Date
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Age
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Historic Event
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Category
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Aug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832
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(-76.5) - 6.2
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Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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Personalities
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Dec 17, 1770 - Mar 26, 1827
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(-55.1) - 1.2
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Life of Ludwig von Beethoven
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Personalities
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Jan 20, 1775 - Jun 10, 1836
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(-51.0) - 10.4
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Life of André Marie Ampère
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Personalities
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Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882
|
(-17.0) - 56.3
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Life of Charles Robert Darwin
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Personalities
|
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865
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(-17.0) - 39.3
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Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Personalities
|
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870
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(-14.0) - 44.4
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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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(-9.1) - 66.9
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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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(-6.1) - 64.7
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Life of Theodor Fontane
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Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1825 - Mar 4, 1829
|
(-0.9) - 3.1
|
President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams
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USA - Presidents
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Mar 4, 1829 - Mar 4, 1837
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3.1 - 11.1
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President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson
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USA - Presidents
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May 27, 1832 - May 30, 1832
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6.3 - 6.4
|
'Hambacher Fest'
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Germany
|
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923
|
6.9 - 98.0
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Life of Gustave Eiffel
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Personalities
|
1833
|
6.9
|
Establishment of Shell
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Companies
|
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900
|
8.2 - 74.2
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Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
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Personalities
|
1837
|
10.9
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Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
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Companies
|
1837
|
10.9
|
Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company
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Companies
|
Mar 4, 1837 - Mar 4, 1841
|
11.1 - 15.1
|
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 31, 1837
|
11.8
|
Establishment of Procter & Gamble
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Companies
|
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917
|
12.5 - 91.2
|
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin
|
Personalities
|
1839 - 1842
|
12.9 - 16.0
|
First Anglo-Afghan War
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Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1841 - Apr 4, 1841
|
15.1 - 15.2
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President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison
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USA - Presidents
|
Apr 4, 1841 - Mar 4, 1845
|
15.2 - 19.1
|
President of the United States of America: John Tyler
|
USA - Presidents
|
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910
|
17.9 - 84.4
|
Life of Robert Koch
|
Personalities
|
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929
|
18.9 - 103.3
|
Life of Carl Benz
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849
|
19.1 - 23.1
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President of the United States of America: James K. Polk
|
USA - Presidents
|
1846
|
20.0
|
Establishment of the Associated Press
|
Companies
|
1846
|
20.0
|
Establishment of the Carl Zeiss AG
|
Companies
|
1847
|
21.0
|
Establishment of Siemens
|
Companies
|
1847
|
21.0
|
Establishment of Cartier
|
Companies
|
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931
|
21.1 - 105.8
|
Life of Thomas Alva Edison
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Personalities
|
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922
|
21.1 - 96.6
|
Life of Alexander Graham Bell
|
Personalities
|
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849
|
22.1 - 23.7
|
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation
|
Germany
|
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849
|
22.2 - 23.2
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The National Assembly meets in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church
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Germany
|
Dec 1, 1848
|
22.9
|
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, begin of the 2nd Republic
|
France
|
1849
|
23.0
|
Establishment of Pfizer
|
Companies
|
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850
|
23.1 - 24.5
|
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor
|
USA - Presidents
|
1850
|
24.0
|
Establishment of the American Express Company
|
Companies
|
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853
|
24.5 - 27.1
|
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore
|
USA - Presidents
|
1851
|
25.0
|
Western Union established
|
Companies
|
1851
|
25.0
|
Establishment of the New York Times
|
Companies
|
1851
|
25.0
|
Establishment of Reuters
|
Companies
|
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870
|
26.9 - 44.6
|
Emperor of France: Napoleon III
|
France
|
1853
|
27.0
|
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co
|
Companies
|
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857
|
27.1 - 31.1
|
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce
|
USA - Presidents
|
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939
|
30.3 - 113.7
|
Life of Sigmund Freud
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861
|
31.1 - 35.1
|
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan
|
USA - Presidents
|
1859
|
33.0
|
Construction period of Big Ben
|
Monuments
|
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865
|
35.1 - 39.3
|
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln
|
USA - Presidents
|
Mar 17, 1861
|
35.2
|
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy
|
Italy
|
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942
|
35.7 - 116.2
|
Life of Robert Bosch
|
Personalities
|
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947
|
37.5 - 121.3
|
Life of Henry Ford
|
Personalities
|
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937
|
37.8 - 111.2
|
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain
|
Personalities
|
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869
|
39.3 - 43.1
|
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866
|
40.4 - 40.5
|
Austro-Prussian War ('German War')
|
Germany
|
Mar 10, 1867
|
41.2
|
First telephone voice transmission
|
Technology
|
1868 - 1878
|
42.0 - 52.0
|
Ten Years' War ('Great War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877
|
43.1 - 51.1
|
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant
|
USA - Presidents
|
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884
|
43.6 - 58.0
|
Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle
|
Monuments
|
1870
|
44.0
|
Begin of the 3rd French Republic
|
France
|
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924
|
44.3 - 98.1
|
Life of Vladimir Lenin
|
Personalities
|
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871
|
44.5 - 45.3
|
Franco-Prussian War
|
Germany
|
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888
|
45.0 - 62.2
|
German Emperor: Wilhelm I
|
Germany
|
Nov 9, 1871
|
45.8
|
Founding of the German Empire
|
Germany
|
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965
|
48.9 - 139.1
|
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
|
Personalities
|
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967
|
50.0 - 141.3
|
Life of Konrad Adenauer
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881
|
51.1 - 55.1
|
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes
|
USA - Presidents
|
1878
|
52.0
|
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company
|
Companies
|
1878 - 1881
|
52.0 - 55.0
|
Second Anglo-Afghan War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Dec 31, 1878
|
53.0
|
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine
|
Automobile History
|
1879
|
53.0
|
Discovery of cholera vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
53.0
|
Discovery of plague vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
53.0
|
Anglo-Zulu War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955
|
53.2 - 129.3
|
Life of Albert Einstein
|
Personalities
|
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881
|
54.9 - 55.2
|
First Boer War ('First South African War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881
|
55.1 - 55.7
|
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield
|
USA - Presidents
|
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955
|
55.6 - 129.2
|
Life of Alexander Fleming
|
Personalities
|
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885
|
55.7 - 59.2
|
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur
|
USA - Presidents
|
1882
|
56.0
|
Britain occupies Egypt
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
1882
|
56.0
|
Establishment of Peugeot
|
Companies
|
1884
|
58.0
|
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin
|
Aviation History
|
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963
|
58.0 - 138.0
|
Life of Theodor Heuss
|
Personalities
|
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885
|
58.9 - 59.1
|
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference')
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889
|
59.2 - 63.2
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1886
|
60.0
|
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company
|
Companies
|
1886
|
60.0
|
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson
|
Companies
|
Oct 28, 1886
|
60.8
|
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty
|
Monuments
|
1887
|
61.0
|
Huang He Flood
|
Disasters
|
1887 - 1889
|
61.0 - 63.0
|
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower
|
Monuments
|
1888
|
62.0
|
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz
|
Automobile History
|
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888
|
62.2 - 62.4
|
German Emperor: Friedrich III
|
Germany
|
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918
|
62.4 - 92.9
|
German Emperor: Wilhelm II
|
Germany
|
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893
|
63.2 - 67.2
|
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945
|
63.3 - 119.3
|
Life of Adolf Hitler
|
Personalities
|
1890
|
64.0
|
Establishment of General Electric
|
Companies
|
1890
|
64.0
|
Establishment of Daimler
|
Companies
|
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969
|
64.8 - 143.3
|
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897
|
67.2 - 71.2
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1896
|
70.0
|
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)')
|
Companies
|
1896 - 1897
|
70.0 - 71.0
|
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901
|
71.2 - 75.7
|
President of the United States of America: William McKinley
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902
|
73.8 - 76.4
|
Second Boer War ('Second South African War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 8, 1900
|
74.7
|
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas
|
Disasters
|
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909
|
75.7 - 83.2
|
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 19, 1901
|
75.8
|
First motorized zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966
|
75.9 - 141.0
|
Life of Walter Elias Disney
|
Personalities
|
Jun 16, 1903
|
77.4
|
Establishment of Ford Motor Company
|
Companies
|
Dec 16, 1903
|
77.9
|
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers
|
Aviation History
|
1904 - 1908
|
78.0 - 82.0
|
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Apr 18, 1906
|
80.3
|
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
|
Disasters
|
1907
|
81.0
|
First helicopter flight
|
Aviation History
|
Sep 16, 1908
|
82.7
|
Establishment of General Motors
|
Companies
|
Sep 27, 1908
|
82.7
|
Introduction of the Ford Model T
|
Automobile History
|
1909
|
83.0
|
Discovery of antibiotics
|
Medicine
|
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913
|
83.2 - 87.2
|
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft
|
USA - Presidents
|
May 30, 1911
|
85.4
|
One in seven families in the US owns a car
|
Automobile History
|
May 30, 1911
|
85.4
|
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis
|
Automobile History
|
Oct 23, 1911
|
85.8
|
First military use of an airplane
|
Aviation History
|
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921
|
87.2 - 95.2
|
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914
|
88.4
|
First transatlantic flight
|
Aviation History
|
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918
|
88.5 - 92.9
|
World War I
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918
|
88.6 - 92.9
|
East African Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915
|
88.7 - 89.5
|
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914
|
88.8
|
Maritz Rebellion
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
1916
|
90.0
|
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG)
|
Companies
|