Date | | Event | Category |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-60.0) - 1.4 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-25.9) - 47.3 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-25.9) - 30.3 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-22.9) - 35.5 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-18.1) - 58.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-15.0) - 55.8 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | (-5.8) - 2.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-2.0) - 89.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-0.8) - 65.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
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 |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 2.2 - 6.2 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
Oct 31, 1837 | 2.8 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 3.5 - 82.2 | 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 | 6.2 - 6.3 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 6.3 - 10.2 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 8.9 - 75.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 9.9 - 94.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 10.2 - 14.2 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 11.0 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 11.0 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
1847 | 12.0 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
1847 | 12.0 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 12.1 - 96.9 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 12.2 - 87.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 13.2 - 14.8 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 13.3 - 14.3 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 13.9 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
1849 | 14.0 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 14.2 - 15.5 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1850 | 15.0 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 15.5 - 18.2 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 16.0 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 16.0 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
1851 | 16.0 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 17.9 - 35.7 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
1853 | 18.0 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 18.2 - 22.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 21.4 - 104.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 22.2 - 26.2 | 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 | 26.2 - 30.3 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 26.2 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 26.7 - 107.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 28.6 - 112.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 28.8 - 102.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 30.3 - 34.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 31.5 - 31.6 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 32.2 | 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 | 34.2 - 42.2 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 34.7 - 49.0 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
1870 | 35.0 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 35.3 - 89.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 35.6 - 36.4 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 36.1 - 53.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 36.9 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 39.9 - 130.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 41.0 - 132.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 42.2 - 46.2 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 43.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 43.0 - 46.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 44.0 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
1879 | 44.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 | 44.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 44.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 44.2 - 120.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 46.0 - 46.3 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 46.2 - 46.7 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 46.6 - 120.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 46.7 - 50.2 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 47.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
1882 | 47.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1884 | 49.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 49.1 - 129.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 49.9 - 50.2 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 50.2 - 54.2 | 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 | 51.9 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 | 52.0 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
1887 - 1889 | 52.0 - 54.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1888 | 53.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 53.2 - 53.5 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 53.5 - 83.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 54.2 - 58.2 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 54.3 - 110.4 | 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 | 55.8 - 134.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 58.2 - 62.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 61.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 61.0 - 62.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 62.2 - 66.7 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 64.8 - 67.5 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 65.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 66.7 - 74.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 66.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 67.0 - 132.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 68.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 69.0 | 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 | 71.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 72.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 73.8 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 73.8 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
1909 | 74.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 74.2 - 78.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
May 30, 1911 | 76.5 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 76.5 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 76.9 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 78.2 - 86.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 79.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 79.5 - 83.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 79.6 - 84.0 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 79.8 - 80.6 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 79.8 - 79.9 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1916 | 81.1 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 81.4 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1917 - 1923 | 82.1 - 88.1 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 82.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 82.5 - 129.0 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Nov 7, 1917 | 82.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 83.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
1919 | 84.1 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 84.2 - 90.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 84.2 - 84.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 84.4 - 84.7 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 11, 1919 | 84.7 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 84.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 86.2 - 88.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 87.0 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 87.9 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 88.6 - 94.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 88.7 - 89.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 88.8 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |