Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-54.4) - 1.7 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-54.4) - 18.8 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-51.4) - 6.9 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-46.6) - 29.4 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-43.5) - 27.2 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-30.6) - 60.5 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-29.3) - 36.7 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-25.0) - 53.7 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-19.6) - 46.9 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-18.6) - 65.8 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-16.4) - 68.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-16.3) - 59.1 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | (-10.6) - 7.1 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-7.2) - 76.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-2.3) - 1.7 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-1.8) - 78.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 0.0 - 83.8 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 0.2 - 73.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 1.7 - 5.6 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 2.9 - 3.0 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 3.6 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 5.0 - 15.0 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 5.6 - 13.6 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 6.1 - 21.0 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 6.8 - 60.6 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
1870 | 7.0 | Start of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 7.0 - 7.8 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 7.5 - 24.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 8.3 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 11.4 - 101.6 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 12.5 - 103.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 13.6 - 17.6 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 15.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 15.0 - 18.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 15.5 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 15.7 - 91.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 16.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 16.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 16.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 17.4 - 17.7 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 17.6 - 18.2 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 18.1 - 91.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 18.2 - 21.6 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 19.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 19.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 20.5 - 100.5 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 21.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 21.3 - 21.6 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 21.6 - 25.6 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 23.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 23.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 23.3 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 - 1889 | 24.0 - 26.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1887 | 24.0 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 24.7 - 24.9 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 24.9 - 55.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 25.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 25.6 - 29.6 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 25.8 - 81.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 27.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 27.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 27.3 - 105.8 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 29.6 - 33.7 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 33.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 33.0 - 34.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 33.7 - 38.2 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 36.3 - 38.9 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 37.2 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 38.2 - 45.7 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 38.3 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 38.4 - 103.5 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 39.9 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 40.4 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 41.0 - 45.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 42.8 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 44.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 45.2 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 45.2 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 45.7 - 49.7 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 46.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 30, 1911 | 47.9 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 47.9 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 48.3 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 49.7 - 57.7 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 50.9 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 51.0 - 55.4 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 51.1 - 55.4 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 51.2 - 52.0 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 51.3 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 52.8 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 53.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 53.7 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 53.9 - 100.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 54.0 - 60.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 54.3 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 55.3 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 55.6 - 61.7 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 55.6 - 56.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 55.8 - 56.1 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 56.0 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 56.1 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 56.2 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 57.7 - 60.1 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 58.4 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |