Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | (-34.7) - 21.6 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-34.7) - 38.6 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-31.7) - 26.7 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-26.8) - 49.2 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-23.8) - 47.0 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-10.8) - 80.3 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-9.5) - 56.5 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-5.2) - 73.5 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | (-2.5) - 1.4 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 0.2 - 66.7 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 1.2 - 85.6 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 1.4 - 5.4 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 2.3 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 2.3 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
1847 | 3.3 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 3.3 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 3.4 - 88.1 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 3.4 - 78.9 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 4.4 - 6.0 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 4.5 - 5.5 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 5.2 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
1849 | 5.3 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 5.4 - 6.8 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1850 | 6.3 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 6.8 - 9.4 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 7.3 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 7.3 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 7.3 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 9.2 - 26.9 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
1853 | 9.3 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 9.4 - 13.4 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 12.6 - 96.0 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 13.4 - 17.4 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 15.3 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 17.4 - 21.6 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 17.5 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 18.0 - 98.5 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 19.8 - 103.6 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 20.1 - 93.5 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 21.6 - 25.4 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 22.7 - 22.8 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 23.5 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 24.3 - 34.3 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | 25.4 - 33.4 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | 26.0 - 40.3 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
1870 | 26.3 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 26.6 - 80.4 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 26.8 - 27.6 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 27.3 - 44.5 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 28.1 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 31.2 - 121.4 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 32.3 - 123.6 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 33.4 - 37.5 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 | 34.3 - 37.3 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 | 34.3 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 | 35.3 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
1879 | 35.3 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 35.3 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 | 35.3 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 35.5 - 111.6 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 37.2 - 37.5 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 37.5 - 38.0 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 37.9 - 111.5 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 38.0 - 41.5 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 38.3 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 38.3 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
1884 | 40.3 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 40.3 - 120.3 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 41.2 - 41.4 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 41.5 - 45.5 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 42.3 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 42.3 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 43.1 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 | 43.3 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
1887 - 1889 | 43.3 - 45.3 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1888 | 44.3 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 44.5 - 44.7 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 44.7 - 75.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |