| 1801 June 6 | Event | Peace of Badajoz | between Spain and Portugal. |
| 1802 July 24 | Birth | Alexandre Dumas | Author |
| 1804 May 18 | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France. | |
| 1805 October 21 | Event | Battle of Trafalgar | Nelson defeats the French and starts a century of English Naval supremacy. |
| 1806 April 6 | Birth | Elizabeth Barret-Browning | Poet |
| 1806 April 9 | Birth | Isembard Kingdom Brunel | Railway and Maritime engineer whose works include the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the steamship SS Great Western. Born in Portsmouth. |
| 1806 April 9 | Birth | Eadweard Muybridge | Pioneer in the study of motion using photography. |
| 1808 November 22 | Birth | Thomas Cook | The founder of Thomas Cook & Son, Travel Agent, Started with an organised train journey to a temperance meeting on 5th July 1841.
Started the true ticket and travel agency in the early 1860s. |
| 1809 April 14 | Event | Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria | Napoleon defeats Austria. |
| 1809 August 6 | Birth | Alfred Tennyson, Lord | Poet Laureate |
| 1809 February 12 | Birth | Birth of Charles Darwin | Famous scientist who wrote of the Theory of Evolution. |
| 1809 February 12 | Birth | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States of America. |
| 1809 May 31 | Birth | Franz Joseph Haydn | Composer |
| 1810 July 5 | Birth | P.T. Barnum | Showman |
| 1811 July 18 | Birth | William Makepeace Thackeray | Novelist. |
| 1811 October 22 | Birth | Franz Liszt | Hungarian composer. |
| 1812 April 5 | Event | British forces take Badajoz fortress | from the French and Spanish |
| 1812 June 18 | Event | War of 1812 begins | as US declares war on Britain. |
| 1812 May 12 | Birth | Edward Lear | Landscape painter and poet. |
| 1812 May 7 | Birth | Robert Browning | English Poet. |
| 1812 September 19 | Event | Napoleon starts retreat from Russia | |
| 1813 October 10 | Birth | Giuseppe Verdi | Composer. |
| 1813 September 10 | Event | Battle of Lake Erie | English defeated by Oliver H. Perry. |
| 1814 April 11 | Event | Napoleon banished to the Isle of Elba | and forced to abdicate but is allowed to keep his title of Emperor. |
| 1814 July 19 | Birth | Samuel Colt | creator of the Colt Revolver. |
| 1814 November 6 | Birth | Adolphe Sax | Instrument Inventor. |
| 1815 April 24 | Birth | Anthony Trollope | Novelist |
| 1815 June 18 | Event | Battle of Waterloo | Wellington defeats Napoleon. |
| 1816 April 21 | Birth | Charlotte Bronte | Author born in Thornton, Yorkshire |
| 1818 July 30 | Birth | Emily Bronet | Author. |
| 1818 May 7 | Birth | Karl Marx | |
| 1819 June 20 | Birth | Jacques Offenback | Composer. |
| 1819 May 22 | Birth | Richard Wagner | Composer (Ring Cycle) |
| 1819 May 24 | Birth | Queen Victoria of England | (1837-1901) |
| 1819 May 24 | Birth | Queen Victoria of England | Daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. Born at Kensington Palace. |
| 1819 September 18 | Birth | Jean-Bernard-L'on Foucauld | whos pendulum proved that the earth rotates. |
| 1820 May 12 | Birth | Florence Nightingale | Nurse (Crimean War) |
| 1821 May 5 | Death | Napoleon I Bonaparte | Emperor of France (1799-1815) at St. Helena |
| 1824 January 21 | Birth | Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson | Confederate General. |
| 1824 September 4 | Birth | Anton Bruckner | Composer. |
| 1825 October 25 | Birth | Johann Strauss the Younger | Composer |
| 1827 April 7 | Event | Sale of Matches | by John Walker a Stockton Chemist |
| 1828 August 28 | Birth | Leo Tolstoy | Author. |
| 1828 May 18 | Event | Battle of Las Piedras | Ends conflict between Uraguay and Brazil. |
| 1829 April 10 | Birth | William Booth | Founder of the Salvation Army. |
| 1829 October 15 | Birth | Asaph Hall | Astronomer. |
| 1830 May 16 | Death | Jean Baptiste joseph Fourier | Mathematician (Curves) |
| 1830 November 22 | Event | Container Transport used for the first time | by Pickfords who had come to an arrangement with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. |
| 1832 November 26 | Event | The First Trams run in New York | Introduced by John Mason and running the Prince Street-14th Street route. They were horse drawn trolleys. |
| 1833 April 22 | Death | Richard Trevithick | Inventor (?) of the Steam Locomotive. |
| 1833 August 23 | Event | Britain abolishes slavery in the colonies | and 700,000 slaves get their freedom. |
| 1833 May 7 | Birth | Johannes Brahms | Composer. |
| 1833 October 21 | Birth | Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Created both Dynamite and the Nobel Prizes. |
| 1834 July 19 | Birth | Edgar Degas | Impressionist Painter. |
| 1834 March 17 | Birth | Gottleib Daimler | the notable car designer and manufacturer. |
| 1835 May 13 | Death | John Nash | British town planner and architect |
| 1836 November 18 | Birth | W.S. Gilbert, Sir | Partneres Sullivan in creating the world famous opera company. |
| 1836 October 2 | Event | Charles Darwin returns to England | aboard HMS Beagle. |
| 1837 January | Event | Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert | |
| 1837 June 20 | Event | Queen Victoria ascends the throne of England | and reigns for 63 years until 1901. |
| 1837 May 27 | Birth | Wild Bill Hickock | Cowboy/Scout (James Butler) |
| 1837 May 31 | Death | Joseph Grimaldi | Greatest Clown (King of Pantomime) |
| 1838 April 12 | Event | Battle of Tugela | English settlers in South Africa fdefeat Zulus |
| 1838 April 8 | Event | SS Great Britain's maiden voyage | Brunel's great steam ship, 236ft long leaves Bristol for New York. |
| 1838 April 9 | Event | Opening of the National Gallery | in Trafalgar Square London |
| 1838 July 8 | Birth | Count Ferdinand Graf von Zepplin | Inventor. |
| 1838 June 27 | Event | Queen Victoria Crowned | Queen of England |
| 1838 October 25 | Birth | Georges Bizet | Composer |
| 1838 September 02 | Birth | Queen Liliuokalani | Queen of Hawaii |
| 1839 July 8 | Birth | John D. Rockerfeller | Very Rich Man! |
| 1840 February 10 | Event | Marriage of Queen Victoria of England | to her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
| 1840 May 1 | Event | Penny Black Adhesive stamp issued | By the Post Office, The 1st of their type. |
| 1840 May 17 | Death | Niccolo Paganini | Composer. |
| 1840 May 21 | Event | new Zealand becomes an English Colony. | |
| 1840 May 6 | Event | Penny Black stamp first issued in England. | |
| 1841 July 17 | Event | Punch Magazine first published | in England. |
| 1841 July 31 | Birth | Herman Melville | Author (Moby Dick) |
| 1844 July 22 | Birth | Reverend Spooner | or should that be Speverend Rooner? |
| 1844 October 11 | Birth | Henry John Heinz | of food fame, beans and all! |
| 1844 October 15 | Birth | Friedrich Nietzshe | Author. |
| 1845 October 22 | Birth | Sarah Bernhardt | Actress. |
| 1846 June 7 | Birth | Paul Gaugin (Eugene Henri) | French post-impressionist painter. |
| 1846 September 23 | Event | Johann Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest locate Neptune | |
| 1847 June 14 | Event | Bunsen invents his burner! | |
| 1848 June 7 | Birth | Paul Gauguin | Painter. |
| 1850 April 23 | Death | William Wordsworth | Poet at 80 Years Old. |
| 1850 June 6 | Event | First Jeans created | by Levi Strauss. |
| 1851 August 22 | Event | Gold is discovered in Australia. | |
| 1851 May 1 | Event | Great Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace in London | |
| 1852 April 13 | Birth | Frank Winfield Woolworth | founder of the department store chain. Born in New York. |
| 1854 April 29 | Birth | Henri Poincar | Mathematician. |
| 1854 October 16 | Birth | Oscar Wilde | Wit, author |
| 1854 October 25 | Event | Battle of Balaklava (Crimean War) | The Light Brigade charges to fame (infamy?) |
| 1856 July 26 | Birth | George Bernard Shaw | Dramatist and Author. |
| 1856 May 6 | Birth | Sigmund Freud | Austrian cigar smoker and Father of Psychology. |
| 1859 May 19 | Birth | Dame Nellie Melba | Australian Soprano |
| 1859 May 22 | Birth | Arthur Conan Doyle | Author (Sherlock Holmes) |
| 1860 April 16 | Death | Marie Tussaud | Swiss Born Modeller who established the Wax Works Museum in Baker Street London in 1835. |
| 1860 April 3 | Event | Start of the American Pony Express | Travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacremento |
| 1860 August 13 | Birth | Annie Oakley | Wild West Woman? |
| 1861 December 10 | Death | Prince Albert - consort of Queen Victoria | From typhoid fever at Windsor Castle. |
| 1861 July 16 | Event | Battle of Bull Run | First major battle of the American Civil War. |
| 1862 April 6 | Event | Battle of Shiloh | American Union forces defeat Confederacy forces in South West Tennessee. |
| 1862 August 22 | Birth | Claude Debussy | Composer. |
| 1862 May 24 | Event | Opening of Westminster Bridge | in London. |
| 1863 April 11 | Event | Battle of Suffolk | ACW - VA (Northfleet House) |
| 1863 July 1 | Event | Battle of Gettysburg | Lee's advance northwards is halted. |
| 1863 July 30 | Birth | Henry Ford. | Car Maker. |
| 1864 June 11 | Birth | Richard Strauss | German Composer. |
| 1864 June 14 | Birth | Alois Alzheimer | German Psychiatrist |
| 1865 April 11 | Event | Battle of Mobile | ACW - AL evacuated by Confederates. |
| 1865 April 14 | Event | president Abraham Lincoln Shot | by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre. |
| 1865 April 6 | Event | Battle of Sayler's Creek | One third of General Lee's army are cut off. |
| 1865 April 9 | Event | Lee Surrenders at Appomattox | and thus ends the American Civil War |
| 1865 July 5 | Event | Salvation Army founded in England | by William Booth. |
| 1865 June 13 | Birth | William Butler Yeats | Poet |
| 1865 June 3 | Birth | King George V of England | Saksen-Coburg (Windsor) (1910-36) |
| 1866 April 6 | Birth | Robert Parker [Butch Cassidy] | US Bandit and Desperado |
| 1867 April 23 | Event | Plans for a Channel Tunnel turned down | by Queen Victoria and Napoleon III of France. |
| 1867 November 26 | Event | Mrs Lily Maxwell votes in a parliamentary Election | She had been placed on the electoral register in error and had to be escorted by a bodyguard to protect her from loutish opponents to women’s suffrage. |
| 1867 October 18 | Event | America takes possession of Alaska | for $7.2 million from the Russians. |
| 1868 April 6 | Event | Klu Klux Klan formed in the USA. | |
| 1869 April 9 | Event | Hudson Bat Company cedes it's Territory to Canada. | |
| 1869 October 2 | Birth | Mahatma Ghandi | Indian Pacifist. |
| 1870 April 22 | Birth | Vladimir llyich Ulyanov - Lenin | Born in Simbirsk. |
| 1870 June 9 | Death | Charles Dickens | Author. |
| 1870 October 2 | Event | Rome and the Papal States annexed | by Italy and Rome is made the Italian Capital. |
| 1870 September 4 | Event | France declares the Republic. | |
| 1871 August 19 | Birth | Orville Wright | Builder of Airplanes. |
| 1871 July 10 | Birth | Marcel Proust | Novelist. |
| 1871 May 11 | Death | John Herschel | Astronomer |
| 1871 October 8 | Event | Great Fire of Chicago U.S.A. | destroys four square miles of the city. |
| 1872 July 16 | Birth | Roald Amundsen | First mane to reach the South Pole. |
| 1873 May 9 | Birth | Howard Carter | British Archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb) |
| 1874 April 25 | Birth | Guglielmo Marconi | Inventor of Radio. |
| 1874 April 6 | Birth | Harry Houdini [Erich Weiss] | Famous magician and escape artist |
| 1874 May 9 | Event | Victoria Embankment opened in London | |
| 1875 July 26 | Birth | Carl Jung | Analytical Psychologist. |
| 1875 June 3 | Event | Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call. | |
| 1876 June 26 | Event | Custers Last Stand takes place. | |
| 1879 April 29 | Birth | Thomas Beecham | Musical Conductor |
| 1879 April 9 | Birth | W.C. Fields | Actor and Wit. |
| 1879 August 8 | Birth | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary. |
| 1879 June 21 | Event | F.W. Woolworth opens his first store | which failed and he relocated to a new place.... the rest is history! |
| 1879 May 16 | Event | Treaty of Gandamak | Sets up Afgan State between Russia and England. |
| 1879 November 7 | Birth | Leon Trotsky | Russian Communist Theorist and Bolshevik. |
| 1879 October 21 | Event | Lightbulb becomes commercial | created by Thomas Edison. |
| 1880 June 27 | Birth | Hellen Keller | Deaf and Blind Author and Lecturer |
| 1881 April 18 | Event | National History Museum opens | in South Kensington England. |
| 1881 April 5 | Event | Transvaal regains independence | but under British Suzerainty |
| 1881 August 12 | Birth | Cecil B. deMille | Film Director |
| 1881 August 6 | Birth | Alexander Fleming | Discovered use for Penecillin. |
| 1881 October 1 | Birth | Willaim Edward Boeing | Founder of the aircraft manufacturer |
| 1881 October 25 | Birth | Pablo Picasso | Artist. |
| 1882 April 19 | Death | Charles Darwin | Biologist, Theory of Evolution |
| 1882 April 3 | Death | Jesse James | Bank Robber, Shot in the back in St. Josephs, Missouri |
| 1882 June 17 | Birth | Igor Stravinski | Composer. |
| 1883 July 29 | Birth | Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) | Italian Dictator. |
| 1883 July 3 | Birth | Franz Kafka | Author (The Trial) |
| 1883 May 23 | Birth | Duglas Fairbanks | Actor |
| 1884 April 5 | Death | John Wisden, Publisher and Cricketer | Prominent Sussex player |
| 1884 August 16 | Birth | Hugo Gernsback | Science Fictionalist? |
| 1884 July 4 | Event | Statue of Liberty presented to United States | in Paris, France. |
| 1884 May 31 | Event | Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" | and so were born Kelloggs cornflakes. |
| 1884 October 29 | Birth | Bella Lugosi | Actor (horror movies) |
| 1885 May 12 | Event | Battle of Batoche | French Canadians rebel against Canada. |
| 1885 November 7 | Event | Canada completes trans-continental railway. | |
| 1885 October 7 | Birth | Niels Bohr | Quantum Physicist. |
| 1885 September 11 | Birth | D.H. Lawrence | Author. |
| 1886 May 26 | Birth | Al Jolson | Singer/Actor |
| 1886 May 8 | Event | Jacob's pharmacy in Altanta sells 1st Coca-Cola | originally containing cocaine) |
| 1887 July 22 | Birth | Gustav Hertz | Quantum Physicist. |
| 1889 April 14 | Birth | Adolf Hitler | Austrian, Dictator of Nazi germany. |
| 1889 April 16 | Birth | Charlie Chaplin | Comedian and Actor |
| 1889 April 6 | Event | First Kodak Camera goes on sale. | Sold by George Eastman |
| 1889 April 8 | Birth | Sir Adrian Boult - Conductor | BBC Symphony Orchestra |
| 1889 April 9 | Birth | Paul Robeson | Actor and Singer, famous for rendition of "Ol' Man River" in Show Boat. |
| 1889 May 1 | Event | Bayer introduce asperin in powder form. | |
| 1889 May 25 | Birth | Igor Sikorski | who developed a working Helicopter. |
| 1890 November 22 | Birth | Charles de Gaulle | who became President of France. |
| 1892 August 16 | Birth | Harold Foster | Cartoonist |
| 1892 July 23 | Birth | Haile Selassie | Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) |
| 1892 May 11 | Birth | Margaret Rutherford | English Actress |
| 1893 April 8 | Birth | Mary Picford | Actress |
| 1894 April 14 | Event | Thomas Edison presents his Kinetoscope | the first peep show device. |
| 1894 July 26 | Birth | Aldous Huxley | Author. |
| 1894 October 14 | Birth | E.E. Cummings | Poet. |
| 1895 April 29 | Birth | Sir Malcolm Sargent | Musical Conductor |
| 1895 April 5 | Event | End of trial of Oscar Wilde | who loses libel case brought against Marquess of Queensbury who had accused him of being a Homosexual |
| 1895 December 14 | Birth | King George VI of England | Who succeeded King Edward VIII when he abdicated and led England through the World War II years. |
| 1895 July 24 | Birth | Robert Graves | Author (I Claudius) |
| 1895 October 2 | Birth | Groucho Marx | Comedian and Actor |
| 1895 October 4 | Birth | Buster Keaton | Silent Movie Actor. |
| 1895 September 24 | Event | 1st round the world bicycle trip by a woman | which took fifteen months to complete. |
| 1896 April 5 | Event | First modern Olympic Games opens in Athens | |
| 1896 May 4 | Event | English Daily Mail published for the 1st time | and cost one penny. |
| 1897 April 3 | Death | Johannes Brahms, Composer | Dies at 71 Years old |
| 1897 June 12 | Birth | Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon | and later British Prime Minister. |
| 1897 May 18 | Birth | Frank Capra | Italian Film Director |
| 1897 May 18 | Birth | Fred Perry | English Tennis Star |
| 1898 July 24 | Birth | Amelia Earhart | Aviator |
| 1898 June 11 | Event | US Marines land at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba | 600 of them! |
| 1898 June 9 | Event | China leases Hong Kong and territories | to Britain for a 99 year period. |
| 1899 May 10 | Birth | Fred Astaire | Actor and Tap Dancer |
| 1900 May 17 | Event | British Troops relieve Mafeking | (Cape Colony) |
| 1900 May 18 | Event | Britain proclaimes protectorate over Island of Tonga | |
| 1901 January 25 | Death | Queen Victoria | of England died on this day. |
