28.08.1749 - 22.03.1832 |
(-76.1) - 6.6 |
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Personalities |
17.12.1770 - 26.03.1827 |
(-54.7) - 1.6 |
Life of Ludwig von Beethoven |
Personalities |
20.01.1775 - 10.06.1836 |
(-50.7) - 10.8 |
Life of André Marie Ampère |
Personalities |
12.02.1809 - 19.04.1882 |
(-16.6) - 56.7 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
12.02.1809 - 15.04.1865 |
(-16.6) - 39.6 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
07.02.1812 - 09.06.1870 |
(-13.6) - 44.8 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
16.03.1815 - 07.10.1840 |
(-10.5) - 15.1 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem I |
Netherlands |
08.06.1815 - 24.08.1866 |
(-10.2) - 41.0 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
13.12.1816 - 06.12.1892 |
(-8.7) - 67.3 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
30.12.1819 - 20.09.1890 |
(-5.7) - 65.1 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
04.03.1825 - 04.03.1829 |
(-0.5) - 3.5 |
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams |
USA - Presidents |
04.03.1829 - 04.03.1837 |
3.5 - 11.5 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson |
USA - Presidents |
06.04.1830 - 27.06.1844 |
4.6 - 18.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Smith |
Mormon History |
06.04.1830 |
4.6 |
Founding of the Church of Christ |
Mormon History |
27.05.1832 - 30.05.1832 |
6.7 |
'Hambacher Fest' |
Germany |
15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
7.3 - 98.4 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
1833 |
7.8 |
Establishment of Shell |
Companies |
17.03.1834 - 06.03.1900 |
8.5 - 74.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
04.03.1837 - 04.03.1841 |
11.5 - 15.5 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
20.06.1837 - 22.01.1901 |
11.8 - 75.4 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
1837 |
11.8 |
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company |
Companies |
1837 |
11.8 |
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) |
Companies |
31.10.1837 |
12.2 |
Establishment of Procter & Gamble |
Companies |
08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
12.9 - 91.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
1839 - 1842 |
13.8 - 16.8 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
07.10.1840 - 17.03.1849 |
15.1 - 23.6 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem II |
Netherlands |
04.03.1841 - 04.04.1841 |
15.5 - 15.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
04.04.1841 - 04.03.1845 |
15.6 - 19.5 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
18.3 - 84.8 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
19.2 - 103.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
04.03.1845 - 04.03.1849 |
19.5 - 23.5 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
1846 |
20.8 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
1846 |
20.8 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
21.5 - 106.2 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
21.5 - 97.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
1847 |
21.8 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
1847 |
21.8 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
27.12.1847 - 29.08.1877 |
22.3 - 52.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
01.03.1848 - 30.09.1849 |
22.5 - 24.1 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
31.03.1848 - 03.04.1849 |
22.6 - 23.6 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
01.12.1848 |
23.3 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
04.03.1849 - 09.07.1850 |
23.5 - 24.9 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
17.03.1849 - 23.11.1890 |
23.6 - 65.3 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
1849 |
23.8 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
24.8 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
09.07.1850 - 04.03.1853 |
24.9 - 27.5 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
25.8 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
1851 |
25.8 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
1851 |
25.8 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
02.12.1852 - 04.09.1870 |
27.3 - 45.0 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
04.03.1853 - 04.03.1857 |
27.5 - 31.5 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
27.8 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
30.7 - 114.1 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
04.03.1857 - 04.03.1861 |
31.5 - 35.5 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
28.05.1857 - 12.04.1858 |
31.8 - 32.6 |
Utah War |
Mormon History |
1859 |
33.8 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
04.03.1861 - 15.04.1865 |
35.5 - 39.6 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
17.03.1861 |
35.6 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
12.04.1861 - 09.04.1865 |
35.6 - 39.6 |
American Civil War |
USA |
23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
36.1 - 116.6 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
37.9 - 121.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
38.1 - 111.6 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
15.04.1865 - 04.03.1869 |
39.6 - 43.5 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
09.06.1866 - 26.07.1866 |
40.8 - 40.9 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
10.03.1867 |
41.5 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
42.9 - 52.9 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1869 - 04.03.1877 |
43.5 - 51.5 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
05.09.1869 - 1884 |
44.0 - 58.9 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
44.7 - 98.4 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
44.9 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
19.07.1870 - 10.05.1871 |
44.9 - 45.7 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
18.01.1871 - 09.03.1888 |
45.4 - 62.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
04.05.1871 - 20.03.1890 |
45.7 - 64.6 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
09.11.1871 |
46.2 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
49.3 - 139.5 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
50.4 - 141.7 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
04.03.1877 - 04.03.1881 |
51.5 - 55.5 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
52.9 - 55.9 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
52.9 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
31.12.1878 |
53.4 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
53.6 - 129.7 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
53.9 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
53.9 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
53.9 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
10.10.1880 - 25.07.1887 |
55.1 - 61.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
20.12.1880 - 23.03.1881 |
55.3 - 55.6 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1881 - 19.09.1881 |
55.5 - 56.1 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
56.0 - 129.6 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19.09.1881 - 04.03.1885 |
56.1 - 59.5 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
56.9 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
56.9 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
58.4 - 138.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
58.9 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15.11.1884 - 26.02.1885 |
59.2 - 59.5 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
04.03.1885 - 04.03.1889 |
59.5 - 63.5 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
60.9 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
60.9 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
28.10.1886 |
61.2 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
61.9 - 63.9 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
61.9 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
09.03.1888 - 15.06.1888 |
62.6 - 62.8 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
62.8 - 93.2 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
62.9 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
04.03.1889 - 04.03.1893 |
63.5 - 67.5 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
07.04.1889 - 02.09.1898 |
63.6 - 73.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
63.7 - 119.7 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
64.9 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
1890 |
64.9 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
65.2 - 143.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
65.3 - 123.1 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
04.03.1893 - 04.03.1897 |
67.5 - 71.5 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
06.04.1893 |
67.6 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
1896 |
70.9 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
70.9 - 71.9 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1897 - 14.09.1901 |
71.5 - 76.1 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
13.09.1898 - 10.10.1901 |
73.1 - 76.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
11.10.1899 - 31.05.1902 |
74.2 - 76.8 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
08.09.1900 |
75.1 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
75.4 - 84.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
76.1 - 83.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
76.2 - 93.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
19.10.1901 |
76.2 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
76.3 - 141.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16.06.1903 |
77.8 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16.12.1903 |
78.3 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
78.9 - 82.9 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18.04.1906 |
80.7 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
81.9 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16.09.1908 |
83.1 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27.09.1908 |
83.1 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
83.6 - 87.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
83.9 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
84.7 - 110.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
30.05.1911 |
85.8 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
30.05.1911 |
85.8 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
23.10.1911 |
86.2 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
87.6 - 95.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
88.8 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
88.9 - 93.2 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
89.0 - 93.3 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
89.1 - 89.9 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
89.2 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
90.7 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
90.9 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
91.6 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
91.8 - 138.3 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
91.9 - 97.9 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
07.11.1917 |
92.2 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
09.11.1918 |
93.2 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
93.3 - 119.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
93.5 - 99.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
93.5 - 93.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
93.7 - 94.0 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
93.9 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11.08.1919 |
94.0 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10.09.1919 |
94.1 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
95.6 - 98.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
06.12.1921 |
96.3 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28.10.1922 |
97.2 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
98.0 - 103.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
98.0 - 98.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13.09.1923 |
98.1 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
99.8 - 109.0 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |