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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

People

Queen Victoria age 66
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 50
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 32
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 88
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 55
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 59
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 41
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 78
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 14
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 54
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 33
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 32
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 55
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 70
Chancellor - German Empire
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 55
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 66
Vice President - United States
Thomas F. Bayard age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 44
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Augustus H. Garland age 53
Attorney General - United States
William Crowninshield Endicott age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 75
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 52
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 62
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 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 49
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
Philip Francis Thomas age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 27
House of Representatives - United States
John G. Carlisle age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 42
House of Representatives - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 31
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 38
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 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 36
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 49
House of Representatives - United States
George Stoneman age 63
Governor of California - United States
David B. Hill age 42
Governor of New York - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 55
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William E. Cameron age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Ireland age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
George D. Robinson age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Hoadly age 59
Governor of Ohio - United States
Leon Abbett age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Henry Lloyd age 33
Governor of Maryland - United States
William A. Wheeler age 66
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 50
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 1
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 38
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 67
King - Denmark
Alfonso XII age 27
King - Spain
Oscar II of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 46
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 45
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 42
President - Argentina
Domingo Santa María age 60
President - Chile
Joaquín Crespo age 44
President - Venezuela
Bernardino Caballero age 46
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 64
Emir - Qatar
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 48
President - Liberia
Gregorio Pacheco age 62
President - Bolivia
Lysius Salomon age 70
President - Haiti
Francisco Menéndez age 54
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 37
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 36
President - Honduras
Bernardo Soto Alfaro age 31
President - Costa Rica
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 59
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 68
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 70
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Robert Themptander age 41
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 60
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Theodoros Deligiannis age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Rainilaiarivony age 57
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Johan Sverdrup age 69
Prime Minister - Norway
Petko Karavelov age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jan Heemskerk age 67
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Édouard Thilges age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Milutin Garašanin age 42
Prime Minister - Serbia
Robert Stout age 40
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 39
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Jervois age 64
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 49
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 6
Vladimir Lenin age 15
Mahatma Gandhi age 15
Leo Tolstoy age 57
Joseph Stalin age 6
Vincent van Gogh age 32
Pablo Picasso age 3
Winston Churchill age 10
Friedrich Nietzsche age 40
Thomas Edison age 38
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 4
Sigmund Freud age 29
Marie Curie age 17
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 3
Rabindranath Tagore age 24
Nikola Tesla age 29
Louis Pasteur age 62
Henry Ford age 22
Benito Mussolini age 2
Friedrich Engels age 64
Harry S. Truman age 1
Theodore Roosevelt age 26
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 45
Woodrow Wilson age 28
John Maynard Keynes age 2
Leon Trotsky age 5
Max Planck age 27
Dmitri Mendeleev age 51
Giuseppe Verdi age 71
Herbert Hoover age 11
Calvin Coolidge age 13
Alexander Graham Bell age 38
Claude Monet age 44
Sun Yat-sen age 18
Florence Nightingale age 65
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 4
Chester A. Arthur age 55
Wilhelm II age 26
Guglielmo Marconi age 11
Pius XII age 9
Pius XI age 28
Neville Chamberlain age 16
Pius X age 50
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 20
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 29
Emiliano Zapata age 6
Cecil Rhodes age 32
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 18
Syngman Rhee age 10
Jefferson Davis age 77
Hideki Tojo age 8 months
İsmet İnönü age 11 months
Gustav Stresemann age 7
Reza Shah age 7
Rajendra Prasad age 9 months
Alexander Kerensky age 4
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 9
Getúlio Vargas age 3
Emmeline Pankhurst age 27
Mehmed VI age 24
Ferdinand Foch age 33