteche age 25
Georgy Zhukov age 8 months
Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia age 25
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia age 1
Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia age 2 months
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 71
Charles Hardinge age 39
Archibald Wavell age 14
John French age 44
Enver Pasha age 15
Daniel Sickles age 77
Oliver O. Howard age 66
William Buel Franklin age 74
Thomas Armstrong Morris age 85
George Alexander Porterfield age 74
William S. Rosecrans age 78
William Booth Taliaferro age 74
Horatio Gouverneur Wright age 77
B. R. Ambedkar age 6
Li Zongren age 7
Bai Chongxi age 4
Hugh Dowding age 15
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 8 months
Harold Alexander age 5
Glubb Pasha age 4 months
Stephen B. Elkins age 55
D. F. Malan age 23
C. R. Swart age 2
Chūichi Nagumo age 10
Rafael Reyes age 47
Francesc Pi i Margall age 73
Nicolás Salmerón age 59
Emilio Castelar age 65
Karl Buresch age 18
Austen Chamberlain age 33
Keir Hardie age 41
George Barnes age 38
William Adamson age 34
George Lansbury age 38
Clement Davies age 13
John Langalibalele Dube age 26
Sefako Makgatho age 36
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 16
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 29
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 16
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 4
James Moroka age 6
Edward Martyn age 38
John Sweetman age 53
Arthur Griffith age 26
John J. O'Kelly age 25
Brian O'Higgins age 15
Michael O'Flanagan age 21
Cathal Ó Murchadha age 17
Margaret Buckley age 18
Sultan al-Atrash age 6
Anastas Mikoyan age 1
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. age 1
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 15
Fazlollah Zahedi age 5
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 1
Kirill Meretskov age 2 months
Otozō Yamada age 15
Seiichi Kita age 10
Asaka Yasuhiko age 9
Isamu Chō age 2
Qin Dechun age 3
Masakazu Kawabe age 10
Renya Mutaguchi age 8
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 52
Franz von Hipper age 33
Rosa Luxemburg age 26
Karl Liebknecht age 26
Empress Dowager Longyu age 29
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 14
Huang Xing age 23
Li Yuanhong age 32
Li Hongzhang age 74
Prince Gong age 64
Ernst Pöhner age 27
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter age 13
Eugen von Knilling age 41
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 34
Marcello Soleri age 15
Michele Bianchi age 14
Italo Balbo age 1
Ludwig Beck age 17
Komura Jutarō age 41
Takahira Kogorō age 43
Roman Rosen age 50
Paul Blobel age 3
Kurt Eberhard age 22
Ebrahim Hakimi age 26
Ahmad Qavam age 21
Ja'far Pishevari age 5
Qazi Muhammad age 4
Alexander Vandegrift age 10
Robert L. Ghormley age 13
Nobutake Kondō age 10
Tang Jiyao age 14
Lu Rongting age 37
Zhang Jingyao age 16
Feng Yuxiang age 14
Chang Fa-kwei age 1
Han Fuju age 7
Liu Zhi age 5
Tang Shengzhi age 7
Heisuke Yanagawa age 17
Arthur Dewey Struble age 3
Oliver P. Smith age 3
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 43
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 64
Paul Kruger age 71
Koos de la Rey age 49
Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss age 33
John Ernest Dahlquist age 1
Ramón Corral age 43
Manuel Mondragón age 38
Pascual Orozco age 15
Bernardo Reyes age 48
Clarence R. Huebner age 8
Friedrich Köchling age 4