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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
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08

People

Queen Victoria age 81
Queen - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 57
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 41
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 58
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 65
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 48
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 70
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 30
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 29
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 61
President - France
Menelik II age 56
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 26
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 48
Emperor - Korean Empire
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 47
Shah - Iran
Campos Sales age 59
President - Brazil
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 40
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 32
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 70
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 37
President - International Olympic Committee
Itō Hirobumi age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 51
Chancellor - German Empire
Giuseppe Saracco age 79
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Halil Rifat Pasha age 73
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Peng Dehuai age 2
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 14
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 4
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 10 months
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Elihu Root age 55
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 64
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Hay age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 55
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 69
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Lyman J. Gage age 64
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 63
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John W. Griggs age 51
Attorney General - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 64
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 61
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 72
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles W. Fairbanks age 48
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 69
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 59
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 40
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 5
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 64
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theodore Roosevelt age 42
Governor of New York - United States
Winthrop M. Crane age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Walter Smith age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
Henry T. Gage age 47
Governor of California - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 60
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James Hoge Tyler age 54
Governor of Virginia - United States
George K. Nash age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Joseph D. Sayers age 59
Governor of Texas - United States
James A. Mount age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
Foster McGowan Voorhees age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Warren G. Harding age 35
Ohio Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 65
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 82
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 16
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 53
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 81
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 90
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 14
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 20
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 47
King - Thailand
Emilio Aguinaldo age 31
President - Philippines
Christian IX of Denmark age 82
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 71
King - Sweden
George Curzon age 41
Viceroy - British Raj
Carol I of Romania age 61
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 60
Emir - Afghanistan
Sobhuza II age 1
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 83
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 51
Prince - Monaco
Julio Argentino Roca age 57
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 22
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 58
President - Ecuador
Eduardo López de Romaña age 53
President - Peru
Cipriano Castro age 42
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 26
King - Tonga
Emilio Aceval age 47
President - Paraguay
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 49
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 36
Sultan - Oman
José Manuel Pando age 50
President - Bolivia
José Santos Zelayo age 47
President - Nicaragua
Walter Hauser age 63
President - Switzerland
José Manuel Marroquín age 73
President - Colombia
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 79
Emir - Qatar
Tomás Regalado age 38
President - El Salvador
William D. Coleman age 58
President - Liberia
Isa I of Bahrain age 52
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 65
President - Haiti
Terencio Sierra age 60
President - Honduras
Lerotholi age 64
King - Lesotho
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 47
Emir - Qatar
Wilfrid Laurier age 58
Prime Minister - Canada
Fredrik von Otter age 67
Prime Minister - Sweden
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 68
Prime Minister - Spain
Richard Seddon age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Georgios Theotokis age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Petre P. Carp age 63
Prime Minister - Romania
Hannibal Sehested age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Nicolaas Pierson age 61
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Paul Eyschen age 59
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Kálmán Széll age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Johannes Steen age 73
Prime Minister - Norway
Todor Ivanchov age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 47
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 54
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolf Hitler age 11
Albert Einstein age 21
Vladimir Lenin age 30
Mahatma Gandhi age 31
Leo Tolstoy age 72
Joseph Stalin age 21
Pablo Picasso age 19
Charlie Chaplin age 11
Thomas Edison age 53
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 19
Sigmund Freud age 44
Marie Curie age 32
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 18
Rabindranath Tagore age 39
Mao Zedong age 6
Charles de Gaulle age 9
Nikola Tesla age 44
Ernest Hemingway age 1
Henry Ford age 37
Benito Mussolini age 17
Harry S. Truman age 16
Jawaharlal Nehru age 10
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 10
Woodrow Wilson age 43
John Maynard Keynes age 17
Niels Bohr age 15
Leon Trotsky age 20
Max Planck age 42
Dmitri Mendeleev age 66
Giuseppe Verdi age 87
Nikita Khrushchev age 6
Herbert Hoover age 26
Calvin Coolidge age 28
Alexander Graham Bell age 53
Claude Monet age 59
Ho Chi Minh age 10
Sun Yat-sen age 33
Florence Nightingale age 80
William Howard Taft age 43
Konrad Adenauer age 24
Grover Cleveland age 63
Joseph Goebbels age 2
Chiang Kai-shek age 12
Golda Meir age 2
John XXIII age 18
Benjamin Harrison age 67
Alexander Fleming age 19
Francisco Franco age 7
David Ben-Gurion age 14
Josip Broz Tito age 8
Guglielmo Marconi age 26
Paul VI age 3
Pius XII age 24
George VI age 4
Pius XI age 43
Heinrich Himmler age 0 months
Neville Chamberlain age 31
Pius X age 65
Haile Selassie age 8
Douglas MacArthur age 20