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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04

People

Queen Victoria age 60
Queen - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 56
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 61
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 36
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 44
Monarch - 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
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William A. Wheeler age 59
Vice President - United States
John Sherman age 56
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 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Levi P. Morton age 55
House of Representatives - United States
George B. McClellan age 52
Governor Of New Jersey - United States
Leo XIII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 25
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 61
Monarch - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 21
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 50
Monarch - Norway
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Isa I of Bahrain age 31
Monarch - Bahrain
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 33
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Albert Einstein age 2 months
Karl Marx age 61
Vladimir Lenin age 9
Mahatma Gandhi age 9
Leo Tolstoy age 50
Joseph Stalin age 5 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 23
Marie Curie age 11
Rabindranath Tagore age 18
Nikola Tesla age 22
Louis Pasteur age 56
Richard Wagner age 66
Henry Ford age 15
Friedrich Engels age 58
Theodore Roosevelt age 20
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 39
Woodrow Wilson age 22
Max Planck age 21
Dmitri Mendeleev age 45
Giuseppe Verdi age 65
Herbert Hoover age 4
James Clerk Maxwell age 48
Calvin Coolidge age 6
Alexander Graham Bell age 32
Ulysses S. Grant age 57
Claude Monet age 38
Sun Yat-sen age 12
Florence Nightingale age 59
James A. Garfield age 47
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 5
Pius XII age 3
Pius XI age 22
Neville Chamberlain age 10
Pius X age 44
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 14
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
Empress Dowager Cixi age 43
William Ewart Gladstone age 69
Alexander III of Russia age 34
Józef Piłsudski age 11
Philippe Pétain age 23
Cecil Rhodes age 25
Ibn Saud age 3
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 214
Frederick Douglass age 61
Susan B. Anthony age 59
Arthur Balfour age 30
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 11
Syngman Rhee age 4
Jefferson Davis age 71
Gustav Stresemann age 1
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
Friedrich Ebert age 8
Pancho Villa age 1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 63
Stanley Baldwin age 11
Patrice de MacMahon age 71
Isabella II age 48
Ramsay MacDonald age 12
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 9
Frederick III, German Emperor age 47
Charles G. Dawes age 13
Alexander Kolchak age 4
Aristide Briand age 17
Léon Blum age 7
Erich Ludendorff age 14
Mehmed V age 34
Itō Hirobumi age 37
Haakon VII of Norway age 6
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 78
Albert I of Belgium age 4
Chaim Weizmann age 4
Gustaf V of Sweden age 20
William Tecumseh Sherman age 59
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 49
Pyotr Stolypin age 17
Emilio Aguinaldo age 10
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 22
Cordell Hull age 7
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 8
Hjalmar Branting age 18
Alben W. Barkley age 1
Gerd von Rundstedt age 3
Francisco I. Madero age 5
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 9
Alexandra of Denmark age 34
John Nance Garner age 10
Alexandre Millerand age 20
Karl Renner age 8
Amadeo I of Spain age 34
George Curzon age 20
Yuan Shikai age 19
Joseph Joffre age 27
Paul Doumer age 22
Luigi Einaudi age 5
Enrico de Nicola age 1
Anton Denikin age 6
Armand Fallières age 37
Gaston Doumergue age 15
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 18
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 41
Deodoro da Fonseca age 51
Erich Raeder age 3
John J. Pershing age 18
Elihu Root age 34
Edmund Barton age 30
Mary of Teck age 12
Bernhard von Bülow age 30
Hjalmar Schacht age 2
Charles Curtis age 19
Thomas R. Marshall age 25
Hannibal Hamlin age 69
Frank B. Kellogg age 22
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 36
Carol I of Romania age 40
Ferdinand I of Romania age 13
Pyotr Wrangel age 9 months
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 19
Wilhelm Frick age 2
Alfred Deakin age 22
Konstantin Päts age 5
Lavr Kornilov age 8