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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(-69.6) - 3.6
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Life of Charles Robert Darwin
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Personalities
|
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892
|
(-61.8) - 14.2
|
Life of Werner von Siemens
|
Personalities
|
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890
|
(-58.8) - 12.0
|
Life of Theodor Fontane
|
Personalities
|
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923
|
(-45.8) - 45.3
|
Life of Gustave Eiffel
|
Personalities
|
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900
|
(-44.5) - 21.5
|
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
|
Personalities
|
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917
|
(-40.2) - 38.5
|
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin
|
Personalities
|
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910
|
(-34.8) - 31.7
|
Life of Robert Koch
|
Personalities
|
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929
|
(-33.8) - 50.6
|
Life of Carl Benz
|
Personalities
|
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931
|
(-31.6) - 53.1
|
Life of Thomas Alva Edison
|
Personalities
|
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922
|
(-31.6) - 43.9
|
Life of Alexander Graham Bell
|
Personalities
|
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939
|
(-22.4) - 61.1
|
Life of Sigmund Freud
|
Personalities
|
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942
|
(-17.0) - 63.5
|
Life of Robert Bosch
|
Personalities
|
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947
|
(-15.1) - 68.6
|
Life of Henry Ford
|
Personalities
|
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937
|
(-14.9) - 58.5
|
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain
|
Personalities
|
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884
|
(-9.0) - 5.3
|
Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle
|
Monuments
|
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924
|
(-8.4) - 45.4
|
Life of Vladimir Lenin
|
Personalities
|
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888
|
(-7.7) - 9.5
|
German Emperor: Wilhelm I
|
Germany
|
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965
|
(-3.8) - 86.4
|
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
|
Personalities
|
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967
|
(-2.7) - 88.6
|
Life of Konrad Adenauer
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881
|
(-1.5) - 2.5
|
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes
|
USA - Presidents
|
1878 - 1881
|
(-0.7) - 2.3
|
Second Anglo-Afghan War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Dec 31, 1878
|
0.3
|
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine
|
Automobile History
|
1879
|
0.3
|
Discovery of cholera vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
0.3
|
Discovery of plague vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
0.3
|
Anglo-Zulu War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955
|
0.5 - 76.6
|
Life of Albert Einstein
|
Personalities
|
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881
|
2.3 - 2.5
|
First Boer War ('First South African War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881
|
2.5 - 3.0
|
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield
|
USA - Presidents
|
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955
|
2.9 - 76.5
|
Life of Alexander Fleming
|
Personalities
|
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885
|
3.0 - 6.5
|
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur
|
USA - Presidents
|
1882
|
3.3
|
Britain occupies Egypt
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
1882
|
3.3
|
Establishment of Peugeot
|
Companies
|
1884
|
5.3
|
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin
|
Aviation History
|
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963
|
5.3 - 85.3
|
Life of Theodor Heuss
|
Personalities
|
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885
|
6.2 - 6.4
|
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference')
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889
|
6.5 - 10.5
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1886
|
7.3
|
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company
|
Companies
|
1886
|
7.3
|
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson
|
Companies
|
Oct 28, 1886
|
8.1
|
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty
|
Monuments
|
1887
|
8.3
|
Huang He Flood
|
Disasters
|
1887 - 1889
|
8.3 - 10.3
|
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower
|
Monuments
|
1888
|
9.3
|
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz
|
Automobile History
|
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888
|
9.5 - 9.8
|
German Emperor: Friedrich III
|
Germany
|
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918
|
9.8 - 40.2
|
German Emperor: Wilhelm II
|
Germany
|
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893
|
10.5 - 14.5
|
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945
|
10.6 - 66.7
|
Life of Adolf Hitler
|
Personalities
|
1890
|
11.3
|
Establishment of General Electric
|
Companies
|
1890
|
11.3
|
Establishment of Daimler
|
Companies
|
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969
|
12.1 - 90.6
|
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897
|
14.5 - 18.5
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1896
|
17.3
|
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)')
|
Companies
|
1896 - 1897
|
17.3 - 18.3
|
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901
|
18.5 - 23.0
|
President of the United States of America: William McKinley
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902
|
21.1 - 23.7
|
Second Boer War ('Second South African War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 8, 1900
|
22.0
|
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas
|
Disasters
|
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909
|
23.0 - 30.5
|
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 19, 1901
|
23.1
|
First motorized zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966
|
23.2 - 88.3
|
Life of Walter Elias Disney
|
Personalities
|
Jun 16, 1903
|
24.8
|
Establishment of Ford Motor Company
|
Companies
|
Dec 16, 1903
|
25.3
|
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers
|
Aviation History
|
1904 - 1908
|
25.3 - 29.3
|
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Apr 18, 1906
|
27.6
|
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
|
Disasters
|
1907
|
28.3
|
First helicopter flight
|
Aviation History
|
Sep 16, 1908
|
30.0
|
Establishment of General Motors
|
Companies
|
Sep 27, 1908
|
30.0
|
Introduction of the Ford Model T
|
Automobile History
|
1909
|
30.3
|
Discovery of antibiotics
|
Medicine
|
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913
|
30.5 - 34.5
|
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft
|
USA - Presidents
|
May 30, 1911
|
32.7
|
One in seven families in the US owns a car
|
Automobile History
|
May 30, 1911
|
32.7
|
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis
|
Automobile History
|
Oct 23, 1911
|
33.1
|
First military use of an airplane
|
Aviation History
|
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921
|
34.5 - 42.5
|
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914
|
35.8
|
First transatlantic flight
|
Aviation History
|
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918
|
35.8 - 40.2
|
World War I
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918
|
35.9 - 40.2
|
East African Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915
|
36.0 - 36.8
|
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914
|
36.1
|
Maritz Rebellion
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
1916
|
37.3
|
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG)
|
Companies
|
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916
|
37.6
|
Easter Rising
|
Great Britain
|
1917 - 1923
|
38.3 - 44.3
|
Russian Civil War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917
|
38.5
|
Russian February Revolution
|
Russia
|
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963
|
38.7 - 85.2
|
Life of John F. Kennedy
|
Personalities
|
Nov 7, 1917
|
39.2
|
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
|
Russia
|
Nov 9, 1918
|
40.2
|
German Revolution
|
Germany
|
1919
|
40.3
|
First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925
|
40.4 - 46.5
|
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert
|
Germany
|
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919
|
40.4 - 40.8
|
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann
|
Germany
|
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919
|
40.7 - 40.9
|
Third Anglo-Afghan War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 11, 1919
|
40.9
|
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution
|
Germany
|
Sep 10, 1919
|
41.0
|
Treaty of Saint-Germain
|
Italy
|