| 28 Aug 1749 - 22 Mar 1832 |
(-81.2) - 1.4 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
| 20 Jan 1775 - 10 Jun 1836 |
(-55.8) - 5.7 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
| 12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 |
(-21.7) - 34.5 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-21.7) - 51.6 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870 |
(-18.7) - 39.7 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 16 Mar 1815 - 7 Oct 1840 |
(-15.6) - 10.0 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem I |
Netherlands |
| 8 Jun 1815 - 24 Aug 1866 |
(-15.4) - 35.9 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-13.8) - 62.2 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-10.8) - 60.0 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1829 - 4 Mar 1837 |
(-1.6) - 6.4 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Apr 1830 - 27 Jun 1844 |
(-0.5) - 13.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Smith |
Mormon History |
| 27 May 1832 - 30 May 1832 |
1.6 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
2.2 - 93.3 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 1833 |
2.7 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
3.4 - 69.4 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1837 - 4 Mar 1841 |
6.4 - 10.4 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jun 1837 - 22 Jan 1901 |
6.7 - 70.3 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 1837 |
6.7 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
| 1837 |
6.7 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
| 31 Oct 1837 |
7.1 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
7.7 - 86.5 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 |
8.7 - 11.7 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Oct 1840 - 17 Mar 1849 |
10.0 - 18.4 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem II |
Netherlands |
| 4 Mar 1841 - 4 Apr 1841 |
10.4 - 10.5 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 Apr 1841 - 4 Mar 1845 |
10.5 - 14.4 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
13.2 - 79.7 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
14.1 - 98.5 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1845 - 4 Mar 1849 |
14.4 - 18.4 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 1846 |
15.7 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
| 1846 |
15.7 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
16.3 - 101.1 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
16.4 - 91.9 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
16.7 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| 1847 |
16.7 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| 27 Dec 1847 - 29 Aug 1877 |
17.2 - 46.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
| 1 Mar 1848 - 30 Sep 1849 |
17.4 - 19.0 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| 31 Mar 1848 - 3 Apr 1849 |
17.5 - 18.5 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| 1 Dec 1848 |
18.1 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| 4 Mar 1849 - 9 Jul 1850 |
18.4 - 19.8 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Mar 1849 - 23 Nov 1890 |
18.4 - 60.2 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 1849 |
18.7 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
19.7 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| 9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853 |
19.8 - 22.4 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
20.7 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
20.7 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
20.7 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
22.2 - 39.9 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 1857 |
22.4 - 26.4 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
22.7 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
25.6 - 109.0 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 |
26.4 - 30.4 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 28 May 1857 - 12 Apr 1858 |
26.6 - 27.5 |
Utah War |
Mormon History |
| 1859 |
28.7 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865 |
30.4 - 34.5 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Mar 1861 |
30.4 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 12 Apr 1861 - 9 Apr 1865 |
30.5 - 34.5 |
American Civil War |
USA |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
31.0 - 111.5 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
32.8 - 116.6 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
33.0 - 106.5 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 |
34.5 - 38.4 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866 |
35.7 - 35.8 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10 Mar 1867 |
36.4 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
37.7 - 47.7 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
38.4 - 46.4 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
38.9 - 53.8 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
39.6 - 93.3 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
39.7 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
39.8 - 40.6 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
40.3 - 57.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 4 May 1871 - 20 Mar 1890 |
40.6 - 59.5 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 9 Nov 1871 |
41.1 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
44.2 - 134.4 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
45.3 - 136.6 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
46.4 - 50.4 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
47.7 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
47.7 - 50.7 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 31 Dec 1878 |
48.2 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
48.4 - 124.6 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
48.7 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
48.7 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
48.7 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10 Oct 1880 - 25 Jul 1887 |
50.0 - 56.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
50.2 - 50.5 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
50.4 - 51.0 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
50.8 - 124.5 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
51.0 - 54.4 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
51.7 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
51.7 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
53.3 - 133.3 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
53.8 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
54.1 - 54.4 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
54.4 - 58.4 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
55.8 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
55.8 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
56.1 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
56.8 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
56.8 - 58.8 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
57.4 - 57.7 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
57.7 - 88.1 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
57.8 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
58.4 - 62.4 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 7 Apr 1889 - 2 Sep 1898 |
58.5 - 67.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
58.6 - 114.6 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
59.8 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
59.8 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
60.0 - 138.5 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23 Nov 1890 - 4 Sep 1948 |
60.2 - 118.0 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
62.4 - 66.4 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Apr 1893 |
62.5 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
65.8 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
65.8 - 66.8 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
66.4 - 71.0 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Sep 1898 - 10 Oct 1901 |
68.0 - 71.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
69.0 - 71.7 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
70.0 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22 Jan 1901 - 6 May 1910 |
70.3 - 79.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
71.0 - 78.4 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Oct 1901 - 19 Nov 1918 |
71.1 - 88.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
71.1 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
71.2 - 136.3 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
72.7 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
73.2 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
73.8 - 77.8 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
75.6 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
76.8 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
78.0 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
78.0 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
78.4 - 82.4 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
78.8 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 6 May 1910 - 20 Jan 1936 |
79.6 - 105.3 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30 May 1911 |
80.7 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
80.7 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
81.1 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
82.4 - 90.4 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
83.7 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
83.8 - 88.1 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
83.9 - 88.2 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
84.0 - 84.8 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
84.1 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Solomon Olmstead
Louisa Van Orman
Birth