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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

People

Queen Victoria age 59
Queen - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 55
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 60
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 35
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 43
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 25
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 81
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 47
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 52
Emperor - Brazil
Patrice de MacMahon age 70
President - France
Umberto I of Italy age 34
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 6
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 46
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 25
King - Joseon
Yohannes IV age 40
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 47
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Isma'il Pasha age 47
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 63
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 73
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benedetto Cairoli age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Morrison Waite age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William A. Wheeler age 58
Vice President - United States
John Sherman age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William M. Evarts age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 37
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 42
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 58
Attorney General - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 47
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 67
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 90
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 68
Senate - United States
James G. Blaine age 48
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 54
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 49
Senate - United States
William Windom age 51
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 46
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 46
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 46
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 35
House of Representatives - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 78
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 20
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 34
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 24
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George B. McClellan age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William Irwin age 50
Governor of California - United States
William Read Miller age 54
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Richard B. Hubbard age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
Alexander H. Rice age 59
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Lee Carroll age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lucius Robinson age 67
Governor of New York - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 65
Governor of Ohio - United States
James D. Williams age 70
Governor of Indiana - United States
Richard Olney age 42
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 62
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 60
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 60
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 58
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 68
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 24
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 60
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 20
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 49
King - Sweden
Nicolás Avellaneda age 40
President - Argentina
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Aníbal Pinto age 53
President - Chile
Anthony W. Gardner age 58
President - Liberia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 51
President - Peru
Marco Aurelio Soto age 31
President - Honduras
Higinio Uriarte age 35
President - Paraguay
Lorenzo Latorre age 33
President - Uruguay
Francisco Linares Alcántara age 53
President - Venezuela
Rafael Zaldívar age 44
President - El Salvador
Julián Trujillo Largacha age 50
President - Colombia
Isa I of Bahrain age 30
Hakim - Bahrain
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 46
President - Haiti
William III of the Netherlands age 61
King - Netherlands
Hilarión Daza age 38
President - Bolivia
Alexander Mackenzie age 56
Prime Minister - Canada
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
George Grey age 66
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 50
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Jules Malou age 67
Prime Minister - Belgium
Frederik Stang age 70
Prime Minister - Norway
Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Félix de Blochausen age 44
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Tēvita ʻUnga age 54
Prime Minister - Tonga
George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby age 58
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 42
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 40
Regent - Imperial China
Karl Marx age 60
Vladimir Lenin age 8
Mahatma Gandhi age 8
Leo Tolstoy age 49
Charles Darwin age 69
Vincent van Gogh age 25
Winston Churchill age 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 56
Friedrich Nietzsche age 33
Thomas Edison age 31
Sigmund Freud age 22
Marie Curie age 10
Rabindranath Tagore age 17
Nikola Tesla age 21
Louis Pasteur age 55
Richard Wagner age 65
Henry Ford age 14
Friedrich Engels age 57
Theodore Roosevelt age 19
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 38
Woodrow Wilson age 21
Max Planck age 20
Dmitri Mendeleev age 44
Giuseppe Verdi age 64
Herbert Hoover age 3
James Clerk Maxwell age 47
Calvin Coolidge age 5
Alexander Graham Bell age 31
Ulysses S. Grant age 56
Claude Monet age 37
Sun Yat-sen age 11
Florence Nightingale age 58
William Howard Taft age 20
Konrad Adenauer age 2
Grover Cleveland age 41
Warren G. Harding age 12
Benjamin Harrison age 44
Gregor Mendel age 55
Chester A. Arthur age 48
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 70
Wilhelm II age 19
Guglielmo Marconi age 4
Pius XII age 2
Pius XI age 21
Neville Chamberlain age 9
Pius X age 43
Pierre de Coubertin age 15
Benedict XV age 23
Carl Benz age 33
David Lloyd George age 15
Grigori Rasputin age 9
George V age 13
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 1
Paul von Hindenburg age 30
Edward VII age 36
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 14
Harriet Tubman age 56
Georges Clemenceau age 36
Alexander III of Russia age 33
Józef Piłsudski age 10
Philippe Pétain age 22
Cecil Rhodes age 24
Ibn Saud age 2
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 213
Frederick Douglass age 60
Susan B. Anthony age 58
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 10
Syngman Rhee age 3
Jefferson Davis age 70
Gustav Stresemann age 0 months
Reza Shah age 2 months
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 2
Emmeline Pankhurst age 19
Mehmed VI age 17
Ferdinand Foch age 26
H. H. Asquith age 25
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 8 months
Raymond Poincaré age 17
Friedrich Ebert age 7
Pancho Villa age 0 months