| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-70.4) - 2.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-62.6) - 13.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-59.5) - 11.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-46.6) - 44.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-45.3) - 20.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-41.0) - 37.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-35.6) - 30.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-34.6) - 49.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-32.4) - 52.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-32.3) - 43.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-23.2) - 60.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-17.8) - 62.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-15.9) - 67.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-15.7) - 57.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
(-9.8) - 5.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-9.2) - 44.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
(-8.5) - 8.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-4.6) - 85.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-3.5) - 87.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
(-2.3) - 1.6 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
(-1.0) - 2.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-0.3) - 75.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
|
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
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Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
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Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
1.4 - 1.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
1.6 - 2.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
2.1 - 75.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
2.2 - 5.6 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
3.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
3.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
4.5 - 84.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
5.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
5.3 - 5.6 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
5.6 - 9.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
7.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
7.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
7.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
8.0 - 10.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
8.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
8.6 - 8.9 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
8.9 - 39.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
9.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
9.6 - 13.6 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
9.8 - 65.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
11.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
11.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
11.2 - 89.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
13.6 - 17.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
17.0 - 18.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
17.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
17.6 - 22.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
20.2 - 22.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
21.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
22.2 - 29.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
22.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
22.4 - 87.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
23.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
24.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
25.0 - 29.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
26.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
28.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
29.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
29.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
29.6 - 33.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
30.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
31.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
31.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
Wilhelm Lewerenz
Theresa Hess
Birth