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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 63
Queen - United Kingdom
Chester A. Arthur age 52
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 39
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 37
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 47
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 29
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 85
Emperor - German Empire
Pedro II of Brazil age 56
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 38
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 29
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 67
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 72
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Robert Todd Lincoln age 38
Secretary of War - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles J. Folger age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 65
Attorney General - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Bright age 70
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 48
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 59
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 53
Senate - United States
William Windom age 55
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 55
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 49
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 24
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 36
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 28
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 44
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 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 43
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 30
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 54
Governor of Ohio - United States
George C. Perkins age 42
Governor of California - United States
John Davis Long age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William T. Hamilton age 61
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas James Churchill age 58
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oran Milo Roberts age 66
Governor of Texas - United States
William E. Cameron age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
Alonzo B. Cornell age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Albert G. Porter age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
George C. Ludlow age 52
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 66
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 64
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William F. Wharton age 34
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 62
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 28
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 64
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 24
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 53
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 43
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 42
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 38
President - Argentina
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 54
Viceroy - British Raj
Domingo Santa María age 56
President - Chile
Bernardino Caballero age 43
President - Paraguay
Anthony W. Gardner age 62
President - Liberia
Marco Aurelio Soto age 35
President - Honduras
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 61
Emir - Qatar
Francisco Javier Zaldúa age 70
President - Colombia
Rafael Zaldívar age 48
President - El Salvador
Lysius Salomon age 66
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 34
Hakim - Bahrain
William III of the Netherlands age 65
King - Netherlands
Narciso Campero age 68
President - Bolivia
John A. Macdonald age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
Charilaos Trikoupis age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Arvid Posse age 62
Prime Minister - Sweden
Kálmán Tisza age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Walthère Frère-Orban age 70
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 54
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Frederick Whitaker age 70
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Félix de Blochausen age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Christian August Selmer age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 36
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore age 52
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 46
Regent - Imperial China
Theodore Roosevelt age 23
New York State Assembly
Albert Einstein age 3
Karl Marx age 64
Vladimir Lenin age 12
Mahatma Gandhi age 12
Leo Tolstoy age 53
Joseph Stalin age 3
Vincent van Gogh age 29
Pablo Picasso age 6 months
Winston Churchill age 7
Friedrich Nietzsche age 37
Thomas Edison age 35
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 1
Sigmund Freud age 26
Marie Curie age 14
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 3 months
Rabindranath Tagore age 21
Nikola Tesla age 25
Louis Pasteur age 59
Richard Wagner age 69
Henry Ford age 18
Friedrich Engels age 61
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 42
Woodrow Wilson age 25
Leon Trotsky age 2
Max Planck age 24
Dmitri Mendeleev age 48
Giuseppe Verdi age 68
Herbert Hoover age 7
Calvin Coolidge age 9
Alexander Graham Bell age 35
Ulysses S. Grant age 60
Claude Monet age 41
Sun Yat-sen age 15
Florence Nightingale age 62
William Howard Taft age 24
Konrad Adenauer age 6
Grover Cleveland age 45
Warren G. Harding age 16
Rutherford B. Hayes age 59
John XXIII age 5 months
Alexander Fleming age 9 months
Gregor Mendel age 59
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 74
Wilhelm II age 23
Guglielmo Marconi age 8
Pius XII age 6
Pius XI age 24
Neville Chamberlain age 13
Pius X age 46
Pierre de Coubertin age 19
Douglas MacArthur age 2
Benedict XV age 27
Carl Benz age 37
David Lloyd George age 19
Grigori Rasputin age 13
George V age 16
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 5
Paul von Hindenburg age 34
Edward VII age 40
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 18
Harriet Tubman age 60
George C. Marshall age 1
Georges Clemenceau age 40
Józef Piłsudski age 14
Philippe Pétain age 26
Emiliano Zapata age 2
Cecil Rhodes age 28
Ibn Saud age 6
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 217
Frederick Douglass age 64
Susan B. Anthony age 62
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 14
Syngman Rhee age 7
Jefferson Davis age 74
Gustav Stresemann age 4
Reza Shah age 4
Alexander Kerensky age 1
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 6
Getúlio Vargas age 0 months
Emmeline Pankhurst age 23
Mehmed VI age 21
Ferdinand Foch age 30
Porfirio Díaz age 51