Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-46.8) - 9.4 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-46.8) - 26.4 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-43.8) - 14.5 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-39.0) - 37.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-35.9) - 34.8 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-23.0) - 68.1 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-21.7) - 44.3 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-17.4) - 61.3 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-12.0) - 54.5 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-11.0) - 73.4 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-8.8) - 75.9 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-8.8) - 66.7 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | (-3.0) - 14.8 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | (-2.7) - 1.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 0.4 - 83.9 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 1.3 - 5.3 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 3.1 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 5.3 - 9.4 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 5.3 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 5.8 - 86.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 7.7 - 91.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 7.9 - 81.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 9.4 - 13.3 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 10.5 - 10.7 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 11.3 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 12.1 - 22.1 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 13.3 - 21.3 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 13.8 - 28.1 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
1870 | 14.1 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 14.4 - 68.2 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 14.6 - 15.4 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 15.1 - 32.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 16.0 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 19.0 - 109.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 20.1 - 111.5 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 21.3 - 25.3 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 | 22.1 - 25.1 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 | 22.1 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 | 23.1 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
1879 | 23.1 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 23.1 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 | 23.1 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 23.3 - 99.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 25.1 - 25.3 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 25.3 - 25.8 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 25.7 - 99.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 25.8 - 29.3 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 26.1 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 26.1 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
1884 | 28.1 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 28.2 - 108.1 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 29.0 - 29.3 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 29.3 - 33.3 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 30.1 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 30.1 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 30.9 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 | 31.1 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
1887 - 1889 | 31.1 - 33.1 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1888 | 32.1 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 32.3 - 32.6 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 32.6 - 63.0 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 33.3 - 37.3 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 33.4 - 89.5 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 34.1 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
1890 | 34.1 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 34.9 - 113.4 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 37.3 - 41.3 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 40.1 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 40.1 - 41.1 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 41.3 - 45.8 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 43.9 - 46.5 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 44.8 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 45.8 - 53.3 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 45.9 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 46.0 - 111.1 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 47.6 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 48.1 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 48.1 - 52.1 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 50.4 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 51.1 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 52.8 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 52.9 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
1909 | 53.1 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 53.3 - 57.3 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
May 30, 1911 | 55.5 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 55.5 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 55.9 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |