| Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 |
(-60.5) - 0.9 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
(-26.4) - 29.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-26.4) - 46.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-23.4) - 34.9 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-18.6) - 57.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-15.5) - 55.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 |
(-6.3) - 1.6 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-2.5) - 88.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-1.3) - 64.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 |
1.6 - 5.6 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
| 1837 |
2.0 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
| 1837 |
2.0 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
| Oct 31, 1837 |
2.3 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
3.0 - 81.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 |
4.0 - 7.0 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 |
5.6 - 5.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 |
5.7 - 9.6 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
8.4 - 74.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
9.4 - 93.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
9.6 - 13.6 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 1846 |
11.0 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
| 1846 |
11.0 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
11.6 - 96.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
11.6 - 87.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
12.0 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| 1847 |
12.0 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
12.6 - 14.2 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
12.7 - 13.7 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| Dec 1, 1848 |
13.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
13.6 - 15.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 1849 |
14.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
15.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
15.0 - 17.6 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
16.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
16.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
16.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
17.4 - 35.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
17.6 - 21.6 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
18.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
20.8 - 104.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
21.6 - 25.6 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
24.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
25.6 - 29.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| Mar 17, 1861 |
25.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
26.2 - 106.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
28.1 - 111.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
28.3 - 101.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
29.8 - 33.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
30.9 - 31.0 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| Mar 10, 1867 |
31.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
33.0 - 43.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
33.7 - 41.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
34.2 - 49.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
34.8 - 88.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
35.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
35.0 - 35.8 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
35.5 - 52.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 9, 1871 |
36.3 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
39.4 - 129.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
40.5 - 131.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
41.7 - 45.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
43.0 - 46.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
43.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| Dec 31, 1878 |
43.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
43.7 - 119.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
44.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
44.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
44.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
45.5 - 45.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
45.7 - 46.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
46.1 - 119.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
46.2 - 49.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
47.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
47.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
48.5 - 128.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
49.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
49.4 - 49.6 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
49.7 - 53.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
51.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
51.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
51.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
52.0 - 54.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
52.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
52.7 - 52.9 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
52.9 - 83.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
53.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
53.7 - 57.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
53.8 - 109.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
55.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
55.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
55.3 - 133.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
57.7 - 61.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
61.0 - 62.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
61.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
61.7 - 66.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
64.3 - 66.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
65.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
66.2 - 73.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
66.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
66.4 - 131.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
68.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
68.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
69.0 - 73.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
70.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
72.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
73.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
73.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
73.7 - 77.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
74.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
75.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
75.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
76.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
77.7 - 85.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
79.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
79.0 - 83.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
79.1 - 83.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
79.2 - 80.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
79.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
80.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
81.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
81.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
81.9 - 128.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
82.0 - 88.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 |
82.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 |
83.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
83.6 - 89.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
83.6 - 84.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
83.9 - 84.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
84.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 |
84.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 |
84.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
85.7 - 88.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 |
86.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 |
87.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
88.1 - 93.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
88.1 - 88.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 |
88.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
89.9 - 99.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
93.0 - 132.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
93.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
93.6 - 132.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
93.7 - 97.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
94.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
94.6 - 95.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
94.8 - 96.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
95.1 - 177.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
95.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
96.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
96.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
96.9 - 97.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
97.4 - 97.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
97.6 - 109.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
97.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
97.7 - 109.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
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