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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 67
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 50
President - United States
Abdul Hamid II age 44
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 42
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 51
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 34
Emperor - Japan
Wilhelm I age 90
Emperor - German Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 56
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 61
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 43
King - Italy
Jules Grévy age 79
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 15
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 55
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 34
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 34
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 56
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 72
Chancellor - German Empire
Itō Hirobumi age 45
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Agostino Depretis age 74
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Morrison Waite age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dong Biwu age 1
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Thomas F. Bayard age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Augustus H. Garland age 54
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 60
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 77
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 46
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Sherman age 63
Senate - United States
William M. Evarts age 69
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 80
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 68
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John G. Carlisle age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 43
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 33
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Gordon age 55
Governor of Georgia - United States
William A. Wheeler age 67
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 51
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 71
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 69
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 2
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 39
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 67
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 10 months
King - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 33
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 68
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 58
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 47
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 47
Emir - Afghanistan
José Manuel Balmaceda age 46
President - Chile
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 51
President - Peru
Rafael Núñez age 61
President - Colombia
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 42
President - Argentina
Ulises Heureaux age 41
President - Dominican Republic
Patricio Escobar age 44
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 66
Emir - Qatar
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 49
President - Liberia
Gregorio Pacheco age 63
President - Bolivia
Lysius Salomon age 71
President - Haiti
Francisco Menéndez age 56
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 39
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 37
President - Honduras
Bernardo Soto Alfaro age 33
President - Costa Rica
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 60
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 70
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 72
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Charilaos Trikoupis age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Robert Themptander age 43
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 61
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Vasil Radoslavov age 32
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Rainilaiarivony age 59
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Johan Sverdrup age 70
Prime Minister - Norway
Jan Heemskerk age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 34
Prime Minister - Nepal
Édouard Thilges age 70
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Milutin Garašanin age 44
Prime Minister - Serbia
Robert Stout age 42
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 41
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Jervois age 65
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 51
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 8
Vladimir Lenin age 16
Mahatma Gandhi age 17
Leo Tolstoy age 58
Joseph Stalin age 8
Vincent van Gogh age 33
Pablo Picasso age 5
Winston Churchill age 12
Friedrich Nietzsche age 42
Thomas Edison age 40
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 6
Sigmund Freud age 30
Marie Curie age 19
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 5
Rabindranath Tagore age 25
Nikola Tesla age 30
Louis Pasteur age 64
Henry Ford age 23
Benito Mussolini age 3
Friedrich Engels age 66
Harry S. Truman age 2
Theodore Roosevelt age 28
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 46
Woodrow Wilson age 30
John Maynard Keynes age 3
Niels Bohr age 1
Leon Trotsky age 7
Max Planck age 28
Dmitri Mendeleev age 53
Giuseppe Verdi age 73
Herbert Hoover age 12
Calvin Coolidge age 14
Alexander Graham Bell age 40
Claude Monet age 46
Sun Yat-sen age 20
Florence Nightingale age 66
William Howard Taft age 29
Konrad Adenauer age 11
Warren G. Harding age 21
Rutherford B. Hayes age 64
John XXIII age 5
Benjamin Harrison age 53
Alexander Fleming age 5
David Ben-Gurion age 5 months
Wilhelm II age 28
Guglielmo Marconi age 12
Pius XII age 11
Pius XI age 29
Neville Chamberlain age 18
Pius X age 51
Pierre de Coubertin age 24
Douglas MacArthur age 7
Benedict XV age 32
Carl Benz age 42
David Lloyd George age 24
Grigori Rasputin age 18
George V age 21
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 10
Paul von Hindenburg age 39
Edward VII age 45
Clement Attlee age 4
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 23
Harriet Tubman age 65
George C. Marshall age 6
Georges Clemenceau age 45
Józef Piłsudski age 19
Philippe Pétain age 30
Emiliano Zapata age 7
Cecil Rhodes age 33
Ibn Saud age 11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 222
Frederick Douglass age 69
Susan B. Anthony age 67
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 19
Syngman Rhee age 11
Jefferson Davis age 78
George S. Patton age 1
Hideki Tojo age 2
İsmet İnönü age 2
Gustav Stresemann age 8
Reza Shah age 9
Rajendra Prasad age 2
Alexander Kerensky age 5
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 11
Getúlio Vargas age 4
Emmeline Pankhurst age 28
Mehmed VI age 26