| 15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
(-69.6) - 21.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
(-64.0) - 14.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
(-58.6) - 7.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
(-57.6) - 26.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
(-55.4) - 29.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
(-55.4) - 20.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
(-46.2) - 37.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
(-40.8) - 39.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
(-39.0) - 44.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
(-38.7) - 34.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
(-32.2) - 21.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
(-27.6) - 62.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
(-26.5) - 64.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
(-23.3) - 52.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
(-20.9) - 52.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
(-18.5) - 61.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
(-14.1) - 16.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
(-13.2) - 42.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
(-11.7) - 66.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
(-11.6) - 46.2 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
(-1.5) - 7.8 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
(-0.8) - 6.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
(-0.7) - 16.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
(-0.6) - 64.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16.06.1903 |
0.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16.12.1903 |
1.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
2.0 - 6.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18.04.1906 |
3.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
5.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16.09.1908 |
6.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27.09.1908 |
6.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
6.7 - 10.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
7.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
7.8 - 33.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30.05.1911 |
8.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 30.05.1911 |
8.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 23.10.1911 |
9.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
10.7 - 18.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
11.9 - 12.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
12.0 - 16.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
12.1 - 16.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
12.2 - 13.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
12.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
13.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
14.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
14.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
14.9 - 61.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
15.0 - 21.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 07.11.1917 |
15.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 09.11.1918 |
16.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
16.4 - 42.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
16.6 - 22.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
16.6 - 17.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
16.8 - 17.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
17.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11.08.1919 |
17.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10.09.1919 |
17.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
18.7 - 21.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 06.12.1921 |
19.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28.10.1922 |
20.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
21.1 - 26.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
21.1 - 21.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13.09.1923 |
21.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
22.9 - 32.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14.06.1928 - 09.10.1967 |
26.0 - 65.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
26.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15.01.1929 - 04.04.1968 |
26.5 - 65.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 04.03.1929 - 04.03.1933 |
26.7 - 30.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25.10.1929 |
27.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22.01.1930 - 01.05.1931 |
27.6 - 28.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30.03.1930 - 30.05.1932 |
27.8 - 29.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012 |
28.1 - 110.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14.04.1931 |
28.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
29.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11.12.1931 |
29.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 01.06.1932 - 17.11.1932 |
29.9 - 30.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 03.12.1932 - 28.01.1933 |
30.4 - 30.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30.01.1933 - 30.04.1945 |
30.6 - 42.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28.02.1933 - 23.03.1933 |
30.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 04.03.1933 - 12.04.1945 |
30.7 - 42.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
33.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20.01.1936 - 11.12.1936 |
33.6 - 34.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
34.5 - 49.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
34.5 - 49.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 06.05.1937 |
34.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
35.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27.08.1939 |
37.2 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 01.09.1939 - 02.09.1945 |
37.2 - 43.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14.05.1940 |
37.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 07.12.1941 |
39.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12.04.1945 - 20.01.1953 |
42.8 - 50.6 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25.04.1945 |
42.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 08.05.1945 |
42.9 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21.05.1945 - 04.04.1951 |
42.9 - 48.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 06.08.1945 - 09.08.1945 |
43.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14.10.1946 |
44.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14.10.1947 |
45.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 04.09.1948 - 30.04.1980 |
46.2 - 77.9 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21.12.1948 |
46.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23.05.1949 |
46.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
47.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15.09.1949 - 16.10.1963 |
47.2 - 61.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 07.10.1949 |
47.3 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11.10.1949 - 07.09.1960 |
47.3 - 58.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17.06.1950 |
48.0 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
48.0 - 51.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 09.04.1951 - 18.01.1970 |
48.8 - 67.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
| 22.01.1952 |
49.6 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 06.02.1952 - Heute |
49.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20.01.1953 - 20.01.1961 |
50.6 - 58.6 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17.06.1953 |
51.0 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 04.07.1954 |
52.0 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
| 24.02.1955 - 05.10.2011 |
52.7 - 109.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 04.10.1957 |
55.3 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 05.10.1958 |
56.3 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 08.01.1959 - 28.04.1969 |
56.5 - 66.9 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
| 1959 - 30.04.1975 |
57.0 - 72.9 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
58.0 - 71.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20.01.1961 - 22.11.1963 |
58.6 - 61.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12.04.1961 |
58.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25.05.1961 - 24.07.1975 |
58.9 - 73.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13.08.1961 |
59.1 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11.10.1962 - 08.12.1965 |
60.3 - 63.5 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16.10.1962 - 28.10.1962 |
60.3 - 60.4 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16.10.1963 - 01.12.1966 |
61.3 - 64.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22.11.1963 - 20.01.1969 |
61.4 - 66.6 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
64.0 - 71.0 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 01.12.1966 - 21.10.1969 |
64.4 - 67.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
65.0 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20.01.1969 - 09.08.1974 |
66.6 - 72.1 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20.06.1969 - 02.04.1974 |
67.0 - 71.8 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
| 20.07.1969 |
67.1 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21.10.1969 - 07.05.1974 |
67.3 - 71.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31.10.1969 |
67.4 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 23.01.1970 - 02.07.1972 |
67.6 - 70.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 07.07.1972 - 26.12.1973 |
70.1 - 71.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 21.07.1972 |
70.1 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
71.0 - 74.0 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 30.12.1973 - 05.11.1985 |
71.5 - 83.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball |
Mormon History |
| 16.05.1974 - 01.10.1982 |
71.9 - 80.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 27.05.1974 - 21.05.1981 |
71.9 - 78.9 |
President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
France |
| 07.07.1974 |
72.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany |
Germany |
| 08.07.1974 - 08.07.1990 |
72.1 - 88.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany |
Germany |
| 13.07.1974 - 13.07.2014 |
72.1 - 112.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany |
Germany |
| 09.08.1974 - 20.01.1977 |
72.1 - 74.6 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20.11.1975 |
73.4 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 01.04.1976 |
73.8 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
74.0 - 87.0 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20.01.1977 - 20.01.1981 |
74.6 - 78.6 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16.04.1977 |
74.8 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27.12.1979 - 15.02.1989 |
77.5 - 86.7 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 30.04.1980 - 30.04.2013 |
77.9 - 110.9 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix |
Netherlands |
| 22.09.1980 - 20.08.1988 |
78.3 - 86.2 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20.01.1981 - 20.01.1989 |
78.6 - 86.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 21.05.1981 - 17.05.1995 |
78.9 - 92.9 |
President of France: François Mitterrand |
France |
| 02.04.1982 - 14.06.1982 |
79.8 - 80.0 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 01.10.1982 - 27.10.1998 |
80.3 - 96.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19.01.1983 |
80.6 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
81.0 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24.01.1984 |
81.6 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 10.11.1985 - 30.05.1994 |
83.4 - 92.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Ezra Taft Benson |
Mormon History |
| 20.01.1989 - 20.01.1993 |
86.6 - 90.6 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18.10.1989 - 03.12.1989 |
87.3 - 87.5 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 02.08.1990 - 28.02.1991 |
88.1 - 88.7 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 03.10.1990 |
88.3 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 08.12.1991 |
89.5 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
90.0 - 94.0 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20.01.1993 - 20.01.2001 |
90.6 - 98.6 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| 04.08.1993 |
91.1 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 01.11.1993 |
91.4 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 05.06.1994 - 03.03.1995 |
92.0 - 92.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Howard W. Hunter |
Mormon History |
| 1994 - 1996 |
92.0 - 94.0 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 17.01.1995 |
92.6 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
| 12.03.1995 - 27.01.2008 |
92.7 - 105.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Gordon B. Hinckley |
Mormon History |
| 17.05.1995 - 16.05.2007 |
92.9 - 104.9 |
President of France: Jacques Chirac |
France |
| 1998 - 2003 |
96.0 - 101.1 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 1999 |
96.0 - 97.0 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 15.08.1998 |
96.2 |
Introduction of the Apple iMac |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27.10.1998 - 22.11.2005 |
96.4 - 103.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 01.01.1999 |
96.6 |
ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community |
European Union |
| 20.01.2001 - 20.01.2009 |
98.6 - 106.6 |
President of the United States of America: George W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 11.09.2001 |
99.3 |
September 11 attacks ('9/11') |
USA |
| 07.10.2001 - Heute |
99.3 |
Afghanistan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 23.10.2001 |
99.4 |
Apple iPod introduced |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 01.01.2002 |
99.6 |
Introduction of the Euro |
European Union |
Karl Georg Gramer
Auguste Zakrajsek (Gramer)
Birth
