| 12-feb.-1809 - 19-apr.-1882 |
(-54.0) - 19.2 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 12-feb.-1809 - 15-apr.-1865 |
(-54.0) - 2.2 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 7-feb.-1812 - 9-jun.-1870 |
(-51.1) - 7.3 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 13-dec.-1816 - 6-dec.-1892 |
(-46.2) - 29.8 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30-dec.-1819 - 20-sep.-1890 |
(-43.2) - 27.6 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15-dec.-1832 - 27-dec.-1923 |
(-30.2) - 60.9 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17-mrt.-1834 - 6-mrt.-1900 |
(-28.9) - 37.1 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8-jul.-1838 - 8-mrt.-1917 |
(-24.6) - 54.1 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11-dec.-1843 - 27-mei-1910 |
(-19.2) - 47.3 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25-nov.-1844 - 4-apr.-1929 |
(-18.2) - 66.2 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11-feb.-1847 - 18-okt.-1931 |
(-16.0) - 68.7 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3-mrt.-1847 - 1-aug.-1922 |
(-16.0) - 59.5 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 2-dec.-1852 - 4-sep.-1870 |
(-10.2) - 7.6 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 6-mei-1856 - 23-sep.-1939 |
(-6.8) - 76.7 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1861 - 15-apr.-1865 |
(-2.0) - 2.2 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 23-sep.-1861 - 12-mrt.-1942 |
(-1.4) - 79.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30-jul.-1863 - 7-apr.-1947 |
0.5 - 84.2 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16-okt.-1863 - 17-mrt.-1937 |
0.7 - 74.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15-apr.-1865 - 4-mrt.-1869 |
2.2 - 6.1 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9-jun.-1866 - 26-jul.-1866 |
3.3 - 3.4 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10-mrt.-1867 |
4.1 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
5.4 - 15.4 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1869 - 4-mrt.-1877 |
6.1 - 14.1 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5-sep.-1869 - 1884 |
6.6 - 21.4 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22-apr.-1870 - 21-jan.-1924 |
7.2 - 61.0 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
7.4 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19-jul.-1870 - 10-mei-1871 |
7.4 - 8.2 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18-jan.-1871 - 9-mrt.-1888 |
7.9 - 25.1 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 9-nov.-1871 |
8.7 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30-nov.-1874 - 24-jan.-1965 |
11.8 - 102.0 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5-jan.-1876 - 19-apr.-1967 |
12.9 - 104.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1877 - 4-mrt.-1881 |
14.1 - 18.1 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
15.4 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
15.4 - 18.4 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 31-dec.-1878 |
15.9 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14-mrt.-1879 - 18-apr.-1955 |
16.1 - 92.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
16.4 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
16.4 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
16.4 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20-dec.-1880 - 23-mrt.-1881 |
17.9 - 18.1 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1881 - 19-sep.-1881 |
18.1 - 18.6 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-aug.-1881 - 11-mrt.-1955 |
18.5 - 92.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19-sep.-1881 - 4-mrt.-1885 |
18.6 - 22.1 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
19.4 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
19.4 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21-jan.-1884 - 12-dec.-1963 |
20.9 - 100.9 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
21.4 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15-nov.-1884 - 26-feb.-1885 |
21.8 - 22.0 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4-mrt.-1885 - 4-mrt.-1889 |
22.1 - 26.1 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
23.4 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
23.4 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 28-okt.-1886 |
23.7 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
24.4 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
24.4 - 26.4 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9-mrt.-1888 - 15-jun.-1888 |
25.1 - 25.4 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15-jun.-1888 - 9-nov.-1918 |
25.4 - 55.8 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
25.4 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1889 - 4-mrt.-1893 |
26.1 - 30.1 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-apr.-1889 - 30-apr.-1945 |
26.2 - 82.3 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
27.4 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
27.4 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14-okt.-1890 - 28-mrt.-1969 |
27.7 - 106.2 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1893 - 4-mrt.-1897 |
30.1 - 34.1 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
33.4 - 34.4 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
33.4 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 4-mrt.-1897 - 14-sep.-1901 |
34.1 - 38.6 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11-okt.-1899 - 31-mei-1902 |
36.7 - 39.3 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8-sep.-1900 |
37.6 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14-sep.-1901 - 4-mrt.-1909 |
38.6 - 46.1 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19-okt.-1901 |
38.7 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5-dec.-1901 - 15-dec.-1966 |
38.8 - 103.9 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16-jun.-1903 |
40.4 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16-dec.-1903 |
40.9 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
41.4 - 45.4 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18-apr.-1906 |
43.2 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
44.4 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16-sep.-1908 |
45.6 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27-sep.-1908 |
45.6 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1909 - 4-mrt.-1913 |
46.1 - 50.1 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
46.4 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30-mei-1911 |
48.3 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30-mei-1911 |
48.3 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23-okt.-1911 |
48.7 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4-mrt.-1913 - 4-mrt.-1921 |
50.1 - 58.1 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14-jun.-1914 - 15-jun.-1914 |
51.4 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28-jun.-1914 - 11-nov.-1918 |
51.4 - 55.8 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6-aug.-1914 - 25-nov.-1918 |
51.5 - 55.8 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13-sep.-1914 - 9-jul.-1915 |
51.6 - 52.4 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-okt.-1914 - 24-okt.-1914 |
51.7 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24-apr.-1916 - 30-apr.-1916 |
53.2 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
53.4 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8-mrt.-1917 - 12-mrt.-1917 |
54.1 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29-mei-1917 - 22-nov.-1963 |
54.3 - 100.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
54.4 - 60.4 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7-nov.-1917 |
54.8 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9-nov.-1918 |
55.8 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11-feb.-1919 - 28-feb.-1925 |
56.0 - 62.1 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13-feb.-1919 - 20-jun.-1919 |
56.0 - 56.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6-mei-1919 - 8-aug.-1919 |
56.3 - 56.5 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
56.4 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11-aug.-1919 |
56.5 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10-sep.-1919 |
56.6 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4-mrt.-1921 - 2-aug.-1923 |
58.1 - 60.5 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-dec.-1921 |
58.8 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28-okt.-1922 |
59.7 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2-aug.-1923 - 4-mrt.-1929 |
60.5 - 66.1 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13-aug.-1923 - 23-nov.-1923 |
60.5 - 60.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13-sep.-1923 |
60.6 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
August Joseph Walle
Catherine Rose Joseph Devroede
Birth