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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 69
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 51
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 29
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 45
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 43
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 53
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 35
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 57
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 62
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 44
King - Italy
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 51
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 17
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 57
Shah - Iran
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 35
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 35
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Yohannes IV age 51
Emperor - Ethiopia
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 58
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 73
Chancellor - German Empire
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Francesco Crispi age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 47
Prime Minister - Japan
Riyad Pasha age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Dong Biwu age 2
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Thomas F. Bayard age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Charles S. Fairchild age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 42
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Augustus H. Garland age 56
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Crowninshield Endicott age 61
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 78
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 50
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Sherman age 65
Senate - United States
William M. Evarts age 70
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 81
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John G. Carlisle age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 45
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 34
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph B. Foraker age 42
Governor of Ohio - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 52
Governor of Virginia - United States
David B. Hill age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 38
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Robert Waterman age 61
Governor of California - United States
Simon P. Hughes Jr. age 58
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Oliver Ames age 57
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Elihu Emory Jackson age 50
Governor of Maryland - United States
Isaac P. Gray age 59
Governor of Indiana - United States
Robert S. Green age 57
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John B. Gordon age 56
Governor of Georgia - United States
Richard Olney age 52
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 72
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 70
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 3
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 68
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 2
King - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 34
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 70
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 59
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 49
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 48
Emir - Afghanistan
José Manuel Balmaceda age 48
President - Chile
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 52
President - Peru
Rafael Núñez age 62
President - Colombia
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 43
President - Argentina
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 24
Sultan - Oman
Ulises Heureaux age 42
President - Dominican Republic
Antonio Flores Jijón age 54
President - Ecuador
Patricio Escobar age 45
President - Paraguay
Aniceto Arce age 64
President - Bolivia
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl age 61
President - Venezuela
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 67
Emir - Qatar
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 51
President - Liberia
Francisco Menéndez age 57
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 40
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 39
President - Honduras
Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal age 56
President - Haiti
Bernardo Soto Alfaro age 34
President - Costa Rica
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin age 62
Viceroy - British Raj
William III of the Netherlands age 71
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 73
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Stefan Stambolov age 34
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Charilaos Trikoupis age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Gillis Bildt age 67
Prime Minister - Sweden
Rainilaiarivony age 60
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Johan Sverdrup age 72
Prime Minister - Norway
Theodor Rosetti age 51
Prime Minister - Romania
Harry Atkinson age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Æneas Mackay Jr. age 49
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 35
Prime Minister - Nepal
Édouard Thilges age 71
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Jervois age 66
Governor-General - New Zealand
Empress Dowager Cixi age 52
Regent - Imperial China
Albert Einstein age 9
Vladimir Lenin age 18
Mahatma Gandhi age 18
Leo Tolstoy age 59
Joseph Stalin age 9
Vincent van Gogh age 35
Pablo Picasso age 6
Winston Churchill age 13
Friedrich Nietzsche age 43
Thomas Edison age 41
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 7
Sigmund Freud age 32
Marie Curie age 20
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 6
Rabindranath Tagore age 27
Nikola Tesla age 32
Louis Pasteur age 65
Henry Ford age 25
Benito Mussolini age 5
Friedrich Engels age 67
Harry S. Truman age 4
Theodore Roosevelt age 29
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 48
Woodrow Wilson age 31
John Maynard Keynes age 5
Niels Bohr age 2
Leon Trotsky age 8
Max Planck age 30
Dmitri Mendeleev age 54
Giuseppe Verdi age 74
Herbert Hoover age 14
Calvin Coolidge age 16
Alexander Graham Bell age 41
Claude Monet age 47
Sun Yat-sen age 21
Florence Nightingale age 68
William Howard Taft age 30
Konrad Adenauer age 12
Warren G. Harding age 22
Rutherford B. Hayes age 65
Chiang Kai-shek age 9 months
John XXIII age 6
Benjamin Harrison age 55
Alexander Fleming age 7
David Ben-Gurion age 1
Guglielmo Marconi age 14
Pius XII age 12
Pius XI age 31
Neville Chamberlain age 19
Pius X age 53
Pierre de Coubertin age 25
Douglas MacArthur age 8
Benedict XV age 33
Carl Benz age 43
David Lloyd George age 25
Grigori Rasputin age 19
George V age 23
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 11
Paul von Hindenburg age 40
Edward VII age 46
Clement Attlee age 5
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 24
Harriet Tubman age 66
George C. Marshall age 7
Georges Clemenceau age 46
Józef Piłsudski age 20
Philippe Pétain age 32
Emiliano Zapata age 9
Cecil Rhodes age 35
Ibn Saud age 12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 223
Frederick Douglass age 70
T. E. Lawrence age 0 months
Susan B. Anthony age 68
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 21