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Events

Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
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 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31

People

Queen Victoria age 77
Queen - United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland age 59
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 37
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 54
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 61
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 43
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 66
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 52
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 25
Emperor - Imperial China
Félix Faure age 55
President - France
Menelik II age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 22
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 44
King - Joseon
Prudente de Morais age 55
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 43
Shah - Iran
Nicholas II of Russia age 28
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 66
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 33
President - International Olympic Committee
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 77
Chancellor - German Empire
Matsukata Masayoshi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Adlai Stevenson I age 61
Vice President - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 60
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 61
Secretary Of State - United States
John G. Carlisle age 62
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Judson Harmon age 50
Attorney General - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Daniel S. Lamont age 45
Secretary of War - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 50
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Lloyd George age 33
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 36
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Levi P. Morton age 72
Governor of New York - United States
Leo XIII age 86
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 10
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 16
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 43
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 78
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 67
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 57
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 56
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 79
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 47
Prince - Monaco
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 18
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 54
President - Ecuador
George Tupou II age 22
King - Tonga
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 45
President - Chile
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
José Santos Zelayo age 42
President - Nicaragua
Isa I of Bahrain age 48
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 61
President - Haiti
Lerotholi age 60
King - Lesotho
Wilfrid Laurier age 54
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Richard Seddon age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Paul Eyschen age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 43
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Theodore Roosevelt age 38
President, New York City Board of Police Commissioners
Adolf Hitler age 7
Albert Einstein age 17
Vladimir Lenin age 26
Mahatma Gandhi age 27
Leo Tolstoy age 68
Joseph Stalin age 17
Pablo Picasso age 14
Charlie Chaplin age 7
Winston Churchill age 21
Friedrich Nietzsche age 52
Thomas Edison age 49
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 15
Sigmund Freud age 40
Marie Curie age 28
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 14
Rabindranath Tagore age 35
Mao Zedong age 2
Charles de Gaulle age 5
Otto von Bismarck age 81
Nikola Tesla age 40
Henry Ford age 33
Benito Mussolini age 13
Harry S. Truman age 12
Jawaharlal Nehru age 6
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 6
Woodrow Wilson age 39
John Maynard Keynes age 13
Niels Bohr age 11
Leon Trotsky age 16
Max Planck age 38
Dmitri Mendeleev age 62
Giuseppe Verdi age 83
Nikita Khrushchev age 2
Herbert Hoover age 22
Calvin Coolidge age 24
Alexander Graham Bell age 49
Claude Monet age 55
Ho Chi Minh age 6
Sun Yat-sen age 29
Florence Nightingale age 76
William Howard Taft age 39
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 63
Alexander Fleming age 15
Francisco Franco age 3
David Ben-Gurion age 10
Josip Broz Tito age 4
Guglielmo Marconi age 22
Pius XII age 20
George VI age 10 months
Pius XI age 39
Neville Chamberlain age 27
Pius X age 61
Haile Selassie age 4
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 31
Edward VIII age 2
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 19
Paul von Hindenburg age 49
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 55
Empress Dowager Cixi age 60
William Ewart Gladstone age 86
Vyacheslav Molotov age 6
Józef Piłsudski age 28
Philippe Pétain age 40
Emiliano Zapata age 17
Harold Macmillan age 2
Cecil Rhodes age 43
Ibn Saud age 20
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 231
António de Oliveira Salazar age 7
Juan Perón age 1
T. E. Lawrence age 8
Susan B. Anthony age 76
Jomo Kenyatta age 2
Arthur Balfour age 48
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 3
Karl Dönitz age 5
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 29
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 8
Syngman Rhee age 21
Rudolf Hess age 2
George S. Patton age 10
Hideki Tojo age 11
İsmet İnönü age 12
Bernard Montgomery age 8
Gustav Stresemann age 18
Reza Shah age 18
Rajendra Prasad age 11
Alexander Kerensky age 15
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 20
Getúlio Vargas age 14
Emmeline Pankhurst age 38
Mehmed VI age 35
Ferdinand Foch age 45
H. H. Asquith age 44
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 19
Raymond Poincaré age 36
Hastings Banda age 6
Friedrich Ebert age 25
Pancho Villa age 18
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 80
Trygve Lie age 3 months
Stanley Baldwin age 29
Isabella II age 66
Franz von Papen age 16
Ramsay MacDonald age 30
Celâl Bayar age 13
Nestor Makhno age 7
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 26
Walter Ulbricht age 3
Isoroku Yamamoto age 12
Wilhelm Keitel age 14
Charles G. Dawes age 31
Éamon de Valera age 14
Alcide De Gasperi age 15
Cemal Gürsel age 1
Alexander Kolchak age 21
Aristide Briand age 34
Léon Blum age 24
Robert Schuman age 10