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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 78
Queen - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 54
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 38
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 54
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 62
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 44
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 66
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 53
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 25
Emperor - Imperial China
Félix Faure age 56
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 44
Shah - Iran
Nicholas II of Russia age 29
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 66
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 34
President - International Olympic Committee
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 67
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 78
Chancellor - German Empire
Matsukata Masayoshi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Garret Hobart age 52
Vice President - United States
Dong Biwu age 11
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 1
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
John Sherman age 74
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 52
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Russell A. Alger age 61
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph McKenna age 53
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Lyman J. Gage age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
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
Theodore Roosevelt age 38
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 45
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 66
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 55
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 34
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 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 37
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 7
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 39
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 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 85
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
John W. Griggs age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard Olney age 61
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 79
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 87
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 11
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 16
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 43
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 79
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 68
King - Sweden
Carol I of Romania age 58
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 57
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 19
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 48
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 76
Emir - Qatar
William D. Coleman age 54
President - Liberia
Severo Fernández age 47
President - Bolivia
Policarpo Bonilla age 39
President - Honduras
Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez age 51
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 49
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 62
President - Haiti
Lerotholi age 61
King - Lesotho
Wilfrid Laurier age 55
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dimitrie Sturdza age 64
Prime Minister - Romania
Tage Reedtz-Thott age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Richard Seddon age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Dimitrios Rallis age 53
Prime Minister - Greece
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 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Francis Hagerup age 44
Prime Minister - Norway
Joan Röell age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 44
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 51
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolf Hitler age 8
Albert Einstein age 18
Vladimir Lenin age 27
Mahatma Gandhi age 27
Leo Tolstoy age 68
Joseph Stalin age 18
Pablo Picasso age 15
Charlie Chaplin age 8
Winston Churchill age 22
Friedrich Nietzsche age 52
Thomas Edison age 50
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 16
Sigmund Freud age 41
Marie Curie age 29
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 15
Rabindranath Tagore age 36
Mao Zedong age 3
Charles de Gaulle age 6
Otto von Bismarck age 82
Nikola Tesla age 40
Henry Ford age 33
Benito Mussolini age 13
Harry S. Truman age 13
Jawaharlal Nehru age 7
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 6
Woodrow Wilson age 40
John Maynard Keynes age 13
Niels Bohr age 11
Leon Trotsky age 17
Max Planck age 39
Dmitri Mendeleev age 63
Giuseppe Verdi age 83
Nikita Khrushchev age 3
Herbert Hoover age 22
Calvin Coolidge age 24
Alexander Graham Bell age 50
Claude Monet age 56
Ho Chi Minh age 7
Sun Yat-sen age 30
Florence Nightingale age 77
William Howard Taft age 39
Konrad Adenauer age 21
Grover Cleveland age 60
Warren G. Harding age 31
Chiang Kai-shek age 9
John XXIII age 15
Benjamin Harrison age 63
Alexander Fleming age 15
Francisco Franco age 4
David Ben-Gurion age 10
Josip Broz Tito age 5
Guglielmo Marconi age 23
Pius XII age 21
George VI age 1
Pius XI age 39
Neville Chamberlain age 28
Pius X age 62
Haile Selassie age 4
Douglas MacArthur age 17
Benedict XV age 42
Erwin Rommel age 5
Carl Benz age 52
Hermann Göring age 4
Grigori Rasputin age 28
George V age 31
Edward VIII age 2
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 20
Paul von Hindenburg age 49
Edward VII age 55
Clement Attlee age 14
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 33
Harriet Tubman age 75
George C. Marshall age 16
Georges Clemenceau age 55
Empress Dowager Cixi age 61
William Ewart Gladstone age 87
Vyacheslav Molotov age 7
Józef Piłsudski age 29
Philippe Pétain age 41
Emiliano Zapata age 17
Harold Macmillan age 3
Cecil Rhodes age 43