| Date | | Event | Category |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-39.9) - 33.3 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-39.9) - 16.3 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
| Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-36.9) - 21.4 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-32.1) - 44.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-29.0) - 41.7 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-16.1) - 75.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-14.8) - 51.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-10.5) - 68.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-5.1) - 61.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-4.1) - 80.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | (-3.8) - 0.2 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-1.9) - 82.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-1.8) - 73.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | (-0.8) - 0.7 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
| Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | (-0.8) - 0.3 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
| 1849 | | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
| Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 0.2 - 1.5 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
| 1850 | 1.0 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
| Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 1.5 - 4.2 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
| 1851 | 2.0 | Western Union established | Companies |
| 1851 | 2.0 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
| 1851 | 2.0 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
| Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 3.9 - 21.7 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
| 1853 | 4.0 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
| Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 4.2 - 8.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 7.3 - 90.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 8.2 - 12.2 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
| 1859 | 10.0 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
| Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 12.2 - 16.3 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
| Mar 17, 1861 | 12.2 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 12.7 - 93.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 14.6 - 98.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 14.8 - 88.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 16.3 - 20.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 17.4 - 17.6 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
| Mar 10, 1867 | 18.2 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 | 19.0 - 29.0 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 20.2 - 28.2 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 20.7 - 35.0 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
| 1870 | 21.0 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 21.3 - 75.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 21.6 - 22.4 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 22.1 - 39.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
| Nov 9, 1871 | 22.9 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 25.9 - 116.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 27.0 - 118.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 28.2 - 32.2 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
| 1878 | 29.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 | 29.0 - 32.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Dec 31, 1878 | 30.0 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
| 1879 | 30.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 | 30.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
| 1879 | 30.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 30.2 - 106.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 32.0 - 32.2 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 32.2 - 32.7 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 32.6 - 106.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 32.7 - 36.2 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
| 1882 | 33.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 | 33.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
| 1884 | 35.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 35.1 - 115.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 35.9 - 36.2 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 36.2 - 40.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1886 | 37.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
| 1886 | 37.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 | 37.8 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
| 1887 | 38.0 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 | 38.0 - 40.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
| 1888 | 39.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 39.2 - 39.5 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 39.5 - 69.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 40.2 - 44.2 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 40.3 - 96.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 1890 | 41.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
| 1890 | 41.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 41.8 - 120.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 44.2 - 48.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 47.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 47.0 - 48.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 48.2 - 52.7 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 50.8 - 53.4 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 | 51.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 52.7 - 60.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 | 52.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 53.0 - 118.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 | 54.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 | 55.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 55.0 - 59.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 | 57.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 58.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 59.7 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 59.8 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 60.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 60.2 - 64.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| May 30, 1911 | 62.4 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 62.4 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 62.8 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 64.2 - 72.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 65.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 65.5 - 69.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 65.6 - 69.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 65.7 - 66.6 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 65.8 - 65.9 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 67.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 67.4 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1917 - 1923 | 68.0 - 74.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 68.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 68.4 - 115.0 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| Nov 7, 1917 | 68.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 | 69.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
| 1919 | 70.0 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 70.2 - 76.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 70.2 - 70.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 70.4 - 70.6 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 11, 1919 | 70.7 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 | 70.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 72.2 - 74.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 | 73.0 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 | 73.9 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 74.6 - 80.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 74.7 - 74.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 | 74.7 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 76.4 - 85.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| 1928 | 79.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 79.5 - 118.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 80.1 - 119.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 80.2 - 84.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 80.9 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 81.1 - 82.4 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 81.3 - 83.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Today | 81.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| 1931 | 82.1 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 82.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 83.0 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 83.5 - 83.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 84.0 - 84.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 84.1 - 96.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 84.2 - 84.3 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 84.2 - 96.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 86.1 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 88.0 - 103.2 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| 1937 | 88.1 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| May 6, 1937 | 88.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
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