| Date | | Event | Category |
| Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-77.4) - 5.2 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
| Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-56.1) - 0.2 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
| Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-52.0) - 9.4 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-17.9) - 55.3 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-17.9) - 38.3 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
| Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-14.9) - 43.5 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-10.1) - 66.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-7.0) - 63.8 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | (-1.8) - 2.2 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
| Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 2.2 - 10.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
| May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 5.4 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 6.0 - 97.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| 1833 | 6.0 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 7.2 - 73.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| 1837 | 10.0 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
| 1837 | 10.0 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
| Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 10.2 - 14.2 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 31, 1837 | 10.8 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 11.5 - 90.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 | 12.0 - 15.0 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 14.2 - 14.3 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 14.3 - 18.2 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 17.0 - 83.5 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 17.9 - 102.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 18.2 - 22.2 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
| 1846 | 19.0 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
| 1846 | 19.0 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
| 1847 | 20.0 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
| 1847 | 20.0 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 20.1 - 104.9 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 20.2 - 95.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 21.2 - 22.8 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
| Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 21.3 - 22.3 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
| Dec 1, 1848 | 21.9 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
| 1849 | 22.0 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
| Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 22.2 - 23.5 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
| 1850 | 23.0 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
| Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 23.5 - 26.2 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
| 1851 | 24.0 | Western Union established | Companies |
| 1851 | 24.0 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
| 1851 | 24.0 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
| Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 25.9 - 43.7 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
| 1853 | 26.0 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
| Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 26.2 - 30.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 29.4 - 112.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 30.2 - 34.2 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
| 1859 | 32.0 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
| Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 34.2 - 38.3 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
| Mar 17, 1861 | 34.2 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 34.8 - 115.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 36.6 - 120.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 36.8 - 110.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 38.3 - 42.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 39.5 - 39.6 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
| Mar 10, 1867 | 40.2 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 | 41.0 - 51.0 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 42.2 - 50.2 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 42.7 - 57.0 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
| 1870 | 43.0 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 43.3 - 97.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 43.6 - 44.4 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 44.1 - 61.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
| Nov 9, 1871 | 44.9 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 47.9 - 138.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 49.0 - 140.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 50.2 - 54.2 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
| 1878 | 51.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 | 51.0 - 54.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Dec 31, 1878 | 52.0 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
| 1879 | 52.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 | 52.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
| 1879 | 52.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 52.2 - 128.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 54.0 - 54.3 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 54.2 - 54.8 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 54.6 - 128.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 54.8 - 58.2 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
| 1882 | 55.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 | 55.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
| 1884 | 57.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 57.1 - 137.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 57.9 - 58.2 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 58.2 - 62.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1886 | 59.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
| 1886 | 59.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 | 59.9 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
| 1887 | 60.0 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 | 60.0 - 62.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
| 1888 | 61.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 61.2 - 61.5 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 61.5 - 91.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 62.2 - 66.2 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 62.3 - 118.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 1890 | 63.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
| 1890 | 63.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 63.8 - 142.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 66.2 - 70.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 69.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 69.0 - 70.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 70.2 - 74.8 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 72.8 - 75.5 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 | 73.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 74.8 - 82.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 | 74.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 75.0 - 140.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 | 76.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 | 77.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 77.0 - 81.1 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 | 79.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 80.1 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 81.8 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 81.8 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 82.1 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 82.2 - 86.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| May 30, 1911 | 84.5 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 84.5 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 84.9 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 86.2 - 94.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 87.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 87.5 - 91.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 87.7 - 92.0 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 87.8 - 88.6 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 87.8 - 87.9 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 89.1 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 89.4 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
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