| 28 Aug 1749 - 22 Mar 1832 |
(-78.5) - 4.0 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
| 20 Jan 1775 - 10 Jun 1836 |
(-53.1) - 8.3 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
| 12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 |
(-19.0) - 37.1 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-19.0) - 54.2 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870 |
(-16.0) - 42.3 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-11.2) - 64.8 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-8.1) - 62.6 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1825 - 4 Mar 1829 |
(-3.0) - 1.0 |
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 Mar 1829 - 4 Mar 1837 |
1.0 - 9.0 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
| 27 May 1832 - 30 May 1832 |
4.2 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
4.8 - 95.9 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 1833 |
5.3 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
6.0 - 72.0 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1837 - 4 Mar 1841 |
9.0 - 13.0 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
| 1837 |
9.3 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
| 1837 |
9.3 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
| 31 Oct 1837 |
9.7 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
10.3 - 89.1 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 |
11.3 - 14.3 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1841 - 4 Apr 1841 |
13.0 - 13.1 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 Apr 1841 - 4 Mar 1845 |
13.1 - 17.0 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
15.8 - 82.3 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
16.7 - 101.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1845 - 4 Mar 1849 |
17.0 - 21.0 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 1846 |
18.3 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
| 1846 |
18.3 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
18.9 - 103.7 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
19.0 - 94.5 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
19.3 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| 1847 |
19.3 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| 1 Mar 1848 - 30 Sep 1849 |
20.0 - 21.6 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| 31 Mar 1848 - 3 Apr 1849 |
20.1 - 21.1 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| 1 Dec 1848 |
20.8 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| 4 Mar 1849 - 9 Jul 1850 |
21.0 - 22.4 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 1849 |
21.3 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
22.3 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| 9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853 |
22.4 - 25.0 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
23.3 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 1851 |
23.3 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
23.3 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
24.8 - 42.5 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 1857 |
25.0 - 29.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
25.3 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
28.2 - 111.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 |
29.0 - 33.0 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
31.3 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865 |
33.0 - 37.1 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Mar 1861 |
33.0 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
33.6 - 114.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
35.4 - 119.2 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
35.6 - 109.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 |
37.1 - 41.0 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866 |
38.3 - 38.4 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10 Mar 1867 |
39.0 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
40.3 - 50.3 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
41.0 - 49.0 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
41.5 - 56.4 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
42.2 - 95.9 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
42.3 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
42.4 - 43.2 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
42.9 - 60.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 9 Nov 1871 |
43.7 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
46.8 - 137.0 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
47.9 - 139.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
49.0 - 53.0 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
50.3 - 53.4 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
50.3 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 31 Dec 1878 |
50.9 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
51.1 - 127.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
51.3 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
51.3 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
51.3 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
52.8 - 53.1 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
53.0 - 53.6 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
53.5 - 127.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
53.6 - 57.0 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
54.4 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
54.4 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
55.9 - 135.9 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
56.4 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
56.7 - 57.0 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
57.0 - 61.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
58.4 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
58.4 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
58.7 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
59.4 - 61.4 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
59.4 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
60.0 - 60.3 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
60.3 - 90.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
60.4 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
61.0 - 65.0 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
61.2 - 117.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
62.4 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
62.4 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
62.6 - 141.2 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
65.0 - 69.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 |
68.4 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
68.4 - 69.4 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
69.0 - 73.6 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
71.6 - 74.3 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
72.6 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
73.6 - 81.0 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
73.7 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
73.8 - 138.9 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
75.3 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
75.8 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
76.4 - 80.4 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
78.2 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
79.4 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
80.6 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
80.6 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
81.0 - 85.0 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
81.4 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 May 1911 |
83.3 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
83.3 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
83.7 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
85.0 - 93.1 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
86.3 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
86.4 - 90.7 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
86.5 - 90.8 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
86.6 - 87.4 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
86.7 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
88.2 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
88.4 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
89.1 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
89.3 - 135.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
89.4 - 95.4 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
89.7 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
90.7 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
91.0 - 97.0 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
91.0 - 91.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
91.2 - 91.5 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
91.4 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
91.5 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
91.6 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
93.1 - 95.5 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
93.8 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
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Birth