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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

People

Queen Victoria age 60
Queen - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 57
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 61
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 37
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 49
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 53
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 35
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 72
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 8
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 48
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 27
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 26
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 42
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 49
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 64
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 74
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benedetto Cairoli age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Riyad Pasha age 45
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 62
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William A. Wheeler age 60
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 44
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
Nathan Clifford age 76
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 70
Senate - United States
James G. Blaine age 49
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 55
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 50
Senate - United States
William Windom age 52
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 47
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 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 43
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 69
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 21
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 36
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 25
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 73
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 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 43
House of Representatives - United States
George B. McClellan age 52
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 64
Governor of Texas - United States
William Irwin age 52
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 61
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Lee Carroll age 49
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 44
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 32
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 60
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 26
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 42
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 35
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
Lysius Salomon age 64
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 31
Hakim - Bahrain
William III of the Netherlands age 62
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Todor Burmov age 45
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Kálmán Tisza age 48
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Walthère Frère-Orban age 67
Prime Minister - Belgium
George Grey age 67
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 51
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Frederik Stang age 71
Prime Minister - Norway
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg age 53
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 42
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 6 months
Karl Marx age 61
Vladimir Lenin age 9
Mahatma Gandhi age 10
Leo Tolstoy age 51
Joseph Stalin age 9 months
Charles Darwin age 70
Vincent van Gogh age 26
Winston Churchill age 4
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 57
Friedrich Nietzsche age 35
Thomas Edison age 32
Sigmund Freud age 23
Marie Curie age 11
Rabindranath Tagore age 18
Nikola Tesla age 23
Louis Pasteur age 56
Richard Wagner age 66
Henry Ford age 16
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 66
Herbert Hoover age 5
James Clerk Maxwell age 48
Calvin Coolidge age 7
Alexander Graham Bell age 32
Ulysses S. Grant age 57
Claude Monet age 38
Sun Yat-sen age 12
Florence Nightingale age 59
William Howard Taft age 22
Konrad Adenauer age 3
Grover Cleveland age 42
Warren G. Harding age 13
Benjamin Harrison age 46
Gregor Mendel age 57
Chester A. Arthur age 50
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 72
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 32
Edward VII age 37
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 15
Harriet Tubman age 57
Georges Clemenceau age 38
Alexander III of Russia age 34
Józef Piłsudski age 11
Philippe Pétain age 23
Emiliano Zapata age 2 months
Cecil Rhodes age 26
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 12
Syngman Rhee age 4
Jefferson Davis age 71
Gustav Stresemann age 1
Reza Shah age 1
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 3
Emmeline Pankhurst age 21
Mehmed VI age 18
Ferdinand Foch age 28
H. H. Asquith age 27
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 2
Raymond Poincaré age 19