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Events

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
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Siege of Port Arthur 1904-08-01 - 1905-01-02

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 46
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 45
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 63
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 62
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 69
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 52
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 74
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 35
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 33
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 66
President - France
Menelik II age 60
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 30
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 52
Emperor - Korean Empire
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 51
Shah - Iran
Rodrigues Alves age 56
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 69
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 45
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 36
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 74
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 42
President - International Olympic Committee
Arthur Balfour age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 55
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Giolitti age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Howard Taft age 47
Secretary of War - United States
John Hay age 66
Secretary Of State - United States
Adna Chaffee age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William Henry Moody age 51
Attorney General - United States
L. M. Shaw age 56
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 68
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles W. Fairbanks age 52
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 30
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 41
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Curtis age 44
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Pius X age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 18
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 24
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 51
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 86
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 75
King - Sweden
George Curzon age 45
Viceroy - British Raj
Carol I of Romania age 65
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 5
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 87
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 56
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 32
Emir - Afghanistan
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 26
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 48
President - Uruguay
Manuel Quintana age 69
President - Argentina
Cipriano Castro age 46
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 30
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 64
King - Cambodia
Germán Riesco age 50
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 40
President - Peru
Arthur Barclay age 50
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 51
President - Nicaragua
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 43
President - Bolivia
Leónidas Plaza age 39
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 84
President - Haiti
Robert Comtesse age 57
President - Switzerland
Juan Bautista Gaona age 59
President - Paraguay
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 60
President - Costa Rica
Pedro José Escalón age 57
President - El Salvador
Manuel Bonilla age 55
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 57
Hakim - Bahrain
Lerotholi age 69
King - Lesotho
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 52
Emir - Qatar
Rafael Reyes age 55
President - Colombia
Wilfrid Laurier age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Nikola Pašić age 59
Prime Minister - Serbia
George Reid age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Abraham Kuyper age 67
Prime Minister - Netherlands
István Tisza age 43
Prime Minister - Hungary
Erik Gustaf Boström age 62
Prime Minister - Sweden
Augusto Leguía age 41
Prime Minister - Peru
Hannes Hafstein age 43
Prime Minister - Iceland
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero age 72
Prime Minister - Spain
Dimitrie Sturdza age 71
Prime Minister - Romania
Theodoros Deligiannis age 85
Prime Minister - Greece
Richard Seddon age 59
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 59
Prime Minister - Denmark
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 72
Prime Minister - Romania
Racho Petrov age 43
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 63
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 61
Prime Minister - Belgium
Francis Hagerup age 51
Prime Minister - Norway
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 59
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 58
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 15
Albert Einstein age 25
Vladimir Lenin age 34
Mahatma Gandhi age 35
Leo Tolstoy age 76
Joseph Stalin age 26
Pablo Picasso age 23
Charlie Chaplin age 15
Thomas Edison age 57
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 23
Sigmund Freud age 48
Marie Curie age 37
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 22
Rabindranath Tagore age 43
Mao Zedong age 11
Charles de Gaulle age 14
Nikola Tesla age 48
Walt Disney age 3
George Orwell age 1
Ernest Hemingway age 5
Henry Ford age 41
Benito Mussolini age 21
Harry S. Truman age 20
Jawaharlal Nehru age 15
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 14
Woodrow Wilson age 48
John Maynard Keynes age 21
Niels Bohr age 19
Leon Trotsky age 25
Max Planck age 46
Dmitri Mendeleev age 70
Enrico Fermi age 3
Nikita Khrushchev age 10
Herbert Hoover age 30
Calvin Coolidge age 32
Alexander Graham Bell age 57
Hirohito age 3
Claude Monet age 64
Ho Chi Minh age 14
Sun Yat-sen age 38
Florence Nightingale age 84
Konrad Adenauer age 28
Grover Cleveland age 67
Warren G. Harding age 39
Joseph Goebbels age 7
Chiang Kai-shek age 17
Golda Meir age 6
John XXIII age 23
Deng Xiaoping age 4 months
Alexander Fleming age 23
Francisco Franco age 12
David Ben-Gurion age 18
Ruhollah Khomeini age 2
Josip Broz Tito age 12
Guglielmo Marconi age 30
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 8 months
Sukarno age 3
Paul VI age 7
Pius XII age 28
John von Neumann age 12 months
George VI age 9
Pius XI age 47
Heinrich Himmler age 4
Neville Chamberlain age 35
Haile Selassie age 12
Douglas MacArthur age 24
Benedict XV age 50
Erwin Rommel age 13
Carl Benz age 60
Hermann Göring age 11
Grigori Rasputin age 35
George V age 39
Edward VIII age 10
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 28
Paul von Hindenburg age 57
Clement Attlee age 21
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 41
Harriet Tubman age 82
George C. Marshall age 24
Georges Clemenceau age 63
Empress Dowager Cixi age 69
Zhou Enlai age 6
Vyacheslav Molotov age 14
Józef Piłsudski age 37
Anthony Eden age 7
Philippe Pétain age 48
Emiliano Zapata age 25
Harold Macmillan age 10
Ibn Saud age 29
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 240
António de Oliveira Salazar age 15
Juan Perón age 9
T. E. Lawrence age 16
Susan B. Anthony age 84
Ludwig Erhard age 7
Jomo Kenyatta age 11
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 11
Karl Dönitz age 13
Fulgencio Batista age 3
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 37
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 16
Syngman Rhee age 29
Rudolf Hess age 10
George S. Patton age 19