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Events

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916

People

Queen Victoria age 76
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 59
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 37
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 53
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 60
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 43
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 65
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 52
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 24
Emperor - Imperial China
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 64
Shah - Iran
Félix Faure age 55
President - France
Menelik II age 51
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 21
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 43
King - Joseon
Prudente de Morais age 54
President - Brazil
Nicholas II of Russia age 27
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 65
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Itō Hirobumi age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 77
Chancellor - German Empire
Demetrios Vikelas age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Adlai Stevenson I age 60
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu age 10
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Joseph Chamberlain age 59
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 51
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Richard Olney age 60
Secretary of State - United States
John G. Carlisle age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 64
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 50
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 45
Secretary of War - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 48
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 57
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
William Howard Taft age 38
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John Sherman age 72
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 64
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 54
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 64
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 6
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 83
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 8 months
House of Representatives - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 59
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton age 71
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Griggs age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George S. Boutwell age 78
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 11
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 48
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 76
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 86
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 9
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 15
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 42
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 77
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 67
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 56
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 56
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 78
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 47
Prince - Monaco
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 18
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 53
President - Ecuador
George Tupou II age 21
King - Tonga
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
José Santos Zelayo age 42
President - Nicaragua
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 75
Emir - Qatar
Isa I of Bahrain age 48
Hakim - Bahrain
Lerotholi age 60
King - Lesotho
Erik Gustaf Boström age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Theodoros Deligiannis age 76
Prime Minister - Greece
Richard Seddon age 50
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Paul Eyschen age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Francis Hagerup age 43
Prime Minister - Norway
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 43
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Theodore Roosevelt age 37
President, New York City Board of Police Commissioners
Adolf Hitler age 6
Albert Einstein age 17
Vladimir Lenin age 25
Mahatma Gandhi age 26
Leo Tolstoy age 67
Joseph Stalin age 17
Pablo Picasso age 14
Charlie Chaplin age 6
Winston Churchill age 21
Friedrich Nietzsche age 51
Thomas Edison age 49
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 15
Sigmund Freud age 39
Marie Curie age 28
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 14
Rabindranath Tagore age 34
Mao Zedong age 2
Charles de Gaulle age 5
Otto von Bismarck age 81
Nikola Tesla age 39
Henry Ford age 32
Benito Mussolini age 12
Harry S. Truman age 11
Jawaharlal Nehru age 6
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 5
Woodrow Wilson age 39
John Maynard Keynes age 12
Niels Bohr age 10
Leon Trotsky age 16
Max Planck age 37
Dmitri Mendeleev age 62
Giuseppe Verdi age 82
Nikita Khrushchev age 1
Herbert Hoover age 21
Calvin Coolidge age 23
Alexander Graham Bell age 49
Claude Monet age 55
Ho Chi Minh age 5
Sun Yat-sen age 29
Florence Nightingale age 75
Konrad Adenauer age 20
William McKinley age 53
Warren G. Harding age 30
Chiang Kai-shek age 8
John XXIII age 14
Benjamin Harrison age 62
Alexander Fleming age 14
Francisco Franco age 3
David Ben-Gurion age 9
Josip Broz Tito age 3
Guglielmo Marconi age 21
Pius XII age 20
George VI age 3 months
Pius XI age 38
Neville Chamberlain age 27
Pius X age 60
Haile Selassie age 3
Pierre de Coubertin age 33
Douglas MacArthur age 16
Benedict XV age 41
Erwin Rommel age 4
Carl Benz age 51
Hermann Göring age 3
Grigori Rasputin age 27
George V age 30
Edward VIII age 1
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 19
Paul von Hindenburg age 48
Edward VII age 54
Clement Attlee age 13
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 32
Harriet Tubman age 74
George C. Marshall age 15
Georges Clemenceau age 54
Empress Dowager Cixi age 60
William Ewart Gladstone age 86
Vyacheslav Molotov age 6
Józef Piłsudski age 28
Philippe Pétain age 39
Emiliano Zapata age 16
Harold Macmillan age 2
Cecil Rhodes age 42
Ibn Saud age 20
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 231
António de Oliveira Salazar age 6
Juan Perón age 5 months
T. E. Lawrence age 7
Susan B. Anthony age 76
Jomo Kenyatta age 2
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 2
Karl Dönitz age 4
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 28
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 7
Syngman Rhee age 20
Rudolf Hess age 1
George S. Patton age 10
Hideki Tojo age 11