Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-68.0) - 8.1 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-64.9) - 5.9 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-52.0) - 39.1 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-50.7) - 15.3 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-46.4) - 32.3 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-41.0) - 25.5 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-40.0) - 44.4 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-37.8) - 47.0 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-37.7) - 37.7 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-28.5) - 54.9 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-23.2) - 57.4 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-21.3) - 62.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-21.1) - 52.4 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-14.6) - 39.2 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | (-13.8) - 3.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-10.0) - 80.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-8.9) - 82.5 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-5.7) - 70.5 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-3.3) - 70.4 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | (-3.2) - 0.3 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-0.8) - 79.1 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 0.0 - 0.3 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 0.3 - 4.3 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 1.1 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 1.1 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 2.0 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 | 2.1 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
1887 - 1889 | 2.1 - 4.1 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1888 | 3.1 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 3.3 - 3.6 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 3.6 - 34.0 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 4.3 - 8.3 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 4.4 - 60.5 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 5.1 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
1890 | 5.1 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 5.9 - 84.4 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 8.3 - 12.3 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 11.1 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 11.1 - 12.1 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 12.3 - 16.8 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 14.9 - 17.6 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 15.8 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 16.8 - 24.3 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 16.9 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 17.1 - 82.1 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 18.6 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 19.1 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 19.1 - 23.1 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 21.4 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 22.1 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 23.9 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 23.9 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
1909 | 24.1 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 24.3 - 28.3 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
May 30, 1911 | 26.6 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 26.6 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 27.0 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 28.3 - 36.3 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 29.6 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 29.6 - 34.0 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 29.7 - 34.0 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 29.8 - 30.7 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 29.9 - 30.0 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1916 | 31.1 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 31.5 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1917 - 1923 | 32.2 - 38.2 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 32.3 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 32.6 - 79.1 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |