28 Aug 1749 - 22 Mar 1832 |
(-74.9) - 7.7 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
17 Dec 1770 - 26 Mar 1827 |
(-53.6) - 2.7 |
Life of Ludwig von Beethoven |
Personalities |
20 Jan 1775 - 10 Jun 1836 |
(-49.5) - 11.9 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-15.4) - 57.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 |
(-15.4) - 40.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870 |
(-12.4) - 45.9 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-7.6) - 68.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1817 - 4 Mar 1825 |
(-7.3) - 0.6 |
President of the United States of America: James Monroe |
USA - Presidents |
30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-4.5) - 66.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1825 - 4 Mar 1829 |
0.6 - 4.6 |
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams |
USA - Presidents |
4 Mar 1829 - 4 Mar 1837 |
4.6 - 12.6 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
27 May 1832 - 30 May 1832 |
7.9 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
8.4 - 99.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
1833 |
9.0 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
9.7 - 75.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1837 - 4 Mar 1841 |
12.6 - 16.6 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
1837 |
13.0 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
1837 |
13.0 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
31 Oct 1837 |
13.3 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
14.0 - 92.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
1839 - 1842 |
15.0 - 18.0 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1841 - 4 Apr 1841 |
16.6 - 16.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
4 Apr 1841 - 4 Mar 1845 |
16.7 - 20.6 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
19.4 - 85.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
20.4 - 104.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1845 - 4 Mar 1849 |
20.6 - 24.6 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
1846 |
22.0 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
1846 |
22.0 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
22.6 - 107.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
22.6 - 98.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
1847 |
23.0 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
1847 |
23.0 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
1 Mar 1848 - 30 Sep 1849 |
23.6 - 25.2 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
31 Mar 1848 - 3 Apr 1849 |
23.7 - 24.7 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
1 Dec 1848 |
24.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
4 Mar 1849 - 9 Jul 1850 |
24.6 - 26.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
1849 |
25.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
26.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853 |
26.0 - 28.6 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
27.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
1851 |
27.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
1851 |
27.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
28.4 - 46.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 1857 |
28.6 - 32.6 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
29.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
31.8 - 115.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 |
32.6 - 36.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
1859 |
35.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865 |
36.7 - 40.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
17 Mar 1861 |
36.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
37.2 - 117.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
39.1 - 122.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
39.3 - 112.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 |
40.8 - 44.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866 |
41.9 - 42.0 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
10 Mar 1867 |
42.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
44.0 - 54.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
44.7 - 52.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
45.2 - 60.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
45.8 - 99.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
46.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
46.0 - 46.8 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
46.5 - 63.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
9 Nov 1871 |
47.3 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
50.4 - 140.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
51.5 - 142.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
52.7 - 56.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
54.0 - 57.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
54.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
31 Dec 1878 |
54.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
54.7 - 130.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
55.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 |
55.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
55.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
56.5 - 56.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
56.7 - 57.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
57.1 - 130.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
57.2 - 60.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
58.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
1882 |
58.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
59.6 - 139.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
60.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
60.4 - 60.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
60.7 - 64.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
62.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
62.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
28 Oct 1886 |
62.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
63.0 - 65.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
63.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
63.7 - 64.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
64.0 - 94.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
64.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
64.7 - 68.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
64.8 - 120.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
66.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
1890 |
66.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
66.3 - 144.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
68.7 - 72.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 |
72.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
72.0 - 73.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
72.7 - 77.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
75.3 - 77.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
8 Sep 1900 |
76.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
77.2 - 84.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
19 Oct 1901 |
77.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
77.4 - 142.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16 Jun 1903 |
79.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16 Dec 1903 |
79.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
80.0 - 84.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18 Apr 1906 |
81.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
83.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16 Sep 1908 |
84.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27 Sep 1908 |
84.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
84.7 - 88.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
85.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
30 May 1911 |
86.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
30 May 1911 |
86.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
23 Oct 1911 |
87.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
88.7 - 96.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
90.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
90.0 - 94.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
90.1 - 94.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
90.2 - 91.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
90.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
91.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
92.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
92.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
92.9 - 139.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
93.0 - 99.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
7 Nov 1917 |
93.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
9 Nov 1918 |
94.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
94.6 - 100.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
94.6 - 95.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
94.9 - 95.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
95.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11 Aug 1919 |
95.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10 Sep 1919 |
95.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
96.7 - 99.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
6 Dec 1921 |
97.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28 Oct 1922 |
98.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
99.1 - 104.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
99.1 - 99.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13 Sep 1923 |
99.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |