12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 |
(-43.4) - 12.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-43.4) - 29.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870 |
(-40.4) - 17.9 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-35.6) - 40.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-32.5) - 38.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-19.6) - 71.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-18.3) - 47.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-14.0) - 64.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-8.6) - 57.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-7.6) - 76.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-5.4) - 79.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-5.3) - 70.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853 |
(-2.0) - 0.6 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
0.4 - 18.1 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 1857 |
0.6 - 4.6 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
1.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
3.8 - 87.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 |
4.6 - 8.6 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
1859 |
7.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865 |
8.6 - 12.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
17 Mar 1861 |
8.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
9.2 - 89.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
11.0 - 94.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
11.3 - 84.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 |
12.8 - 16.6 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866 |
13.9 - 14.0 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
10 Mar 1867 |
14.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
16.0 - 26.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
16.6 - 24.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
17.1 - 32.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
17.8 - 71.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
18.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
18.0 - 18.8 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
18.5 - 35.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
9 Nov 1871 |
19.3 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
22.4 - 112.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
23.5 - 114.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
24.6 - 28.6 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
26.0 - 29.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
26.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
31 Dec 1878 |
26.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
26.7 - 102.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
27.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 |
27.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
27.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
28.4 - 28.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
28.6 - 29.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
29.1 - 102.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
29.2 - 32.6 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
30.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
30.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
31.5 - 111.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
32.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
32.4 - 32.6 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
32.6 - 36.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
34.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
34.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
28 Oct 1886 |
34.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
35.0 - 37.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
35.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
35.7 - 35.9 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
35.9 - 66.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
36.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
36.7 - 40.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
36.8 - 92.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
38.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
1890 |
38.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
38.3 - 116.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
40.7 - 44.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 |
44.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
44.0 - 45.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
44.7 - 49.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
47.3 - 49.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
8 Sep 1900 |
48.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
49.2 - 56.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
19 Oct 1901 |
49.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
49.4 - 114.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16 Jun 1903 |
50.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16 Dec 1903 |
51.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
52.0 - 56.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18 Apr 1906 |
53.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
55.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16 Sep 1908 |
56.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27 Sep 1908 |
56.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
56.7 - 60.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
57.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
30 May 1911 |
58.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
30 May 1911 |
58.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
23 Oct 1911 |
59.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |