Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-68.9) - 13.7 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 | (-48.9) - 2.8 | Life of Napoléon Bonaparte | Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-47.6) - 8.7 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-43.5) - 17.9 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-9.4) - 46.8 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-9.4) - 63.8 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-6.4) - 51.9 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-1.5) - 74.4 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 | (-1.3) - 6.6 | President of the United States of America: James Monroe | USA - Presidents |
1818 | | First blood transfusion | Medicine |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | 1.5 - 72.2 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1823 | 5.4 | 'Monroe Doctrine' | USA |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | 6.6 - 10.6 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 10.6 - 18.6 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 13.9 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 14.4 - 105.5 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
1833 | 15.0 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 15.7 - 81.7 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 18.6 - 22.6 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
1837 | 19.0 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
1837 | 19.0 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
Oct 31, 1837 | 19.3 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 20.0 - 98.7 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
1839 - 1842 | 21.0 - 24.0 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 22.6 - 22.7 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 22.7 - 26.6 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 25.4 - 91.9 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 26.4 - 110.8 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 26.6 - 30.6 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 28.0 | Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 28.0 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 28.6 - 113.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 28.6 - 104.1 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
1847 | 29.0 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 29.0 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 29.6 - 31.2 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 29.7 - 30.7 | The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 30.4 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic | France |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 30.6 - 32.0 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1849 | 31.0 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
1850 | 32.0 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 32.0 - 34.7 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 33.0 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 33.0 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 33.0 | Establishment of The New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 34.4 - 52.2 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 34.7 - 38.7 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
1853 | 35.0 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 37.8 - 121.3 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 38.7 - 42.7 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 41.0 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 42.7 - 46.8 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 42.7 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 43.2 - 123.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 45.1 - 128.8 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 45.3 - 118.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 46.8 - 50.7 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 47.9 - 48.1 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 48.7 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 50.0 - 60.0 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 50.7 - 58.7 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 51.2 - 66.0 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 51.8 - 105.6 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
1870 | 52.0 | Start of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 52.0 - 52.8 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 52.5 - 69.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 53.3 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 56.4 - 146.6 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 57.5 - 148.9 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 58.7 - 62.7 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 60.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 60.0 - 63.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 60.5 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 60.7 - 136.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 61.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 61.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 61.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 62.5 - 62.7 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 62.7 - 63.2 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 63.1 - 136.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 63.2 - 66.7 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 64.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 64.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 65.6 - 145.5 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 66.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 66.4 - 66.7 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 66.7 - 70.7 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 68.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 68.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 68.3 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 - 1889 | 69.0 - 71.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1887 | 69.0 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 69.7 - 70.0 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 70.0 - 100.4 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 70.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 70.7 - 74.7 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 70.8 - 126.9 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 72.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 72.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 72.3 - 150.8 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 74.7 - 78.7 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 78.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 78.0 - 79.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 78.7 - 83.2 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 81.3 - 83.9 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 82.2 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 83.2 - 90.7 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 83.3 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 83.4 - 148.5 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 85.0 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 85.5 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 86.0 - 90.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 87.8 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 89.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 90.2 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 90.3 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 90.7 - 94.7 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 91.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 30, 1911 | 92.9 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 92.9 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 93.3 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 94.7 - 102.7 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 96.0 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 96.0 - 100.4 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 96.1 - 100.4 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 96.2 - 97.0 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 96.3 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 97.8 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 98.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 98.7 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 98.9 - 145.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 99.0 - 105.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 99.4 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |