| Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 |
(-64.9) - 17.7 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
| Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 |
(-44.9) - 6.8 |
Life of Napoléon Bonaparte |
Personalities |
| Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 |
(-43.6) - 12.7 |
Life of Ludwig von Beethoven |
Personalities |
| Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 |
(-39.5) - 21.9 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
(-5.4) - 50.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-5.4) - 67.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1809 - Mar 4, 1817 |
(-5.3) - 2.6 |
President of the United States of America: James Madison |
USA - Presidents |
| Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-2.4) - 55.9 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| Sep 18, 1813 - Jun 9, 1815 |
(-0.8) - 0.9 |
Congress of Vienna |
European Union |
| Jun 22, 1815 - Jul 7, 1815 |
0.9 - 1.0 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon II |
France |
| 1816 |
2.0 |
Establishment of the American Colonization Society |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1816 |
2.0 |
Invention of the stethoscope |
Medicine |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
2.4 - 78.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 |
2.6 - 10.6 |
President of the United States of America: James Monroe |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 18, 1817 - Oct 19, 1817 |
3.3 |
Wartburg Festival |
Germany |
| 1818 |
4.0 |
First blood transfusion |
Medicine |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
5.5 - 76.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Dec 2, 1823 |
9.4 |
'Monroe Doctrine' |
USA |
| Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 |
10.6 - 14.6 |
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams |
USA - Presidents |
| Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 |
14.6 - 22.6 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
| May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 |
17.9 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
18.4 - 109.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 1833 |
19.0 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
19.7 - 85.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 |
22.6 - 26.6 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
| 1837 |
23.0 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
| 1837 |
23.0 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
| Oct 31, 1837 |
23.3 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
24.0 - 102.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 |
25.0 - 28.0 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 |
26.6 - 26.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 |
26.7 - 30.6 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
29.4 - 95.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
30.4 - 114.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
30.6 - 34.7 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 1846 |
32.0 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
| 1846 |
32.0 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
32.6 - 117.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
32.6 - 108.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
33.0 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| 1847 |
33.0 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
33.6 - 35.2 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
33.7 - 34.7 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| Dec 1, 1848 |
34.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
34.7 - 36.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 1849 |
35.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
36.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
36.0 - 38.7 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
37.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
37.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
37.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
38.4 - 56.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
38.7 - 42.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
39.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
41.8 - 125.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
42.7 - 46.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
45.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
46.7 - 50.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| Mar 17, 1861 |
46.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
47.2 - 127.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
49.1 - 132.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
49.3 - 122.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
50.8 - 54.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
51.9 - 52.1 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| Mar 10, 1867 |
52.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
54.0 - 64.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
54.7 - 62.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
55.2 - 70.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
55.8 - 109.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
56.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
56.0 - 56.8 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
56.5 - 73.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 9, 1871 |
57.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
60.4 - 150.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
61.5 - 152.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
62.7 - 66.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
64.0 - 67.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
64.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| Dec 31, 1878 |
64.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
64.7 - 140.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
65.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
65.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
65.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
66.5 - 66.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
66.7 - 67.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
67.1 - 140.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
67.2 - 70.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
68.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
68.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
69.6 - 149.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
70.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
70.4 - 70.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
70.7 - 74.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
72.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
72.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
72.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
73.0 - 75.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
73.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
73.7 - 74.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
74.0 - 104.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
74.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
74.7 - 78.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
74.8 - 130.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
76.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
76.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
76.3 - 154.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
78.7 - 82.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
82.0 - 83.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
82.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
82.7 - 87.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
85.3 - 87.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
86.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
87.2 - 94.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
87.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
87.4 - 152.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
89.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
89.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
90.0 - 94.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
91.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
93.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
94.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
94.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
94.7 - 98.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
95.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
96.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
96.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
97.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
98.7 - 106.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
100.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
100.0 - 104.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Peter Hardman
Margaret Sleeth Hacker
Birth