Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Jan 17, 1706 - Apr 17, 1790 | (-67.0) - 17.3 | Life of Benjamin Franklin | Personalities |
Feb 22, 1732 - Dec 14, 1799 | (-40.9) - 27.0 | Life of George Washington | Personalities |
Dec 23, 1732 - Aug 5, 1792 | (-40.1) - 19.6 | Life of Richard Arkwright | Personalities |
Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-23.4) - 59.3 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 | (-3.4) - 48.4 | Life of Napoléon Bonaparte | Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-2.0) - 54.3 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
Dec 16, 1773 | 1.0 | Boston Tea Party | USA |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | 2.0 - 63.5 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Jul 4, 1776 | 3.5 | Declaration of Independence | USA |
Sep 3, 1783 | 10.7 | Treaty of Paris 1783, end of the American War of Independence | USA |
Apr 30, 1789 - Mar 4, 1797 | 16.3 - 24.2 | President of the United States of America: George Washington | USA - Presidents |
Jul 14, 1789 | 16.5 | Storming of the Bastille | France |
Sep 3, 1791 | 18.7 | Adoption of the first French Constitution | France |
1792 - 1800 | 19.0 - 27.0 | Construction period of the White House | Monuments |
Sep 22, 1792 | 19.7 | Proclamation of the first French Republic | France |
1794 | 21.0 | First railway steam locomotive | Technology |
1795 | 22.0 | Start of the exploration of the Niger | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jul 22, 1795 | 22.6 | Peace of Basel | Spain |
Feb 14, 1797 | 24.1 | Battle of Cape St. Vincent | Spain |
Oct 30, 1797 - Mar 4, 1801 | 24.8 - 28.2 | President of the United States of America: John Adams | USA - Presidents |
1799 | 26.0 | Establishment of JPMorgan Chase | Companies |
Mar 4, 1801 - Mar 4, 1809 | 28.2 - 36.2 | President of the United States of America: Thomas Jefferson | USA - Presidents |
1802 | 29.0 | Establishment of DuPont | Companies |
Mar 20, 1804 - Apr 6, 1814 | 31.2 - 41.3 | Emperor of France: Napoleon I | France |
Dec 2, 1804 | 31.9 | Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French | France |
Sep 1, 1808 - Jan 15, 1812 | 35.7 - 39.1 | Junta Suprema Central | Spain |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | 36.1 - 92.3 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | 36.1 - 109.4 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1809 - Mar 4, 1817 | 36.2 - 44.2 | President of the United States of America: James Madison | USA - Presidents |
1810 | 37.0 | Establishment of Krupp | Companies |
1812 | 39.0 | Establishment of Citibank | Companies |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | 39.1 - 97.5 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Jun 18, 1812 | 39.5 | War of 1812 between the United States of America and the British Empire starts. | USA |
Sep 18, 1813 - Jun 9, 1815 | 40.7 - 42.5 | Congress of Vienna | Europian Union |
Dec 11, 1813 | 41.0 | Treaty of Valençay | Spain |
Jun 22, 1815 - Jul 7, 1815 | 42.5 | Emperor of France: Napoleon II | France |
1816 | 43.0 | Establishment of the American Colonization Society | Discoveries & Colonization |
1816 | 43.0 | Invention of the stethoscope | Medicine |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | 44.0 - 120.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 | 44.2 - 52.2 | President of the United States of America: James Monroe | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1817 - Oct 19, 1817 | 44.8 | Wartburg Festival | Germany |
1818 | 45.0 | First blood transfusion | Medicine |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | 47.0 - 117.8 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1823 | 50.9 | 'Monroe Doctrine' | USA |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | 52.2 - 56.2 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 56.2 - 64.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 59.4 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 60.0 - 151.1 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
1833 | 60.0 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 61.2 - 127.3 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
1837 | 64.0 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
1837 | 64.0 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 64.2 - 68.2 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
Oct 31, 1837 | 64.9 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 65.6 - 144.3 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
1839 - 1842 | 66.0 - 69.0 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 68.2 - 68.3 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 68.3 - 72.2 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 71.0 - 137.5 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 71.9 - 156.4 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 72.2 - 76.2 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 73.0 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 73.0 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
1847 | 74.0 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 74.0 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 74.2 - 158.9 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 74.2 - 149.7 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 75.2 - 76.8 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 75.3 - 76.3 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 76.0 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
1849 | 76.0 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 76.2 - 77.6 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1850 | 77.0 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 77.6 - 80.2 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 78.0 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 78.0 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 78.0 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 80.0 - 97.7 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
1853 | 80.0 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 80.2 - 84.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 83.4 - 166.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 84.2 - 88.2 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 86.1 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 88.2 - 92.3 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 88.3 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 88.8 - 169.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |