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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

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 44
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 26
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 82
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 48
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 53
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 35
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 71
President - France
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 48
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Otto von Bismarck age 64
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 74
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Tewfik Pasha age 26
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 62
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 61
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 38
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George W. McCrary age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Charles Devens age 59
Attorney General - United States
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby age 48
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Thomas Edward Taylor age 68
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hannibal Hamlin age 69
Senate - United States
James G. Blaine age 49
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 54
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 50
Senate - United States
William Windom age 51
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 46
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 47
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 47
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 36
House of Representatives - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 21
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 35
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 25
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George B. McClellan age 52
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 63
Governor of Texas - United States
William Irwin age 51
Governor of California - United States
William Read Miller age 55
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Talbot age 60
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Lee Carroll age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Lucius Robinson age 68
Governor of New York - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 66
Governor of Ohio - United States
James D. Williams age 71
Governor of Indiana - United States
Richard Olney age 43
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 63
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 61
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 61
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 31
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 59
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 25
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 61
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 21
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 50
King - Sweden
Nicolás Avellaneda age 41
President - Argentina
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Aníbal Pinto age 54
President - Chile
Anthony W. Gardner age 59
President - Liberia
Mariano Ignacio Prado age 52
President - Peru
Cándido Bareiro age 45
President - Paraguay
Marco Aurelio Soto age 32
President - Honduras
Lorenzo Latorre age 34
President - Uruguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 58
Emir - Qatar
Rafael Zaldívar age 45
President - El Salvador
Julián Trujillo Largacha age 51
President - Colombia
Isa I of Bahrain age 31
Hakim - Bahrain
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 46
President - Haiti
William III of the Netherlands age 62
King - Netherlands
Hilarión Daza age 39
President - Bolivia
John A. Macdonald age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 60
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 48
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Walthère Frère-Orban age 66
Prime Minister - Belgium
George Grey age 67
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 51
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Frederik Stang age 71
Prime Minister - Norway
Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Félix de Blochausen age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Tēvita ʻUnga age 55
Prime Minister - Tonga
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 33
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead age 54
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 43
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 41
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 0 months
Karl Marx age 60
Vladimir Lenin age 8
Mahatma Gandhi age 9
Leo Tolstoy age 50
Joseph Stalin age 3 months
Charles Darwin age 70
Vincent van Gogh age 26
Winston Churchill age 4
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 57
Friedrich Nietzsche age 34
Thomas Edison age 32
Sigmund Freud age 22
Marie Curie age 11
Rabindranath Tagore age 17
Nikola Tesla age 22
Louis Pasteur age 56
Richard Wagner age 65
Henry Ford age 15
Friedrich Engels age 58
Theodore Roosevelt age 20
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 38
Woodrow Wilson age 22
Max Planck age 20
Dmitri Mendeleev age 45
Giuseppe Verdi age 65
Herbert Hoover age 4
James Clerk Maxwell age 47
Calvin Coolidge age 6
Alexander Graham Bell age 32
Ulysses S. Grant age 56
Claude Monet age 38
Sun Yat-sen age 12
Florence Nightingale age 58
William Howard Taft age 21
Konrad Adenauer age 3
Grover Cleveland age 42
Warren G. Harding age 13
Benjamin Harrison age 45
Gregor Mendel age 56
Chester A. Arthur age 49
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 71
Wilhelm II age 20
Guglielmo Marconi age 4
Pius XII age 3
Pius XI age 21
Neville Chamberlain age 10
Pius X age 43
Pierre de Coubertin age 16
Benedict XV age 24
Carl Benz age 34
David Lloyd George age 16
Grigori Rasputin age 10
George V age 13
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 2
Paul von Hindenburg age 31
Edward VII age 37
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 15
Harriet Tubman age 57
Georges Clemenceau age 37
Alexander III of Russia age 34
Józef Piłsudski age 11
Philippe Pétain age 22
Cecil Rhodes age 25
Ibn Saud age 3
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 214
Frederick Douglass age 61
Susan B. Anthony age 59
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 11
Syngman Rhee age 4
Jefferson Davis age 70
Gustav Stresemann age 10 months
Reza Shah age 1
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 3
Emmeline Pankhurst age 20
Mehmed VI age 18
Ferdinand Foch age 27
H. H. Asquith age 26
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 1
Raymond Poincaré age 18