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Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey, usually referred to as the Prince of Hohenlohe, was a German statesman, who served as the i…
Chlodwig Carl Viktor, German prince and chancellor (born 1819)
Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for al…
Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (born 1841)
Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent…
Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (born 1827)
William Cosmo Monkhouse was a British poet and critic.
William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (born 1840)
Victoria, Princess Royal was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and …
Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and German Empress (born 1840)
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held …
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (born 1832)
Achille Edmond Audran was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas.
Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (born 1842)
Evelyn Abbott was an English writer and classical scholar. He is best known for his book History of Greece, which includes a sceptical viewpoint of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. He is…
Evelyn Abbott, English classical scholar (born 1843)
Ignacij Klemenčič was a Carniolan (Slovenian) physicist.
Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (born 1853)
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the …
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (born 1864)
Abdur Rahman Khan Barakzai, also known by his epithet as the Iron Emir, was Emir of Afghanistan from 11 August 1880 until his death on 1 October 1901. He is known for uniting the c…
Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan emir (born 1844)
Lorenzo Snow was an American religious leader who served as the fifth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1898 until his death. Snow was the last pres…
Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1814)
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was the fifth Qajar shah of Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. He is often credited with the creation of the Persian Constitution of 1906,…
Mozaffar ad-Din (pictured), Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to William Knox
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Re…
William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (born 1843)
General Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle was a British Army officer best known for his travels through the United States during the American Civil War. Whilst holding the rank of "C…
Arthur Fremantle, English general and politician, Governor of Malta (born 1835)
Carl Frederik Tietgen was a Danish financier and industrialist. He played an important role in the industrialisation of Denmark as the founder of numerous prominent Danish companie…
Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman and philanthropist, founded GN Store Nord (born 1829)
Leon Frank Czolgosz was an American wireworker, anarchist, and murderer who assassinated United States president William McKinley in 1901. Czolgosz had lost his job during the econ…
Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (born 1873)
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was the fifth Qajar shah of Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. He is often credited with the creation of the Persian Constitution of 1906,…
Mozaffar ad-Din, Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to businessman William Knox
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) was an American labor union formed in 1876 to represent iron and steel workers. It partnered with the Steel Workers Organizin…
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers began an ultimately unsuccessful strike to reverse its…
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt…
U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon…
The Royal Exhibition Building is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, built in 1879–1880 as part of the international exhibition movement, whi…
At the Royal Exhibition Building (pictured) in Melbourne, the flag of Australia flew for the first time.
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Re…
U.S. president William McKinley was fatally shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,…
The Eight-Nation Alliance was a multinational military coalition that invaded northern China in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, with the stated aim of relieving the foreign legati…
With Beijing occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer…
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt…
Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days…