| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-62.7) - 28.4 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-61.4) - 4.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-57.1) - 21.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-51.7) - 14.8 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-50.7) - 33.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-48.5) - 36.2 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-48.4) - 27.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-39.3) - 44.1 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-33.9) - 46.6 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-32.0) - 51.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-31.8) - 41.6 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-25.3) - 28.4 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-20.7) - 69.5 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-19.6) - 71.7 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-16.4) - 59.7 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-14.0) - 59.6 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-11.5) - 68.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
(-7.1) - 23.2 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
(-6.3) - 49.7 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
(-4.8) - 73.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
(-2.4) - 1.5 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
0.9 - 1.9 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
0.9 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
1.5 - 6.1 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
4.2 - 6.8 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
5.1 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
6.1 - 13.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
6.2 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
6.3 - 71.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
7.8 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
8.3 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
8.9 - 12.9 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
10.7 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
11.9 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
13.1 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
13.1 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
13.6 - 17.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
13.9 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
15.8 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
15.8 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
16.2 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
17.6 - 25.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
18.8 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
18.9 - 23.2 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
19.0 - 23.3 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
19.1 - 19.9 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
19.2 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
20.7 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
20.9 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
21.6 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
21.8 - 68.3 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
21.9 - 27.9 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 |
22.2 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 |
23.2 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
23.5 - 29.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
23.5 - 23.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
23.7 - 24.0 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
23.9 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 |
24.0 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 |
24.1 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
25.6 - 28.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 |
26.3 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 |
27.2 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
28.0 - 33.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
28.0 - 28.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 |
28.1 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
29.8 - 39.0 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
32.8 - 72.2 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
32.9 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
33.4 - 72.7 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
33.6 - 37.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
34.2 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
34.5 - 35.7 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
34.6 - 36.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
35.0 - 117.1 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
35.7 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
35.9 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
36.3 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
36.8 - 37.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
37.3 - 37.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
37.5 - 49.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
37.6 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
37.6 - 49.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
39.9 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
41.3 - 56.5 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
41.7 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
41.9 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
44.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
44.1 - 50.1 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
44.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
46.3 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
49.7 - 57.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
49.7 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
49.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
50.0 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
51.2 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
52.2 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 |
53.4 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 |
53.8 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
53.9 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
54.1 - 68.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 |
54.2 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
54.2 - 65.1 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 |
54.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
54.9 - 57.9 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 |
56.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
56.5 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
57.5 - 65.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 |
57.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
59.6 - 116.2 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
62.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 |
63.2 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
63.9 - 79.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
64.9 - 77.9 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
65.5 - 68.3 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 |
65.7 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
65.8 - 80.0 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 |
66.0 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 |
67.2 - 70.4 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 |
67.2 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 |
68.2 - 71.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 |
68.3 - 73.5 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
70.9 - 77.9 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 |
71.3 - 74.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
71.9 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 |
73.5 - 79.0 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 |
74.0 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 |
74.2 - 78.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 |
74.3 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 |
77.0 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
77.9 - 80.9 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 |
78.8 - 87.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 |
79.0 - 81.5 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 |
80.3 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 |
80.7 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
80.9 - 93.9 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 |
81.5 - 85.5 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 |
81.7 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 |
84.4 - 93.6 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 |
85.2 - 93.1 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 |
85.5 - 93.5 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 |
86.7 - 86.9 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 |
87.2 - 103.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 |
87.5 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
87.9 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 |
88.5 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 |
93.5 - 97.5 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 |
94.2 - 94.4 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 |
95.0 - 95.6 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 3, 1990 |
95.2 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| Dec 8, 1991 |
96.4 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
96.9 - 100.9 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 |
97.5 - 105.5 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 4, 1993 |
98.0 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Nov 1, 1993 |
98.3 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 |
98.9 - 100.9 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 17, 1995 |
99.5 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
Peter Skeen Ogden Applegate
Josephine Applegate
Birth