| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-63.7) - 9.4 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-55.9) - 20.1 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-52.9) - 17.9 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-39.9) - 51.2 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-38.6) - 27.3 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-34.3) - 44.3 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-28.9) - 37.6 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-27.9) - 56.4 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-25.7) - 59.0 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-25.7) - 49.7 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-16.5) - 66.9 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-11.1) - 69.4 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-9.2) - 74.4 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-9.0) - 64.4 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 1868 - 1878 |
(-4.3) - 5.6 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
(-3.6) - 4.3 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
(-3.1) - 11.6 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-2.5) - 51.2 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
(-1.8) - 15.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
2.0 - 92.3 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
3.1 - 94.5 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
4.3 - 8.3 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
5.6 - 8.6 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
5.6 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| Dec 31, 1878 |
6.1 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
6.3 - 82.5 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
6.6 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
6.6 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
6.6 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
8.1 - 8.4 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
8.3 - 8.9 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
8.7 - 82.4 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
8.9 - 12.3 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
9.6 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
9.6 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
11.2 - 91.1 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
11.6 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
12.0 - 12.3 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
12.3 - 16.3 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
13.6 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
13.6 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
14.0 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
14.6 - 16.6 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
14.6 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
15.3 - 15.6 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
15.6 - 46.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
15.6 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
16.3 - 20.3 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
16.4 - 72.5 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
17.6 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
17.6 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
17.9 - 96.4 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
20.3 - 24.3 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
23.6 - 24.6 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
23.6 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
24.3 - 28.9 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
26.9 - 29.6 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
27.8 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
28.9 - 36.3 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
29.0 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
29.1 - 94.2 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
30.6 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
31.1 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
31.6 - 35.7 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
33.4 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
34.6 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
35.9 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
35.9 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
36.3 - 40.3 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
36.7 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
38.6 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
38.6 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
39.0 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
40.3 - 48.3 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
41.6 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
41.6 - 46.0 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
41.8 - 46.1 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
41.9 - 42.7 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
41.9 - 42.0 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
William Silas Osborn
Birth