12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 |
(-37.3) - 18.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-37.3) - 35.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870 |
(-34.4) - 24.0 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-29.5) - 46.5 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-26.5) - 44.3 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-13.5) - 77.6 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-12.2) - 53.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-7.9) - 70.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-2.5) - 64.0 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-1.5) - 82.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1845 - 4 Mar 1849 |
(-1.3) - 2.7 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
1846 |
0.0 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
1846 |
0.0 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
0.6 - 85.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
0.7 - 76.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
1847 |
1.0 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
1847 |
1.0 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
1 Mar 1848 - 30 Sep 1849 |
1.7 - 3.3 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
31 Mar 1848 - 3 Apr 1849 |
1.8 - 2.8 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
1 Dec 1848 |
2.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
4 Mar 1849 - 9 Jul 1850 |
2.7 - 4.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
1849 |
3.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
4.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853 |
4.0 - 6.7 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
5.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
1851 |
5.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
1851 |
5.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
6.4 - 24.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 1857 |
6.7 - 10.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
7.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
9.9 - 93.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 |
10.7 - 14.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
1859 |
13.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865 |
14.7 - 18.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
17 Mar 1861 |
14.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
15.3 - 95.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
17.1 - 100.9 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
17.3 - 90.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 |
18.8 - 22.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866 |
20.0 - 20.1 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
10 Mar 1867 |
20.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
22.0 - 32.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
22.7 - 30.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
23.2 - 38.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
23.8 - 77.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
24.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
24.1 - 24.9 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
24.6 - 41.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
9 Nov 1871 |
25.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
28.5 - 118.7 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
29.6 - 120.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
30.7 - 34.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
32.0 - 35.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
32.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
31 Dec 1878 |
32.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
32.7 - 108.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
33.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 |
33.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
33.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
34.5 - 34.8 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
34.7 - 35.3 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
35.1 - 108.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
35.3 - 38.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
36.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
36.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
37.6 - 117.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
38.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
38.4 - 38.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
38.7 - 42.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
40.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
40.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
28 Oct 1886 |
40.4 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
41.0 - 43.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
41.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
41.7 - 42.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
42.0 - 72.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
42.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
42.7 - 46.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
42.9 - 98.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
44.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
1890 |
44.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
44.3 - 122.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
46.7 - 50.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 |
50.1 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
50.1 - 51.1 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
50.7 - 55.3 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |