Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-70.1) - 12.5 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 | (-50.1) - 1.7 | Life of Napoléon Bonaparte | Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-48.8) - 7.5 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-44.7) - 16.8 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-10.6) - 45.6 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-10.6) - 62.7 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-7.6) - 50.8 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-2.7) - 73.3 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 | (-2.5) - 5.5 | President of the United States of America: James Monroe | USA - Presidents |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | 0.3 - 71.1 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1823 | 4.2 | 'Monroe Doctrine' | USA |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | 5.5 - 9.5 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 9.5 - 17.5 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 12.7 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 13.3 - 104.4 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
1833 | 13.3 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 14.5 - 80.5 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
1837 | 17.3 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
1837 | 17.3 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 17.5 - 21.5 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
Oct 31, 1837 | 18.2 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 18.8 - 97.6 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
1839 - 1842 | 19.3 - 22.3 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 21.5 - 21.6 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 21.6 - 25.5 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 24.3 - 90.8 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 25.2 - 109.6 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 25.5 - 29.5 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 26.3 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 26.3 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
1847 | 27.3 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 27.3 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 27.4 - 112.2 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 27.5 - 103.0 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 28.5 - 30.1 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 28.6 - 29.6 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 29.2 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
1849 | 29.3 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 29.5 - 30.9 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1850 | 30.3 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 30.9 - 33.5 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 31.3 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 31.3 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 31.3 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 33.3 - 51.0 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
1853 | 33.3 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 33.5 - 37.5 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 36.7 - 120.1 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 37.5 - 41.5 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 39.3 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 41.5 - 45.6 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 41.5 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 42.1 - 122.6 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 43.9 - 127.7 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 44.1 - 117.6 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 45.6 - 49.5 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 46.8 - 46.9 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 47.5 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 48.3 - 58.4 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 49.5 - 57.5 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 50.0 - 64.4 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
1870 | 50.3 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 50.7 - 104.4 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 50.9 - 51.7 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 51.4 - 68.5 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 52.2 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 55.3 - 145.5 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 56.4 - 147.7 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 57.5 - 61.5 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 | 58.4 - 61.4 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 | 58.4 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 | 59.4 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
1879 | 59.4 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 59.4 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 | 59.4 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 59.6 - 135.7 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 61.3 - 61.6 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 61.5 - 62.1 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 62.0 - 135.6 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 62.1 - 65.5 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 62.4 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 62.4 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
1884 | 64.4 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 64.4 - 144.4 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 65.2 - 65.5 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 65.5 - 69.5 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |