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Events

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
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 - 1916
Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13

People

Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 5 months
Walery Sławek age 18
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 11
Manuel Gondra age 26
Natalicio González age 8 months
Rafael Franco age 1
Eduardo Schaerer age 24
Gustavo Jiménez age 12
Seán Lester age 9
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 39
John Langalibalele Dube age 27
Otozō Yamada age 16
Ja'far Pishevari age 6
Otto von Emmich age 49
Gerhard Schmidhuber age 4
Alexander von Krobatin age 48
Don Carlos Buell age 80
Friedrich Sixt von Armin age 46
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 10
Alexei Evert age 41
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik age 43
Kuroki Tamemoto age 54
Nikolai Linevich age 59
José Enrique Varela age 7
Nikolai Ruzsky age 44
Arthur MacArthur Jr. age 52
Christopher Cradock age 35
Hugo von Pohl age 42
Redvers Buller age 58
John B. Gordon age 66
Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg age 56
Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia age 3
Kliment Boyadzhiev age 36
Harukichi Hyakutake age 9
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen age 19
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892–1930) age 6
Archduke Maximilian of Austria (1895–1952) age 3
Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 1
Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 6
Marco Aurelio Soto age 51
Higinio Uriarte age 55
Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede age 27
Herbert H. Lehman age 20
Milenko Vesnić age 35
Walter Breisky age 26
José Luis Tejada Sorzano age 16
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 36
Teodor Teodorov age 39
Miguel Abadía Méndez age 30
José Manuel Marroquín age 70
Marco Fidel Suárez age 43
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 3
Dimitrios Maximos age 24
José María Orellana age 25
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 10
Kálmán Széll age 54
László Lukács age 47
Magnús Guðmundsson age 19
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 25
Émile Eddé age 15
Sao Shwe Thaik age 1
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 27
José María Moncada age 27
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 43
Ion Gigurtu age 11
Östen Undén age 11
Albert Meyer age 28
Johannes Baumann age 23
Marc-Emile Ruchet age 44
Ernst Brenner age 41
Josef Zemp age 63
Jamil Mardam Bey age 5
Hasan Saka age 13
Tomás Berreta age 22
Tomás Romero Pereira age 11
José Pedro Montero age 19
Liberato Marcial Rojas age 27
Andrés Héctor Carvallo age 35
Luis Alberto Riart age 17
Emiliano González Navero age 36
Joaquín Chapaprieta age 26
Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo age 45
Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar age 41
Ricardo Samper Ibáñez age 16
Franz Sigel age 73
Fitzhugh Lee age 62
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 8
Newton D. Baker age 26
Louis A. Johnson age 7
George Lansbury age 39
Asaka Yasuhiko age 10
Cevat Çobanlı age 27
Sakallı Nureddin Paşa age 25
Georg von der Marwitz age 41
Fernand de Langle de Cary age 48
Luigi Capello age 39
Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia age 7
Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia age 8
Adile Sultan (daughter of Mahmud II) age 72
Georgi Todorov age 39
Leonhard Kaupisch age 19
Richmond K. Turner age 12
Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1854–1898) age 43
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 1
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893–1917) age 5
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg age 32
Archduke Rainer of Austria (1827–1913) age 71
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1882) age 16
Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 29
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 48
Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich age 26
Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 34
Jules Vandenpeereboom age 55
Mariano Baptista age 65
Aniceto Arce age 74
Nikolaos Deligiannis age 57
Nicolae Kretzulescu age 86
Juan Gualberto González age 46
Lorenzo Latorre age 53
Pedro Paterno age 41
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl age 71
John W. Bricker age 4
Joseph T. Robinson age 25
Mehmed Said Pasha age 60
Rexhep Mitrovica age 10
Pandeli Evangjeli age 39
Xhafer Bej Ypi age 18
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 26
Prosper Poullet age 30
Gérard Cooreman age 46
Jules de Trooz age 41
Néstor Guillén age 8
Tomás Monje age 13
Carlos Quintanilla age 10
Nikola Mushanov age 26
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 14
Julio Acosta García age 26
Leónidas Plaza age 33
Gonzalo Córdova age 34
Themistoklis Sofoulis age 38
Georgios Kafantaris age 24
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 16
Anastasios Charalambis age 35
Alexandros Othonaios age 19
Pierre Nord Alexis age 77
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 35
Géza Fejérváry age 65
János Hadik age 34
Björn Jónsson age 51
Kristján Jónsson age 46
Jafar al-Askari age 12
Norman Manley age 4
Michael Pedersen Friis age 40
Theo de Meester age 46
Salim I of Kuwait age 34
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 15
Pierre Frieden age 5
Émile Reuter age 23
Afonso Costa age 27
Constantin Argetoianu age 27
Vintilă Brătianu age 30
Constantin Coandă age 41
Gheorghe Argeșanu age 15
Ernst Nobs age 11
Ernst Wetter age 20
Adolf Deucher age 67
Eduard Müller age 49
Sun Fo age 6
José Gil Fortoul age 36
Pablo Arosemena age 61
Juan Manuel Frutos age 18
Cecilio Báez age 36
Félix Paiva age 21
Juan Antonio Escurra age 39
Benigno Ferreira age 52
Manuel Franco age 26
David Samanez Ocampo age 31
John Kotelawala age 1
Huang Fu age 15
George Dern age 25
Walton Walker age 8
James Van Fleet age 6
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford age 71
Eugene Meyer age 22
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo age 30
Charles Erwin Wilson age 7
Duff Cooper age 8
George Henry Williams age 75
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 33
Isamu Chō age 3
Pascual Orozco age 16
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 12
Alexander Kutepov age 15
Gérard Leman age 47
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 9
Felix Graf von Bothmer age 45
Mihail Savov age 40
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer age 41
Vladimir Stoychev age 6
Émile Fayolle age 46