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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 78
Queen - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 54
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 38
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 55
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 62
Monarch - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 45
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 67
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 53
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 26
Emperor - Imperial China
Félix Faure age 56
President - France
Menelik II age 53
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 23
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 45
Emperor - Korean Empire
Prudente de Morais age 56
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 67
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 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Garret Hobart age 53
Vice President - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 61
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 54
Attorney General - United States
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 66
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Lyman J. Gage age 61
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Theodore Roosevelt age 39
Assistant Secretary Of The Navy - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 45
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 34
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 37
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Leo XIII age 87
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 11
Monarch - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 17
King - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 44
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 79
Monarch - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 68
Monarch - Norway
Carol I of Romania age 58
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 57
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 80
Monarch - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 49
Prince - Monaco
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 19
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 55
President - Ecuador
George Tupou II age 23
Monarch - Tonga
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 47
President - Chile
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin age 48
Viceroy - British Raj
José Santos Zelayo age 44
President - Nicaragua
William D. Coleman age 55
President - Liberia
Isa I of Bahrain age 49
Monarch - 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
Richard Seddon age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hugo Egmont Hørring age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Nicolaas Pierson age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Paul Eyschen age 56
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Vladan Đorđević age 52
Prime Minister - Serbia
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 28
Leo Tolstoy age 69
Joseph Stalin age 18
Pablo Picasso age 16
Charlie Chaplin age 8
Winston Churchill age 22
Friedrich Nietzsche age 53
Thomas Edison age 50
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 16
Sigmund Freud age 41
Marie Curie age 30
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 41
Henry Ford age 34
Benito Mussolini age 14
Harry S. Truman age 13
Jawaharlal Nehru age 7
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 7
Woodrow Wilson age 40
John Maynard Keynes age 14
Niels Bohr age 12
Leon Trotsky age 18
Max Planck age 39
Dmitri Mendeleev age 63
Giuseppe Verdi age 84
Nikita Khrushchev age 3
Herbert Hoover age 23
Calvin Coolidge age 25
Alexander Graham Bell age 50
Claude Monet age 57
Ho Chi Minh age 7
Sun Yat-sen age 31
Florence Nightingale age 77
William Howard Taft age 40
Konrad Adenauer age 21
Grover Cleveland age 60
Warren G. Harding age 32
Joseph Goebbels age 0 months
Chiang Kai-shek age 10
John XXIII age 15
Benjamin Harrison age 64
Alexander Fleming age 16
Francisco Franco age 4
David Ben-Gurion age 11
Josip Broz Tito age 5
Guglielmo Marconi age 23
Paul VI age 1 month
Pius XII age 21
George VI age 1
Pius XI age 40
Neville Chamberlain age 28
Pius X age 62
Haile Selassie age 5
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 32
Edward VIII age 3
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 20
Paul von Hindenburg age 50
Edward VII age 56
Clement Attlee age 14
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 33
Harriet Tubman age 75
George C. Marshall age 16
Georges Clemenceau age 56
Empress Dowager Cixi age 61
William Ewart Gladstone age 87
Vyacheslav Molotov age 7
Józef Piłsudski age 29
Anthony Eden age 4 months
Philippe Pétain age 41
Emiliano Zapata age 18
Harold Macmillan age 3
Cecil Rhodes age 44
Ibn Saud age 21
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 232
António de Oliveira Salazar age 8
Juan Perón age 2
T. E. Lawrence age 9
Susan B. Anthony age 77
Ludwig Erhard age 9 months
Jomo Kenyatta age 4
Arthur Balfour age 49
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 4
Karl Dönitz age 6
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 30
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 9
Syngman Rhee age 22
Rudolf Hess age 3
George S. Patton age 11
Hideki Tojo age 12
İsmet İnönü age 13
Bernard Montgomery age 9
Gustav Stresemann age 19
Reza Shah age 19
Rajendra Prasad age 12
Alexander Kerensky age 16
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 22
Getúlio Vargas age 15
Emmeline Pankhurst age 39
Mehmed VI age 36
Ferdinand Foch age 46
H. H. Asquith age 45
Lester B. Pearson age 6 months
Felix Dzerzhinsky age 20
Raymond Poincaré age 37
Hastings Banda age 7
Friedrich Ebert age 26
Pancho Villa age 19
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 82
Trygve Lie age 1
Stanley Baldwin age 30
Isabella II age 67
Franz von Papen age 18
Ramsay MacDonald age 31
Celâl Bayar age 14
Subhas Chandra Bose age 9 months
Nestor Makhno age 9
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 28
Walter Ulbricht age 4