| 12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 |
(-38.1) - 18.1 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-38.1) - 35.1 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870 |
(-35.1) - 23.3 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 8 Jun 1815 - 24 Aug 1866 |
(-31.8) - 19.5 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-30.3) - 45.8 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-27.2) - 43.5 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-14.3) - 76.8 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-13.0) - 53.0 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 20 Jun 1837 - 22 Jan 1901 |
(-9.7) - 53.9 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-8.7) - 70.0 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 7 Oct 1840 - 17 Mar 1849 |
(-6.4) - 2.0 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem II |
Netherlands |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-3.3) - 63.2 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-2.3) - 82.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1845 - 4 Mar 1849 |
(-2.0) - 2.0 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-0.1) - 84.6 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-0.0) - 75.4 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
0.3 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| 1847 |
0.3 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| 27 Dec 1847 - 29 Aug 1877 |
0.8 - 30.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
| 1 Mar 1848 - 30 Sep 1849 |
1.0 - 2.5 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| 31 Mar 1848 - 3 Apr 1849 |
1.0 - 2.1 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| 1 Dec 1848 |
1.7 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| 4 Mar 1849 - 9 Jul 1850 |
2.0 - 3.3 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Mar 1849 - 23 Nov 1890 |
2.0 - 43.7 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 1849 |
2.3 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
3.3 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| 9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853 |
3.3 - 6.0 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
4.3 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
4.3 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
4.3 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
5.7 - 23.5 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 1857 |
6.0 - 10.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
6.3 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
9.2 - 92.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861 |
10.0 - 14.0 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 28 May 1857 - 12 Apr 1858 |
10.2 - 11.1 |
Utah War |
Mormon History |
| 1859 |
12.3 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865 |
14.0 - 18.1 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Mar 1861 |
14.0 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 12 Apr 1861 - 9 Apr 1865 |
14.1 - 18.1 |
American Civil War |
USA |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
14.5 - 95.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
16.4 - 100.1 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
16.6 - 90.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869 |
18.1 - 22.0 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866 |
19.2 - 19.4 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10 Mar 1867 |
20.0 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
21.3 - 31.3 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
22.0 - 30.0 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
22.5 - 37.3 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
23.1 - 76.9 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
23.3 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
23.4 - 24.2 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
23.9 - 41.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 4 May 1871 - 20 Mar 1890 |
24.2 - 43.0 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 9 Nov 1871 |
24.7 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
27.7 - 117.9 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
28.8 - 120.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
30.0 - 34.0 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
31.3 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
31.3 - 34.3 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 31 Dec 1878 |
31.8 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
32.0 - 108.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
32.3 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
32.3 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
32.3 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10 Oct 1880 - 25 Jul 1887 |
33.6 - 40.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
33.8 - 34.0 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
34.0 - 34.5 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
34.4 - 108.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
34.5 - 38.0 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
35.3 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
35.3 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
36.9 - 116.8 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
37.3 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
37.7 - 38.0 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
38.0 - 42.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
39.3 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
39.3 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
39.6 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
40.3 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
40.3 - 42.3 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
41.0 - 41.3 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
41.3 - 71.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
41.3 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
42.0 - 46.0 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 7 Apr 1889 - 2 Sep 1898 |
42.1 - 51.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
42.1 - 98.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
43.3 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
43.3 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
43.6 - 122.1 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23 Nov 1890 - 4 Sep 1948 |
43.7 - 101.5 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
46.0 - 50.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Apr 1893 |
46.1 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
49.3 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
49.3 - 50.3 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
50.0 - 54.5 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Sep 1898 - 10 Oct 1901 |
51.5 - 54.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
52.6 - 55.2 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
53.5 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22 Jan 1901 - 6 May 1910 |
53.9 - 63.2 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
54.5 - 62.0 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Oct 1901 - 19 Nov 1918 |
54.6 - 71.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
54.6 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
54.8 - 119.8 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
56.3 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
56.8 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
57.3 - 61.3 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
59.1 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
60.3 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
61.5 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
61.6 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
62.0 - 66.0 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
62.3 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 6 May 1910 - 20 Jan 1936 |
63.2 - 88.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30 May 1911 |
64.2 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
64.2 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
64.6 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
66.0 - 74.0 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
67.3 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
67.3 - 71.7 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
67.4 - 71.7 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
67.5 - 68.4 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
67.6 - 67.7 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
69.2 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
69.3 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
70.0 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
70.3 - 116.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
70.3 - 76.3 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
70.7 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
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