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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 62
Queen - United Kingdom
Chester A. Arthur age 52
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 39
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 36
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 28
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 84
Emperor - German Empire
Pedro II of Brazil age 55
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 37
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 74
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 10
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 50
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 29
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 28
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 48
President - Mexico
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 51
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 66
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Mohamed Sherif Pasha age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
James G. Blaine age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Todd Lincoln age 38
Secretary of War - United States
William Windom age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - 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
Wayne MacVeagh age 48
Attorney General - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Bright age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 62
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 48
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 58
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 52
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 54
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 49
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 69
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 71
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 23
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 38
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 27
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 69
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 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 75
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 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 54
House of Representatives - United States
William S. Rosecrans age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Foster age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
George C. Perkins age 42
Governor of California - United States
John Davis Long age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William T. Hamilton age 61
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 57
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 66
Governor of Texas - United States
Frederick W. M. Holliday age 53
Governor of Virginia - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Albert G. Porter age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
George C. Ludlow age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William A. Wheeler age 62
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 46
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
Charles J. Folger age 63
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 34
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 61
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 28
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 63
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 23
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 52
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 42
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 41
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 38
President - Argentina
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Domingo Santa María age 56
President - Chile
Anthony W. Gardner age 61
President - Liberia
Marco Aurelio Soto age 34
President - Honduras
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 60
Emir - Qatar
Francisco García Calderón age 47
President - Peru
Rafael Zaldívar age 47
President - El Salvador
Lysius Salomon age 66
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 33
Hakim - Bahrain
Adolfo Saguier age 49
President - Paraguay
William III of the Netherlands age 64
King - Netherlands
Narciso Campero age 67
President - Bolivia
John A. Macdonald age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Arvid Posse age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Kálmán Tisza age 50
Prime Minister - Hungary
Alexandros Koumoundouros age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Walthère Frère-Orban age 69
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 53
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Félix de Blochausen age 47
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
António Rodrigues Sampaio age 75
Prime Minister - Portugal
Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore age 51
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 45
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 2
Karl Marx age 63
Vladimir Lenin age 11
Mahatma Gandhi age 11
Leo Tolstoy age 53
Joseph Stalin age 2
Charles Darwin age 72
Vincent van Gogh age 28
Winston Churchill age 6
Friedrich Nietzsche age 36
Thomas Edison age 34
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 8 months
Sigmund Freud age 25
Marie Curie age 13
Rabindranath Tagore age 20
Nikola Tesla age 25
Louis Pasteur age 58
Richard Wagner age 68
Henry Ford age 18
Friedrich Engels age 60
Theodore Roosevelt age 22
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 41
Woodrow Wilson age 24
Leon Trotsky age 1
Max Planck age 23
Dmitri Mendeleev age 47
Giuseppe Verdi age 68
Herbert Hoover age 7
Calvin Coolidge age 9
Alexander Graham Bell age 34
Ulysses S. Grant age 59
Claude Monet age 40
Sun Yat-sen age 14
Florence Nightingale age 61
William Howard Taft age 24
Konrad Adenauer age 5
Grover Cleveland age 44
Warren G. Harding age 15
Rutherford B. Hayes age 59
Alexander Fleming age 1 month
Gregor Mendel age 59
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 74
Wilhelm II age 22
Guglielmo Marconi age 7
Pius XII age 5
Pius XI age 24
Neville Chamberlain age 12
Pius X age 46
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 16
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 4
Paul von Hindenburg age 34
Edward VII age 39
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 17
Harriet Tubman age 59
George C. Marshall age 8 months
Georges Clemenceau age 40
Józef Piłsudski age 13
Philippe Pétain age 25
Emiliano Zapata age 2
Cecil Rhodes age 28
Ibn Saud age 5
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 216
Frederick Douglass age 63
Susan B. Anthony age 61
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 14
Syngman Rhee age 6
Jefferson Davis age 73
Gustav Stresemann age 3
Reza Shah age 3
Alexander Kerensky age 4 months
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 5
Emmeline Pankhurst age 23
Mehmed VI age 20
Ferdinand Foch age 30
Porfirio Díaz age 51
H. H. Asquith age 29
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 4
Raymond Poincaré age 21