Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-68.1) - 5.1 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-60.2) - 15.7 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-57.2) - 13.5 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-44.2) - 46.8 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-43.0) - 23.0 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-38.7) - 40.0 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-33.2) - 33.2 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-32.3) - 52.1 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-30.1) - 54.6 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-30.0) - 45.4 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-20.8) - 62.6 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-15.4) - 65.0 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-13.6) - 70.1 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-13.4) - 60.0 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
1868 - 1878 | (-8.7) - 1.3 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | (-8.0) - 0.0 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | (-7.5) - 7.3 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-6.8) - 46.9 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | (-6.1) - 11.0 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-2.2) - 87.9 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-1.1) - 90.2 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 0.0 - 4.0 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 1.3 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 1.3 - 4.3 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 1.8 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 2.0 - 78.1 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 2.3 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 2.3 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 2.3 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 3.8 - 4.0 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 4.0 - 4.5 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 4.4 - 78.0 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 4.5 - 8.0 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 5.3 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 5.3 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 6.9 - 86.8 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 7.3 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 7.7 - 8.0 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 8.0 - 12.0 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 9.3 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 9.3 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 9.6 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 - 1889 | 10.3 - 12.3 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1887 | 10.3 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 11.0 - 11.3 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 11.3 - 41.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 11.3 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 12.0 - 16.0 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 12.1 - 68.2 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 13.3 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 13.3 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 13.6 - 92.1 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 16.0 - 20.0 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 19.3 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 19.3 - 20.3 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 20.0 - 24.5 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 22.6 - 25.2 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 23.5 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 24.5 - 32.0 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 24.6 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 24.7 - 89.8 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 26.3 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 26.8 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 27.3 - 31.3 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 29.1 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 30.3 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 31.5 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 31.6 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 32.0 - 36.0 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 32.3 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 30, 1911 | 34.2 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 34.2 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 34.6 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 36.0 - 44.0 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 37.3 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 37.3 - 41.7 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 37.4 - 41.7 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 37.5 - 38.3 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 37.6 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 39.1 - 39.2 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 39.3 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 40.0 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 40.2 - 86.7 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 40.3 - 46.3 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 40.7 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 41.7 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 41.9 - 48.0 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 41.9 - 42.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 42.2 - 42.4 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 42.3 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 42.4 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 42.5 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 44.0 - 46.4 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 44.8 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 45.7 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 46.4 - 52.0 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 46.4 - 46.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 46.5 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 48.2 - 57.4 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 51.3 - 90.6 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 51.3 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 51.9 - 91.1 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 52.0 - 56.0 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 52.6 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 52.9 - 54.2 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 53.1 - 55.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 53.4 - 135.5 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 54.1 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 54.3 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 54.8 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 55.3 - 55.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 55.8 - 55.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 55.9 - 68.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 56.0 - 56.1 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 56.0 - 68.1 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 58.3 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 59.8 - 74.9 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 60.2 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 60.3 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |