Horch worked for Karl Benz from 1896, before founding A. Horch & Co. in November 1899, in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany.

The first commercially successful automobile, created by Karl Benz, added to the interest in light and powerful engines.

In 1896, Karl Benz was granted a patent for his design of the first engine with horizontally opposed pistons.

* 1885: Karl Benz invents Benz Patent Motorwagen worlds first automobile.

* 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

* 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.

Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, in Karlsruhe, Baden, which is part of modern Germany, to Josephine Vaillant and a locomotive driver, Johann George Benz, whom she married a few months later.

When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father .< ref > Karl Benz family gravestone Karl is the spelling of his first name on all of his official personal and municipal documents throughout his life, such as birth, school, honorary doctorate, the Baden State Metal certificate, and on his family grave marker as displayed to the right.

* 1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

* 1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and inventor ( d. 1929 )

** Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer ( b. 1844 )

* May 11 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.

* August 5 – Berta Benz arrives in Pforzheim, having driven from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Karl Benz, thus completing the first " long-distance " drive in the history of the automobile.

* Marx, Karl, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, 1844 ; 1932

The Russian scientist Karl Ernst Claus discovered the element in 1844 and named it after Ruthenia, the Latin word for Rus ' ( ancient Russia ).

* March 10 – Karl Lueger, Austrian mayor ( b. 1844 )

Charles XIV & III John, also Carl John, Swedish and Norwegian: Karl Johan ( 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844 ) was King of Sweden ( as Charles XIV John ) and King of Norway ( as Charles III John ) from 1818 until his death.

physicist Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger in 1844.

## Müller, Karl Otfried ( 1844 ), Orchomenos und die Minyer, Breslau

Those focused on working conditions included Friedrich Engels, whose book The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 would inspire the Marxist movement named for his collaborator, Karl Marx.

* Karl Fredrik Dahlgren ( 1791 – 1844 ), Swedish poet

* 1818 – 1844: Charles XIV John ( Karl XIV Johan )

In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 ( 1927 ), Karl Marx identified four types of alienation ( Entfremdung ) that occur to the worker labouring under a capitalist system of industrial production.

* Karl Friedrich von Eichhorn, Prussian Minister of Religious and Educational Affairs, to the Prussian Interior Minister Count von Arnim ( June 7, 1844 )

Karl Lueger (, not ; 24 October 1844 – 10 March 1910 ) was an Austrian politician, mayor of Vienna, and leader and cofounder the Austrian Christian Social Party.

* Karl Lueger ( 1844 – 1910 ), politician

" Frederick Engels, who first established close personal relations with Karl Marx in 1844, later affirmed that it was Marx's journalism at the Rheinische Zeitung which led him " from pure politics to economic relationships and so to socialism.

Karl Marx discusses Timon in his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844.

* the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: especially the earlier writings such as The 1844 Manuscripts, The German Ideology and " Theses on Feuerbach ," but also the Grundrisse, Capital and other works inspired

" The location of KV20, if not its original owner, had long been known since the Napoleonic expedition of 1799 and, in 1844, the Prussian scholar Karl Richard Lepsius had partially explored its upper passage.

The ruins were examined more carefully in 1844 by Karl Richard Lepsius, who brought many plans, sketches, and copies, besides actual antiquities, to Berlin.

** ( 1. 1. 1 ) Prince Karl, Duke of Skåne, born 3 May 1826 ; Crown Prince from 8 March 1844 ; succeeded 8 July 1859 as Karl XV of Sweden

In his 1844 Paris Manuscripts, Karl Marx famously defined humans as " creatures of need " or " needy creatures " who experienced suffering in the process of learning and working to meet their needs.

* 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist ( d. 1920 )

* 1881 – Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete ( d. 1953 )

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 1982 – Karl Davies, English actor

* 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer ( d. 1963 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician ( d. 1968 )

* 1975 – Karl Yune, American actor

* 1945 – World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.

* 1966 – Karl Petter Løken, Norwegian footballer

* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

* 1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist ( d. 1903 )

* 1741 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian ( d. 1792 )

* 1963 – Karl Beattie, English director and producer

* 1894 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor ( d. 1981 )

* 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

* 1771 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1820 )

* 1979 – Karl Wolf, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Sky )

* 1985 – Karl Reindler, Australian race car driver

* 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.

* 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1850 )