12.02.1809 - 19.04.1882 |
(-31.4) - 41.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
12.02.1809 - 15.04.1865 |
(-31.4) - 24.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
07.02.1812 - 09.06.1870 |
(-28.4) - 30.0 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
16.03.1815 - 07.10.1840 |
(-25.3) - 0.3 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem I |
Netherlands |
08.06.1815 - 24.08.1866 |
(-25.1) - 26.2 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
13.12.1816 - 06.12.1892 |
(-23.6) - 52.5 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
30.12.1819 - 20.09.1890 |
(-20.5) - 50.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
06.04.1830 - 27.06.1844 |
(-10.3) - 4.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Smith |
Mormon History |
15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
(-7.6) - 83.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17.03.1834 - 06.03.1900 |
(-6.3) - 59.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
04.03.1837 - 04.03.1841 |
(-3.3) - 0.7 |
President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren |
USA - Presidents |
20.06.1837 - 22.01.1901 |
(-3.0) - 60.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
(-2.0) - 76.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
1839 - 1842 |
(-1.0) - 2.0 |
First Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
07.10.1840 - 17.03.1849 |
0.3 - 8.7 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem II |
Netherlands |
04.03.1841 - 04.04.1841 |
0.7 - 0.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
04.04.1841 - 04.03.1845 |
0.8 - 4.7 |
President of the United States of America: John Tyler |
USA - Presidents |
11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
3.4 - 69.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
4.4 - 88.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
04.03.1845 - 04.03.1849 |
4.7 - 8.7 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
1846 |
6.0 |
Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG |
Companies |
1846 |
6.0 |
Establishment of the Associated Press |
Companies |
11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
6.6 - 91.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
6.7 - 82.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
1847 |
7.0 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
1847 |
7.0 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
27.12.1847 - 29.08.1877 |
7.5 - 37.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
01.03.1848 - 30.09.1849 |
7.7 - 9.2 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
31.03.1848 - 03.04.1849 |
7.7 - 8.8 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
01.12.1848 |
8.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
04.03.1849 - 09.07.1850 |
8.7 - 10.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
17.03.1849 - 23.11.1890 |
8.7 - 50.4 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
1849 |
9.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
10.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
09.07.1850 - 04.03.1853 |
10.0 - 12.7 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
11.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
1851 |
11.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
1851 |
11.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
02.12.1852 - 04.09.1870 |
12.4 - 30.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
04.03.1853 - 04.03.1857 |
12.7 - 16.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
13.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
15.8 - 99.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
04.03.1857 - 04.03.1861 |
16.7 - 20.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
28.05.1857 - 12.04.1858 |
16.9 - 17.8 |
Utah War |
Mormon History |
1859 |
19.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
04.03.1861 - 15.04.1865 |
20.7 - 24.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
17.03.1861 |
20.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
12.04.1861 - 09.04.1865 |
20.8 - 24.8 |
American Civil War |
USA |
23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
21.2 - 101.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
23.1 - 106.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
23.3 - 96.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
15.04.1865 - 04.03.1869 |
24.8 - 28.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
09.06.1866 - 26.07.1866 |
25.9 - 26.1 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
10.03.1867 |
26.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
28.0 - 38.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1869 - 04.03.1877 |
28.7 - 36.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
05.09.1869 - 1884 |
29.2 - 44.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
29.8 - 83.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
30.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
19.07.1870 - 10.05.1871 |
30.1 - 30.9 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
18.01.1871 - 09.03.1888 |
30.6 - 47.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
04.05.1871 - 20.03.1890 |
30.9 - 49.7 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
09.11.1871 |
31.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
34.4 - 124.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
35.5 - 126.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
04.03.1877 - 04.03.1881 |
36.7 - 40.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
38.0 - 41.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
38.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
31.12.1878 |
38.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
38.7 - 114.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
39.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
39.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
39.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
10.10.1880 - 25.07.1887 |
40.3 - 47.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
20.12.1880 - 23.03.1881 |
40.5 - 40.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1881 - 19.09.1881 |
40.7 - 41.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
41.1 - 114.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19.09.1881 - 04.03.1885 |
41.2 - 44.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
42.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
42.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
43.6 - 123.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
44.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15.11.1884 - 26.02.1885 |
44.4 - 44.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
04.03.1885 - 04.03.1889 |
44.7 - 48.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
46.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
46.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
28.10.1886 |
46.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
47.0 - 49.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
47.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
09.03.1888 - 15.06.1888 |
47.7 - 48.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
48.0 - 78.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
48.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
04.03.1889 - 04.03.1893 |
48.7 - 52.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
07.04.1889 - 02.09.1898 |
48.8 - 58.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
48.8 - 104.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
50.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
1890 |
50.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
50.3 - 128.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
50.4 - 108.2 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
04.03.1893 - 04.03.1897 |
52.7 - 56.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
06.04.1893 |
52.8 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
1896 |
56.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
56.0 - 57.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1897 - 14.09.1901 |
56.7 - 61.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
13.09.1898 - 10.10.1901 |
58.2 - 61.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
11.10.1899 - 31.05.1902 |
59.3 - 61.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
08.09.1900 |
60.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
60.6 - 69.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
61.2 - 68.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
61.3 - 78.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
19.10.1901 |
61.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
61.5 - 126.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16.06.1903 |
63.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16.12.1903 |
63.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
64.0 - 68.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18.04.1906 |
65.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
67.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16.09.1908 |
68.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27.09.1908 |
68.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
68.7 - 72.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
69.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
69.9 - 95.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
30.05.1911 |
70.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
30.05.1911 |
70.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
23.10.1911 |
71.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
72.7 - 80.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
74.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
74.0 - 78.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
74.1 - 78.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
74.2 - 75.1 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
74.3 - 74.4 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
75.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
76.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
76.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
77.0 - 123.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
77.0 - 83.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
07.11.1917 |
77.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
09.11.1918 |
78.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
78.4 - 104.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
78.7 - 84.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
78.7 - 79.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
78.9 - 79.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
79.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11.08.1919 |
79.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10.09.1919 |
79.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
80.7 - 83.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
06.12.1921 |
81.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28.10.1922 |
82.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
83.1 - 88.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
83.2 - 83.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13.09.1923 |
83.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
84.9 - 94.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
14.06.1928 - 09.10.1967 |
88.0 - 127.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
88.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
15.01.1929 - 04.04.1968 |
88.6 - 127.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
04.03.1929 - 04.03.1933 |
88.7 - 92.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
25.10.1929 |
89.4 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
22.01.1930 - 01.05.1931 |
89.6 - 90.9 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
30.03.1930 - 30.05.1932 |
89.8 - 92.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012 |
90.1 - 172.3 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
14.04.1931 |
90.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
91.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
11.12.1931 |
91.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
01.06.1932 - 17.11.1932 |
92.0 - 92.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
03.12.1932 - 28.01.1933 |
92.5 - 92.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
30.01.1933 - 30.04.1945 |
92.6 - 104.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
28.02.1933 - 23.03.1933 |
92.7 - 92.8 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
04.03.1933 - 12.04.1945 |
92.7 - 104.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
95.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
20.01.1936 - 11.12.1936 |
95.6 - 96.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
96.5 - 111.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
96.5 - 111.7 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
06.05.1937 |
96.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
97.1 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
27.08.1939 |
99.2 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
01.09.1939 - 02.09.1945 |
99.2 - 105.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.05.1940 |
99.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |