Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-57.4) - 15.8 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-54.4) - 3.9 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-49.6) - 26.4 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-46.5) - 24.2 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-33.6) - 57.5 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-32.3) - 33.7 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-28.0) - 50.7 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-22.6) - 43.9 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-21.6) - 62.8 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-19.4) - 65.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-19.3) - 56.1 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | (-13.6) - 4.1 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-10.2) - 73.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-4.8) - 75.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-2.9) - 80.8 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-2.7) - 70.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | (-1.2) - 2.6 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | (-0.1) - 0.0 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 0.6 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 2.0 - 12.0 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 2.6 - 10.6 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 3.1 - 18.0 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 3.8 - 57.5 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
1870 | 4.0 | Start of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 4.0 - 4.8 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 4.5 - 21.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 5.3 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 8.4 - 98.6 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 9.5 - 100.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 10.6 - 14.6 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 12.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 12.0 - 15.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 12.5 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 12.7 - 88.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 13.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 13.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 13.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 14.4 - 14.7 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 14.6 - 15.2 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 15.1 - 88.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 15.2 - 18.6 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 16.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 16.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 17.5 - 97.5 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 18.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 18.3 - 18.6 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 18.6 - 22.6 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 20.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 20.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 20.3 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 - 1889 | 21.0 - 23.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1887 | 21.0 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 21.7 - 21.9 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 21.9 - 52.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 22.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 22.6 - 26.6 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 22.8 - 78.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 24.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 24.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 24.3 - 102.8 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 26.6 - 30.6 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 30.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 30.0 - 31.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 30.6 - 35.2 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 33.3 - 35.9 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 34.2 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 35.2 - 42.7 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 35.3 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 35.4 - 100.5 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 36.9 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 37.4 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 38.0 - 42.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 39.8 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 41.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 42.2 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 42.2 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 42.7 - 46.7 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 43.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 30, 1911 | 44.9 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 44.9 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 45.3 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 46.7 - 54.7 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 47.9 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 48.0 - 52.4 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 48.1 - 52.4 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 48.2 - 49.0 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 48.3 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 49.8 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 50.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 50.7 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 50.9 - 97.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 51.0 - 57.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 51.3 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 52.3 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 52.6 - 58.7 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 52.6 - 53.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 52.8 - 53.1 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 53.0 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 53.1 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 53.2 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 54.7 - 57.1 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 55.4 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 56.3 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 57.1 - 62.7 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 57.1 - 57.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 57.2 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 58.9 - 68.1 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 61.9 - 101.3 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 62.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 62.5 - 101.8 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 62.7 - 66.7 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 63.3 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 63.6 - 64.8 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 63.7 - 65.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 64.1 - 146.2 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 64.8 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 65.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |