| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-39.1) - 34.2 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
(-39.1) - 17.1 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-36.1) - 22.3 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-31.2) - 44.8 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-28.2) - 42.6 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-15.2) - 75.9 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-14.0) - 52.0 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-9.7) - 69.1 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-4.2) - 62.3 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-3.3) - 81.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
(-3.0) - 1.0 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-1.1) - 83.7 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-1.0) - 74.5 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
(-0.0) - 1.6 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
0.1 - 1.1 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| Dec 1, 1848 |
0.8 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
1.0 - 2.4 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 1849 |
1.3 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
2.3 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
2.4 - 5.0 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
3.3 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 1851 |
3.3 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
3.3 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
4.8 - 22.5 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
5.0 - 9.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
5.3 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
8.2 - 91.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
9.0 - 13.0 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
11.3 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
13.0 - 17.1 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| Mar 17, 1861 |
13.0 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
13.6 - 94.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
15.4 - 99.2 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
15.6 - 89.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
17.1 - 21.0 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
18.3 - 18.4 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| Mar 10, 1867 |
19.0 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
20.3 - 30.3 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
21.0 - 29.0 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
21.5 - 36.4 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
22.2 - 75.9 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
22.3 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
22.4 - 23.2 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
22.9 - 40.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 9, 1871 |
23.7 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
26.8 - 117.0 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
27.9 - 119.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
29.0 - 33.0 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
30.3 - 33.4 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
30.3 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| Dec 31, 1878 |
30.9 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
31.1 - 107.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
31.3 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
31.3 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
31.3 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
32.8 - 33.1 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
33.0 - 33.6 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
33.5 - 107.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
33.6 - 37.0 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
34.4 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
34.4 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
35.9 - 115.9 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
36.4 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
36.7 - 37.0 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
37.0 - 41.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
38.4 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
38.4 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
38.7 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
39.4 - 41.4 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
39.4 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
40.0 - 40.3 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
40.3 - 70.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
40.4 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
41.0 - 45.0 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
41.2 - 97.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
42.4 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
42.4 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
42.6 - 121.2 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
45.0 - 49.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
48.4 - 49.4 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
48.4 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
49.0 - 53.6 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
51.6 - 54.3 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
52.6 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
53.6 - 61.0 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
53.7 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
53.8 - 118.9 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
55.3 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
55.8 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
56.4 - 60.4 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
58.2 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
59.4 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
60.6 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
60.6 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
61.0 - 65.0 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
61.4 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
63.3 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
63.3 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
63.7 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
65.0 - 73.1 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
66.3 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
66.4 - 70.7 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
66.5 - 70.8 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
66.6 - 67.4 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
66.7 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
68.2 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
68.4 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
69.1 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
69.3 - 115.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
69.4 - 75.4 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 |
69.7 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 |
70.7 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
71.0 - 77.0 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
71.0 - 71.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
71.2 - 71.5 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
71.4 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 |
71.5 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 |
71.6 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
73.1 - 75.5 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 |
73.8 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 |
74.7 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
75.5 - 81.1 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
75.5 - 75.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 |
75.6 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
77.2 - 86.5 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
80.3 - 119.7 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
80.4 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
80.9 - 120.2 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
81.1 - 85.1 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
81.7 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
81.9 - 83.2 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
82.1 - 84.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
82.5 - 164.6 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
83.2 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
83.4 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
83.8 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
84.3 - 84.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
84.8 - 85.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
85.0 - 97.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
85.0 - 85.1 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
85.1 - 97.2 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
87.4 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
88.8 - 104.0 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
89.2 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
89.4 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
91.5 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
91.6 - 97.6 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
92.3 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
93.8 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
97.2 - 105.0 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
97.2 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
97.2 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
97.5 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
98.7 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
99.7 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
Varanes Snell
Mary Beal Kingsley
Birth