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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Caste War of Yucatán 1847-07-30 - 1915-01-01
Apache Wars 1849 - 1924
Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Banana Wars 1898 - 1934
Dervish War 1900 - 1920
French conquest of Morocco 1907 - 1937
Russian occupation of Tabriz 1909-04-30 - 1918-02-28
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Rif War 1911-06-08 - 1927-07-08
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24
U-boat campaign 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I 1914-08 - 1918-11-11
East African campaign (World War I) 1914-08-03 - 1918-11-25
German invasion of Belgium (1914) 1914-08-04 - 1914-10-31
Battle of Liège 1914-08-05 - 1914-08-16

People

Woodrow Wilson age 57
President - United States
Nicholas II of Russia age 46
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm II age 55
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 49
King - United Kingdom
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 84
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Raymond Poincaré age 53
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 44
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 34
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 69
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Albert I of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Yuan Shikai age 54
President - Republic of China
Abbas II of Egypt age 40
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 16
Shah - Iran
Hermes da Fonseca age 59
President - Brazil
Francisco S. Carvajal age 43
President - Mexico
Lij Iyasu age 19
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mario García Menocal age 47
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 54
President - Guatemala
Pierre de Coubertin age 51
President - International Olympic Committee
H. H. Asquith age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 57
Chancellor - German Empire
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 76
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Salandra age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
René Viviani age 50
Prime Minister - France
Louis Botha age 51
Prime Minister - South Africa
Hsu Shih-chang age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Edward Douglass White age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 60
Vice President - United States
Said Halim Pasha age 50
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Deng Xiaoping age 9
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 15
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 28
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 12
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 18
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 14
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 64
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 54
Secretary of State - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Reginald McKenna age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Lindley Miller Garrison age 49
Secretary of War - United States
James Clark McReynolds age 52
Attorney General - United States
William Wallace Wotherspoon age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt age 51
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 55
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 50
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Griffith age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 69
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
William R. Day age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Langalibalele Dube age 43
President - African National Congress
Joseph McKenna age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Masterman age 40
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John W. Davis age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 32
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Elihu Root age 69
Senate - United States
John W. Weeks age 54
Senate - United States
Arthur Balfour age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley age 36
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 56
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. Mitchell Palmer age 42
House of Representatives - United States
J. R. Clynes age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 19
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Shortt age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hiram Johnson age 47
Governor of California - United States
James M. Cox age 44
Governor of Ohio - United States
Phillips Lee Goldsborough age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
David I. Walsh age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Oscar Branch Colquitt age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
Samuel M. Ralston age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Washington Hays age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry Carter Stuart age 59
Governor of Virginia - United States
Martin H. Glynn age 42
Governor of New York - United States
Ben W. Hooper age 43
Governor of Tennessee - United States
James Fairman Fielder age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John M. Slaton age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Richard Olney age 78
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 29
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 67
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Pius X age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 38
Emir - Emirate of Nejd and Hasa
Alfonso XIII age 28
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 33
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 42
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 43
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 75
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh age 33
King - Thailand
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 69
King of Bavaria - Kingdom of Bavaria
Sobhuza II age 15
King - Eswatini
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 20
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 65
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 42
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 52
King - Bhutan
Frederick Augustus III of Saxony age 49
King of Saxony - Kingdom of Saxony
William, Prince of Albania age 38
King - Albania
Roque Sáenz Peña age 63
President - Argentina
Yusef of Morocco age 32
Sultan - Morocco
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse age 45
Grand Duke of Hesse - Grand Duchy of Hesse
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 58
President - Uruguay
Frederick II of Baden age 57
Grand Duke of Baden - Grand Duchy of Baden
Manuel de Arriaga age 74
President - Portugal
Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg age 61
Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Oldenburg
Óscar R. Benavides age 38
President - Peru
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 28
Sultan - Oman
George Tupou II age 40
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 73
King - Cambodia
Ramón Barros Luco age 79
President - Chile
Charles Hardinge age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Adolfo Díaz age 39
President - Nicaragua
Eduardo Schaerer age 40
President - Paraguay
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 55
Provisional President - Venezuela
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 52
President - Bolivia
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 59
Emir - Qatar
Leónidas Plaza age 49
President - Ecuador
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo age 46
President - Colombia
Khalifa bin Harub age 34
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Arthur Hoffmann age 57
President - Switzerland
Daniel Edward Howard age 53
President - Liberia
Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak age 85
Rajah of Sarawak - Raj of Sarawak
Alfredo González Flores age 37
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Bertrand age 47
President - Honduras
Carlos Meléndez Ramírez age 53
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 66
Hakim - Bahrain
Oreste Zamor age 53
President - Haiti
Yuhi V Musinga age 31
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
José Bordas Valdés age 40
President - Dominican Republic
Mutaga IV of Burundi age 22
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 28
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Eleftherios Venizelos age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Joseph Cook age 53
Prime Minister - Australia
Robert Borden age 60
Prime Minister - Canada
István Tisza age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Eduardo Dato age 58
Prime Minister - Spain
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 49
Prime Minister - Romania
Gunnar Knudsen age 65
Prime Minister - Norway
Ivan Goremykin age 74
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Vasil Radoslavov age 60
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Charles de Broqueville age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Sigurður Eggerz age 39
Prime Minister - Iceland
Turhan Përmeti age 67
Prime Minister - Albania
Pieter Cort van der Linden age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Paul Eyschen age 72
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Janko Vukotić age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Massey age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Risto Popović age 43
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 51
Prime Minister - Nepal
Tevita Tuʻivakano age 44
Prime Minister - Tonga
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 54
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 25
Albert Einstein age 35
Ronald Reagan age 3
Vladimir Lenin age 44
Mahatma Gandhi age 44
Joseph Stalin age 35
Pablo Picasso age 32
Charlie Chaplin age 25
Thomas Edison age 67
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 33
Sigmund Freud age 58
Marie Curie age 46
Rabindranath Tagore age 53
Mao Zedong age 20
Charles de Gaulle age 23
Nikola Tesla age 58
Walt Disney age 12
George Orwell age 11
Ernest Hemingway age 15
Henry Ford age 51