| Nov 10, 1483 - Feb 18, 1546 |
(-10.6) - 51.7 |
Life of Martin Luther |
Personalities |
| Aug 22, 1485 - Apr 21, 1509 |
(-8.9) - 14.8 |
King of England: Henry VII |
Great Britain |
| Sep 25, 1493 - Jun 11, 1496 |
(-0.8) - 2.0 |
Second voyage of Christopher Columbus |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1495 |
1.0 |
League of Venice ('Holy League of 1495') |
Italy |
| May 30, 1498 - Nov 25, 1500 |
3.9 - 6.4 |
Third voyage of Christopher Columbus |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| May 11, 1502 - Nov 7, 1504 |
7.9 - 10.4 |
Fourth voyage of Christopher Columbus |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1505 |
11.0 |
Portugal starts building coastal fortifications in eastern Africa and India |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jul 10, 1509 - May 27, 1564 |
15.0 - 70.0 |
Life of Johannes Calvin |
Personalities |
| Oct 31, 1517 |
23.4 |
Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the doors of All Saint's Church in Wittenberg |
World |
| May 6, 1527 - Jun 7, 1527 |
32.9 - 33.0 |
'Sack of Rome' |
Italy |
| 1535 - 1542 |
41.0 - 48.0 |
Act of Union 1535 |
Great Britain |
| CA 1540 - Jan 28, 1596 |
46.0 - 101.6 |
Life of Sir Francis Drake |
Personalities |
| Feb 23, 1556 |
61.7 |
The deadliest earthquake on record: Shaanxi earthquake ('Jiajing earthquake') |
Disasters |
| Nov 17, 1558 - CA 1575 |
64.4 - 81.1 |
Queen of England: Elizabeth I |
Great Britain |
| 1562 |
68.0 |
Start of the Huguenot Wars |
France |
| Feb 15, 1564 - Jan 8, 1642 |
69.7 - 147.6 |
Life of Galileo Galilei |
Personalities |
| 1565 |
71.0 |
Founding of St. Augustine |
USA |
| Jul 26, 1572 - Aug 2, 1572 |
78.1 |
Battle of Molodi |
Russia |
| Apr 13, 1598 |
103.9 |
Edict of Nantes |
France |
| Dec 31, 1600 |
106.6 |
Establishment of the British East India Company |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| CA 1601 |
107.1 |
William Gilbert discovers electricity |
Technology |
| 1606 |
112.1 |
Discovery of Australia |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1618 - 1648 |
124.1 - 154.1 |
Thirty Years' War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1620 |
126.1 |
Voyage of the Mayflower, puritan 'Pilgrims' establish Plymouth (Massachusetts) |
USA |
| 1623 |
129.1 |
Start of construction of Versailles Palace |
Monuments |
| 1626 |
132.1 |
French settlement in Senegal |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 25, 1642 - Mar 20, 1726 |
148.6 - 231.9 |
Life of Isaac Newton |
Personalities |
| Nov 7, 1665 |
171.5 |
First issue of the London Gazette |
Companies |
| May 2, 1666 - Sep 5, 1666 |
172.0 - 172.3 |
Great Fire of London |
Great Britain |
| 1682 |
188.1 |
German company lands at the Gold Coast |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 21, 1685 - Jul 28, 1750 |
190.9 - 256.2 |
Life of Johann Sebastian Bach |
Personalities |
| May 24, 1686 - Sep 16, 1736 |
192.0 - 242.4 |
Life of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
Personalities |
| Jan 18, 1689 - Feb 10, 1755 |
194.7 - 260.8 |
Life of Charles De Secondat, Baron de Montequieu |
Personalities |
| Feb 13, 1689 |
194.8 |
Adoption of the Bill of Rights |
Great Britain |
| Jun 12, 1690 |
196.1 |
Battle of the Boyne |
Great Britain |
| Jul 17, 1695 |
201.2 |
Establishment of the Bank of Scotland |
Companies |
| Jan 17, 1706 - Apr 17, 1790 |
211.7 - 296.0 |
Life of Benjamin Franklin |
Personalities |
| Feb 22, 1732 - Dec 14, 1799 |
237.8 - 305.7 |
Life of George Washington |
Personalities |
| Dec 23, 1732 - Aug 5, 1792 |
238.6 - 298.3 |
Life of Richard Arkwright |
Personalities |
| 1737 |
243.2 |
Dissolution of the House of Medici |
Italy |
| Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 |
255.3 - 338.0 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
| Nov 1, 1755 |
261.5 |
Great Lisbon Earthquake |
Disasters |
| 1756 - 1763 |
262.2 - 269.2 |
Seven Years' War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Feb 10, 1763 |
268.8 |
Treaty of 1763 ('Peace of Paris'), Spain cedes Florida to Britain. |
USA |
| Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 |
275.3 - 327.1 |
Life of Napoléon Bonaparte |
Personalities |
| Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 |
276.6 - 333.0 |
Life of Ludwig von Beethoven |
Personalities |
| Dec 16, 1773 |
279.6 |
Boston Tea Party |
USA |
| Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 |
280.7 - 342.2 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
| Jul 4, 1776 |
282.2 |
Declaration of Independence |
USA |
| Sep 3, 1783 |
289.4 |
Treaty of Paris 1783, end of the American War of Independence |
USA |
| Apr 30, 1789 - Mar 4, 1797 |
295.0 - 302.9 |
President of the United States of America: George Washington |
USA - Presidents |
| Jul 14, 1789 |
295.2 |
Storming of the Bastille |
France |
| Sep 3, 1791 |
297.4 |
Adoption of the first French Constitution |
France |
| 1792 - 1800 |
298.2 - 306.2 |
Construction period of the White House |
Monuments |
| Sep 22, 1792 |
298.4 |
Proclamation of the first French Republic |
France |
| 1794 |
300.2 |
First railway steam locomotive |
Technology |
| 1795 |
301.2 |
Start of the exploration of the Niger |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jul 22, 1795 |
301.3 |
Peace of Basel |
Spain |
| Feb 14, 1797 |
302.8 |
Battle of Cape St. Vincent |
Spain |
| Oct 30, 1797 - Mar 4, 1801 |
303.5 - 306.9 |
President of the United States of America: John Adams |
USA - Presidents |
| 1799 |
305.2 |
Establishment of JPMorgan Chase |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1801 - Mar 4, 1809 |
306.9 - 314.9 |
President of the United States of America: Thomas Jefferson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1802 |
308.2 |
Establishment of DuPont |
Companies |
| Mar 20, 1804 - Apr 6, 1814 |
309.9 - 320.0 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon I |
France |
| Dec 2, 1804 |
310.6 |
Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French |
France |
| Sep 1, 1808 - Jan 15, 1812 |
314.4 - 317.8 |
Junta Suprema Central |
Spain |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
314.8 - 388.1 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
314.8 - 371.0 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1809 - Mar 4, 1817 |
314.9 - 322.9 |
President of the United States of America: James Madison |
USA - Presidents |
| 1810 |
316.2 |
Establishment of Krupp |
Companies |
| Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
317.8 - 376.2 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| Jun 18, 1812 |
318.2 |
War of 1812 between the United States of America and the British Empire starts. |
USA |
| 1812 |
318.2 |
Establishment of Citibank |
Companies |
| Sep 18, 1813 - Jun 9, 1815 |
319.4 - 321.2 |
Congress of Vienna |
European Union |
| Dec 11, 1813 |
319.7 |
Treaty of Valençay |
Spain |
| Jun 22, 1815 - Jul 7, 1815 |
321.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon II |
France |
| 1816 |
322.2 |
Establishment of the American Colonization Society |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1816 |
322.2 |
Invention of the stethoscope |
Medicine |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
322.7 - 398.7 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 |
322.9 - 330.9 |
President of the United States of America: James Monroe |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 18, 1817 - Oct 19, 1817 |
323.5 |
Wartburg Festival |
Germany |
| 1818 |
324.2 |
First blood transfusion |
Medicine |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
325.7 - 396.5 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Dec 2, 1823 |
329.6 |
'Monroe Doctrine' |
USA |
| Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 |
330.9 - 334.9 |
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams |
USA - Presidents |
| Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 |
334.9 - 342.9 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
| May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 |
338.1 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
338.7 - 429.8 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 1833 |
339.2 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
339.9 - 406.0 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 |
342.9 - 346.9 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
| 1837 |
343.2 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
| 1837 |
343.2 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
| Oct 31, 1837 |
343.6 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
344.2 - 423.0 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 |
345.2 - 348.2 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 |
346.9 - 347.0 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 |
347.0 - 350.9 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
349.7 - 416.2 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
350.6 - 435.0 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
350.9 - 354.9 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 1846 |
352.2 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
| 1846 |
352.2 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
352.9 - 437.6 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
352.9 - 428.4 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
353.2 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| 1847 |
353.2 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
353.9 - 355.5 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
354.0 - 355.0 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| Dec 1, 1848 |
354.7 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
354.9 - 356.3 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 1849 |
355.2 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
356.2 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
356.3 - 358.9 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
357.2 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 1851 |
357.2 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
357.2 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
358.7 - 376.4 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
358.9 - 362.9 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
359.2 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
362.1 - 445.5 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
362.9 - 366.9 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
365.2 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
366.9 - 371.0 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| Mar 17, 1861 |
367.0 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
367.5 - 448.0 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
369.3 - 453.1 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
369.5 - 443.0 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
371.0 - 374.9 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
372.2 - 372.3 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| Mar 10, 1867 |
372.9 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
374.2 - 384.3 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
374.9 - 382.9 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
375.4 - 390.3 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
376.1 - 429.8 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
376.2 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
376.3 - 377.1 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
376.8 - 394.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 9, 1871 |
377.6 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
380.7 - 470.9 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
381.8 - 473.1 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
382.9 - 386.9 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
384.3 - 387.3 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
384.3 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| Dec 31, 1878 |
384.8 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
385.0 - 461.1 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
385.3 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
385.3 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
385.3 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
386.7 - 387.0 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
386.9 - 387.5 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
387.4 - 461.0 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
387.5 - 390.9 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
388.3 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
388.3 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
389.8 - 469.8 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
390.3 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
390.6 - 390.9 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
390.9 - 394.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
392.3 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
392.3 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
392.6 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
393.3 - 395.3 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
393.3 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
394.0 - 394.2 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
394.2 - 424.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
394.3 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
394.9 - 398.9 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
395.1 - 451.1 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
396.3 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
396.3 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
396.6 - 475.1 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
398.9 - 402.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
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