| 28-aug.-1749 - 22-mrt.-1832 |
(-75.9) - 6.7 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
| 17-dec.-1770 - 26-mrt.-1827 |
(-54.6) - 1.7 |
Life of Ludwig von Beethoven |
Personalities |
| 20-jan.-1775 - 10-jun.-1836 |
(-50.5) - 11.0 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
| 12-feb.-1809 - 19-apr.-1882 |
(-16.4) - 56.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 12-feb.-1809 - 15-apr.-1865 |
(-16.4) - 39.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 7-feb.-1812 - 9-jun.-1870 |
(-13.4) - 45.0 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 13-dec.-1816 - 6-dec.-1892 |
(-8.6) - 67.5 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30-dec.-1819 - 20-sep.-1890 |
(-5.5) - 65.3 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1825 - 4-mrt.-1829 |
(-0.3) - 3.7 |
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams |
USA - Presidents |
| 4-mrt.-1829 - 4-mrt.-1837 |
3.7 - 11.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
| 27-mei-1832 - 30-mei-1832 |
6.9 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
| 15-dec.-1832 - 27-dec.-1923 |
7.5 - 98.6 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 1833 |
8.0 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
| 17-mrt.-1834 - 6-mrt.-1900 |
8.7 - 74.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1837 - 4-mrt.-1841 |
11.7 - 15.7 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
| 1837 |
12.0 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
| 1837 |
12.0 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
| 31-okt.-1837 |
12.3 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
| 8-jul.-1838 - 8-mrt.-1917 |
13.0 - 91.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 |
14.0 - 17.0 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1841 - 4-apr.-1841 |
15.7 - 15.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 4-apr.-1841 - 4-mrt.-1845 |
15.8 - 19.7 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
| 11-dec.-1843 - 27-mei-1910 |
18.5 - 85.0 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25-nov.-1844 - 4-apr.-1929 |
19.4 - 103.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1845 - 4-mrt.-1849 |
19.7 - 23.7 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 1846 |
21.0 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
| 1846 |
21.0 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
| 11-feb.-1847 - 18-okt.-1931 |
21.6 - 106.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3-mrt.-1847 - 1-aug.-1922 |
21.7 - 97.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
22.0 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| 1847 |
22.0 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| 1-mrt.-1848 - 30-sep.-1849 |
22.7 - 24.3 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| 31-mrt.-1848 - 3-apr.-1849 |
22.8 - 23.8 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| 1-dec.-1848 |
23.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| 4-mrt.-1849 - 9-jul.-1850 |
23.7 - 25.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 1849 |
24.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
25.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| 9-jul.-1850 - 4-mrt.-1853 |
25.0 - 27.7 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
26.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
26.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
26.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 2-dec.-1852 - 4-sep.-1870 |
27.4 - 45.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4-mrt.-1853 - 4-mrt.-1857 |
27.7 - 31.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
28.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 6-mei-1856 - 23-sep.-1939 |
30.9 - 114.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1857 - 4-mrt.-1861 |
31.7 - 35.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
34.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4-mrt.-1861 - 15-apr.-1865 |
35.7 - 39.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17-mrt.-1861 |
35.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 23-sep.-1861 - 12-mrt.-1942 |
36.3 - 116.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30-jul.-1863 - 7-apr.-1947 |
38.1 - 121.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16-okt.-1863 - 17-mrt.-1937 |
38.3 - 111.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15-apr.-1865 - 4-mrt.-1869 |
39.8 - 43.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9-jun.-1866 - 26-jul.-1866 |
41.0 - 41.1 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10-mrt.-1867 |
41.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
43.0 - 53.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1869 - 4-mrt.-1877 |
43.7 - 51.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5-sep.-1869 - 1884 |
44.2 - 59.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22-apr.-1870 - 21-jan.-1924 |
44.8 - 98.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
45.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19-jul.-1870 - 10-mei-1871 |
45.1 - 45.9 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18-jan.-1871 - 9-mrt.-1888 |
45.6 - 62.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 9-nov.-1871 |
46.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30-nov.-1874 - 24-jan.-1965 |
49.5 - 139.7 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5-jan.-1876 - 19-apr.-1967 |
50.6 - 141.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1877 - 4-mrt.-1881 |
51.7 - 55.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
53.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
53.0 - 56.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 31-dec.-1878 |
53.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14-mrt.-1879 - 18-apr.-1955 |
53.7 - 129.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
54.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
54.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
54.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20-dec.-1880 - 23-mrt.-1881 |
55.5 - 55.8 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1881 - 19-sep.-1881 |
55.7 - 56.3 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-aug.-1881 - 11-mrt.-1955 |
56.1 - 129.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19-sep.-1881 - 4-mrt.-1885 |
56.3 - 59.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
57.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
57.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21-jan.-1884 - 12-dec.-1963 |
58.6 - 138.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
59.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15-nov.-1884 - 26-feb.-1885 |
59.4 - 59.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4-mrt.-1885 - 4-mrt.-1889 |
59.7 - 63.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
61.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
61.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 28-okt.-1886 |
61.4 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
62.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
62.0 - 64.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9-mrt.-1888 - 15-jun.-1888 |
62.7 - 63.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15-jun.-1888 - 9-nov.-1918 |
63.0 - 93.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
63.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1889 - 4-mrt.-1893 |
63.7 - 67.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-apr.-1889 - 30-apr.-1945 |
63.8 - 119.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
65.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
65.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14-okt.-1890 - 28-mrt.-1969 |
65.3 - 143.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1893 - 4-mrt.-1897 |
67.7 - 71.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
71.0 - 72.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
71.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 4-mrt.-1897 - 14-sep.-1901 |
71.7 - 76.3 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11-okt.-1899 - 31-mei-1902 |
74.3 - 77.0 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8-sep.-1900 |
75.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14-sep.-1901 - 4-mrt.-1909 |
76.3 - 83.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19-okt.-1901 |
76.4 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5-dec.-1901 - 15-dec.-1966 |
76.5 - 141.6 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16-jun.-1903 |
78.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16-dec.-1903 |
78.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
79.1 - 83.1 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18-apr.-1906 |
80.9 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
82.1 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16-sep.-1908 |
83.3 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27-sep.-1908 |
83.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1909 - 4-mrt.-1913 |
83.7 - 87.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
84.1 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30-mei-1911 |
86.0 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30-mei-1911 |
86.0 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23-okt.-1911 |
86.4 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4-mrt.-1913 - 4-mrt.-1921 |
87.7 - 95.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14-jun.-1914 - 15-jun.-1914 |
89.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28-jun.-1914 - 11-nov.-1918 |
89.1 - 93.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6-aug.-1914 - 25-nov.-1918 |
89.2 - 93.5 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13-sep.-1914 - 9-jul.-1915 |
89.3 - 90.1 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-okt.-1914 - 24-okt.-1914 |
89.3 - 89.4 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24-apr.-1916 - 30-apr.-1916 |
90.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
91.1 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8-mrt.-1917 - 12-mrt.-1917 |
91.7 - 91.8 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29-mei-1917 - 22-nov.-1963 |
92.0 - 138.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
92.1 - 98.1 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7-nov.-1917 |
92.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9-nov.-1918 |
93.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11-feb.-1919 - 28-feb.-1925 |
93.7 - 99.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13-feb.-1919 - 20-jun.-1919 |
93.7 - 94.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6-mei-1919 - 8-aug.-1919 |
93.9 - 94.2 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
94.1 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11-aug.-1919 |
94.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10-sep.-1919 |
94.3 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4-mrt.-1921 - 2-aug.-1923 |
95.7 - 98.2 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-dec.-1921 |
96.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28-okt.-1922 |
97.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2-aug.-1923 - 4-mrt.-1929 |
98.2 - 103.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13-aug.-1923 - 23-nov.-1923 |
98.2 - 98.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13-sep.-1923 |
98.3 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12-mei-1925 - 2-aug.-1934 |
99.9 - 109.2 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |