This Day in History - Database of 140,000+ Events

This Day in History – Database of 140,000+ Events

This is a comprehensive list of 142,000+ historical factsthat includes 65,000+ historical events, 57,000+ births, 17,500+ deaths and about 2,500 holidays. The list is the largest and unique on the web. The data is ready to be published on your content web site or application. The following table summarizes the century wise count of events (excluding holidays)


Century	No of Events
0000-0099	98
0100-0199	41
0200-0299	66
0300-0399	146
0400-0499	126
0500-0599	115
0600-0699	148
0700-0799	119
0800-0899	177
0900-0999	148
1000-1099	362
1100-1199	480
1200-1299	627
1300-1399	706
1400-1499	1,209
1500-1599	2,978
1600-1699	4,314
1700-1799	7,389
1800-1899	22,749
1900-1999	89,083
2000-2099	9,199

Data Format:
The package contains data in tab delimited text file format. Additional format such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access database format is available on request. Please send your request to sales@ebusinessgems.com

Data Columns:
The list has the following information fields:

Categ: Category of events (i.e. Births, Deaths, Events and Holidays).
Year: Year of the event.
Month: Month of the event.
Day: Day on which the event occurred.
Fact: What happened on the day?

The [Year] field is obviously blank for Holidays. All 5 fields are populated in all other cases.

Data Example (in TAB delimited format):

CATEG	YEAR	MONTH	DAY	FACT
Births	1312	11	13	Birth of Edward III king of England (1327-77).
Births	1312	11	13	Birth of King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
Births	1313	6	16	Birth of Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375)
Births	1313	8	1	Birth of Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
Deaths	1795	6	8	Death of King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
Deaths	1796	11	6	Death of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
Events	1939	1	2	Donald Bradman scores 107 South Africa versus Victoria, his fourth consecutive century.
Events	1939	1	14	Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
Events	1939	2	27	American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Events	1969	7	16	Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy , Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
Events	1983	4	17	India enters space age launching SLV-3 rocket.
Events	1987	3	15	13th People’s Choice Awards: Bill Cosby.
Events	2005	8	29	Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and costing over 115 billion dollars in damage.
Holidays		5	1	Holiday – May Day, Labour Day, Workers’ Day, Day of the International Solidarity of Workers.
Holidays		7	17	Holiday – South Korea – Constitution Day

Keywords:
this day in history, on this day, historical events, event database, this day in history database

Incoming search terms for the article:

Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:

Tags: historical events, history, on this day, ready-made database, this day in history

May 6th, 2011

1 comment so far

Please leave a comment

admin Says:
May 24th, 2011 at 1:45 am

You may please checkout our tweets to see examples of historical events being posted on http://twitter.com/eBusinessGems

eBusinessGems Blog