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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31

People

Queen Victoria age 59
Queen - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 56
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 60
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 36
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 43
Monarch - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 25
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 81
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 48
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 7
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 47
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 26
King - Joseon
Yohannes IV age 41
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 48
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
Nubar Pasha age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William A. Wheeler age 59
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 43
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
William McKinley age 35
House of Representatives - United States
George B. McClellan age 51
Governor Of New Jersey - United States
Leo XIII age 68
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 25
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 60
Monarch - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 20
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 49
Monarch - Norway
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Isa I of Bahrain age 30
Monarch - Bahrain
Karl Marx age 60
Vladimir Lenin age 8
Mahatma Gandhi age 9
Leo Tolstoy age 50
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 22
Louis Pasteur age 55
Richard Wagner age 65
Henry Ford age 15
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 65
Herbert Hoover age 4
James Clerk Maxwell age 47
Calvin Coolidge age 6
Alexander Graham Bell age 31
Ulysses S. Grant age 56
Claude Monet age 37
Sun Yat-sen age 11
Florence Nightingale age 58
James A. Garfield age 46
William Howard Taft age 21
Konrad Adenauer age 2
Grover Cleveland age 41
Warren G. Harding age 12
Benjamin Harrison age 45
Gregor Mendel age 56
Chester A. Arthur age 49
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 71
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 31
Edward VII age 36
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 14
Harriet Tubman age 56
Georges Clemenceau age 37
Empress Dowager Cixi age 42
William Ewart Gladstone age 68
Alexander III of Russia age 33
Józef Piłsudski age 10
Philippe Pétain age 22
Cecil Rhodes age 25
Ibn Saud age 2
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 213
Frederick Douglass age 60
Susan B. Anthony age 58
Arthur Balfour age 30
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 11
Syngman Rhee age 3
Jefferson Davis age 70
Gustav Stresemann age 4 months
Reza Shah age 6 months
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 2
Emmeline Pankhurst age 20
Mehmed VI age 17
Ferdinand Foch age 27
H. H. Asquith age 26
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 1
Raymond Poincaré age 18
Friedrich Ebert age 7
Pancho Villa age 3 months
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 62
Stanley Baldwin age 11
Isabella II age 48
Ramsay MacDonald age 11
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 8
Frederick III, German Emperor age 46
Charles G. Dawes age 13
Alexander Kolchak age 3
Aristide Briand age 16
Léon Blum age 6
Erich Ludendorff age 13
Mehmed V age 33
Itō Hirobumi age 36
Haakon VII of Norway age 6
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 77
Albert I of Belgium age 3
Chaim Weizmann age 3
Gustaf V of Sweden age 20
William Tecumseh Sherman age 58
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 48
Pyotr Stolypin age 16
Emilio Aguinaldo age 9
Pietro Badoglio age 7
Andrew Bonar Law age 20
Murad V age 38
Eleftherios Venizelos age 14
Christian X of Denmark age 8
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 21
Cordell Hull age 7
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 7
Hjalmar Branting age 17
Alben W. Barkley age 10 months
Gerd von Rundstedt age 2
Francisco I. Madero age 4
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 8
Alexandra of Denmark age 33
John Nance Garner age 9
Alexandre Millerand age 19
Karl Renner age 7
Amadeo I of Spain age 33
George Curzon age 19
Yuan Shikai age 19
Joseph Joffre age 26
Paul Doumer age 21
Luigi Einaudi age 4
Enrico de Nicola age 10 months
Anton Denikin age 5
Armand Fallières age 36
Gaston Doumergue age 15
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 17
Jules Grévy age 71
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 41
Deodoro da Fonseca age 51
Erich Raeder age 2
John J. Pershing age 18
Elihu Root age 33
Edmund Barton age 29
Mary of Teck age 11
Bernhard von Bülow age 29
Hjalmar Schacht age 1
Charles Curtis age 18
Thomas R. Marshall age 24
Hannibal Hamlin age 69
Frank B. Kellogg age 21
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 35
Carol I of Romania age 39
Ferdinand I of Romania age 13
Pyotr Wrangel age 1 month
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 18
Wilhelm Frick age 1
Alfred Deakin age 22
Konstantin Päts age 4
Lavr Kornilov age 8
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 42
Félix Faure age 37
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 13
Sergei Witte age 29