Date | | Event | Category |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-72.1) - 3.9 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-69.1) - 1.7 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-56.1) - 35.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-54.8) - 11.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-50.5) - 28.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-45.1) - 21.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-44.1) - 40.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-41.9) - 42.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-41.9) - 33.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-32.7) - 50.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-27.3) - 53.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-25.4) - 58.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-25.2) - 48.2 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-18.7) - 35.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-14.1) - 76.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-13.0) - 78.3 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-9.8) - 66.3 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-7.4) - 66.2 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-5.0) - 75.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | (-3.8) - 0.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1887 - 1889 | (-2.0) | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-0.5) - 29.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 0.2 - 4.2 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 0.3 - 56.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 1.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
1890 | 1.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 1.8 - 80.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 4.2 - 8.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 7.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 7.0 - 8.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 8.2 - 12.7 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 10.8 - 13.4 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 11.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 12.7 - 20.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 12.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 12.9 - 78.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 14.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 15.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 15.0 - 19.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 17.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 18.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 19.7 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 19.7 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
1909 | 20.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 20.2 - 24.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
May 30, 1911 | 22.4 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 22.4 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 22.8 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 24.2 - 32.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 25.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 25.5 - 29.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 25.6 - 29.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 25.7 - 26.5 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 25.8 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1916 | 27.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 27.3 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1917 - 1923 | 28.0 - 34.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 28.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 28.4 - 74.9 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Nov 7, 1917 | 28.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |