| Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 |
(-71.1) - 11.5 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
| Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 |
(-51.1) - 0.6 |
Life of Napoléon Bonaparte |
Personalities |
| Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 |
(-49.8) - 6.5 |
Life of Ludwig von Beethoven |
Personalities |
| Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 |
(-45.7) - 15.7 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
(-11.6) - 44.6 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-11.6) - 61.6 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-8.6) - 49.7 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-3.8) - 72.2 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 |
(-3.6) - 4.4 |
President of the United States of America: James Monroe |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-0.7) - 70.0 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Dec 2, 1823 |
3.2 |
'Monroe Doctrine' |
USA |
| Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 |
4.4 - 8.4 |
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams |
USA - Presidents |
| Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 |
8.4 - 16.4 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
| May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 |
11.7 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
12.2 - 103.3 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 1833 |
12.8 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
13.5 - 79.5 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 |
16.4 - 20.4 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
| 1837 |
16.8 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
| 1837 |
16.8 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
| Oct 31, 1837 |
17.1 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
17.8 - 96.5 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 |
18.8 - 21.8 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 |
20.4 - 20.5 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 |
20.5 - 24.5 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
23.2 - 89.7 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
24.2 - 108.6 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
24.5 - 28.5 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 1846 |
25.8 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
| 1846 |
25.8 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
26.4 - 111.1 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
26.4 - 101.9 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
26.8 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| 1847 |
26.8 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
27.4 - 29.0 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
27.5 - 28.5 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| Dec 1, 1848 |
28.2 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
28.5 - 29.8 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 1849 |
28.8 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
29.8 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
29.8 - 32.5 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
30.8 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 1851 |
30.8 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
30.8 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
32.2 - 50.0 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
32.5 - 36.5 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
32.8 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
35.6 - 119.1 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
36.5 - 40.5 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
38.8 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
40.5 - 44.6 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| Mar 17, 1861 |
40.5 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
41.0 - 121.5 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
42.9 - 126.6 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
43.1 - 116.5 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
44.6 - 48.5 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
45.7 - 45.9 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| Mar 10, 1867 |
46.5 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
47.8 - 57.8 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
48.5 - 56.5 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
49.0 - 63.8 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
49.6 - 103.4 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
49.8 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
49.8 - 50.7 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
50.3 - 67.5 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 9, 1871 |
51.2 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
54.2 - 144.4 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
55.3 - 146.7 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
56.5 - 60.5 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
57.8 - 60.8 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
57.8 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| Dec 31, 1878 |
58.3 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
58.5 - 134.6 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
58.8 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
58.8 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
58.8 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
60.3 - 60.5 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
60.5 - 61.0 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
60.9 - 134.5 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
61.0 - 64.5 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
61.8 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 |
61.8 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
63.4 - 143.3 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
63.8 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
64.2 - 64.5 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
64.5 - 68.5 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
65.8 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
65.8 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
66.1 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
66.8 - 68.8 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
66.8 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
67.5 - 67.8 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
67.8 - 98.2 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
67.8 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
68.5 - 72.5 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
68.6 - 124.7 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
69.8 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
69.8 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
70.1 - 148.6 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
72.5 - 76.5 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 |
75.8 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
75.8 - 76.8 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
76.5 - 81.0 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
79.1 - 81.7 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
80.0 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
81.0 - 88.5 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
81.1 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
81.2 - 146.3 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
82.8 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
83.3 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
83.8 - 87.8 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
85.6 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
86.8 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
88.0 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
88.1 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
88.5 - 92.5 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
88.8 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
90.7 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
90.7 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
91.1 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
92.5 - 100.5 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
93.8 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
93.8 - 98.2 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
93.9 - 98.2 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
94.0 - 94.8 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
94.1 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
95.6 - 95.7 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
95.8 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
96.5 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
96.7 - 143.2 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
96.8 - 102.8 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 |
97.2 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 |
98.2 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
98.4 - 104.5 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
98.4 - 98.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
98.7 - 98.9 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
98.8 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 |
98.9 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 |
99.0 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
Lydia Turner Guild
Frank Cushman
Birth