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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 70
Queen - United Kingdom
Benjamin Harrison age 56
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 30
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 47
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 37
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 59
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 45
King - Italy
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 52
President - France
Deodoro da Fonseca age 62
President - Brazil
Guangxu Emperor age 18
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 58
Shah - Iran
Menelik II age 45
Emperor - Ethiopia
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 37
King - Joseon
Tewfik Pasha age 37
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 59
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Otto von Bismarck age 74
Chancellor - German Empire
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Yamagata Aritomo age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Francesco Crispi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Riyad Pasha age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 56
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Levi P. Morton age 65
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 60
Secretary of State - United States
William Windom age 62
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Lord George Hamilton age 44
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Redfield Proctor age 58
Secretary of War - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William H. H. Miller age 49
Attorney General - United States
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 64
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 80
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 71
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 52
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 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph E. Johnston age 83
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 71
House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 74
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 79
House of Representatives - United States
Carter Glass age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John G. Carlisle age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna age 46
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 36
House of Representatives - United States
William Harcourt age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 77
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Childers age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 62
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Wheeler age 53
House of Representatives - United States
David B. Hill age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Lawrence Sullivan Ross age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Robert Love Taylor age 39
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Robert Waterman age 63
Governor of California - United States
John Q. A. Brackett age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
James Philip Eagle age 52
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James E. Campbell age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
Alvin Peterson Hovey age 68
Governor of Indiana - United States
Philip W. McKinney age 57
Governor of Virginia - United States
Elihu Emory Jackson age 52
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert S. Green age 58
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John B. Gordon age 57
Governor of Georgia - United States
Richard Olney age 54
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 72
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 5
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 42
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 70
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 3
King - Spain
Chulalongkorn age 36
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 71
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 61
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 50
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 50
Emir - Afghanistan
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 41
Prince - Monaco
José Manuel Balmaceda age 49
President - Chile
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 53
President - Peru
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Rafael Núñez age 64
President - Colombia
Miguel Ángel Juárez age 45
President - Argentina
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 25
Sultan - Oman
Ulises Heureaux age 44
President - Dominican Republic
Antonio Flores Jijón age 56
President - Ecuador
Patricio Escobar age 46
President - Paraguay
Aniceto Arce age 65
President - Bolivia
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl age 63
President - Venezuela
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 69
Emir - Qatar
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 52
President - Liberia
Florvil Hyppolite age 61
President - Haiti
Francisco Menéndez age 59
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 42
Hakim - Bahrain
Luis Bográn age 40
President - Honduras
William III of the Netherlands age 72
King - Netherlands
John A. Macdonald age 75
Prime Minister - Canada
Auguste Beernaert age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Stefan Stambolov age 35
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Charilaos Trikoupis age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 64
Prime Minister - Denmark
Kálmán Tisza age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Rainilaiarivony age 62
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Gustaf Åkerhielm age 56
Prime Minister - Sweden
Emil Stang age 55
Prime Minister - Norway
Paul Eyschen age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Harry Atkinson age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Æneas Mackay Jr. age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 37
Prime Minister - Nepal
Gheorghe Manu age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 44
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Pedro Alejandrino del Solar age 60
Prime Minister - Peru
Theodore Roosevelt age 31
Commissioner, United States Civil Service Commission
Adolf Hitler age 9 months
Albert Einstein age 10
Vladimir Lenin age 19
Mahatma Gandhi age 20
Leo Tolstoy age 61
Joseph Stalin age 11
Vincent van Gogh age 36
Pablo Picasso age 8
Charlie Chaplin age 9 months
Winston Churchill age 15
Friedrich Nietzsche age 45
Thomas Edison age 42
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 9
Sigmund Freud age 33
Marie Curie age 22
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 7
Rabindranath Tagore age 28
Nikola Tesla age 33
Louis Pasteur age 67
Henry Ford age 26
Benito Mussolini age 6
Friedrich Engels age 69
Harry S. Truman age 5
Jawaharlal Nehru age 2 months
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 49
Woodrow Wilson age 33
John Maynard Keynes age 6
Niels Bohr age 4
Leon Trotsky age 10
Max Planck age 31
Dmitri Mendeleev age 55
Giuseppe Verdi age 76
Herbert Hoover age 15
Calvin Coolidge age 17
Alexander Graham Bell age 42
Claude Monet age 49
Sun Yat-sen age 23
Florence Nightingale age 69
William Howard Taft age 32
Konrad Adenauer age 14
Grover Cleveland age 52
Warren G. Harding age 24
Rutherford B. Hayes age 67
Chiang Kai-shek age 2
John XXIII age 8
Alexander Fleming age 8
David Ben-Gurion age 3
Guglielmo Marconi age 15
Pius XII age 13
Pius XI age 32
Neville Chamberlain age 20
Pius X age 54
Pierre de Coubertin age 27
Douglas MacArthur age 9
Benedict XV age 35
Carl Benz age 45
David Lloyd George age 27
Grigori Rasputin age 21
George V age 24
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 13
Paul von Hindenburg age 42
Edward VII age 48
Clement Attlee age 7
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 26
Harriet Tubman age 67
George C. Marshall age 9
Georges Clemenceau age 48
Empress Dowager Cixi age 54
Józef Piłsudski age 22
Philippe Pétain age 33
Emiliano Zapata age 10
Cecil Rhodes age 36
Ibn Saud age 14
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 225