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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
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
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 49
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Leopold II of Belgium age 44
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 27
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 82
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 49
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 54
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 27
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 42
Emperor - Ethiopia
Justo Rufino Barrios age 44
President - Guatemala
Otto von Bismarck age 64
Chancellor - German Empire
Benjamin Disraeli age 75
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benedetto Cairoli age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Riyad Pasha age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William A. Wheeler age 60
Vice President - United States
Mehmed Said Pasha age 42
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
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
Alexander Ramsey age 64
Secretary of War - United States
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 59
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 42
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
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
Samuel F. Phillips age 55
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
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 51
Senate - United States
William Windom age 52
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 47
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 47
Senate - United States
James A. Garfield age 48
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 36
House of Representatives - United States
William Ewart Gladstone age 70
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 61
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
Henry W. Slocum age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 34
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 26
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 43
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Hugh Childers age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Lowe age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George B. McClellan age 53
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 56
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 69
Governor of New York - United States
Richard M. Bishop age 67
Governor of Ohio - United States
James D. Williams age 71
Governor of Indiana - United States
Alfred H. Colquitt age 55
Governor of Georgia - 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
Daniel Sickles age 60
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 61
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 32
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 26
King - Thailand
Ludwig II of Bavaria age 34
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Christian IX of Denmark age 61
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 22
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 50
King - Sweden
William III of the Netherlands age 62
King - Netherlands
Kalākaua age 43
Monarch of Hawaii - Kingdom of Hawaii
Albert I of Saxony age 51
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Nicolás Avellaneda age 42
President - Argentina
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Aníbal Pinto age 54
President - Chile
Anthony W. Gardner age 59
President - Liberia
Cándido Bareiro age 46
President - Paraguay
Ignacio de Veintemilla age 51
President - Ecuador
Marco Aurelio Soto age 33
President - Honduras
Lorenzo Latorre age 35
President - Uruguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 59
Emir - Qatar
Barghash bin Said age 43
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Rafael Zaldívar age 46
President - El Salvador
Julián Trujillo Largacha age 51
President - Colombia
Lysius Salomon age 64
President - Haiti
Glele age 66
King of Dahomey - Kingdom of Dahomey
Isa I of Bahrain age 32
Hakim - Bahrain
Muteesa I of Buganda age 43
Kabaka - Kingdom of Buganda
Kigeli IV Rwabugiri age 40
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Mwezi IV of Burundi age 40
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Mensa Bonsu age 40
Asantehene - Asante Empire
Mu'azu age 64
Sultan of Sokoto - Sokoto Caliphate
Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez age 48
President - Costa Rica
Johannes Brand age 56
State President - Orange Free State
Mahbub Ali Khan age 13
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
John A. Macdonald age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 51
Prime Minister - Spain
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 49
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Walthère Frère-Orban age 67
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 51
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Frederik Stang age 71
Prime Minister - Norway
Kliment of Tarnovo age 39
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Félix de Blochausen age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
John Hall age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 34
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ranodip Singh Kunwar age 54
Prime Minister - Nepal
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead age 55
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 44
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 42
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 9 months
Karl Marx age 61
Vladimir Lenin age 9
Mahatma Gandhi age 10
Leo Tolstoy age 51
Joseph Stalin age 1
Charles Darwin age 70
Vincent van Gogh age 26
Winston Churchill age 5
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 58
Friedrich Nietzsche age 35
Thomas Edison age 32
Sigmund Freud age 23
Marie Curie age 12
Rabindranath Tagore age 18
Nikola Tesla age 23
Louis Pasteur age 57
Richard Wagner age 66
Henry Ford age 16
Friedrich Engels age 59
Theodore Roosevelt age 21
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 39
Woodrow Wilson age 23
Rosa Luxemburg age 8
Leon Trotsky age 1 month
Max Planck age 21
Dmitri Mendeleev age 45
Giuseppe Verdi age 66
Herbert Hoover age 5
Calvin Coolidge age 7
Alexander Graham Bell age 32
Ulysses S. Grant age 57
Claude Monet age 39
Sun Yat-sen age 13
Florence Nightingale age 59
William Howard Taft age 22
Konrad Adenauer age 3
Grover Cleveland age 42
Warren G. Harding age 14
Nicholas II of Russia age 11
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 25
Carl Benz age 35
David Lloyd George age 16
Grigori Rasputin age 10
George V age 14
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 3
Paul von Hindenburg age 32
Edward VII age 38
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 16
Henry Dunant age 51
Harriet Tubman age 57
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 22