| 12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-44.4) - 28.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 |
(-44.4) - 11.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870 |
(-41.4) - 16.9 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-36.6) - 39.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-33.5) - 37.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-20.6) - 70.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-19.3) - 46.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-15.0) - 63.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-9.6) - 56.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-8.6) - 75.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-6.4) - 78.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-6.3) - 69.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
(-0.6) - 17.1 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 1857 |
(-0.3) - 3.6 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
|
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
2.8 - 86.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 |
3.6 - 7.6 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
6.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865 |
7.6 - 11.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Mar 1861 |
7.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
8.2 - 88.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
10.0 - 93.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
10.3 - 83.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 |
11.8 - 15.6 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866 |
12.9 - 13.0 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10 Mar 1867 |
13.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
15.0 - 25.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
15.6 - 23.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
16.1 - 31.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
16.8 - 70.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
17.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
17.0 - 17.8 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
17.5 - 34.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 9 Nov 1871 |
18.3 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
21.4 - 111.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
22.5 - 113.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
23.6 - 27.6 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
25.0 - 28.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
25.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 31 Dec 1878 |
25.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
25.7 - 101.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
26.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
26.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
26.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
27.4 - 27.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
27.6 - 28.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
28.1 - 101.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
28.2 - 31.6 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
29.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 |
29.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
30.5 - 110.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
31.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
31.4 - 31.6 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
31.6 - 35.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
33.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
33.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
33.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
34.0 - 36.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
34.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
34.7 - 34.9 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
34.9 - 65.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
35.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
35.7 - 39.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
35.8 - 91.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
37.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
37.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
37.3 - 115.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
39.7 - 43.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 |
43.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
43.0 - 44.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
43.7 - 48.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
46.3 - 48.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
47.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
48.2 - 55.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
48.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
48.4 - 113.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
49.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
50.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
51.0 - 55.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
52.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
54.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
55.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
55.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
55.7 - 59.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
56.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 May 1911 |
57.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
57.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
58.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
59.7 - 67.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
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