Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Jan 17, 1706 - Apr 17, 1790 | (-80.0) - 4.3 | Life of Benjamin Franklin | Personalities |
Feb 22, 1732 - Dec 14, 1799 | (-53.9) - 14.0 | Life of George Washington | Personalities |
Dec 23, 1732 - Aug 5, 1792 | (-53.1) - 6.6 | Life of Richard Arkwright | Personalities |
Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-36.4) - 46.2 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 | (-16.4) - 35.4 | Life of Napoléon Bonaparte | Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-15.1) - 41.3 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-11.0) - 50.5 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Apr 30, 1789 - Mar 4, 1797 | 3.3 - 11.2 | President of the United States of America: George Washington | USA - Presidents |
Jul 14, 1789 | 3.5 | Storming of the Bastille | France |
Sep 3, 1791 | 5.7 | Adoption of the first French Constitution | France |
1792 - 1800 | 6.0 - 14.0 | Construction period of the White House | Monuments |
Sep 22, 1792 | 6.7 | Proclamation of the first French Republic | France |
1794 | 8.0 | First railway steam locomotive | Technology |
1795 | 9.0 | Start of the exploration of the Niger | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jul 22, 1795 | 9.6 | Peace of Basel | Spain |
Feb 14, 1797 | 11.1 | Battle of Cape St. Vincent | Spain |
Oct 30, 1797 - Mar 4, 1801 | 11.8 - 15.2 | President of the United States of America: John Adams | USA - Presidents |
1799 | 13.0 | Establishment of JPMorgan Chase | Companies |
Mar 4, 1801 - Mar 4, 1809 | 15.2 - 23.2 | President of the United States of America: Thomas Jefferson | USA - Presidents |
1802 | 16.0 | Establishment of DuPont | Companies |
Mar 20, 1804 - Apr 6, 1814 | 18.2 - 28.3 | Emperor of France: Napoleon I | France |
Dec 2, 1804 | 18.9 | Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French | France |
Sep 1, 1808 - Jan 15, 1812 | 22.7 - 26.1 | Junta Suprema Central | Spain |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | 23.1 - 79.3 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | 23.1 - 96.4 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1809 - Mar 4, 1817 | 23.2 - 31.2 | President of the United States of America: James Madison | USA - Presidents |
1810 | 24.0 | Establishment of Krupp | Companies |
1812 | 26.0 | Establishment of Citibank | Companies |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | 26.1 - 84.5 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Jun 18, 1812 | 26.5 | War of 1812 between the United States of America and the British Empire starts. | USA |
Sep 18, 1813 - Jun 9, 1815 | 27.7 - 29.5 | Congress of Vienna | Europian Union |
Dec 11, 1813 | 28.0 | Treaty of Valençay | Spain |
Jun 22, 1815 - Jul 7, 1815 | 29.5 | Emperor of France: Napoleon II | France |
1816 | 30.0 | Establishment of the American Colonization Society | Discoveries & Colonization |
1816 | 30.0 | Invention of the stethoscope | Medicine |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | 31.0 - 107.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 | 31.2 - 39.2 | President of the United States of America: James Monroe | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1817 - Oct 19, 1817 | 31.8 | Wartburg Festival | Germany |
1818 | 32.0 | First blood transfusion | Medicine |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | 34.0 - 104.8 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1823 | 37.9 | 'Monroe Doctrine' | USA |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | 39.2 - 43.2 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 43.2 - 51.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 46.4 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 47.0 - 138.1 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
1833 | 47.0 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 48.2 - 114.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
1837 | 51.0 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
1837 | 51.0 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 51.2 - 55.2 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
Oct 31, 1837 | 51.9 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 52.5 - 131.3 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
1839 - 1842 | 53.0 - 56.0 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 55.2 - 55.3 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 55.3 - 59.2 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 58.0 - 124.5 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 58.9 - 143.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 59.2 - 63.2 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 60.0 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 60.0 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
1847 | 61.0 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 61.0 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 61.2 - 145.9 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 61.2 - 136.7 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 62.2 - 63.8 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 62.3 - 63.3 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 63.0 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
1849 | 63.0 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 63.2 - 64.6 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1850 | 64.0 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 64.6 - 67.2 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 65.0 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 65.0 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 65.0 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 67.0 - 84.7 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
1853 | 67.0 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 67.2 - 71.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 70.4 - 153.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 71.2 - 75.2 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 73.0 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 75.2 - 79.3 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 75.3 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 75.8 - 156.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 77.6 - 161.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 77.8 - 151.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 79.3 - 83.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 80.5 - 80.6 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 81.2 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 82.1 - 92.1 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 83.2 - 91.2 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 83.7 - 98.1 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
1870 | 84.1 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 84.4 - 138.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 84.6 - 85.4 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 85.1 - 102.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 85.9 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 89.0 - 179.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |