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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

People

Queen Victoria age 65
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 48
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 42
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 32
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 88
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 54
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 59
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 41
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 77
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 13
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 53
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 32
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 32
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 54
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 70
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 75
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas A. Hendricks age 65
Vice President - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Augustus H. Garland age 52
Attorney General - United States
William Crowninshield Endicott age 58
Secretary of War - United States
William Harcourt age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 48
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh age 66
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 51
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 61
Senate - United States
William M. Evarts age 67
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 58
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 78
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 27
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 41
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 72
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 38
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 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 48
House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 65
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 49
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 69
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 67
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 6 months
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 37
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 65
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 75
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 31
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 27
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 45
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 45
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 41
President - Argentina
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 64
Emir - Qatar
Isa I of Bahrain age 37
Hakim - Bahrain
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 58
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 68
King - Netherlands
Petko Karavelov age 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 39
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Empress Dowager Cixi age 49
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 6
Vladimir Lenin age 14
Mahatma Gandhi age 15
Leo Tolstoy age 56
Joseph Stalin age 6
Vincent van Gogh age 31
Pablo Picasso age 3
Winston Churchill age 10
Friedrich Nietzsche age 40
Thomas Edison age 38
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 4
Sigmund Freud age 28
Marie Curie age 17
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 3
Rabindranath Tagore age 23
Nikola Tesla age 28
Louis Pasteur age 62
Henry Ford age 21
Benito Mussolini age 1
Friedrich Engels age 64
Harry S. Truman age 10 months
Theodore Roosevelt age 26
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 44
Woodrow Wilson age 28
John Maynard Keynes age 1
Leon Trotsky age 5
Max Planck age 26
Dmitri Mendeleev age 51
Giuseppe Verdi age 71
Herbert Hoover age 10
Calvin Coolidge age 12
Alexander Graham Bell age 38
Ulysses S. Grant age 62
Claude Monet age 44
Sun Yat-sen age 18
Florence Nightingale age 64
William Howard Taft age 27
Konrad Adenauer age 9
Warren G. Harding age 19
Rutherford B. Hayes age 62
John XXIII age 3
Alexander Fleming age 3
Chester A. Arthur age 55
Wilhelm II age 26
Guglielmo Marconi age 10
Pius XII age 9
Pius XI age 27
Neville Chamberlain age 16
Pius X age 49
Pierre de Coubertin age 22
Douglas MacArthur age 5
Benedict XV age 30
Carl Benz age 40
David Lloyd George age 22
Grigori Rasputin age 16
George V age 19
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 8
Paul von Hindenburg age 37
Edward VII age 43
Clement Attlee age 2
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 21
Harriet Tubman age 63
George C. Marshall age 4
Georges Clemenceau age 43
Józef Piłsudski age 17
Philippe Pétain age 28
Emiliano Zapata age 5
Cecil Rhodes age 31
Ibn Saud age 9
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 220
Frederick Douglass age 67
Susan B. Anthony age 65
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 17
Syngman Rhee age 9
Jefferson Davis age 76
Hideki Tojo age 2 months
İsmet İnönü age 5 months
Gustav Stresemann age 6
Reza Shah age 7
Rajendra Prasad age 3 months
Alexander Kerensky age 3
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 9
Getúlio Vargas age 2
Emmeline Pankhurst age 26
Mehmed VI age 24
Ferdinand Foch age 33
H. H. Asquith age 32
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 7
Raymond Poincaré age 24
Friedrich Ebert age 14
Pancho Villa age 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 69
Stanley Baldwin age 17
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 4
Patrice de MacMahon age 76
Isabella II age 54
Franz von Papen age 5
Ramsay MacDonald age 18
Celâl Bayar age 1
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 15
Frederick III, German Emperor age 53
Isoroku Yamamoto age 11 months
Wilhelm Keitel age 2
Charles G. Dawes age 19
Éamon de Valera age 2
Alcide De Gasperi age 3
Alexander Kolchak age 10
Aristide Briand age 22
Léon Blum age 12
Emperor Taishō age 5
Georgi Dimitrov age 2
Erich Ludendorff age 19
Kliment Voroshilov age 4
Mehmed V age 40
Itō Hirobumi age 43
Haakon VII of Norway age 12
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 84
Abdullah I of Jordan age 3