Date
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Age
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Historic Event
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Category
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Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882
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(-54.6) - 18.6
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Life of Charles Robert Darwin
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Personalities
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Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865
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(-54.6) - 1.6
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Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Personalities
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Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870
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(-51.6) - 6.7
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Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens
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Personalities
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Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892
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(-46.8) - 29.2
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Life of Werner von Siemens
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Personalities
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Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890
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(-43.7) - 27.0
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Life of Theodor Fontane
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Personalities
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Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923
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(-30.8) - 60.3
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Life of Gustave Eiffel
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Personalities
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Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900
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(-29.5) - 36.5
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Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
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Personalities
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Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917
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(-25.2) - 53.5
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Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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Personalities
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Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910
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(-19.8) - 46.7
|
Life of Robert Koch
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Personalities
|
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929
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(-18.8) - 65.6
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Life of Carl Benz
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Personalities
|
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931
|
(-16.6) - 68.1
|
Life of Thomas Alva Edison
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Personalities
|
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922
|
(-16.5) - 58.9
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Life of Alexander Graham Bell
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Personalities
|
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870
|
(-10.8) - 7.0
|
Emperor of France: Napoleon III
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France
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May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939
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(-7.4) - 76.1
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Life of Sigmund Freud
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Personalities
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Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865
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(-2.5) - 1.6
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President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln
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USA - Presidents
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Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942
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(-2.0) - 78.5
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Life of Robert Bosch
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Personalities
|
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947
|
(-0.1) - 83.6
|
Life of Henry Ford
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Personalities
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Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937
|
0.1 - 73.6
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Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain
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Personalities
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Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869
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1.6 - 5.5
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President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson
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USA - Presidents
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Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866
|
2.7 - 2.9
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Austro-Prussian War ('German War')
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Germany
|
Mar 10, 1867
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3.5
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First telephone voice transmission
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Technology
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1868 - 1878
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4.3 - 14.3
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Ten Years' War ('Great War')
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Wars & Military Conflicts
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Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877
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5.5 - 13.5
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President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant
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USA - Presidents
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Sep 5, 1869 - 1884
|
6.0 - 20.3
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Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle
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Monuments
|
1870
|
6.3
|
Begin of the 3rd French Republic
|
France
|
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924
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6.6 - 60.4
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Life of Vladimir Lenin
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Personalities
|
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871
|
6.8 - 7.7
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Franco-Prussian War
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Germany
|
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888
|
7.3 - 24.5
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German Emperor: Wilhelm I
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Germany
|
Nov 9, 1871
|
8.2
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Founding of the German Empire
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Germany
|
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965
|
11.2 - 101.4
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Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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Personalities
|
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967
|
12.3 - 103.7
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Life of Konrad Adenauer
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Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881
|
13.5 - 17.5
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President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes
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USA - Presidents
|
1878
|
14.3
|
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company
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Companies
|
1878 - 1881
|
14.3 - 17.3
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Second Anglo-Afghan War
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Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Dec 31, 1878
|
15.3
|
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine
|
Automobile History
|
1879
|
15.3
|
Discovery of cholera vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
15.3
|
Discovery of plague vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
15.3
|
Anglo-Zulu War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955
|
15.5 - 91.6
|
Life of Albert Einstein
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Personalities
|
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881
|
17.3 - 17.5
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First Boer War ('First South African War')
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Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881
|
17.5 - 18.0
|
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield
|
USA - Presidents
|
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955
|
17.9 - 91.5
|
Life of Alexander Fleming
|
Personalities
|
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885
|
18.0 - 21.5
|
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur
|
USA - Presidents
|
1882
|
18.3
|
Britain occupies Egypt
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
1882
|
18.3
|
Establishment of Peugeot
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Companies
|
1884
|
20.3
|
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin
|
Aviation History
|
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963
|
20.4 - 100.3
|
Life of Theodor Heuss
|
Personalities
|
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885
|
21.2 - 21.5
|
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference')
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889
|
21.5 - 25.5
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1886
|
22.3
|
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company
|
Companies
|
1886
|
22.3
|
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson
|
Companies
|
Oct 28, 1886
|
23.1
|
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty
|
Monuments
|
1887
|
23.3
|
Huang He Flood
|
Disasters
|
1887 - 1889
|
23.3 - 25.3
|
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower
|
Monuments
|
1888
|
24.3
|
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz
|
Automobile History
|
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888
|
24.5 - 24.8
|
German Emperor: Friedrich III
|
Germany
|
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918
|
24.8 - 55.2
|
German Emperor: Wilhelm II
|
Germany
|
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893
|
25.5 - 29.5
|
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945
|
25.6 - 81.7
|
Life of Adolf Hitler
|
Personalities
|
1890
|
26.3
|
Establishment of General Electric
|
Companies
|
1890
|
26.3
|
Establishment of Daimler
|
Companies
|
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969
|
27.1 - 105.6
|
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897
|
29.5 - 33.5
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1896
|
32.3
|
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)')
|
Companies
|
1896 - 1897
|
32.3 - 33.3
|
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901
|
33.5 - 38.0
|
President of the United States of America: William McKinley
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902
|
36.1 - 38.7
|
Second Boer War ('Second South African War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 8, 1900
|
37.0
|
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas
|
Disasters
|
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909
|
38.0 - 45.5
|
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 19, 1901
|
38.1
|
First motorized zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966
|
38.2 - 103.3
|
Life of Walter Elias Disney
|
Personalities
|
Jun 16, 1903
|
39.8
|
Establishment of Ford Motor Company
|
Companies
|
Dec 16, 1903
|
40.3
|
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers
|
Aviation History
|
1904 - 1908
|
40.3 - 44.3
|
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Apr 18, 1906
|
42.6
|
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
|
Disasters
|
1907
|
43.3
|
First helicopter flight
|
Aviation History
|
Sep 16, 1908
|
45.0
|
Establishment of General Motors
|
Companies
|
Sep 27, 1908
|
45.1
|
Introduction of the Ford Model T
|
Automobile History
|
1909
|
45.3
|
Discovery of antibiotics
|
Medicine
|
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913
|
45.5 - 49.5
|
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft
|
USA - Presidents
|
May 30, 1911
|
47.7
|
One in seven families in the US owns a car
|
Automobile History
|
May 30, 1911
|
47.7
|
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis
|
Automobile History
|
Oct 23, 1911
|
48.1
|
First military use of an airplane
|
Aviation History
|
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921
|
49.5 - 57.5
|
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914
|
50.8
|
First transatlantic flight
|
Aviation History
|
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918
|
50.8 - 55.2
|
World War I
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918
|
50.9 - 55.2
|
East African Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915
|
51.0 - 51.8
|
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914
|
51.1
|
Maritz Rebellion
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
1916
|
52.3
|
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG)
|
Companies
|
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916
|
52.6 - 52.7
|
Easter Rising
|
Great Britain
|
1917 - 1923
|
53.3 - 59.3
|
Russian Civil War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917
|
53.5
|
Russian February Revolution
|
Russia
|
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963
|
53.7 - 100.3
|
Life of John F. Kennedy
|
Personalities
|
Nov 7, 1917
|
54.2
|
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
|
Russia
|
Nov 9, 1918
|
55.2
|
German Revolution
|
Germany
|
1919
|
55.3
|
First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925
|
55.4 - 61.5
|
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert
|
Germany
|
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919
|
55.4 - 55.8
|
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann
|
Germany
|
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919
|
55.7 - 55.9
|
Third Anglo-Afghan War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 11, 1919
|
55.9
|
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution
|
Germany
|
Sep 10, 1919
|
56.0
|
Treaty of Saint-Germain
|
Italy
|
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923
|
57.5 - 59.9
|
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding
|
USA - Presidents
|
Dec 6, 1921
|
58.3
|
Anglo-Irish Treaty
|
Great Britain
|
Oct 28, 1922
|
59.2
|
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
|
Italy
|
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929
|
59.9 - 65.5
|
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge
|
USA - Presidents
|
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923
|
59.9 - 60.2
|
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann
|
Germany
|
Sep 13, 1923
|
60.0
|
Establishing of the military dictatorship
|
Spain
|
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934
|
61.7 - 70.9
|
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg
|
Germany
|
1928
|
64.3
|
Discovery of penicillin
|
Medicine
|
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967
|
64.8 - 104.1
|
Life of Che Guevara
|
Personalities
|
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968
|
65.4 - 104.6
|
Life of Martin Luther King
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933
|
65.5 - 69.5
|
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 25, 1929
|
66.2
|
'Black Friday'
|
USA
|
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931
|
66.4 - 67.7
|
Construction period of the Empire State Building
|
Monuments
|
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932
|
66.6 - 68.8
|
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning
|
Germany
|
Aug 5, 1930 - Today
|
66.9
|
Life of Neil Armstrong
|
Personalities
|
1931
|
67.3
|
Establishment of Porsche
|
Companies
|
Apr 14, 1931
|
67.6
|
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic
|
Spain
|