Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
(-34.1) - 22.1 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-34.1) - 39.2 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-31.1) - 27.3 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-26.2) - 49.8 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-23.2) - 47.6 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-10.2) - 80.9 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-9.0) - 57.1 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-4.6) - 74.1 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 |
(-1.9) - 2.0 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
0.8 - 67.3 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
1.7 - 86.2 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
2.0 - 6.0 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
1846 |
3.3 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
1846 |
3.3 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
4.0 - 88.7 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
4.0 - 79.5 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
1847 |
4.3 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
1847 |
4.3 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
5.0 - 6.6 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
5.1 - 6.1 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 |
5.8 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
6.0 - 7.4 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
1849 |
6.3 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
7.3 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
7.4 - 10.0 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
8.3 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
1851 |
8.3 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
1851 |
8.3 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
9.8 - 27.5 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
10.0 - 14.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
10.3 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
13.2 - 96.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
14.0 - 18.0 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
1859 |
16.3 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
18.0 - 22.1 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 |
18.1 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
18.6 - 99.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
20.4 - 104.2 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
20.6 - 94.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
22.1 - 26.0 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
23.3 - 23.4 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 |
24.0 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
25.4 - 35.4 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
26.0 - 34.0 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
26.5 - 41.4 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
27.2 - 80.9 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
27.4 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
27.4 - 28.2 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
27.9 - 45.1 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 |
28.7 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
31.8 - 122.0 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
32.9 - 124.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
34.0 - 38.0 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
35.4 - 38.4 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
35.4 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 |
35.9 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
36.1 - 112.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
36.4 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
36.4 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
36.4 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
37.8 - 38.1 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
38.0 - 38.6 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
38.5 - 112.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
38.6 - 42.0 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
39.4 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
1882 |
39.4 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
40.9 - 120.9 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
41.4 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
41.7 - 42.0 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
42.0 - 46.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
43.4 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
43.4 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 |
43.7 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
44.4 - 46.4 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
44.4 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
45.1 - 45.3 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
45.3 - 75.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
45.4 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
46.0 - 50.0 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
46.2 - 102.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
47.4 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
1890 |
47.4 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
47.7 - 126.2 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
50.0 - 54.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 |
53.4 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
53.4 - 54.4 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
54.0 - 58.6 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
56.7 - 59.3 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 |
57.6 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
58.6 - 66.1 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 |
58.7 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
58.8 - 123.9 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 |
60.3 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 |
60.8 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
61.4 - 65.4 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 |
63.2 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
64.4 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 |
65.6 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 |
65.6 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
66.1 - 70.1 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
66.4 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
May 30, 1911 |
68.3 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 |
68.3 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 |
68.7 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
70.1 - 78.1 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
71.3 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
71.4 - 75.8 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
71.5 - 75.8 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
71.6 - 72.4 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
71.7 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
73.2 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
73.4 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
74.1 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
74.3 - 120.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
74.4 - 80.4 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 |
74.7 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 |
75.7 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
76.0 - 82.1 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
76.0 - 76.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
76.2 - 76.5 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
76.4 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 |
76.5 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 |
76.6 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
78.1 - 80.5 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 |
78.8 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 |
79.7 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
80.5 - 86.1 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
80.5 - 80.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 |
80.6 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
82.3 - 91.5 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
85.3 - 124.7 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
85.4 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
85.9 - 125.2 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
86.1 - 90.1 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 |
86.7 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
87.0 - 88.2 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
87.1 - 89.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
87.5 - 169.6 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 |
88.2 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
88.4 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 |
88.8 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
89.3 - 89.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
89.8 - 90.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
90.0 - 102.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
90.1 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
90.1 - 102.2 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
92.4 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
93.8 - 109.0 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 |
94.2 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
94.4 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 |
96.6 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
96.6 - 102.6 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 |
97.3 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 |
98.8 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |