Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-76.1) - 6.5 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-54.8) - 1.5 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-50.7) - 10.7 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-16.6) - 39.6 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-16.6) - 56.6 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-13.6) - 44.7 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-8.8) - 67.2 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-5.7) - 65.0 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | (-0.5) - 3.4 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 3.4 - 11.4 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 6.6 - 6.7 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 7.2 - 98.3 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
1833 | 7.7 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 8.5 - 74.5 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 11.4 - 15.4 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
1837 | 11.7 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
1837 | 11.7 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
Oct 31, 1837 | 12.1 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 12.8 - 91.5 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
1839 - 1842 | 13.7 - 16.7 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 15.4 - 15.5 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 15.5 - 19.4 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 18.2 - 84.7 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 19.2 - 103.6 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 19.4 - 23.4 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 20.8 | Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 20.8 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 21.4 - 106.1 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 21.4 - 96.9 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
1847 | 21.8 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 21.8 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 22.4 - 24.0 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 22.5 - 23.5 | The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 23.2 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic | France |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 23.4 - 24.8 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1849 | 23.8 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
1850 | 24.8 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 24.8 - 27.4 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 25.8 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 25.8 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 25.8 | Establishment of The New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 27.2 - 44.9 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 27.4 - 31.4 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
1853 | 27.8 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 30.6 - 114.0 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 31.4 - 35.4 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 33.8 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 35.4 - 39.6 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 35.5 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 36.0 - 116.5 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 37.8 - 121.6 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 38.1 - 111.5 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 39.6 - 43.4 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 40.7 - 40.8 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 41.5 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 42.8 - 52.8 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 43.4 - 51.4 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 44.0 - 58.8 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 44.6 - 98.4 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
1870 | 44.8 | Start of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 44.8 - 45.6 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 45.3 - 62.5 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 46.1 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 49.2 - 139.4 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 50.3 - 141.6 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 51.4 - 55.5 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 52.8 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 52.8 - 55.8 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 53.3 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 53.5 - 129.6 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 53.8 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 53.8 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 53.8 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 55.2 - 55.5 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 55.5 - 56.0 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 55.9 - 129.5 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 56.0 - 59.5 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 56.8 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 56.8 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 58.3 - 138.3 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 58.8 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 59.2 - 59.4 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 59.5 - 63.5 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 60.8 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 60.8 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 61.1 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 - 1889 | 61.8 - 63.8 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1887 | 61.8 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 62.5 - 62.7 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 62.7 - 93.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 62.8 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 63.5 - 67.5 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 63.6 - 119.6 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 64.8 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 64.8 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 65.1 - 143.6 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 67.5 - 71.5 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 70.8 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 70.8 - 71.8 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 71.5 - 76.0 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 74.1 - 76.7 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 75.0 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |