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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
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12

People

Queen Victoria age 75
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 57
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 35
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 52
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 59
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 42
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 64
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 50
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 23
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 63
Shah - Iran
Menelik II age 50
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jean Casimir-Perier age 47
President - France
Abbas II of Egypt age 20
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 42
King - Joseon
Prudente de Morais age 53
President - Brazil
Nicholas II of Russia age 26
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 64
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Itō Hirobumi age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 75
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 59
President - International Olympic Committee
Francesco Crispi age 76
Prime Minister - Italy
Nubar Pasha age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Adlai Stevenson I age 59
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu age 8
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
H. H. Asquith age 42
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 58
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Walter Q. Gresham age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Richard Olney age 59
Attorney General - United States
John G. Carlisle age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Harcourt age 67
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Arthur Balfour age 46
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 64
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Edward Douglass White age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Sherman age 71
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 63
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 62
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 85
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 35
House of Representatives - United States
William Jennings Bryan age 34
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 82
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Daniel Sickles age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 58
House of Representatives - United States
William McKinley age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Levi P. Morton age 70
Governor of New York - United States
George S. Boutwell age 77
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 10
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 47
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 84
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 8
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 14
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 41
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 76
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 66
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 55
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 55
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 77
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 46
Prince - Monaco
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 16
Sultan - Morocco
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 58
President - Peru
Luis Sáenz Peña age 72
President - Argentina
George Tupou II age 20
King - Tonga
Joaquín Crespo age 53
President - Venezuela
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 30
Sultan - Oman
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Miguel Antonio Caro age 52
President - Colombia
Jorge Montt age 49
President - Chile
Ulises Heureaux age 49
President - Dominican Republic
Luis Cordero Crespo age 61
President - Ecuador
José Santos Zelayo age 41
President - Nicaragua
Mariano Baptista age 62
President - Bolivia
Juan Bautista Egusquiza age 49
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 74
Emir - Qatar
Florvil Hyppolite age 66
President - Haiti
Joseph James Cheeseman age 51
President - Liberia
Policarpo Bonilla age 36
President - Honduras
Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez age 49
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 47
Hakim - Bahrain
Lerotholi age 59
King - Lesotho
Mackenzie Bowell age 71
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dimitrie Sturdza age 61
Prime Minister - Romania
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Richard Seddon age 49
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rainilaiarivony age 67
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Konstantin Stoilov age 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Emil Stang age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Paul Eyschen age 53
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Jules de Burlet age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dezső Bánffy age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Joan Röell age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 42
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow age 61
Governor-General - New Zealand
Theodore Roosevelt age 36
Commissioner, United States Civil Service Commission
Adolf Hitler age 5
Albert Einstein age 15
Vladimir Lenin age 24
Mahatma Gandhi age 25
Leo Tolstoy age 66
Joseph Stalin age 16
Pablo Picasso age 13
Charlie Chaplin age 5
Winston Churchill age 20
Friedrich Nietzsche age 50
Thomas Edison age 47
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 14
Sigmund Freud age 38
Marie Curie age 27
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 12
Rabindranath Tagore age 33
Mao Zedong age 1
Charles de Gaulle age 4
Otto von Bismarck age 79
Nikola Tesla age 38
Louis Pasteur age 72
Henry Ford age 31
Benito Mussolini age 11
Friedrich Engels age 74
Harry S. Truman age 10
Jawaharlal Nehru age 5
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 4
Woodrow Wilson age 38
John Maynard Keynes age 11
Niels Bohr age 9
Leon Trotsky age 15
Max Planck age 36
Dmitri Mendeleev age 60
Giuseppe Verdi age 81
Nikita Khrushchev age 9 months
Herbert Hoover age 20
Calvin Coolidge age 22
Alexander Graham Bell age 47
Claude Monet age 54
Ho Chi Minh age 4
Sun Yat-sen age 28
Florence Nightingale age 74
William Howard Taft age 37
Konrad Adenauer age 19
Warren G. Harding age 29
Chiang Kai-shek age 7
John XXIII age 13
Benjamin Harrison age 61
Alexander Fleming age 13
Francisco Franco age 2
David Ben-Gurion age 8
Josip Broz Tito age 2
Guglielmo Marconi age 20
Pius XII age 18
Pius XI age 37
Neville Chamberlain age 25
Pius X age 59
Haile Selassie age 2
Pierre de Coubertin age 32
Douglas MacArthur age 14
Benedict XV age 40
Erwin Rommel age 3
Carl Benz age 50
Hermann Göring age 2
Grigori Rasputin age 26
George V age 29
Edward VIII age 6 months
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 18
Paul von Hindenburg age 47
Edward VII age 53
Clement Attlee age 12
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 31
Harriet Tubman age 72
George C. Marshall age 14
Georges Clemenceau age 53
Empress Dowager Cixi age 59
Vyacheslav Molotov age 4