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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
Benjamin Harrison age 55
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 30
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 46
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 36
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 58
President - Mexico
Pedro II of Brazil age 63
Emperor - Brazil
Umberto I of Italy age 45
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
Menelik II age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 36
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 36
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 58
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 74
Chancellor - German Empire
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Francesco Crispi age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Riyad Pasha age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 56
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Levi P. Morton age 64
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu age 3
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
James G. Blaine age 59
Secretary of State - United States
William Windom age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Redfield Proctor age 57
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller age 48
Attorney General - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 79
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 51
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Sherman age 66
Senate - United States
William M. Evarts age 71
Senate - United States
William McKinley age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Balfour age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 82
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 70
House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 78
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John G. Carlisle age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 45
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 35
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 29
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 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 50
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 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Fitzhugh Lee age 53
Governor of Virginia - United States
John B. Gordon age 57
Governor of Georgia - United States
Richard Olney age 53
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 71
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 4
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 41
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 69
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 2
King - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 35
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 71
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 60
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 50
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 49
Emir - Afghanistan
José Manuel Balmaceda age 48
President - Chile
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 53
President - Peru
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 44
Viceroy - British Raj
Rafael Núñez age 63
President - Colombia
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 44
President - Argentina
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 24
Sultan - Oman
Antonio Flores Jijón age 55
President - Ecuador
Patricio Escobar age 46
President - Paraguay
Aniceto Arce age 65
President - Bolivia
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl age 62
President - Venezuela
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 68
Emir - Qatar
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 51
President - Liberia
François Denys Légitime age 47
President - Haiti
Francisco Menéndez age 58
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 41
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 39
President - Honduras
Bernardo Soto Alfaro age 35
President - Costa Rica
Manuel María Gautier age 58
President - Dominican Republic
William III of the Netherlands age 72
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 74
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Stefan Stambolov age 35
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Charilaos Trikoupis age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 64
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Gillis Bildt age 68
Prime Minister - Sweden
Rainilaiarivony age 61
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Johan Sverdrup age 72
Prime Minister - Norway
Paul Eyschen age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Harry Atkinson age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Æneas Mackay Jr. age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 36
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Pedro Alejandrino del Solar age 59
Prime Minister - Peru
Adolf Hitler age 0 months
Albert Einstein age 10
Vladimir Lenin age 19
Mahatma Gandhi age 19
Leo Tolstoy age 60
Joseph Stalin age 10
Vincent van Gogh age 36
Pablo Picasso age 7
Charlie Chaplin age 0 months
Winston Churchill age 14
Friedrich Nietzsche age 44
Thomas Edison age 42
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 8
Sigmund Freud age 32
Marie Curie age 21
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 7
Rabindranath Tagore age 27
Nikola Tesla age 32
Louis Pasteur age 66
Henry Ford age 25
Benito Mussolini age 5
Friedrich Engels age 68
Harry S. Truman age 4
Theodore Roosevelt age 30
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 48
Woodrow Wilson age 32
John Maynard Keynes age 5
Niels Bohr age 3
Leon Trotsky age 9
Max Planck age 31
Dmitri Mendeleev age 55
Giuseppe Verdi age 75
Herbert Hoover age 14
Calvin Coolidge age 16
Alexander Graham Bell age 42
Claude Monet age 48
Sun Yat-sen age 22
Florence Nightingale age 68
William Howard Taft age 31
Konrad Adenauer age 13
Grover Cleveland age 52
Warren G. Harding age 23
Rutherford B. Hayes age 66
Chiang Kai-shek age 1
John XXIII age 7
Alexander Fleming age 7
David Ben-Gurion age 2
Guglielmo Marconi age 15
Pius XII age 13
Pius XI age 31
Neville Chamberlain age 20
Pius X age 53
Pierre de Coubertin age 26
Douglas MacArthur age 9
Benedict XV age 34
Carl Benz age 44
David Lloyd George age 26
Grigori Rasputin age 20
George V age 23
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 12
Paul von Hindenburg age 41
Edward VII age 47
Clement Attlee age 6
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 25
Harriet Tubman age 67
George C. Marshall age 8
Georges Clemenceau age 47
Empress Dowager Cixi age 53
Józef Piłsudski age 21
Philippe Pétain age 33
Emiliano Zapata age 9
Cecil Rhodes age 35
Ibn Saud age 13
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 224
Frederick Douglass age 71
T. E. Lawrence age 8 months
Susan B. Anthony age 69
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 21
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 7 months
Syngman Rhee age 14
Jefferson Davis age 80
George S. Patton age 3
Hideki Tojo age 4
İsmet İnönü age 4
Bernard Montgomery age 1
Gustav Stresemann age 10
Reza Shah age 11