Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-63.1) - 19.5 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 | (-43.2) - 8.6 | Life of Napoléon Bonaparte | Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-41.8) - 14.5 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-37.7) - 23.7 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Mar 20, 1804 - Apr 6, 1814 | (-8.6) - 1.5 | Emperor of France: Napoleon I | France |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-3.6) - 52.6 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-3.6) - 69.6 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1809 - Mar 4, 1817 | (-3.6) - 4.4 | President of the United States of America: James Madison | USA - Presidents |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-0.7) - 57.7 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Sep 18, 1813 - Jun 9, 1815 | 1.0 - 2.7 | Congress of Vienna | Europian Union |
Dec 11, 1813 | 1.2 | Treaty of Valençay | Spain |
Jun 22, 1815 - Jul 7, 1815 | 2.7 - 2.8 | Emperor of France: Napoleon II | France |
1816 | 3.2 | Establishment of the American Colonization Society | Discoveries & Colonization |
1816 | 3.2 | Invention of the stethoscope | Medicine |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | 4.2 - 80.2 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 | 4.4 - 12.4 | President of the United States of America: James Monroe | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1817 - Oct 19, 1817 | 5.0 | Wartburg Festival | Germany |
1818 | 5.2 | First blood transfusion | Medicine |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | 7.2 - 78.0 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1823 | 11.2 | 'Monroe Doctrine' | USA |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | 12.4 - 16.4 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 16.4 - 24.4 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 19.7 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 20.2 - 111.3 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
1833 | 20.3 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 21.5 - 87.5 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
1837 | 24.3 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
1837 | 24.3 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 24.4 - 28.4 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
Oct 31, 1837 | 25.1 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 25.8 - 104.5 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
1839 - 1842 | 26.3 - 29.3 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 28.4 - 28.5 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 28.5 - 32.4 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 31.2 - 97.7 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 32.2 - 116.6 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 32.4 - 36.4 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 33.3 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 33.3 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
1847 | 34.3 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 34.3 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 34.4 - 119.1 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 34.4 - 109.9 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 35.4 - 37.0 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 35.5 - 36.5 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 36.2 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
1849 | 36.3 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 36.4 - 37.8 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1850 | 37.3 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 37.8 - 40.4 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 38.3 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 38.3 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 38.3 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 40.2 - 58.0 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
1853 | 40.3 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 40.4 - 44.4 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 43.6 - 127.0 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 44.4 - 48.4 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 46.3 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 48.4 - 52.6 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 48.5 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 49.0 - 129.5 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 50.8 - 134.6 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 51.1 - 124.5 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 52.6 - 56.4 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 53.7 - 53.8 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 54.5 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 55.3 - 65.3 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 56.4 - 64.5 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 57.0 - 71.3 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
1870 | 57.3 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 57.6 - 111.4 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 57.8 - 58.6 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 58.3 - 75.5 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 59.1 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 62.2 - 152.4 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 63.3 - 154.6 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 64.5 - 68.5 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 | 65.3 - 68.3 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 | 65.3 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 | 66.3 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
1879 | 66.3 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 66.3 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 | 66.3 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 66.5 - 142.6 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 68.3 - 68.5 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 68.5 - 69.0 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 68.9 - 142.5 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 69.0 - 72.5 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 69.3 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 69.3 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
1884 | 71.3 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 71.3 - 151.3 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |