Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
(-38.3) - 17.9 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-38.3) - 34.9 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-35.3) - 23.0 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-30.4) - 45.5 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-27.4) - 43.3 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-14.4) - 76.6 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-13.2) - 52.8 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-8.9) - 69.8 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-3.4) - 63.0 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-2.5) - 81.9 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
(-2.2) - 1.7 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-0.3) - 84.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-0.2) - 75.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
1847 |
0.1 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
1847 |
0.1 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
0.7 - 2.3 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
0.8 - 1.8 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 |
1.5 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
1.7 - 3.1 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
1849 |
2.1 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
3.1 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
3.1 - 5.8 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
4.1 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
1851 |
4.1 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
1851 |
4.1 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
5.5 - 23.3 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
5.8 - 9.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
6.1 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
8.9 - 92.4 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
9.8 - 13.8 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
1859 |
12.1 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
13.8 - 17.9 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 |
13.8 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
14.3 - 94.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
16.2 - 99.9 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
16.4 - 89.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
17.9 - 21.8 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
19.0 - 19.2 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 |
19.8 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
21.1 - 31.1 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
21.8 - 29.8 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
22.3 - 37.1 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
22.9 - 76.7 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
23.1 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
23.1 - 23.9 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
23.6 - 40.8 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 |
24.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
27.5 - 117.7 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
28.6 - 120.0 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
29.8 - 33.8 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
31.1 - 34.1 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
31.1 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 |
31.6 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
31.8 - 107.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
32.1 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 |
32.1 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
32.1 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
33.6 - 33.8 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
33.8 - 34.3 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
34.2 - 107.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
34.3 - 37.8 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
35.1 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
35.1 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
36.7 - 116.6 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
37.1 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
37.5 - 37.8 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
37.8 - 41.8 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
39.1 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
1886 |
39.1 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 |
39.4 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
40.1 - 42.1 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
40.1 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
40.8 - 41.1 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
41.1 - 71.5 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
41.1 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
41.8 - 45.8 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
41.9 - 98.0 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
43.1 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
1890 |
43.1 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
43.4 - 121.9 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
45.8 - 49.8 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 - 1897 |
49.1 - 50.1 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1896 |
49.1 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
49.8 - 54.3 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
52.4 - 55.0 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 |
53.3 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
54.3 - 61.8 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 |
54.4 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
54.5 - 119.6 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 |
56.1 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 |
56.6 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
57.1 - 61.1 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 |
58.9 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
60.1 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 |
61.3 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 |
61.4 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
61.8 - 65.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
62.1 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
May 30, 1911 |
64.0 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 |
64.0 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 |
64.4 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
65.8 - 73.8 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
67.1 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
67.1 - 71.5 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
67.2 - 71.5 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
67.3 - 68.1 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
67.4 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
68.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
69.1 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
69.8 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
70.0 - 116.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
70.1 - 76.1 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 |
70.5 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 |
71.5 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
71.7 - 77.8 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
71.7 - 72.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
72.0 - 72.2 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
72.1 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 |
72.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 |
72.3 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |