Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-42.3) - 13.8 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-42.3) - 30.9 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-39.3) - 19.0 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-34.5) - 41.5 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-31.4) - 39.3 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-18.5) - 72.6 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-17.2) - 48.7 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-12.9) - 65.8 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-7.5) - 59.0 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-6.5) - 77.8 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-4.3) - 80.4 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-4.2) - 71.2 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | (-0.9) - 1.7 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 0.0 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 0.0 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 0.0 | Establishment of The New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 1.5 - 19.2 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 1.7 - 5.7 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
1853 | 2.0 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 4.9 - 88.3 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 5.7 - 9.7 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 8.0 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 9.7 - 13.8 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 9.8 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 10.3 - 90.8 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 12.1 - 95.9 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 12.3 - 85.8 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 13.8 - 17.7 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 15.0 - 15.1 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 15.7 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 17.0 - 27.1 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 17.7 - 25.7 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 18.2 - 33.1 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 18.9 - 72.6 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
1870 | 19.0 | Start of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 19.1 - 19.9 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 19.6 - 36.8 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 20.4 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 23.5 - 113.7 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 24.6 - 115.9 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 25.7 - 29.7 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 27.1 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 27.1 - 30.1 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 27.6 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 27.8 - 103.9 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 28.1 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 28.1 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 28.1 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 29.5 - 29.8 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 29.7 - 30.3 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 30.2 - 103.8 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 30.3 - 33.7 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 31.1 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 31.1 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 32.6 - 112.6 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 33.1 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 33.4 - 33.7 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 33.7 - 37.7 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 35.1 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 35.1 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 35.4 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 - 1889 | 36.1 - 38.1 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1887 | 36.1 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 36.8 - 37.0 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 37.0 - 67.4 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 37.1 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 37.7 - 41.7 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 37.9 - 93.9 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 39.1 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 39.1 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 39.4 - 117.9 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 41.7 - 45.7 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 45.1 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 45.1 - 46.1 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 45.7 - 50.3 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 48.3 - 51.0 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 49.3 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 50.3 - 57.7 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 50.4 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 50.5 - 115.6 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 52.0 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 52.5 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 53.1 - 57.1 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 54.9 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 56.1 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 57.3 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 57.3 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 57.7 - 61.8 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 58.1 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 30, 1911 | 60.0 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 60.0 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 60.4 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 61.8 - 69.8 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |