Mahdist War 1881–1899

Egypt, British Empire, Kingdom of Italy, Belgium, Ethiopian Empire ⚔ Muhammad Ahmad, Sudan

Key battles

• Siege of Khartoum (1884)
• Battle of Abu Klea (1885)
• Battle of Omdurman (1898)

Who lived through the Mahdist War

Well-known people alive during 1881–1899:

• Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) — dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
• Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
• Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) — Dutch painter (1853–1890)
• Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
• Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) — English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
• Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) — German philosopher (1844-1900)
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
• Mark Twain (1835–1910) — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
• Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) — president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
• Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) — Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
• Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) — Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
• Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
• Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

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