Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 |
(-75.9) - 6.7 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 |
(-54.6) - 1.7 |
Life of Ludwig von Beethoven |
Personalities |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 |
(-50.5) - 11.0 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-16.4) - 56.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
(-16.4) - 39.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-13.4) - 45.0 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-8.6) - 67.5 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-5.5) - 65.3 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 |
(-0.3) - 3.7 |
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams |
USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 |
3.7 - 11.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 |
6.9 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
7.5 - 98.6 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
1833 |
8.0 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
8.7 - 74.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 |
11.7 - 15.7 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
1837 |
12.0 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
1837 |
12.0 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
Oct 31, 1837 |
12.3 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
13.0 - 91.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
1839 - 1842 |
14.0 - 17.0 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 |
15.7 - 15.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 |
15.8 - 19.7 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
18.5 - 85.0 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
19.4 - 103.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
19.7 - 23.7 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
1846 |
21.0 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
1846 |
21.0 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
21.6 - 106.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
21.7 - 97.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
1847 |
22.0 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
1847 |
22.0 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
22.7 - 24.3 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
22.8 - 23.8 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 |
23.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
23.7 - 25.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
1849 |
24.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
25.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
25.0 - 27.7 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
26.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
1851 |
26.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
1851 |
26.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
27.4 - 45.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
27.7 - 31.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
28.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
30.9 - 114.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
31.7 - 35.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
1859 |
34.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
35.7 - 39.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 |
35.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
36.3 - 116.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
38.1 - 121.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
38.3 - 111.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
39.8 - 43.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
41.0 - 41.1 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 |
41.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
43.0 - 53.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
43.7 - 51.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
44.2 - 59.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
44.8 - 98.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
45.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
45.1 - 45.9 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
45.6 - 62.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 |
46.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
49.5 - 139.7 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
50.6 - 141.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
51.7 - 55.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
53.0 - 56.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
53.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 |
53.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
53.7 - 129.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
54.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
54.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 |
54.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
55.5 - 55.8 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
55.7 - 56.3 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
56.1 - 129.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
56.3 - 59.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
57.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
57.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
58.6 - 138.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
59.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
59.4 - 59.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
59.7 - 63.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
61.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
1886 |
61.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 |
61.4 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
62.0 - 64.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
62.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
62.7 - 63.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
63.0 - 93.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
63.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
63.7 - 67.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
63.8 - 119.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
65.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
1890 |
65.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
65.3 - 143.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
67.7 - 71.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 - 1897 |
71.0 - 72.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1896 |
71.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
71.7 - 76.3 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
74.3 - 77.0 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 |
75.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
76.3 - 83.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 |
76.4 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
76.5 - 141.6 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 |
78.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 |
78.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
79.1 - 83.1 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 |
80.9 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
82.1 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 |
83.3 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 |
83.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
83.7 - 87.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
84.1 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
May 30, 1911 |
86.0 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 |
86.0 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 |
86.4 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
87.7 - 95.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
89.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
89.1 - 93.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
89.2 - 93.5 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
89.3 - 90.1 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
89.3 - 89.4 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
90.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
91.1 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
91.7 - 91.8 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
92.0 - 138.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
92.1 - 98.1 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 |
92.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 |
93.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
93.7 - 99.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
93.7 - 94.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
93.9 - 94.2 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
94.1 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 |
94.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 |
94.3 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
95.7 - 98.2 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 |
96.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 |
97.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
98.2 - 103.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
98.2 - 98.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 |
98.3 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
99.9 - 109.2 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |