Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-70.3) - 5.7 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-67.2) - 3.5 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-54.2) - 36.8 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-53.0) - 13.0 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-48.7) - 30.0 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-43.2) - 23.2 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-42.3) - 42.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-40.1) - 44.6 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-40.0) - 35.4 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-30.8) - 52.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-25.4) - 55.0 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-23.6) - 60.1 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-23.4) - 50.0 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-16.9) - 36.9 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
(-16.1) - 1.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-12.2) - 77.9 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-11.2) - 80.1 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-8.0) - 68.1 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-5.6) - 68.0 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-3.1) - 76.8 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
(-2.0) - 2.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1887 - 1889 |
0.3 - 2.3 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
0.3 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
1.0 - 1.3 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
1.3 - 31.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
1.3 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
2.0 - 6.0 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
2.1 - 58.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
3.3 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
1890 |
3.3 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
3.6 - 82.1 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
6.0 - 10.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 - 1897 |
9.3 - 10.3 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1896 |
9.3 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
10.0 - 14.5 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
12.6 - 15.2 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 |
13.5 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
14.5 - 22.0 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 |
14.6 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
14.7 - 79.8 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 |
16.3 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 |
16.8 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
17.3 - 21.3 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 |
19.1 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
20.3 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 |
21.5 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 |
21.5 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
22.0 - 26.0 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
22.3 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
May 30, 1911 |
24.2 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 |
24.2 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 |
24.6 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
26.0 - 34.0 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
27.3 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
27.3 - 31.7 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
27.4 - 31.7 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
27.5 - 28.3 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
27.6 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
29.1 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
29.3 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
30.0 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
30.2 - 76.7 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
30.3 - 36.3 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 |
30.7 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 |
31.7 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
31.9 - 38.0 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
31.9 - 32.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
32.2 - 32.4 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
32.3 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 |
32.4 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 |
32.5 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
34.0 - 36.4 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 |
34.7 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 |
35.6 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
36.4 - 42.0 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
36.4 - 36.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 |
36.5 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
38.2 - 47.4 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
41.3 - 80.6 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
41.3 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
41.9 - 81.1 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
42.0 - 46.0 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 |
42.6 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
42.9 - 44.2 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
43.1 - 45.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
43.4 - 125.5 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 |
44.1 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
44.3 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 |
44.8 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
45.2 - 45.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
45.7 - 45.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
45.9 - 58.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
46.0 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
46.0 - 58.1 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
48.3 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
49.8 - 64.9 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 |
50.2 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
50.3 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 |
52.5 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
52.5 - 58.5 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 |
53.2 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 |
54.8 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
58.1 - 65.9 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 |
58.1 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
May 8, 1945 |
58.2 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
58.4 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
Oct 14, 1946 |
59.6 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
Oct 14, 1947 |
60.6 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 |
61.8 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 |
62.2 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
62.3 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
62.5 - 76.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 |
62.6 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
62.6 - 73.5 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 |
63.3 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
63.3 - 66.3 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 |
64.9 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
64.9 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
65.9 - 73.9 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 |
66.3 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
68.0 - 124.6 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 |
70.6 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 |
71.6 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
72.3 - 88.2 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 |
73.3 - 86.3 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
73.9 - 76.7 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 |
74.1 |
First human in space |
Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
74.2 - 88.4 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 |
74.5 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 |
75.6 - 78.8 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 |
75.6 - 75.7 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 |
76.6 - 79.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 |
76.7 - 81.9 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 |
79.3 - 86.3 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 |
79.8 - 82.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
1967 |
80.3 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 |
81.9 - 87.5 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 |
82.4 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 |
82.7 - 87.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 |
82.7 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 |
85.4 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 |
86.3 - 89.3 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 |
87.2 - 95.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 |
87.5 - 89.9 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 |
88.7 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 |
89.1 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 |
89.3 - 102.4 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 |
89.9 - 93.9 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 |
90.1 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 |
92.8 - 102.0 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 |
93.6 - 101.5 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 |
93.9 - 101.9 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 |
95.1 - 95.3 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 |
95.6 - 111.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 |
95.9 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 |
96.4 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 |
96.9 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |