Date
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Age
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Historic Event
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Category
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Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836
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(-58.7) - 2.8
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Life of André Marie Ampère
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Personalities
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Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882
|
(-24.6) - 48.6
|
Life of Charles Robert Darwin
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Personalities
|
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865
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(-24.6) - 31.6
|
Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Personalities
|
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870
|
(-21.6) - 36.8
|
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens
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Personalities
|
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892
|
(-16.8) - 59.3
|
Life of Werner von Siemens
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Personalities
|
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890
|
(-13.7) - 57.1
|
Life of Theodor Fontane
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837
|
(-4.5) - 3.5
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President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson
|
USA - Presidents
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Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923
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(-0.7) - 90.4
|
Life of Gustave Eiffel
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Personalities
|
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900
|
0.5 - 66.5
|
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
|
Personalities
|
1837
|
3.3
|
Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
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Companies
|
1837
|
3.3
|
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company
|
Companies
|
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841
|
3.5 - 7.5
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President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 31, 1837
|
4.1
|
Establishment of Procter & Gamble
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Companies
|
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917
|
4.8 - 83.5
|
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin
|
Personalities
|
1839 - 1842
|
5.3 - 8.3
|
First Anglo-Afghan War
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Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841
|
7.5 - 7.6
|
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845
|
7.6 - 11.5
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President of the United States of America: John Tyler
|
USA - Presidents
|
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910
|
10.3 - 76.8
|
Life of Robert Koch
|
Personalities
|
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929
|
11.2 - 95.6
|
Life of Carl Benz
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849
|
11.5 - 15.5
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President of the United States of America: James K. Polk
|
USA - Presidents
|
1846
|
12.3
|
Establishment of the Associated Press
|
Companies
|
1846
|
12.3
|
Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG
|
Companies
|
1847
|
13.3
|
Establishment of Siemens
|
Companies
|
1847
|
13.3
|
Establishment of Cartier
|
Companies
|
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931
|
13.4 - 98.2
|
Life of Thomas Alva Edison
|
Personalities
|
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922
|
13.5 - 89.0
|
Life of Alexander Graham Bell
|
Personalities
|
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849
|
14.5 - 16.1
|
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation
|
Germany
|
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849
|
14.6 - 15.6
|
The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church
|
Germany
|
Dec 1, 1848
|
15.2
|
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic
|
France
|
1849
|
15.3
|
Establishment of Pfizer
|
Companies
|
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850
|
15.5 - 16.8
|
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor
|
USA - Presidents
|
1850
|
16.3
|
Establishment of the American Express Company
|
Companies
|
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853
|
16.8 - 19.5
|
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore
|
USA - Presidents
|
1851
|
17.3
|
Western Union established
|
Companies
|
1851
|
17.3
|
Establishment of the New York Times
|
Companies
|
1851
|
17.3
|
Establishment of Reuters
|
Companies
|
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870
|
19.2 - 37.0
|
Emperor of France: Napoleon III
|
France
|
1853
|
19.3
|
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co
|
Companies
|
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857
|
19.5 - 23.5
|
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce
|
USA - Presidents
|
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939
|
22.7 - 106.1
|
Life of Sigmund Freud
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861
|
23.5 - 27.5
|
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan
|
USA - Presidents
|
1859
|
25.3
|
Construction period of Big Ben
|
Monuments
|
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865
|
27.5 - 31.6
|
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln
|
USA - Presidents
|
Mar 17, 1861
|
27.5
|
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy
|
Italy
|
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942
|
28.1 - 108.6
|
Life of Robert Bosch
|
Personalities
|
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947
|
29.9 - 113.6
|
Life of Henry Ford
|
Personalities
|
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937
|
30.1 - 103.6
|
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain
|
Personalities
|
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869
|
31.6 - 35.5
|
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866
|
32.8 - 32.9
|
Austro-Prussian War ('German War')
|
Germany
|
Mar 10, 1867
|
33.5
|
First telephone voice transmission
|
Technology
|
1868 - 1878
|
34.3 - 44.3
|
Ten Years' War ('Great War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877
|
35.5 - 43.5
|
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant
|
USA - Presidents
|
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884
|
36.0 - 50.3
|
Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle
|
Monuments
|
1870
|
36.3
|
Begin of the 3rd French Republic
|
France
|
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924
|
36.6 - 90.4
|
Life of Vladimir Lenin
|
Personalities
|
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871
|
36.9 - 37.7
|
Franco-Prussian War
|
Germany
|
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888
|
37.4 - 54.5
|
German Emperor: Wilhelm I
|
Germany
|
Nov 9, 1871
|
38.2
|
Founding of the German Empire
|
Germany
|
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965
|
41.3 - 131.5
|
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
|
Personalities
|
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967
|
42.4 - 133.7
|
Life of Konrad Adenauer
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881
|
43.5 - 47.5
|
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes
|
USA - Presidents
|
1878
|
44.3
|
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company
|
Companies
|
1878 - 1881
|
44.3 - 47.3
|
Second Anglo-Afghan War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Dec 31, 1878
|
45.3
|
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine
|
Automobile History
|
1879
|
45.3
|
Discovery of cholera vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
45.3
|
Discovery of plague vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
45.3
|
Anglo-Zulu War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955
|
45.5 - 121.7
|
Life of Albert Einstein
|
Personalities
|
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881
|
47.3 - 47.6
|
First Boer War ('First South African War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881
|
47.5 - 48.1
|
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield
|
USA - Presidents
|
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955
|
47.9 - 121.6
|
Life of Alexander Fleming
|
Personalities
|
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885
|
48.1 - 51.5
|
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur
|
USA - Presidents
|
1882
|
48.3
|
Britain occupies Egypt
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
1882
|
48.3
|
Establishment of Peugeot
|
Companies
|
1884
|
50.3
|
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin
|
Aviation History
|
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963
|
50.4 - 130.3
|
Life of Theodor Heuss
|
Personalities
|
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885
|
51.2 - 51.5
|
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference')
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889
|
51.5 - 55.5
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1886
|
52.3
|
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company
|
Companies
|
1886
|
52.3
|
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson
|
Companies
|
Oct 28, 1886
|
53.2
|
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty
|
Monuments
|
1887
|
53.3
|
Huang He Flood
|
Disasters
|
1887 - 1889
|
53.3 - 55.4
|
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower
|
Monuments
|
1888
|
54.3
|
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz
|
Automobile History
|
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888
|
54.5 - 54.8
|
German Emperor: Friedrich III
|
Germany
|
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918
|
54.8 - 85.2
|
German Emperor: Wilhelm II
|
Germany
|
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893
|
55.5 - 59.5
|
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945
|
55.6 - 111.7
|
Life of Adolf Hitler
|
Personalities
|
1890
|
56.4
|
Establishment of General Electric
|
Companies
|
1890
|
56.4
|
Establishment of Daimler
|
Companies
|
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969
|
57.1 - 135.6
|
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897
|
59.5 - 63.5
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1896
|
62.4
|
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)')
|
Companies
|
1896 - 1897
|
62.4 - 63.4
|
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901
|
63.5 - 68.1
|
President of the United States of America: William McKinley
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902
|
66.1 - 68.8
|
Second Boer War ('Second South African War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 8, 1900
|
67.0
|
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas
|
Disasters
|
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909
|
68.1 - 75.5
|
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 19, 1901
|
68.2
|
First motorized zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966
|
68.3 - 133.4
|
Life of Walter Elias Disney
|
Personalities
|
Jun 16, 1903
|
69.8
|
Establishment of Ford Motor Company
|
Companies
|
Dec 16, 1903
|
70.3
|
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers
|
Aviation History
|
1904 - 1908
|
70.4 - 74.4
|
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Apr 18, 1906
|
72.7
|
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
|
Disasters
|
1907
|
73.4
|
First helicopter flight
|
Aviation History
|
Sep 16, 1908
|
75.1
|
Establishment of General Motors
|
Companies
|
Sep 27, 1908
|
75.1
|
Introduction of the Ford Model T
|
Automobile History
|
1909
|
75.4
|
Discovery of antibiotics
|
Medicine
|
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913
|
75.5 - 79.5
|
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft
|
USA - Presidents
|
May 30, 1911
|
77.8
|
One in seven families in the US owns a car
|
Automobile History
|
May 30, 1911
|
77.8
|
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis
|
Automobile History
|
Oct 23, 1911
|
78.2
|
First military use of an airplane
|
Aviation History
|
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921
|
79.5 - 87.5
|
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914
|
80.8
|
First transatlantic flight
|
Aviation History
|
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918
|
80.9 - 85.2
|
World War I
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918
|
81.0 - 85.3
|
East African Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915
|
81.1 - 81.9
|
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914
|
81.1 - 81.2
|
Maritz Rebellion
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
1916
|
82.4
|
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG)
|
Companies
|
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916
|
82.7
|
Easter Rising
|
Great Britain
|
1917 - 1923
|
83.4 - 89.4
|
Russian Civil War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917
|
83.5 - 83.6
|
Russian February Revolution
|
Russia
|
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963
|
83.8 - 130.3
|
Life of John F. Kennedy
|
Personalities
|
Nov 7, 1917
|
84.2
|
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
|
Russia
|
Nov 9, 1918
|
85.2
|
German Revolution
|
Germany
|
1919
|
85.4
|
First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925
|
85.5 - 91.5
|
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert
|
Germany
|
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919
|
85.5 - 85.8
|
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann
|
Germany
|
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919
|
85.7 - 86.0
|
Third Anglo-Afghan War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 11, 1919
|
86.0
|
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution
|
Germany
|
Sep 10, 1919
|
86.1
|
Treaty of Saint-Germain
|
Italy
|
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923
|
87.5 - 90.0
|
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding
|
USA - Presidents
|
Dec 6, 1921
|
88.3
|
Anglo-Irish Treaty
|
Great Britain
|
Oct 28, 1922
|
89.2
|
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
|
Italy
|
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929
|
90.0 - 95.5
|
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge
|
USA - Presidents
|
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923
|
90.0 - 90.3
|
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann
|
Germany
|