Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-53.1) - 20.1 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-53.1) - 3.1 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-50.1) - 8.2 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Jun 8, 1815 - Aug 24, 1866 | (-46.8) - 4.4 | German Confederation | Germany |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-45.3) - 30.7 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-42.2) - 28.5 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-29.3) - 61.8 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-28.0) - 38.0 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jun 20, 1837 - Jan 22, 1901 | (-24.8) - 38.9 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria | Great Britain |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-23.7) - 55.0 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-18.3) - 48.2 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-17.3) - 67.1 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-15.1) - 69.6 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-15.1) - 60.4 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Dec 27, 1847 - Aug 29, 1877 | (-14.2) - 15.5 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young | Mormon History |
Mar 17, 1849 - Nov 23, 1890 | (-13.0) - 28.7 | King of the Netherlands: Willem III | Netherlands |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | (-9.3) - 8.5 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-5.9) - 77.6 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-1.0) - 3.1 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1861 - Apr 9, 1865 | (-0.9) - 3.1 | American Civil War | USA |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-0.5) - 80.0 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 1.4 - 85.1 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 1.6 - 75.0 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 3.1 - 7.0 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 4.2 - 4.4 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 5.0 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 6.3 - 16.3 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 7.0 - 15.0 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 7.5 - 22.3 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 8.1 - 61.9 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
1870 | 8.3 | Start of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 8.3 - 9.1 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 8.8 - 26.0 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
May 4, 1871 - Mar 20, 1890 | 9.1 - 28.0 | Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 9.6 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 12.7 - 102.9 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 13.8 - 105.2 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 15.0 - 19.0 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 | 16.3 - 19.3 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 | 16.3 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 | 16.8 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 17.0 - 93.1 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 17.3 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 17.3 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 17.3 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 10, 1880 - Jul 25, 1887 | 18.6 - 25.4 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor | Mormon History |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 18.8 - 19.0 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 19.0 - 19.5 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 19.4 - 93.0 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 19.5 - 23.0 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 20.3 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
1882 | 20.3 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 21.9 - 101.8 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 22.3 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 22.7 - 23.0 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 23.0 - 27.0 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 24.3 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
1886 | 24.3 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 24.6 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 | 25.3 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
1887 - 1889 | 25.3 - 27.3 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 26.0 - 26.3 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 26.3 - 56.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 26.3 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 27.0 - 31.0 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 7, 1889 - Sep 2, 1898 | 27.1 - 36.5 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff | Mormon History |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 27.1 - 83.2 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 28.3 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 28.3 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 28.6 - 107.1 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Nov 23, 1890 - Sep 4, 1948 | 28.7 - 86.5 | Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina | Netherlands |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 31.0 - 35.0 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
Apr 6, 1893 | 31.1 | Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple | Mormon History |
1896 | 34.3 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 34.3 - 35.3 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 35.0 - 39.5 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Sep 13, 1898 - Oct 10, 1901 | 36.5 - 39.6 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow | Mormon History |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 37.6 - 40.2 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 38.5 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Jan 22, 1901 - May 6, 1910 | 38.9 - 48.2 | King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII | Great Britain |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 39.5 - 47.0 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 17, 1901 - Nov 19, 1918 | 39.6 - 56.7 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. | Mormon History |
Oct 19, 1901 | 39.6 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 39.7 - 104.8 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 41.3 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 41.8 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 42.3 - 46.3 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 44.1 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 45.3 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 46.5 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 46.6 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 47.0 - 51.0 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 47.3 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 6, 1910 - Jan 20, 1936 | 48.2 - 73.9 | King of the United Kingdom: George V | Great Britain |
May 30, 1911 | 49.2 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 49.2 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 49.6 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 51.0 - 59.0 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 52.3 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 52.3 - 56.7 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 52.4 - 56.7 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 52.5 - 53.3 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 52.6 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 54.1 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 54.3 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 55.0 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 55.2 - 101.7 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 55.3 - 61.3 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 55.7 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 56.7 | German Revolution | Germany |
Nov 23, 1918 - May 14, 1945 | 56.7 - 83.2 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant | Mormon History |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 56.9 - 63.0 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 56.9 - 57.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 57.2 - 57.4 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 57.3 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 57.4 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 57.5 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 59.0 - 61.4 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 59.8 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 60.6 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 61.4 - 67.0 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 61.4 - 61.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 61.5 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 63.2 - 72.4 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 66.3 - 105.6 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 66.3 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 66.9 - 106.1 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 67.0 - 71.0 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 67.6 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 67.9 - 69.2 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 68.1 - 70.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 68.4 - 150.5 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 69.1 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 69.3 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 69.8 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 70.2 - 70.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 70.8 - 70.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 70.9 - 83.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 71.0 - 71.1 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 71.0 - 83.1 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 73.3 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 20, 1936 - Dec 11, 1936 | 73.9 - 74.8 | King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII | Great Britain |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 74.8 - 89.9 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 74.8 - 89.9 | King of the United Kingdom: George VI | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 75.2 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 75.3 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 77.5 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 77.5 - 83.5 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 78.2 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 79.8 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 83.1 - 90.9 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 83.2 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 83.2 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |