| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-67.6) - 8.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-64.6) - 6.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-51.6) - 39.4 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-50.3) - 15.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-46.0) - 32.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-40.6) - 25.8 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-39.6) - 44.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-37.4) - 47.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-37.4) - 38.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-28.2) - 55.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-22.8) - 57.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-21.0) - 62.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-20.7) - 52.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-14.2) - 39.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
(-13.5) - 3.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-9.6) - 80.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-8.5) - 82.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-5.3) - 70.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-2.9) - 70.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
(-2.8) - 0.6 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-0.5) - 79.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
0.3 - 0.6 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
0.6 - 4.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
1.9 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
1.9 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
2.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
2.9 - 4.9 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
2.9 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
3.6 - 3.9 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
3.9 - 34.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
3.9 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
4.6 - 8.6 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
4.7 - 60.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
5.9 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
5.9 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
6.2 - 84.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
8.6 - 12.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
11.9 - 12.9 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
11.9 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
12.6 - 17.1 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
15.2 - 17.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
16.1 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
17.1 - 24.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
17.2 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
17.4 - 82.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
18.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
19.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
19.9 - 23.9 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
21.7 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
22.9 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
24.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
24.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
24.6 - 28.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
24.9 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
26.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
26.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
27.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
28.6 - 36.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
29.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
29.9 - 34.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
30.0 - 34.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
30.2 - 31.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
30.2 - 30.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
31.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
31.9 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
32.6 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
32.9 - 79.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
32.9 - 39.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 |
33.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 |
34.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
34.6 - 40.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
34.6 - 34.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
34.8 - 35.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
34.9 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 |
35.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 |
35.1 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
36.6 - 39.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 |
37.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 |
38.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
39.0 - 44.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
39.1 - 39.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 |
39.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
40.8 - 50.0 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
43.9 - 83.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
44.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
44.5 - 83.7 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
44.6 - 48.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
45.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
45.5 - 46.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
45.7 - 47.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
46.1 - 128.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
46.7 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
47.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
47.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
47.9 - 48.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
48.4 - 48.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
48.5 - 60.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
48.6 - 48.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
48.6 - 60.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
51.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
52.4 - 67.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
52.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
53.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
55.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
55.1 - 61.1 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
55.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
57.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
60.7 - 68.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
60.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
60.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
61.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
62.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
63.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 |
64.4 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 |
64.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
65.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
65.2 - 79.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 |
65.2 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
65.3 - 76.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 |
65.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
66.0 - 69.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 |
67.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
67.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
68.5 - 76.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 |
68.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
70.6 - 127.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
73.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 |
74.2 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
75.0 - 90.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
76.0 - 89.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
76.5 - 79.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 |
76.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
76.9 - 91.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 |
77.1 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 |
78.3 - 81.4 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 |
78.3 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 |
79.3 - 82.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 |
79.4 - 84.5 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
82.0 - 89.0 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 |
82.4 - 85.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
83.0 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 |
84.5 - 90.1 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 |
85.0 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 |
85.3 - 89.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 |
85.3 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 |
88.0 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
89.0 - 92.0 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 |
89.9 - 98.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 |
90.1 - 92.5 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 |
91.4 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 |
91.7 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
92.0 - 105.0 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 |
92.5 - 96.6 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 |
92.8 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 |
95.5 - 104.6 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 |
96.2 - 104.1 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 |
96.6 - 104.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 |
97.7 - 97.9 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 |
98.2 - 114.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 |
98.5 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
99.0 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 |
99.6 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Juho Sylvin
Aurora Erkintytar Pippo
Birth