Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-64.6) - 18.0 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 | (-44.7) - 7.1 | Life of Napoléon Bonaparte | Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-43.3) - 13.0 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-39.2) - 22.2 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Mar 20, 1804 - Apr 6, 1814 | (-10.0) - 0.0 | Emperor of France: Napoleon I | France |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-5.1) - 51.1 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-5.1) - 68.1 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1809 - Mar 4, 1817 | (-5.1) - 2.9 | President of the United States of America: James Madison | USA - Presidents |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-2.2) - 56.2 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Sep 18, 1813 - Jun 9, 1815 | (-0.5) - 1.2 | Congress of Vienna | Europian Union |
Jun 22, 1815 - Jul 7, 1815 | 1.2 - 1.3 | Emperor of France: Napoleon II | France |
1816 | 1.7 | Establishment of the American Colonization Society | Discoveries & Colonization |
1816 | 1.7 | Invention of the stethoscope | Medicine |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | 2.7 - 78.7 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 | 2.9 - 10.9 | President of the United States of America: James Monroe | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1817 - Oct 19, 1817 | 3.5 | Wartburg Festival | Germany |
1818 | 3.8 | First blood transfusion | Medicine |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | 5.7 - 76.5 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1823 | 9.7 | 'Monroe Doctrine' | USA |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | 10.9 - 14.9 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 14.9 - 22.9 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 18.2 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 18.7 - 109.8 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
1833 | 18.8 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 20.0 - 86.0 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
1837 | 22.8 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
1837 | 22.8 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 22.9 - 26.9 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
Oct 31, 1837 | 23.6 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 24.3 - 103.0 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
1839 - 1842 | 24.8 - 27.8 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 26.9 - 27.0 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 27.0 - 30.9 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 29.7 - 96.2 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 30.7 - 115.1 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 30.9 - 34.9 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 31.8 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 31.8 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
1847 | 32.8 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 32.8 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 32.9 - 117.6 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 32.9 - 108.4 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 33.9 - 35.5 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 34.0 - 35.0 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 34.7 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
1849 | 34.8 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 34.9 - 36.3 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1850 | 35.8 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 36.3 - 38.9 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 36.8 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 36.8 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 36.8 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 38.7 - 56.5 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
1853 | 38.8 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 38.9 - 42.9 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 42.1 - 125.6 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 42.9 - 47.0 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 44.8 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 47.0 - 51.1 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 47.0 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 47.5 - 128.0 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 49.4 - 133.1 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 49.6 - 123.0 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 51.1 - 55.0 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 52.2 - 52.3 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 53.0 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 53.8 - 63.8 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 55.0 - 63.0 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 55.5 - 69.8 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
1870 | 55.8 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 56.1 - 109.9 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 56.3 - 57.1 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 56.8 - 74.0 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 57.6 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 60.7 - 150.9 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 61.8 - 153.1 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 63.0 - 67.0 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 | 63.8 - 66.8 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 | 63.8 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 | 64.8 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
1879 | 64.8 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 64.8 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 | 64.8 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 65.0 - 141.1 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 66.8 - 67.0 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 67.0 - 67.5 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 67.4 - 141.0 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 67.5 - 71.0 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 67.8 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 67.8 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
1884 | 69.8 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 69.8 - 149.8 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 70.7 - 71.0 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 71.0 - 75.0 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 71.8 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 71.8 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 72.6 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 | 72.8 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
1887 - 1889 | 72.8 - 74.8 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1888 | 73.8 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 74.0 - 74.3 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 74.3 - 104.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 75.0 - 79.0 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 75.1 - 131.2 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 75.8 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
1890 | 75.8 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 76.6 - 155.1 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 79.0 - 83.0 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 81.8 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 81.8 - 82.8 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 83.0 - 87.5 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 85.6 - 88.2 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 86.5 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 87.5 - 95.0 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 87.6 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 87.7 - 152.8 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 89.3 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 89.8 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 89.8 - 93.8 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |