| 12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 |
(-39.1) - 17.1 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-39.1) - 34.2 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870 |
(-36.1) - 22.3 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 8 Jun 1815 - 24 Aug 1866 |
(-32.8) - 18.5 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-31.2) - 44.8 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-28.2) - 42.6 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-15.2) - 75.9 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-14.0) - 52.0 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 20 Jun 1837 - 22 Jan 1901 |
(-10.7) - 52.9 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-9.7) - 69.1 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 7 Oct 1840 - 17 Mar 1849 |
(-7.4) - 1.0 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem II |
Netherlands |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-4.2) - 62.3 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-3.3) - 81.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1845 - 4 Mar 1849 |
(-3.0) - 1.0 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-1.1) - 83.7 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-1.0) - 74.5 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 27 Dec 1847 - 29 Aug 1877 |
(-0.2) - 29.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
| 1 Mar 1848 - 30 Sep 1849 |
0 – 1.6 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| 31 Mar 1848 - 3 Apr 1849 |
0.1 - 1.1 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| 1 Dec 1848 |
0.8 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| 4 Mar 1849 - 9 Jul 1850 |
1.0 - 2.4 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Mar 1849 - 23 Nov 1890 |
1.0 - 42.8 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 1849 |
1.3 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
2.3 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| 9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853 |
2.4 - 5.0 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
3.3 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
3.3 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
3.3 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
4.8 - 22.5 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 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 |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
8.2 - 91.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 |
9.0 - 13.0 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 28 May 1857 - 12 Apr 1858 |
9.2 - 10.1 |
Utah War |
Mormon History |
| 1859 |
11.3 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865 |
13.0 - 17.1 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Mar 1861 |
13.1 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 12 Apr 1861 - 9 Apr 1865 |
13.1 - 17.1 |
American Civil War |
USA |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
13.6 - 94.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
15.4 - 99.2 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
15.6 - 89.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 |
17.1 - 21.0 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866 |
18.3 - 18.4 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10 Mar 1867 |
19.0 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
20.3 - 30.4 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
21.0 - 29.0 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
21.5 - 36.4 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
22.2 - 75.9 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
22.3 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
22.4 - 23.2 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
22.9 - 40.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 4 May 1871 - 20 Mar 1890 |
23.2 - 42.1 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 9 Nov 1871 |
23.7 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
26.8 - 117.0 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
27.9 - 119.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
29.0 - 33.0 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
30.4 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
30.4 - 33.4 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 31 Dec 1878 |
30.9 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
31.1 - 107.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
31.4 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
31.4 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
31.4 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10 Oct 1880 - 25 Jul 1887 |
32.6 - 39.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
32.8 - 33.1 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
33.0 - 33.6 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
33.5 - 107.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 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 |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
35.9 - 115.9 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
36.4 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
36.7 - 37.0 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
37.0 - 41.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
38.4 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
38.4 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
38.7 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
39.4 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
39.4 - 41.4 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
40.0 - 40.3 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
40.3 - 70.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
40.4 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
41.0 - 45.0 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 7 Apr 1889 - 2 Sep 1898 |
41.1 - 50.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
41.2 - 97.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
42.4 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
42.4 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
42.6 - 121.2 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23 Nov 1890 - 4 Sep 1948 |
42.8 - 100.6 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
45.0 - 49.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Apr 1893 |
45.1 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
48.4 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
48.4 - 49.4 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
49.0 - 53.6 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Sep 1898 - 10 Oct 1901 |
50.6 - 53.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
51.6 - 54.3 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
52.6 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22 Jan 1901 - 6 May 1910 |
52.9 - 62.2 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
53.6 - 61.0 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Oct 1901 - 19 Nov 1918 |
53.7 - 70.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
53.7 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
53.8 - 118.9 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
55.3 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 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 |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
58.2 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
59.4 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
60.6 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
60.6 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
61.0 - 65.0 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
61.4 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 6 May 1910 - 20 Jan 1936 |
62.2 - 87.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30 May 1911 |
63.3 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
63.3 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
63.7 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
65.0 - 73.1 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
66.3 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
66.4 - 70.7 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
66.5 - 70.8 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
66.6 - 67.4 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
66.7 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
68.2 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
68.4 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
69.1 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
69.3 - 115.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
69.4 - 75.4 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
69.7 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
70.7 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23 Nov 1918 - 14 May 1945 |
70.8 - 97.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
71.0 - 77.0 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
71.0 - 71.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
71.2 - 71.5 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
71.4 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
71.5 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
71.6 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
73.1 - 75.5 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
73.8 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
74.7 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
75.5 - 81.1 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
75.5 - 75.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
75.6 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
77.2 - 86.5 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
80.3 - 119.7 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
80.4 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
80.9 - 120.2 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
81.1 - 85.1 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
81.7 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
81.9 - 83.2 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
82.1 - 84.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
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