| Date | | Event | Category |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-44.9) - 28.3 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-44.9) - 11.3 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
| Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-41.9) - 16.4 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-37.1) - 39.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-34.0) - 36.7 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-21.1) - 70.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-19.8) - 46.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-15.5) - 63.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-10.1) - 56.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-9.1) - 75.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-6.9) - 77.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-6.8) - 68.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | (-1.1) - 16.7 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
| Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | (-0.8) - 3.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 2.3 - 85.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 3.2 - 7.2 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
| 1859 | 5.0 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
| Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 7.2 - 11.3 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
| Mar 17, 1861 | 7.2 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 7.7 - 88.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 9.6 - 93.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 9.8 - 83.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 11.3 - 15.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 12.4 - 12.6 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
| Mar 10, 1867 | 13.2 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 | 14.0 - 24.0 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 15.2 - 23.2 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 15.7 - 30.0 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
| 1870 | 16.0 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 16.3 - 70.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 16.6 - 17.4 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 17.1 - 34.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
| Nov 9, 1871 | 17.9 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 20.9 - 111.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 22.0 - 113.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 23.2 - 27.2 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
| 1878 | 24.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 | 24.0 - 27.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Dec 31, 1878 | 25.0 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
| 1879 | 25.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 | 25.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
| 1879 | 25.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 25.2 - 101.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 27.0 - 27.2 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 27.2 - 27.7 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 27.6 - 101.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 27.7 - 31.2 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
| 1882 | 28.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 | 28.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
| 1884 | 30.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 30.1 - 110.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 30.9 - 31.2 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 31.2 - 35.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1886 | 32.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
| 1886 | 32.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 | 32.8 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
| 1887 | 33.0 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 | 33.0 - 35.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
| 1888 | 34.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 34.2 - 34.5 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 34.5 - 64.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 35.2 - 39.2 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 35.3 - 91.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 1890 | 36.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
| 1890 | 36.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 36.8 - 115.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 39.2 - 43.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 42.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 42.0 - 43.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 43.2 - 47.7 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 45.8 - 48.4 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 | 46.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 47.7 - 55.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 | 47.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 48.0 - 113.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 | 49.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 | 50.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 50.0 - 54.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 | 52.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 53.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 54.7 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 54.8 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 55.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 55.2 - 59.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| May 30, 1911 | 57.4 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 57.4 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 57.8 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 59.2 - 67.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 60.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 60.5 - 64.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 60.6 - 64.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 60.7 - 61.6 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 60.8 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 62.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 62.4 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1917 - 1923 | 63.0 - 69.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 63.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 63.4 - 110.0 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| Nov 7, 1917 | 63.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 | 64.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
| 1919 | 65.0 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 65.2 - 71.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 65.2 - 65.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 65.4 - 65.6 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 11, 1919 | 65.6 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 | 65.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 67.2 - 69.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 | 68.0 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 | 68.9 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 69.6 - 75.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 69.7 - 69.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 | 69.7 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 71.4 - 80.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| 1928 | 74.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 74.5 - 113.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 75.1 - 114.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 75.2 - 79.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 75.9 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 76.1 - 77.4 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 76.3 - 78.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Today | 76.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| 1931 | 77.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 77.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 78.0 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 78.5 - 78.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 79.0 - 79.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 79.1 - 91.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 79.2 - 79.3 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 79.2 - 91.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 81.1 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 83.0 - 98.2 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| 1937 | 83.1 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| May 6, 1937 | 83.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 85.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - 1945 | 85.7 - 91.1 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 86.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 88.0 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
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