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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 74
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 56
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 34
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 50
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Alexander III of Russia age 48
Emperor - Russian Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 58
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 40
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 62
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 49
King - Italy
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 55
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 21
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 61
Shah - Iran
Menelik II age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 18
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 40
King - Joseon
Floriano Peixoto age 54
President - Brazil
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 62
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
William Ewart Gladstone age 83
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Itō Hirobumi age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Leo von Caprivi age 62
Chancellor - German Empire
Giovanni Giolitti age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Botho zu Eulenburg age 61
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Riyad Pasha age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Adlai Stevenson I age 57
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu age 7
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
H. H. Asquith age 40
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 56
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Walter Q. Gresham age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 57
Attorney General - United States
John G. Carlisle age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 65
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 42
Secretary of War - United States
Arthur Balfour age 44
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Sherman age 70
Senate - United States
Edward Douglass White age 47
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 62
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 61
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 33
House of Representatives - United States
William Jennings Bryan age 33
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 3
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 81
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Henry W. Slocum age 65
House of Representatives - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 56
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 77
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 75
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 8
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 46
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 83
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 7
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 12
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 39
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 75
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 64
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 54
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 53
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 75
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 44
Prince - Monaco
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
Luis Sáenz Peña age 71
President - Argentina
Rafael Núñez age 67
President - Colombia
George Tupou II age 19
King - Tonga
Joaquín Crespo age 51
President - Venezuela
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 29
Sultan - Oman
Miguel Antonio Caro age 50
President - Colombia
Jorge Montt age 48
President - Chile
Ulises Heureaux age 47
President - Dominican Republic
Remigio Morales Bermúdez age 56
President - Peru
Luis Cordero Crespo age 60
President - Ecuador
Mariano Baptista age 60
President - Bolivia
Juan Gualberto González age 41
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 72
Emir - Qatar
Julio Herrera y Obes age 52
President - Uruguay
Florvil Hyppolite age 65
President - Haiti
Joseph James Cheeseman age 50
President - Liberia
Isa I of Bahrain age 45
Hakim - Bahrain
Carlos Ezeta age 41
President - El Salvador
José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón age 56
President - Costa Rica
Ponciano Leiva age 71
President - Honduras
Lerotholi age 57
King - Lesotho
Auguste Beernaert age 63
Prime Minister - Belgium
John Sparrow David Thompson age 47
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Stefan Stambolov age 39
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup age 68
Prime Minister - Denmark
Sándor Wekerle age 44
Prime Minister - Hungary
Richard Seddon age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 65
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Emil Stang age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Paul Eyschen age 51
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gijsbert van Tienhoven age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Sotirios Sotiropoulos age 73
Prime Minister - Greece
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 40
Prime Minister - Nepal
Lazar Dokić age 47
Prime Minister - Serbia
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Theodore Roosevelt age 34
Commissioner, United States Civil Service Commission
Adolf Hitler age 4
Albert Einstein age 14
Vladimir Lenin age 23
Mahatma Gandhi age 23
Leo Tolstoy age 64
Joseph Stalin age 14
Pablo Picasso age 11
Charlie Chaplin age 4
Winston Churchill age 18
Friedrich Nietzsche age 48
Thomas Edison age 46
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 12
Sigmund Freud age 37
Marie Curie age 25
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 11
Rabindranath Tagore age 32
Charles de Gaulle age 2
Otto von Bismarck age 78
Nikola Tesla age 36
Louis Pasteur age 70
Henry Ford age 29
Benito Mussolini age 9
Friedrich Engels age 72
Harry S. Truman age 9
Jawaharlal Nehru age 3
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 53
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 2
Woodrow Wilson age 36
John Maynard Keynes age 10
Niels Bohr age 7
Leon Trotsky age 13
Max Planck age 35
Dmitri Mendeleev age 59
Giuseppe Verdi age 79
Herbert Hoover age 18
Calvin Coolidge age 21
Alexander Graham Bell age 46
Claude Monet age 52
Ho Chi Minh age 3
Sun Yat-sen age 26
Florence Nightingale age 73
William Howard Taft age 35
Konrad Adenauer age 17
Warren G. Harding age 27
Chiang Kai-shek age 5
John XXIII age 11
Benjamin Harrison age 59
Alexander Fleming age 11
Francisco Franco age 6 months
David Ben-Gurion age 6
Josip Broz Tito age 1
Guglielmo Marconi age 19
Pius XII age 17
Pius XI age 36
Neville Chamberlain age 24
Pius X age 58
Haile Selassie age 11 months
Pierre de Coubertin age 30
Douglas MacArthur age 13
Benedict XV age 38
Erwin Rommel age 1
Carl Benz age 48
Hermann Göring age 5 months
Grigori Rasputin age 24
George V age 28
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 16
Paul von Hindenburg age 45
Edward VII age 51
Clement Attlee age 10
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 29
Harriet Tubman age 71
George C. Marshall age 12
Georges Clemenceau age 51
Empress Dowager Cixi age 57
Vyacheslav Molotov age 3