Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Jan 17, 1706 - Apr 17, 1790 | (-73.0) - 11.3 | Life of Benjamin Franklin | Personalities |
Feb 22, 1732 - Dec 14, 1799 | (-46.9) - 21.0 | Life of George Washington | Personalities |
Dec 23, 1732 - Aug 5, 1792 | (-46.1) - 13.6 | Life of Richard Arkwright | Personalities |
Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832 | (-29.4) - 53.3 | Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Personalities |
Aug 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 | (-9.4) - 42.4 | Life of Napoléon Bonaparte | Personalities |
Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827 | (-8.0) - 48.3 | Life of Ludwig von Beethoven | Personalities |
Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836 | (-4.0) - 57.5 | Life of André Marie Ampère | Personalities |
Sep 3, 1783 | 4.7 | Treaty of Paris 1783, end of the American War of Independence | USA |
Apr 30, 1789 - Mar 4, 1797 | 10.3 - 18.2 | President of the United States of America: George Washington | USA - Presidents |
Jul 14, 1789 | 10.5 | Storming of the Bastille | France |
Sep 3, 1791 | 12.7 | Adoption of the first French Constitution | France |
1792 - 1800 | 13.0 - 21.0 | Construction period of the White House | Monuments |
Sep 22, 1792 | 13.7 | Proclamation of the first French Republic | France |
1794 | 15.0 | First railway steam locomotive | Technology |
1795 | 16.0 | Start of the exploration of the Niger | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jul 22, 1795 | 16.6 | Peace of Basel | Spain |
Feb 14, 1797 | 18.1 | Battle of Cape St. Vincent | Spain |
Oct 30, 1797 - Mar 4, 1801 | 18.8 - 22.2 | President of the United States of America: John Adams | USA - Presidents |
1799 | 20.0 | Establishment of JPMorgan Chase | Companies |
Mar 4, 1801 - Mar 4, 1809 | 22.2 - 30.2 | President of the United States of America: Thomas Jefferson | USA - Presidents |
1802 | 23.0 | Establishment of DuPont | Companies |
Mar 20, 1804 - Apr 6, 1814 | 25.2 - 35.3 | Emperor of France: Napoleon I | France |
Dec 2, 1804 | 25.9 | Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French | France |
Sep 1, 1808 - Jan 15, 1812 | 29.7 - 33.1 | Junta Suprema Central | Spain |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 | 30.1 - 86.3 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | 30.1 - 103.4 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1809 - Mar 4, 1817 | 30.2 - 38.2 | President of the United States of America: James Madison | USA - Presidents |
1810 | 31.0 | Establishment of Krupp | Companies |
1812 | 33.0 | Establishment of Citibank | Companies |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | 33.1 - 91.5 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Jun 18, 1812 | 33.5 | War of 1812 between the United States of America and the British Empire starts. | USA |
Sep 18, 1813 - Jun 9, 1815 | 34.7 - 36.5 | Congress of Vienna | Europian Union |
Dec 11, 1813 | 35.0 | Treaty of Valençay | Spain |
Jun 22, 1815 - Jul 7, 1815 | 36.5 | Emperor of France: Napoleon II | France |
1816 | 37.0 | Establishment of the American Colonization Society | Discoveries & Colonization |
1816 | 37.0 | Invention of the stethoscope | Medicine |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | 38.0 - 114.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1817 - Mar 4, 1825 | 38.2 - 46.2 | President of the United States of America: James Monroe | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1817 - Oct 19, 1817 | 38.8 | Wartburg Festival | Germany |
1818 | 39.0 | First blood transfusion | Medicine |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | 41.0 - 111.8 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1823 | 44.9 | 'Monroe Doctrine' | USA |
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829 | 46.2 - 50.2 | President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams | USA - Presidents |
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837 | 50.2 - 58.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson | USA - Presidents |
May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832 | 53.4 | 'Hambacher Fest' | Germany |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | 54.0 - 145.1 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
1833 | 54.0 | Establishment of Shell | Companies |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | 55.2 - 121.3 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
1837 | 58.0 | Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) | Companies |
1837 | 58.0 | Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company | Companies |
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841 | 58.2 - 62.2 | President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren | USA - Presidents |
Oct 31, 1837 | 58.9 | Establishment of Procter & Gamble | Companies |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | 59.6 - 138.3 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
1839 - 1842 | 60.0 - 63.0 | First Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841 | 62.2 - 62.3 | President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845 | 62.3 - 66.2 | President of the United States of America: John Tyler | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | 65.0 - 131.5 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | 65.9 - 150.4 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 | 66.2 - 70.2 | President of the United States of America: James K. Polk | USA - Presidents |
1846 | 67.0 | Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG | Companies |
1846 | 67.0 | Establishment of the Associated Press | Companies |
1847 | 68.0 | Establishment of Cartier | Companies |
1847 | 68.0 | Establishment of Siemens | Companies |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | 68.2 - 152.9 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | 68.2 - 143.7 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 | 69.2 - 70.8 | Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation | Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 | 69.3 - 70.3 | The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church | Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 | 70.0 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic | France |
1849 | 70.0 | Establishment of Pfizer | Companies |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 | 70.2 - 71.6 | President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor | USA - Presidents |
1850 | 71.0 | Establishment of the American Express Company | Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 | 71.6 - 74.2 | President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore | USA - Presidents |
1851 | 72.0 | Western Union established | Companies |
1851 | 72.0 | Establishment of Reuters | Companies |
1851 | 72.0 | Establishment of the New York Times | Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | 74.0 - 91.7 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
1853 | 74.0 | Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co | Companies |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 | 74.2 - 78.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | 77.4 - 160.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 | 78.2 - 82.2 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 80.1 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 | 82.2 - 86.3 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 | 82.3 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | 82.8 - 163.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | 84.6 - 168.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | 84.8 - 158.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 | 86.3 - 90.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 | 87.5 - 87.6 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 | 88.2 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 89.1 - 99.1 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |