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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

People

Queen Victoria age 65
Queen - United Kingdom
Chester A. Arthur age 54
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 41
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 39
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 31
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 87
Emperor - German Empire
Pedro II of Brazil age 58
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 40
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 76
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 12
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 52
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 31
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 31
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 46
Emperor - Ethiopia
Manuel González age 50
President - Mexico
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 53
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 69
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 74
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Robert Todd Lincoln age 40
Secretary of War - United States
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles J. Folger age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Benjamin H. Brewster age 67
Attorney General - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 47
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 65
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 50
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 61
Senate - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 55
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 57
Senate - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 51
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 26
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 40
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 30
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 56
House of Representatives - United States
William S. Rosecrans age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Grover Cleveland age 47
Governor of New York - United States
George Stoneman age 61
Governor of California - United States
James H. Berry age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert Milligan McLane age 68
Governor of Maryland - United States
William E. Cameron age 41
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Ireland age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
George D. Robinson age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Hoadly age 57
Governor of Ohio - United States
Albert G. Porter age 60
Governor of Indiana - United States
Leon Abbett age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William A. Wheeler age 64
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 68
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 66
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William F. Wharton age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 64
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 30
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 26
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 55
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 45
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 44
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 40
President - Argentina
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Domingo Santa María age 58
President - Chile
Joaquín Crespo age 42
President - Venezuela
Bernardino Caballero age 45
President - Paraguay
Ulises Heureaux age 38
President - Dominican Republic
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 63
Emir - Qatar
Rafael Zaldívar age 50
President - El Salvador
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 46
President - Liberia
Próspero Fernández Oreamuno age 49
President - Costa Rica
Lysius Salomon age 68
President - Haiti
Isa I of Bahrain age 36
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 34
President - Honduras
Ezequiel Hurtado age 58
President - Colombia
William III of the Netherlands age 67
King - Netherlands
Narciso Campero age 70
President - Bolivia
John A. Macdonald age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
Charilaos Trikoupis age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Carl Johan Thyselius age 72
Prime Minister - Sweden
Kálmán Tisza age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Walthère Frère-Orban age 72
Prime Minister - Belgium
Rainilaiarivony age 56
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Dragan Tsankov age 55
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jan Heemskerk age 65
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Harry Atkinson age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Félix de Blochausen age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Christian Homann Schweigaard age 45
Prime Minister - Norway
Milutin Garašanin age 41
Prime Minister - Serbia
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 38
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Jervois age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 48
Regent - Imperial China
Theodore Roosevelt age 25
New York State Assembly
Albert Einstein age 5
Vladimir Lenin age 14
Mahatma Gandhi age 14
Leo Tolstoy age 55
Joseph Stalin age 5
Vincent van Gogh age 31
Pablo Picasso age 2
Winston Churchill age 9
Friedrich Nietzsche age 39
Thomas Edison age 37
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 3
Sigmund Freud age 28
Marie Curie age 16
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 2
Rabindranath Tagore age 23
Nikola Tesla age 27
Louis Pasteur age 61
Henry Ford age 20
Benito Mussolini age 9 months
Friedrich Engels age 63
Harry S. Truman age 0 months
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 44
Woodrow Wilson age 27
John Maynard Keynes age 11 months
Leon Trotsky age 4
Max Planck age 26
Dmitri Mendeleev age 50
Giuseppe Verdi age 70
Herbert Hoover age 9
Calvin Coolidge age 11
Alexander Graham Bell age 37
Ulysses S. Grant age 62
Claude Monet age 43
Sun Yat-sen age 17
Florence Nightingale age 64
William Howard Taft age 26
Konrad Adenauer age 8
Warren G. Harding age 18
Rutherford B. Hayes age 61
John XXIII age 2
Alexander Fleming age 2
Wilhelm II age 25
Guglielmo Marconi age 10
Pius XII age 8
Pius XI age 26
Neville Chamberlain age 15
Pius X age 48
Pierre de Coubertin age 21
Douglas MacArthur age 4
Benedict XV age 29
Carl Benz age 39
David Lloyd George age 21
Grigori Rasputin age 15
George V age 18
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 7
Paul von Hindenburg age 36
Edward VII age 42
Clement Attlee age 1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 20
Harriet Tubman age 62
George C. Marshall age 3
Georges Clemenceau age 42
Józef Piłsudski age 16
Philippe Pétain age 28
Emiliano Zapata age 4
Cecil Rhodes age 30
Ibn Saud age 8
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 219
Frederick Douglass age 66
Susan B. Anthony age 64
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 16
Syngman Rhee age 9
Jefferson Davis age 75
Gustav Stresemann age 6
Reza Shah age 6
Alexander Kerensky age 3
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 8
Getúlio Vargas age 2
Emmeline Pankhurst age 25
Mehmed VI age 23
Ferdinand Foch age 32