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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04
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
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
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 50
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
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
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
William Harcourt age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Devens age 60
Attorney General - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 76
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Joseph Chamberlain age 44
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Levi P. Morton age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 56
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Leo XIII age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 27
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 62
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 23
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 52
King - Sweden
Abdur Rahman Khan age 41
Emir - Afghanistan
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Isa I of Bahrain age 33
Hakim - Bahrain
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 35
Prime Minister - Montenegro
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 72
Vincent van Gogh age 27
Winston Churchill age 6
Friedrich Nietzsche age 36
Thomas Edison age 34
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 1 month
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
Leon Trotsky age 1
Max Planck age 22
Dmitri Mendeleev age 47
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
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 1
Benedict XV age 26
Carl Benz age 36
David Lloyd George age 18
Grigori Rasputin age 12
George V age 15
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 4
Paul von Hindenburg age 33
Edward VII age 39
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 17
Harriet Tubman age 59
George C. Marshall age 1 month
Georges Clemenceau age 39
Empress Dowager Cixi age 45
Alexander III of Russia age 35
Józef Piłsudski age 13
Philippe Pétain age 24
Emiliano Zapata age 1
Cecil Rhodes age 27
Ibn Saud age 5
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 216
Frederick Douglass age 63
Susan B. Anthony age 61
Arthur Balfour age 32
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 13
Syngman Rhee age 5
Jefferson Davis age 72
Gustav Stresemann age 2
Reza Shah age 2
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 5
Emmeline Pankhurst age 22
Mehmed VI age 20
Ferdinand Foch age 29
Porfirio Díaz age 50
H. H. Asquith age 28
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 3
Raymond Poincaré age 20
Friedrich Ebert age 10
Pancho Villa age 2
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 65
Stanley Baldwin age 13
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 5 months
Patrice de MacMahon age 72
Isabella II age 50
Franz von Papen age 1
Ramsay MacDonald age 14
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 11
Frederick III, German Emperor age 49
Charles G. Dawes age 15
Alexander Kolchak age 6
Aristide Briand age 18
Léon Blum age 8
Emperor Taishō age 1
Erich Ludendorff age 15
Kliment Voroshilov age 0 months
Mehmed V age 36
Itō Hirobumi age 39
Haakon VII of Norway age 8
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 80
Albert I of Belgium age 5
Chaim Weizmann age 6
Gustaf V of Sweden age 22
William Tecumseh Sherman age 61
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 51
Pyotr Stolypin age 18
Emilio Aguinaldo age 11
Pietro Badoglio age 9
Andrew Bonar Law age 22
Murad V age 40
Eleftherios Venizelos age 16
Christian X of Denmark age 10
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 24
Cordell Hull age 9
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 10
Hjalmar Branting age 20
Manuel Azaña age 1
Alben W. Barkley age 3
Gerd von Rundstedt age 5
Francisco I. Madero age 7
Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 11
Alexandra of Denmark age 36
John Nance Garner age 12
Alexandre Millerand age 22
Karl Renner age 10
Amadeo I of Spain age 35
George Curzon age 22
Yuan Shikai age 21
Joseph Joffre age 29
Paul Doumer age 23
Luigi Einaudi age 6
Enrico de Nicola age 3
Anton Denikin age 8
Armand Fallières age 39
Gaston Doumergue age 17
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 20
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 43
Deodoro da Fonseca age 53
Erich Raeder age 4
John J. Pershing age 20
Elihu Root age 36
Edmund Barton age 32
Mary of Teck age 13
Bernhard von Bülow age 31
Hjalmar Schacht age 4
Charles Curtis age 21
Thomas R. Marshall age 26
Hannibal Hamlin age 71
Frank B. Kellogg age 24