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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Texas–Indian wars 1820 - 1882
Caste War of Yucatán 1847-07-30 - 1915-01-01
Apache Wars 1849 - 1924
Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Occupation of Araucanía 1861 - 1883
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Aceh War 1873 - 1904
Nauruan Civil War 1878 - 1888
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04
First Boer War 1880-12-20 - 1881-03-23
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

People

Queen Victoria age 61
Queen - United Kingdom
Rutherford B. Hayes age 58
President - United States
Alexander II of Russia age 62
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 38
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 50
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Leopold II of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 28
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 83
Emperor - German Empire
Pedro II of Brazil age 55
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 36
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 73
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 9
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 49
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 28
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 28
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 43
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 47
President - Mexico
Justo Rufino Barrios age 45
President - Guatemala
Otto von Bismarck age 65
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benedetto Cairoli age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Riyad Pasha age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William A. Wheeler age 61
Vice President - United States
Mehmed Said Pasha age 43
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
John Sherman age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William M. Evarts age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Alexander Ramsey age 65
Secretary of War - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 60
Attorney General - United States
Hugh Childers age 53
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley age 55
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli age 76
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Joseph Chamberlain age 44
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Bright age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Nathan Clifford age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 62
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Samuel F. Phillips age 56
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Hannibal Hamlin age 71
Senate - United States
James G. Blaine age 51
Senate - United States
Ambrose Burnside age 56
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 52
Senate - United States
William Windom age 53
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 48
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 23
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 37
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 44
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Foster age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
George C. Perkins age 41
Governor of California - United States
John Davis Long age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William T. Hamilton age 60
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 56
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 65
Governor of Texas - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 52
Governor of Virginia - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Albert G. Porter age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
George C. Ludlow age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Alfred H. Colquitt age 56
Governor of Georgia - United States
Richard Olney age 45
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 65
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 63
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 61
New York State Senate - United States
Charles J. Folger age 62
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 33
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 70
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 27
King - Thailand
Ludwig II of Bavaria age 35
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Christian IX of Denmark age 62
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 23
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 52
King - Sweden
William III of the Netherlands age 63
King - Netherlands
Abdur Rahman Khan age 41
Emir - Afghanistan
Kalākaua age 44
Monarch of Hawaii - Kingdom of Hawaii
Julio Argentino Roca age 37
President - Argentina
Albert I of Saxony age 52
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
Louis IV of Hesse age 43
Grand Duke of Hesse - Grand Duchy of Hesse
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 54
Grand Duke of Baden - Grand Duchy of Baden
Lobengula age 46
King of the Ndebele - Mthwakazi
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Aníbal Pinto age 55
President - Chile
Peter II of Oldenburg age 53
Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Oldenburg
Anthony W. Gardner age 61
President - Liberia
Ignacio de Veintemilla age 52
President - Ecuador
Marco Aurelio Soto age 34
President - Honduras
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 60
Emir - Qatar
Barghash bin Said age 44
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Rafael Zaldívar age 47
President - El Salvador
Narciso Campero age 67
President - Bolivia
Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak age 51
Rajah of Sarawak - Raj of Sarawak
Lysius Salomon age 65
President - Haiti
Glele age 67
King of Dahomey - Kingdom of Dahomey
Isa I of Bahrain age 33
Hakim - Bahrain
Muteesa I of Buganda age 44
Kabaka - Kingdom of Buganda
Adolfo Saguier age 49
President - Paraguay
Kigeli IV Rwabugiri age 41
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Mwezi IV of Burundi age 41
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Mensa Bonsu age 41
Asantehene - Asante Empire
Mu'azu age 65
Sultan of Sokoto - Sokoto Caliphate
Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez age 49
President - Costa Rica
Johannes Brand age 57
State President - Orange Free State
Mahbub Ali Khan age 14
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
John A. Macdonald age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo age 52
Prime Minister - Spain
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Arvid Posse age 60
Prime Minister - Sweden
Kálmán Tisza age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Walthère Frère-Orban age 68
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 53
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Petko Karavelov age 37
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Félix de Blochausen age 46
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Christian August Selmer age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
John Hall age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 35
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ranodip Singh Kunwar age 55
Prime Minister - Nepal
Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore age 51
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 45
Regent - Imperial China
Empress Dowager Ci'an age 43
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 1
Karl Marx age 62
Vladimir Lenin age 10
Mahatma Gandhi age 11
Leo Tolstoy age 52
Joseph Stalin age 2
Charles Darwin age 71
Vincent van Gogh age 27
Winston Churchill age 6
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 59
Friedrich Nietzsche age 36
Thomas Edison age 33
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 0 months
Sigmund Freud age 24
Marie Curie age 13
Rabindranath Tagore age 19
Nikola Tesla age 24
Louis Pasteur age 58
Richard Wagner age 67
Henry Ford age 17
Friedrich Engels age 60
Theodore Roosevelt age 22
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 40
Woodrow Wilson age 24
Rosa Luxemburg age 9
Leon Trotsky age 1
Max Planck age 22
Dmitri Mendeleev age 46
Giuseppe Verdi age 67
Herbert Hoover age 6
Calvin Coolidge age 8
Alexander Graham Bell age 33
Ulysses S. Grant age 58
Claude Monet age 40
Sun Yat-sen age 14
Florence Nightingale age 60
James A. Garfield age 49
William Howard Taft age 23
Konrad Adenauer age 5
Grover Cleveland age 43
Warren G. Harding age 15
Nicholas II of Russia age 12
Benjamin Harrison age 47
Gregor Mendel age 58
Chester A. Arthur age 51
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 73
Wilhelm II age 22
Guglielmo Marconi age 6
Pius XII age 4
Pius XI age 23
Neville Chamberlain age 11
Pius X age 45
Pierre de Coubertin age 18
Douglas MacArthur age 12 months
Benedict XV age 26
Carl Benz age 36