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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 49
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 43
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 41
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 50
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 33
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 89
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 55
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 60
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 42
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 33
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 55
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 71
Chancellor - German Empire
William Ewart Gladstone age 76
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Agostino Depretis age 73
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dong Biwu age 0 months
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Thomas F. Bayard age 57
Secretary of State - United States
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Augustus H. Garland age 53
Attorney General - United States
William Crowninshield Endicott age 59
Secretary of War - United States
William Harcourt age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 56
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 48
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 52
Senate - United States
John Sherman age 62
Senate - United States
William M. Evarts age 68
Senate - United States
William Mahone age 59
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 43
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 56
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 79
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Francis Thomas age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John G. Carlisle age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
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 32
House of Representatives - United States
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 26
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
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 47
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 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 50
Governor of Virginia - 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 70
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 68
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 66
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Chulalongkorn age 32
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 67
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 57
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 46
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 46
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 42
President - Argentina
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 65
Emir - Qatar
Isa I of Bahrain age 38
Hakim - Bahrain
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 59
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 69
King - Netherlands
Theodoros Deligiannis age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Petko Karavelov age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 33
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 40
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Empress Dowager Cixi age 50
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 7
Vladimir Lenin age 15
Mahatma Gandhi age 16
Leo Tolstoy age 57
Joseph Stalin age 7
Vincent van Gogh age 32
Pablo Picasso age 4
Winston Churchill age 11
Friedrich Nietzsche age 41
Thomas Edison age 39
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 5
Sigmund Freud age 29
Marie Curie age 18
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 4
Rabindranath Tagore age 24
Nikola Tesla age 29
Louis Pasteur age 63
Henry Ford age 22
Benito Mussolini age 2
Friedrich Engels age 65
Harry S. Truman age 1
Theodore Roosevelt age 27
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 45
Woodrow Wilson age 29
John Maynard Keynes age 2
Niels Bohr age 5 months
Leon Trotsky age 6
Max Planck age 27
Dmitri Mendeleev age 52
Giuseppe Verdi age 72
Herbert Hoover age 11
Calvin Coolidge age 13
Alexander Graham Bell age 39
Claude Monet age 45
Sun Yat-sen age 19
Florence Nightingale age 65
William Howard Taft age 28
Konrad Adenauer age 10
Warren G. Harding age 20
Rutherford B. Hayes age 63
John XXIII age 4
Alexander Fleming age 4
Chester A. Arthur age 56
Wilhelm II age 27
Guglielmo Marconi age 11
Pius XII age 10
Pius XI age 28
Neville Chamberlain age 17
Pius X age 50
Pierre de Coubertin age 23
Douglas MacArthur age 6
Benedict XV age 31
Carl Benz age 41
David Lloyd George age 23
Grigori Rasputin age 17
George V age 20
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 9
Paul von Hindenburg age 38
Edward VII age 44
Clement Attlee age 3
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 22
Harriet Tubman age 64
George C. Marshall age 5
Georges Clemenceau age 44
Józef Piłsudski age 18
Philippe Pétain age 29
Emiliano Zapata age 6
Cecil Rhodes age 32
Ibn Saud age 10
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 221
Frederick Douglass age 68
Susan B. Anthony age 66
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 18
Syngman Rhee age 10
Jefferson Davis age 77
George S. Patton age 4 months
Hideki Tojo age 1
İsmet İnönü age 1
Gustav Stresemann age 7
Reza Shah age 8
Rajendra Prasad age 1
Alexander Kerensky age 4
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 10
Getúlio Vargas age 3
Emmeline Pankhurst age 27
Mehmed VI age 25
Ferdinand Foch age 34
H. H. Asquith age 33
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 8
Raymond Poincaré age 25
Friedrich Ebert age 15
Pancho Villa age 7
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 70
Stanley Baldwin age 18
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 5
Patrice de MacMahon age 77
Isabella II age 55
Franz von Papen age 6
Ramsay MacDonald age 19
Celâl Bayar age 2
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 16
Frederick III, German Emperor age 54
Isoroku Yamamoto age 1
Wilhelm Keitel age 3
Charles G. Dawes age 20
Éamon de Valera age 3
Alcide De Gasperi age 4
Alexander Kolchak age 11
Aristide Briand age 23
Léon Blum age 13
Emperor Taishō age 6
Georgi Dimitrov age 3