Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-36.7) - 19.4 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-36.7) - 36.4 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-33.8) - 24.6 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-28.9) - 47.1 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-25.9) - 44.9 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-12.9) - 78.2 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-11.6) - 54.3 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-7.3) - 71.3 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-1.9) - 64.6 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-0.9) - 83.4 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | (-0.7) - 3.3 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 0.6 | Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 0.6 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 1.2 - 86.0 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 1.3 - 76.7 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
1847 | 1.6 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 1.6 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 2.3 - 3.9 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 2.4 - 3.4 | The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 3.0 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic | France |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 3.3 - 4.6 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1849 | 3.6 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
1850 | 4.6 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 4.6 - 7.3 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 5.6 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 5.6 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 5.6 | Establishment of The New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 7.0 - 24.8 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 7.3 - 11.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
1853 | 7.6 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 10.5 - 93.9 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 11.3 - 15.3 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 13.6 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 15.3 - 19.4 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 15.3 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 15.9 - 96.4 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 17.7 - 101.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 17.9 - 91.4 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 19.4 - 23.3 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 20.6 - 20.7 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 21.3 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 22.6 - 32.6 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 23.3 - 31.3 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 23.8 - 38.6 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 24.4 - 78.2 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
1870 | 24.6 | Start of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 24.7 - 25.5 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 25.2 - 42.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 26.0 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 29.0 - 119.3 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 30.1 - 121.5 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 31.3 - 35.3 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 32.6 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 32.6 - 35.6 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 33.1 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 33.3 - 109.5 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 33.6 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 33.6 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 33.6 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 35.1 - 35.4 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 35.3 - 35.9 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 35.7 - 109.4 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 35.9 - 39.3 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 36.6 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 36.6 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 38.2 - 118.1 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 38.6 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 39.0 - 39.3 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 39.3 - 43.3 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 40.6 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 40.6 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 41.0 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 - 1889 | 41.6 - 43.6 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1887 | 41.6 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 42.3 - 42.6 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 42.6 - 73.0 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 42.6 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 43.3 - 47.3 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 43.4 - 99.5 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 44.6 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 44.6 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 44.9 - 123.4 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 47.3 - 51.3 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 50.6 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 50.6 - 51.6 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 51.3 - 55.9 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 53.9 - 56.6 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 54.8 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 55.9 - 63.3 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 55.9 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 56.1 - 121.1 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 57.6 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 58.1 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 58.6 - 62.6 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 60.4 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 61.6 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 62.9 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 62.9 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 63.3 - 67.3 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 63.6 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 30, 1911 | 65.6 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 65.6 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 66.0 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 67.3 - 75.3 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 68.6 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 68.6 - 73.0 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 68.8 - 73.1 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 68.9 - 69.7 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 68.9 - 69.0 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 70.5 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 70.7 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 71.3 - 71.4 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 71.6 - 118.1 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 71.7 - 77.7 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 72.0 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 73.0 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 73.3 - 79.3 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 73.3 - 73.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 73.5 - 73.8 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 73.7 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 73.8 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 73.9 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 75.3 - 77.7 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 76.1 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 77.0 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 77.7 - 83.3 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 77.8 - 78.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 77.9 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 79.5 - 88.8 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 82.6 - 122.0 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 82.7 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 83.2 - 122.5 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 83.3 - 87.3 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 84.0 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 84.2 - 85.5 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 84.4 - 86.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 84.8 - 166.9 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 85.5 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 85.7 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 86.1 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 86.6 - 87.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 87.1 - 87.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 87.3 - 99.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 87.3 - 87.4 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 87.3 - 99.5 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 89.7 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 91.1 - 106.3 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 91.5 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 91.7 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 93.8 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 93.8 - 99.8 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 94.5 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 96.1 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 99.5 - 107.2 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 99.5 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 99.5 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 99.8 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |