| 12.02.1809 - 19.04.1882 |
(-49.6) - 23.7 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 12.02.1809 - 15.04.1865 |
(-49.6) - 6.7 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 07.02.1812 - 09.06.1870 |
(-46.6) - 11.8 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 08.06.1815 - 24.08.1866 |
(-43.2) - 8.0 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
| 13.12.1816 - 06.12.1892 |
(-41.7) - 34.3 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30.12.1819 - 20.09.1890 |
(-38.7) - 32.1 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
(-25.7) - 65.4 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17.03.1834 - 06.03.1900 |
(-24.4) - 41.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 20.06.1837 - 22.01.1901 |
(-21.2) - 42.5 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
(-20.1) - 58.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
(-14.7) - 51.8 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
(-13.7) - 70.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
(-11.5) - 73.2 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
(-11.5) - 64.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 27.12.1847 - 29.08.1877 |
(-10.7) - 19.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
| 17.03.1849 - 23.11.1890 |
(-9.4) - 32.3 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 02.12.1852 - 04.09.1870 |
(-5.7) - 12.0 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
(-2.3) - 81.1 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 04.03.1857 - 04.03.1861 |
(-1.5) - 2.5 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
0.9 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 04.03.1861 - 15.04.1865 |
2.5 - 6.7 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17.03.1861 |
2.6 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 12.04.1861 - 09.04.1865 |
2.6 - 6.6 |
American Civil War |
USA |
| 23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
3.1 - 83.6 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
4.9 - 88.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
5.2 - 78.6 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15.04.1865 - 04.03.1869 |
6.7 - 10.5 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 09.06.1866 - 26.07.1866 |
7.8 - 7.9 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10.03.1867 |
8.6 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
9.9 - 19.9 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 04.03.1869 - 04.03.1877 |
10.5 - 18.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 05.09.1869 - 1884 |
11.1 - 25.9 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
11.7 - 65.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
11.9 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19.07.1870 - 10.05.1871 |
11.9 - 12.7 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18.01.1871 - 09.03.1888 |
12.4 - 29.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 04.05.1871 - 20.03.1890 |
12.7 - 31.6 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 09.11.1871 |
13.2 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
16.3 - 106.5 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
17.4 - 108.7 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 04.03.1877 - 04.03.1881 |
18.6 - 22.6 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
19.9 - 22.9 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
19.9 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 31.12.1878 |
20.4 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
20.6 - 96.7 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
20.9 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
20.9 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
20.9 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10.10.1880 - 25.07.1887 |
22.2 - 28.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 20.12.1880 - 23.03.1881 |
22.4 - 22.6 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 04.03.1881 - 19.09.1881 |
22.6 - 23.1 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
23.0 - 96.6 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19.09.1881 - 04.03.1885 |
23.1 - 26.6 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
23.9 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
23.9 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
25.4 - 105.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
25.9 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15.11.1884 - 26.02.1885 |
26.3 - 26.5 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 04.03.1885 - 04.03.1889 |
26.6 - 30.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
27.9 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
27.9 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28.10.1886 |
28.2 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
28.9 - 30.9 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
28.9 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 09.03.1888 - 15.06.1888 |
29.6 - 29.8 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
29.8 - 60.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
29.9 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 04.03.1889 - 04.03.1893 |
30.6 - 34.6 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 07.04.1889 - 02.09.1898 |
30.7 - 40.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
30.7 - 86.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
31.9 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
31.9 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
32.2 - 110.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
32.3 - 90.1 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 04.03.1893 - 04.03.1897 |
34.6 - 38.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 06.04.1893 |
34.7 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
37.9 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
37.9 - 38.9 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 04.03.1897 - 14.09.1901 |
38.6 - 43.1 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13.09.1898 - 10.10.1901 |
40.1 - 43.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11.10.1899 - 31.05.1902 |
41.2 - 43.8 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 08.09.1900 |
42.1 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
42.5 - 51.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
43.1 - 50.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
43.2 - 60.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19.10.1901 |
43.2 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
43.3 - 108.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16.06.1903 |
44.8 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16.12.1903 |
45.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
45.9 - 49.9 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18.04.1906 |
47.7 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
48.9 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16.09.1908 |
50.1 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27.09.1908 |
50.1 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
50.6 - 54.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
50.9 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
51.7 - 77.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30.05.1911 |
52.8 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 30.05.1911 |
52.8 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 23.10.1911 |
53.2 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
54.6 - 62.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
55.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
55.9 - 60.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
56.0 - 60.3 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
56.1 - 56.9 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
56.2 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
57.7 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
57.9 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
58.6 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
58.8 - 105.3 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
58.9 - 64.9 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 07.11.1917 |
59.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 09.11.1918 |
60.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
60.3 - 86.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
60.5 - 66.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
60.5 - 60.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
60.7 - 61.0 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
60.9 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11.08.1919 |
61.0 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10.09.1919 |
61.1 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
62.6 - 65.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 06.12.1921 |
63.3 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28.10.1922 |
64.2 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
65.0 - 70.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
65.0 - 65.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13.09.1923 |
65.1 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
66.8 - 76.0 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14.06.1928 - 09.10.1967 |
69.9 - 109.2 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
69.9 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15.01.1929 - 04.04.1968 |
70.5 - 109.7 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 04.03.1929 - 04.03.1933 |
70.6 - 74.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25.10.1929 |
71.2 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22.01.1930 - 01.05.1931 |
71.5 - 72.7 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30.03.1930 - 30.05.1932 |
71.7 - 73.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012 |
72.0 - 154.1 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14.04.1931 |
72.7 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
72.9 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11.12.1931 |
73.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 01.06.1932 - 17.11.1932 |
73.8 - 74.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 03.12.1932 - 28.01.1933 |
74.3 - 74.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30.01.1933 - 30.04.1945 |
74.5 - 86.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28.02.1933 - 23.03.1933 |
74.6 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 04.03.1933 - 12.04.1945 |
74.6 - 86.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
76.9 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20.01.1936 - 11.12.1936 |
77.5 - 78.4 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
78.4 - 93.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
78.4 - 93.5 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 06.05.1937 |
78.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
78.9 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27.08.1939 |
81.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 01.09.1939 - 02.09.1945 |
81.1 - 87.1 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14.05.1940 |
81.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 07.12.1941 |
83.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12.04.1945 - 20.01.1953 |
86.7 - 94.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25.04.1945 |
86.7 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 08.05.1945 |
86.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21.05.1945 - 04.04.1951 |
86.8 - 92.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 06.08.1945 - 09.08.1945 |
87.0 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14.10.1946 |
88.2 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14.10.1947 |
89.2 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 04.09.1948 - 30.04.1980 |
90.1 - 121.8 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21.12.1948 |
90.4 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23.05.1949 |
90.8 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
90.9 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15.09.1949 - 16.10.1963 |
91.1 - 105.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 07.10.1949 |
91.2 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11.10.1949 - 07.09.1960 |
91.2 - 102.1 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17.06.1950 |
91.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
91.9 - 94.9 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 09.04.1951 - 18.01.1970 |
92.7 - 111.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
| 22.01.1952 |
93.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 06.02.1952 - Heute |
93.5 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20.01.1953 - 20.01.1961 |
94.5 - 102.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17.06.1953 |
94.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 04.07.1954 |
95.9 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
| 24.02.1955 - 05.10.2011 |
96.6 - 153.2 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 04.10.1957 |
99.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
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