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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 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 44
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
Dong Biwu age 10
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 7 months
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
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 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Harcourt age 69
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 58
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Sherman age 73
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 65
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 55
Senate - United States
John B. Gordon age 64
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 44
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 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 41
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 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 31
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
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 84
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 1
House of Representatives - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 60
House of Representatives - United States
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton age 72
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Griggs age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George S. Boutwell age 78
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 12
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 49
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 77
New York State Senate - 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 48
Prince - Monaco
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 18
Sultan - Morocco
José Evaristo Uriburu age 65
President - Argentina
Eloy Alfaro age 54
President - Ecuador
George Tupou II age 22
King - Tonga
Joaquín Crespo age 55
President - Venezuela
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 46
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 32
Sultan - Oman
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Miguel Antonio Caro age 54
President - Colombia
Ulises Heureaux age 51
President - Dominican Republic
José Santos Zelayo age 43
President - Nicaragua
Juan Bautista Egusquiza age 51
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 75
Emir - Qatar
Joseph James Cheeseman age 53
President - Liberia
Severo Fernández age 47
President - Bolivia
Policarpo Bonilla age 38
President - Honduras
Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez age 51
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 48
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 61
President - Haiti
Lerotholi age 60
King - Lesotho
Wilfrid Laurier age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Theodoros Deligiannis age 76
Prime Minister - Greece
Richard Seddon age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Konstantin Stoilov age 43
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Dezső Bánffy age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Francis Hagerup age 43
Prime Minister - Norway
Joan Röell age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 43
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow age 63
Governor-General - New Zealand
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 15
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 29
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 17
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 56
Ho Chi Minh age 6
Sun Yat-sen age 30
Florence Nightingale age 76
William Howard Taft age 39
Konrad Adenauer age 20
William McKinley age 53
Warren G. Harding age 31
Chiang Kai-shek age 9
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 11 months
Pius XI age 39
Neville Chamberlain age 27
Pius X age 61
Haile Selassie age 4
Douglas MacArthur age 16
Benedict XV age 42
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 55
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