Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-69.7) - 6.3 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-66.6) - 4.1 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-53.7) - 37.4 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-52.4) - 13.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-48.1) - 30.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-42.7) - 23.8 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-41.7) - 42.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-39.5) - 45.2 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-39.4) - 36.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-30.2) - 53.1 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-24.9) - 55.6 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-23.0) - 60.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-22.8) - 50.6 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-16.3) - 37.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
(-15.5) - 1.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-11.7) - 78.5 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-10.6) - 80.7 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-7.4) - 68.7 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-5.0) - 68.6 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-2.5) - 77.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
(-1.4) - 2.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 28, 1886 |
0.2 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
0.9 - 2.9 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
0.9 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
1.6 - 1.8 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
1.8 - 32.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
1.9 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
2.6 - 6.6 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
2.7 - 58.7 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
3.9 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
1890 |
3.9 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
4.2 - 82.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
6.6 - 10.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 - 1897 |
9.9 - 10.9 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1896 |
9.9 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
10.6 - 15.1 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
13.2 - 15.8 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 |
14.1 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
15.1 - 22.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 |
15.2 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
15.3 - 80.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 |
16.8 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 |
17.3 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
17.9 - 21.9 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 |
19.7 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
20.9 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 |
22.1 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 |
22.1 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
22.6 - 26.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
22.9 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
May 30, 1911 |
24.8 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 |
24.8 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 |
25.2 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
26.6 - 34.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
27.8 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
27.9 - 32.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
28.0 - 32.3 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
28.1 - 28.9 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
28.2 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
29.7 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
29.9 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
30.6 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
30.8 - 77.3 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
30.9 - 36.9 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 |
31.2 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 |
32.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
32.5 - 38.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
32.5 - 32.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
32.7 - 33.0 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
32.9 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 |
33.0 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 |
33.1 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
34.6 - 37.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 |
35.3 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 |
36.2 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
37.0 - 42.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
37.0 - 37.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 |
37.1 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
38.8 - 48.0 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
41.9 - 81.2 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
41.9 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
42.4 - 81.7 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
42.6 - 46.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 |
43.2 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
43.5 - 44.7 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
43.6 - 45.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning |
Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
44.0 - 126.1 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 |
44.7 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
44.9 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 |
45.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
45.8 - 46.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
46.3 - 46.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
46.5 - 58.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
46.6 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
46.6 - 58.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
48.9 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |