| 1954 | Tôkyô | opening night of the movie "The Seven Samurai" |
| 1903 | Stockholm | award ceremony of the Nobelprice for Marie Curie |
| 1891 | Frankfurt | Coppelius' first concert with electricity produced by a hydro-electric power plant |
| 1889 | Berlin | festivity for the release of the Aspirin |
| 1882 | Geisenheim | ceremony of introducing the Muller-Thurgau wine |
| 1880 | Paris | festivity of the opening night of Jaques Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann" |
| 1870 | Werder | flower festival |
| 1854 | New York | operation of the first elevator |
| 1853 | Leipzig | festivity of the founding of the Bluethner-piano |
| 1851 | London | first world exhibition |
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| 1849 | Moscow | inauguration of the Kremlin |
| 1845 | Halberstadt | on the occasion of the invention of the rubber band |
| 1845 | Frankfurt/M. | at the first lecture of Heinrich Hoffmann's "Struwwelpeter" |
| 1840 | Dresden | first board of cake baked with baking powder |
| 1825 | Stockton | opening of the railway Stockton-Darlington |
| 1822 | Steinbach-Hallenberg | invention ceremony of the cork-screw |
| 1821 | Mexico | celebration for independence |
| 1815 | Waterloo | on the baton's mountain of battle |
| 1811 | Berlin | Kleist's funeral |
| 1810 | Munich | first "Oktoberfest" |
| 1806 | Luebeck | opening of the first marzipan manufacture |
| 1803 | Paderborn | celebration for the identification of morphine |
