| 12. feb. 1809 - 15. apr. 1865 |
(-31.4) - 24.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 12. feb. 1809 - 19. apr. 1882 |
(-31.4) - 41.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 7. feb. 1812 - 9. jun. 1870 |
(-28.4) - 29.9 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 16. mar. 1815 - 7. okt. 1840 |
(-25.3) - 0.3 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem I |
Netherlands |
| 8. jun. 1815 - 24. aug. 1866 |
(-25.1) - 26.1 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
| 13. dec. 1816 - 6. dec. 1892 |
(-23.6) - 52.5 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30. dec. 1819 - 20. sep. 1890 |
(-20.5) - 50.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 6. apr. 1830 - 27. jun. 1844 |
(-10.3) - 4.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Smith |
Mormon History |
| 15. dec. 1832 - 27. dec. 1923 |
(-7.6) - 83.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17. mar. 1834 - 6. mar. 1900 |
(-6.3) - 59.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1837 - 4. mar. 1841 |
(-3.3) - 0.7 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
| 20. jun. 1837 - 22. jan. 1901 |
(-3.0) - 60.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 8. jul. 1838 - 8. mar. 1917 |
(-2.0) - 76.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1839 - 1842 |
(-1.0) - 2.0 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7. okt. 1840 - 17. mar. 1849 |
0.3 - 8.7 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem II |
Netherlands |
| 4. mar. 1841 - 4. apr. 1841 |
0.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 4. apr. 1841 - 4. mar. 1845 |
0.7 - 4.7 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
| 11. dec. 1843 - 27. maj 1910 |
3.4 - 69.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25. nov. 1844 - 4. apr. 1929 |
4.4 - 88.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1845 - 4. mar. 1849 |
4.7 - 8.7 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
| 1846 |
6.0 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
| 1846 |
6.0 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
| 11. feb. 1847 - 18. okt. 1931 |
6.6 - 91.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3. mar. 1847 - 1. aug. 1922 |
6.7 - 82.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1847 |
7.0 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
| 1847 |
7.0 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
| 27. dec. 1847 - 29. aug. 1877 |
7.5 - 37.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
| 1. mar. 1848 - 30. sep. 1849 |
7.7 - 9.2 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| 31. mar. 1848 - 3. apr. 1849 |
7.7 - 8.7 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
| 1. dec. 1848 |
8.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
| 4. mar. 1849 - 9. jul. 1850 |
8.7 - 10.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 17. mar. 1849 - 23. nov. 1890 |
8.7 - 50.4 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 1849 |
9.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
10.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| 9. jul. 1850 - 4. mar. 1853 |
10.0 - 12.7 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
11.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 1851 |
11.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
11.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 2. dec. 1852 - 4. sep. 1870 |
12.4 - 30.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4. mar. 1853 - 4. mar. 1857 |
12.7 - 16.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
13.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 6. maj 1856 - 23. sep. 1939 |
15.8 - 99.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1857 - 4. mar. 1861 |
16.7 - 20.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 28. maj 1857 - 12. apr. 1858 |
16.9 - 17.8 |
Utah War |
Mormon History |
| 1859 |
19.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4. mar. 1861 - 15. apr. 1865 |
20.7 - 24.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17. mar. 1861 |
20.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 12. apr. 1861 - 9. apr. 1865 |
20.8 - 24.8 |
American Civil War |
USA |
| 23. sep. 1861 - 12. mar. 1942 |
21.2 - 101.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30. jul. 1863 - 7. apr. 1947 |
23.1 - 106.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16. okt. 1863 - 17. mar. 1937 |
23.3 - 96.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15. apr. 1865 - 4. mar. 1869 |
24.8 - 28.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9. jun. 1866 - 26. jul. 1866 |
25.9 - 26.1 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10. mar. 1867 |
26.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
28.0 - 38.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1869 - 4. mar. 1877 |
28.7 - 36.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5. sep. 1869 - 1884 |
29.2 - 44.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22. apr. 1870 - 21. jan. 1924 |
29.8 - 83.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
30.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19. jul. 1870 - 10. maj 1871 |
30.1 - 30.9 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18. jan. 1871 - 9. mar. 1888 |
30.6 - 47.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 4. maj 1871 - 20. mar. 1890 |
30.8 - 49.7 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 9. nov. 1871 |
31.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30. nov. 1874 - 24. jan. 1965 |
34.4 - 124.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5. jan. 1876 - 19. apr. 1967 |
35.5 - 126.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1877 - 4. mar. 1881 |
36.7 - 40.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
38.0 - 41.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
38.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 31. dec. 1878 |
38.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14. mar. 1879 - 18. apr. 1955 |
38.7 - 114.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
39.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
39.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
39.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 10. okt. 1880 - 25. jul. 1887 |
40.3 - 47.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 20. dec. 1880 - 23. mar. 1881 |
40.5 - 40.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1881 - 19. sep. 1881 |
40.7 - 41.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. aug. 1881 - 11. mar. 1955 |
41.1 - 114.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19. sep. 1881 - 4. mar. 1885 |
41.2 - 44.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
42.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 |
42.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 21. jan. 1884 - 12. dec. 1963 |
43.6 - 123.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
44.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15. nov. 1884 - 26. feb. 1885 |
44.4 - 44.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4. mar. 1885 - 4. mar. 1889 |
44.7 - 48.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
46.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
46.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 28. okt. 1886 |
46.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
47.0 - 49.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
47.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 9. mar. 1888 - 15. jun. 1888 |
47.7 - 48.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15. jun. 1888 - 9. nov. 1918 |
48.0 - 78.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
48.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4. mar. 1889 - 4. mar. 1893 |
48.7 - 52.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 7. apr. 1889 - 2. sep. 1898 |
48.8 - 58.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20. apr. 1889 - 30. apr. 1945 |
48.8 - 104.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
50.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
50.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14. okt. 1890 - 28. mar. 1969 |
50.3 - 128.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23. nov. 1890 - 4. sep. 1948 |
50.4 - 108.2 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 4. mar. 1893 - 4. mar. 1897 |
52.7 - 56.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. apr. 1893 |
52.8 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
56.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
56.0 - 57.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1897 - 14. sep. 1901 |
56.7 - 61.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13. sep. 1898 - 10. okt. 1901 |
58.2 - 61.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11. okt. 1899 - 31. maj 1902 |
59.3 - 61.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8. sep. 1900 |
60.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22. jan. 1901 - 6. maj 1910 |
60.6 - 69.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14. sep. 1901 - 4. mar. 1909 |
61.2 - 68.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17. okt. 1901 - 19. nov. 1918 |
61.3 - 78.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19. okt. 1901 |
61.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5. dec. 1901 - 15. dec. 1966 |
61.5 - 126.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16. jun. 1903 |
63.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16. dec. 1903 |
63.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
64.0 - 68.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18. apr. 1906 |
65.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
67.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16. sep. 1908 |
68.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27. sep. 1908 |
68.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4. mar. 1909 - 4. mar. 1913 |
68.7 - 72.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
69.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 6. maj 1910 - 20. jan. 1936 |
69.9 - 95.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30. maj 1911 |
70.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 30. maj 1911 |
70.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 23. okt. 1911 |
71.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4. mar. 1913 - 4. mar. 1921 |
72.7 - 80.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14. jun. 1914 - 15. jun. 1914 |
74.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28. jun. 1914 - 11. nov. 1918 |
74.0 - 78.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6. aug. 1914 - 25. nov. 1918 |
74.1 - 78.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13. sep. 1914 - 9. jul. 1915 |
74.2 - 75.1 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14. okt. 1914 - 24. okt. 1914 |
74.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24. apr. 1916 - 30. apr. 1916 |
75.8 - 75.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
76.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8. mar. 1917 - 12. mar. 1917 |
76.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29. maj 1917 - 22. nov. 1963 |
76.9 - 123.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
77.0 - 83.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7. nov. 1917 |
77.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9. nov. 1918 |
78.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23. nov. 1918 - 14. maj 1945 |
78.4 - 104.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11. feb. 1919 - 28. feb. 1925 |
78.6 - 84.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13. feb. 1919 - 20. jun. 1919 |
78.7 - 79.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6. maj 1919 - 8. aug. 1919 |
78.9 - 79.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
79.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11. aug. 1919 |
79.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10. sep. 1919 |
79.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4. mar. 1921 - 2. aug. 1923 |
80.7 - 83.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. dec. 1921 |
81.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28. okt. 1922 |
82.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2. aug. 1923 - 4. mar. 1929 |
83.1 - 88.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13. aug. 1923 - 23. nov. 1923 |
83.2 - 83.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13. sep. 1923 |
83.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12. maj 1925 - 2. aug. 1934 |
84.9 - 94.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14. jun. 1928 - 9. okt. 1967 |
88.0 - 127.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
88.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15. jan. 1929 - 4. apr. 1968 |
88.6 - 127.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1929 - 4. mar. 1933 |
88.7 - 92.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25. okt. 1929 |
89.4 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22. jan. 1930 - 1. maj 1931 |
89.6 - 90.9 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30. mar. 1930 - 30. maj 1932 |
89.8 - 92.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5. aug. 1930 - 25. aug. 2012 |
90.1 - 172.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14. apr. 1931 |
90.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
91.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11. dec. 1931 |
91.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1. jun. 1932 - 17. nov. 1932 |
92.0 - 92.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3. dec. 1932 - 28. jan. 1933 |
92.5 - 92.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30. jan. 1933 - 30. apr. 1945 |
92.6 - 104.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28. feb. 1933 - 23. mar. 1933 |
92.7 - 92.8 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4. mar. 1933 - 12. apr. 1945 |
92.7 - 104.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
95.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20. jan. 1936 - 11. dec. 1936 |
95.6 - 96.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11. dec. 1936 - 6. feb. 1952 |
96.5 - 111.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11. dec. 1936 - 6. feb. 1952 |
96.5 - 111.7 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6. maj 1937 |
96.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
97.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27. aug. 1939 |
99.2 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1. sep. 1939 - 2. sep. 1945 |
99.2 - 105.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14. maj 1940 |
99.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
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